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I am about to start re-reading Oscar Wilde's Collected Works and am also through "Alienist" by Caleb Carr. I am also still enjoying Hiram Binghams' "Lost city of the Incas" for the third time. I seem to read different books in different rooms for some bizarre reasons !
One Man's Wilderness - An Alaskan Odyssey By Sam Keith from the journals and photographs of Richard Proenneke
As soon as I finish that, I'll start More Readings From One Man's Wilderness - The Journals of Richard L. Proenneke 1974-1980 by John Branson Editor Lake Clark National Park and Preserve
I am in the middle of The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans by John Bailey. It's about a slave in New Orleans in the mid 1800's and her court battle to be emancipated on the basis that she was not really a very light-skinned mixed race woman but in fact a pure German immigrant who had been orphaned and then enslaved at a very young age. The author provides a lot of insight into the laws and the accepted social mores that were used at that time to justify slave ownership and to distinguish between the races - a lot of which is truly bizarre. And it reads like a good courtroom drama...not at all dry.
I really couldn't get into this book. I picked it up and put it down like 5 times before I just gave up. I hope you enjoy it more than I did.
That happened to me with Kingsolvers "The Lacuna". . . .I'm waiting until I get to quit the day job (latter this year) to try again. . .I'm pretty sure it's a good book that I was just unable to give enough attention to, the first time around. Am intrugued by "Hedgehog" so far, but also reading Leon Leddermans "The God Particle", which has me rolling on the floor laughing with just about every paragraph!. . . .
I am reading "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe." Astonishingly enough, while I've seen the movie several times, I had never read the book. When I told that to a co-worker she brought me the book and said I MUST read it. She said the book held much more than the movie. She was right. I had no idea from the movie that Idgie and Ruth were "as close" as they were.
Finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Black Water Rising (both of which I liked) and currently reading The Girl who Played with Fire
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