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I am putting aside Bloody Crimes in order to read some books I requested that came in from the library. I just put in these requests within the week, thinking they'd take awhile to come in, and here they are, at the same time!
So, onto reading The Help and Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void. The second one, by Mary Roach, is about space exploration. She's the same author who wrote Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, which I thoroughly enjoyed, and I am hoping this one is more of the same!
SM Stirling's Island in the Sea of Time, the first in the Nantucket trilogy.........I'm sort of gathering that the "event" in Nantucket caused the "change" in the rest of the world in The Change series.
After this one I'll be going back to the next in The Change series, Scourge of God (once it arrives in my mailbox that is).
Reading both, I'm now left with a dilemma........what would be better/worse? To be cast backwards in time (WAY back) and have no "modern" resources available except what went back with you (as in the Nantucket series) or have the world devestated and changed forever around you, but you could at least scavenge SOME "modern" resources (as in the Change series).
Makes one think anyway - especially if you're a bit of a trying to be prepared for when the SHTF type person.
Reading two books: The Happiness Myth: The Historical Antidote to What Isn't Working Today by Jennifer Michael Hecht and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.
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The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle, which was recommended by someone on this very forum.
Aryn Kyle's haunting coming-of-age novel is the kind of book that you want to share with everyone you know. Twelve-year-old Alice Winston is growing up fast on her father's run-down horse ranch--coping with the death of a classmate and the absence of her older sister (who ran off with a rodeo cowboy), trying to understand her depressed and bedridden mother, and attempting to earn the love and admiration of her reticent, weary father. Lyrical, powerful, and unforgettable, The God of Animals is our must-read, must-own, must-share book...
I'm only on page 50 or so -- I have a terrible head cold and my concentration skills are pretty much nil, so I'm napping instead of reading -- but I'm enjoying it VERY much when I'm awake.
I just finished The God of Animals and HIGHLY recommend it. Very, VERY good book. Did I say VERY? Yes. VERY.
I'm going to start My Cousin Rachel (Daphne DuMaurier, who also wrote Rebecca).
I'm currently reading True Blue and The Collectors, both by David Baldacci. I discovered him a few years ago when I read The Camel Club at a former co-worker's urging. I stayed away from his book before, because I didn't think books about the White House, CIA or FBI could be interesting, but now I'm hooked.
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