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I'm stuck in a bio/memoir cycle. I'm currently reading "Courage and Consequence" by Karl Rove. Before that I finished "American Prometheus," a Robert Oppenheimer bio and before that it was "Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance" by Kenneth Silverman. I've got one more in the pipeline called "Raven" about Jim Jones and the People's Temple. I don't usually read bios.
I picked up The Magic Kingdom of Landover series, currently on book one. I must say the writing has greatly improved compared to The Sword of Shannara trilogy, I'm finding it hard to put down.
I have been reading in small bits lately , the book Im reading is titled "Saving cee cee honeycutt " by dianne chamberlain . It is okay so far . I will come back when I finish it and leave my review .
I really did not expect to like this book but I really loved it.
Just finished reading Robert Payne's Life and Death of Adolf Hitler. Yikes!
Always wanted to read it.
Never for one second, will anyone calm my fears that we've seen the last of the Hitler's! He prayed daily through the boom times of the 20's that Germany would suffer a big economic depression, which was his ticket to power.
All the dangerous kooks come out during prolonged economic depression/recessions.
Apropro reading for today.
Living outside Munich at the base of a mountain, and being too lazy to climb it, he had engineers bore a hole into the mountain and another hole to the tippy-top, and installed a gold-plated elevator to whisk him to the top. Once built, he found out the air was too think up there, only used it 3X. 3 years of engineering work for nothing!
I'm on a roll: first read a bio of Mussolini, then Stalin, Hitler and now Churchill.
I'm reading Angelina, the unathorized biography by Andrew Morton. It's good, but so far the book has been mostly centered on her parents. Also, Fragile, by Lisa Unger. From Publishers Weekly:
Set in the Hollows, a secluded town about 100 miles outside New York City, Unger's contemporary thriller offers solid entertainment, but lacks the tension of her 2008 stand-alone, Black Out. Psychologist Maggie Cooper and her husband, Det. Jones Cooper, disagree on how to handle their rebellious son, 17-year-old Rick, who prefers to spend time with his band or holed up with his girlfriend, Charlene Murray. When Charlene disappears one night after a fight with her mother, Maggie and Jones wonder if she ran off to Manhattan, but are reminded of the disappearance 20 years earlier of Sarah Meyers, whose mutilated body was found after she vanished on her way home from school. Though the alleged killer confessed, there are still unanswered questions, and Maggie and Jones find themselves forced to revisit the past as suspicion falls on Rick. Since the Hollows is so small, characters continually rehash secrets--and rumors--so that Unger relies too heavily on the community's interconnectedness to bolster her plot.
I recently moved, and then I discovered that my county has a kick-ass library system and that one of the branches is about a half-mile from my house! I walked in to this beautiful building and felt as though I was RICH!!!!!
So I took out three books, two of which I've finished reading. One was Plum Island, by Nelson DeMille. I've read others of his books and enjoyed most of them, but I'd never read that one before. Good story. Then I read Ken Follett's Whiteout (another author whose other books I've read.) ALSO a very good story. I didn't realize it when I took them out, but both of those books deal with killer diseases and the possibility of their escape into the general population.
The third book is non-fiction: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Jews In America. I picked that up because I needed some information on Jews in the nineteenth century, particularly Jewish peddlers, for a story I am writing, but the rest of the book is interesting also.
I recently moved, and then I discovered that my county has a kick-ass library system and that one of the branches is about a half-mile from my house! I walked in to this beautiful building and felt as though I was RICH!!!!!
Isn't that the best?!? We're a military family and move fairly often, and the library is one of the first places I go. I have been a member of some pretty amazing library systems! In fact, right now I'm temporarily living back in my hometown and I've realized that the system here doesn't hold a candle to some smaller systems I have a card with, particularly the one I'm going to move back to early next year. I can't wait! I love libraries - whoever thought them up was brilliant!
I will have to start browsing this forum- I was on a reading break for while and am now seeking it out again. I just finished MERIDON by PHillipa Gregory ( I love her books- all the Boleyn Girls etc).
I just reserved online from my library Saving cee cee honeycutt which sounds like I will love it and I don't think I would have known of it other than this forum so thank you! I also reserved In the neighborhood thanks to the forum. So my suggestion for a very good read ( I stumbled on it at the library and no one has ever heard of it but it was really good!! and true) Last dance at the Hotel Kempinski : creating a life in the shadow of history
by Robin Hirsch.
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