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The Places in Between--by Rory Stewart--Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan in 2002, and documented his journey. To me it was both fascinating, and frightening.
Oh,oh,oh! I love that book.
If you enjoyed the genre then I recommend An Unexpected Light by Jason Elliot. Nonfiction.
Another really fine one is A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby. Nonfiction.
Youngliza7 if you are going read Joe Pickett by C J Box, make sure you start with his first book.
Thank you for that.
I have really enjoyed being a part of this group and learning about new books that I may never have read without your input. Yes we are all different but many times it opens new reading horizons for us
OK...so that sounded corny, lol.
I'm on the road now and should be at our new flip house tomorrow. I am reading Final Breath by Kevin O'Brien.
I know what you mean about the print being too small. I recently ordered a paper book from Amazon and the print just about drove me nuts. I had to quit reading the book because reading it was actually too stressful. The print was tiny. I'm very spoiled because of the Kindle but it is a good kind of spoiled.
K and NJK: you might like the page magnifier available for the visually impaired -- and who of us over forty is not? My mother used it in the early stages of her macular degeneration and found it invaluable. It does make the page turning cumbersome, but when you cannot comfortably read print you really want to read it helps a lot.
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Sometimes that is just what you need.....I down load a book from the Tony Dubonnet series about a bumbling New Orleans lawyer when I need a light read
I heart bumbling lawyers and have enjoyed other New Orleans based books so I will check him out. Thanks!
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I know this thread is about the book we are reading now, but in the interest of those who might like what I have read, here is a " short list" of what I've read lately
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There are so many more, but I will defer to the next in line so they might add to our list.
Thank you for the list. A few of them drew me in by your description. I will see what I think and share when I read them.
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OK...so that sounded corny, lol.
Sincerity is NEVER corny, my friend.
Okay, FINALLY you are thinking! I will report:
I tried to resume listening to "Atonement" but after thirty minutes of it I had to turn it off -- I reached the halfway point, just after she's accused Robie of the deed, and was into the author's explanations of her intentions. I don't want to spoil it further, so I will just
SO, I've decided I need something light and funny -- and glancing over my queue on the Zune, that means (for me): "Good Omens," by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett; narrated by Martin Jarvis. I absolutely LOVE Pratchett's humor.
Also, I have to note that "The Redbreast" by Jo Nesbo is much better than I'd originally thought. I've reached just beyond the half-way point and it's becoming harder and harder to set it down to live life outside the stories.
After that depressing Wojnarowicz bio, a retuirn look at an earlier bohemia: Starting to re-read Jack Kerouac's 'Dharma Bums', which is a fictionalized account of his freindship with the poet Gary Synder.
I read this book years and years ago and liked it, actually liked it better than On the Road, maybe due to Snyder being a more...shall we say likeable...character than Neal Cassady, who was the 'subject' of the more famous "On the Road".
One thing I forgot was the passages on Buddihsm (Synder was into eastern religion, and had travalled in Japan).
After that depressing Wojnarowicz bio, a retuirn look at an earlier bohemia: Starting to re-read Jack Kerouac's 'Dharma Bums', which is a fictionalized account of his freindship with the poet Gary Synder.
I read this book years and years ago and liked it, actually liked it better than On the Road, maybe due to Snyder being a more...shall we say likeable...character than Neal Cassady, who was the 'subject' of the more famous "On the Road".
One thing I forgot was the passages on Buddihsm (Synder was into eastern religion, and had travalled in Japan).
I tried listening to it, and could not. I just am not that into reading about the life of boozers and druggies. Then again, I don't think getting UTI is the path to Nirvana... maybe I am missing something.
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