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Gave up on Emerging Viruses, edited by Stephen Morse, c 1993 Oxford U. Press. Too old, I figure. I thought I'd get background on Ebola and filoviruses, but at 21 years old, it can legally drink.
Besides, there's so much else to read. The field is just moving too quickly. If I can find something more recent, I'll read that instead.
I'm almost done with We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. It is a very looong book for me. I am tolerating it because I paid for it. I think a lot of it has to do with the first person narrative, but I don't find the use of language particularly compelling either.
So I am not sure what next. We are under a rainfall warning so I had better find something. I plucked The Similarion by Tolkien out of a bookshelf whilst reorganizing books. I think I might try that. I've never read it and apparently I own not one but two copies.
I am reading Song of Years by Bess Streeter Aldrich. It is a historical novel about the Martin family out on the Iowa frontier in the 1850's and 1860's. It was copyrighted in 1938 and 1939. This is about the fifth time I have read it, last time was about ten years ago when I bought a copy from a used book dealer on Amazon. It's a wonderful book.
Finished The Julian Chapter (goes along with Wonder). It was interesting that she wrote from Julian's perspective too and how she really captured how people can be nowadays.
Also finished The Midwife of Hope River and I loved it!!!
Next up - either my other library book or the book my sissy bought me. Decisions, decisions.
I finished The Keeper by John Lescroart and liked it but for a change I managed to figure out "who done it" kind of early on.
Innocent Blood by James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell was most definitely not my type of book. It really surprises me that he would collaborate on something like this, which deals with vampires and other supernatural stuff. Dropped it after 50 pages, which was about 45 pages too many.
I'm almost done with We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. It is a very looong book for me. I am tolerating it because I paid for it. I think a lot of it has to do with the first person narrative, but I don't find the use of language particularly compelling either.
I downloaded sample and was tempted because Thomas is being compared to Alice McDermott. Chad Harbach and Joshua Ferris recommended. I was not impressed with Art of Fielding or the samples I've of Ferris. I'll wait for the library copy.
I'm still reading The Brothers K mentioned by Dawn. I love this book.
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I'm still reading The Brothers K mentioned by Dawn. I love this book.
Just a few days ago, I was wondering how you were doing with this book and whether you were still loving it. YAY! I'm so glad. I'm not yet ready to start it, but I'm looking forward to it even more now because you like it so much.
I had never read Nora Roberts,but decided to try her Dark Witch: Book One of The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy because it is set in Ireland.
I had to stop reading because it has cursing/including [F] Bombs and then came upon an explicit sex scene,so that did it for me,as I don't care for such books.
Not sure what I will tackle next,as I am still reading about my Kindle Fire and smart phone,too.
I finished Shadow Spell by Nora Roberts last night. It was a nice easy read and I enjoyed it but it was not up to par with some of her other books. For me it was the same old thing. Maybe I have read too many of her books
I just started Looking For Me by Beth Hoffman. I liked Beth Hoffman's Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt so I hope this book will be enjoyable.
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