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One Too Many
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Tom Sharpe, Wilt on High.
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What Are You Reading
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Two Types
I'll Lock Up
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'An End and A Beginning' by James Hanley
Hanley is a much neglected writer - probably because some of his work is bloody inpenetrable. However, the best of his work is wonderful. I read a few of his books in the 1990s but stopped after bad experiences with some of the more deliberately difficult ones. I've finally returned to him and am enjoying this one.
Hanley is a much neglected writer - probably because some of his work is bloody inpenetrable. However, the best of his work is wonderful. I read a few of his books in the 1990s but stopped after bad experiences with some of the more deliberately difficult ones. I've finally returned to him and am enjoying this one.
DNO
One Too Many
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Found a copy of Carl Hiaasen's new book, Bad Monkey, today at a thrift store. It's only been out for two months! Had to lay Tom Sharpe aside (it was a re-read anyway) and dive into this one.
Hercule
Practically Family
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Insidious Foes by Francis MacDonnell.
VintageBee
One of the Regulars
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society and re-reading Coming Home...which means I will feel its time for the yearly reading of The Shell Seekers 
Yes, I am reading three books at the same time.
And drinking copious amounts of tea
Yes, I am reading three books at the same time.
And drinking copious amounts of tea
vintageTink
One Too Many
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- An Okie in SoCal
I read that last year.
Feraud
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Earlier this week I finished Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II .
I just picked up this one-
Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm.
I enjoy literature on the natural sciences from and about the 19th century.
I just picked up this one-
Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm.
I enjoy literature on the natural sciences from and about the 19th century.
Stray Cat
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I’m currenty struggling with Florence Hartley’s "A complete handbook for the use of the lady in polite society"
I call it a "struggle" - I should be calling it "language improvement"
I call it a "struggle" - I should be calling it "language improvement"
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More pulp noir with Bruno Fischer's, The Lustful Ape.
Shangas
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In my ongoing fascination of the history of China 1911-1937, I recently purchased the bestselling true-crime novel "Midnight in Peking", by British writer and China historian, Paul French.
It's a fascinating story about the murder of an English teenage girl in the Peking Legation Quarter in January of 1937. It follows the attempts of British and Chinese police to track down the killer before the city falls to the Japanese in just six months' time.
It's all true. It was a real crime. And it remained unsolved at the outbreak of war. French did extensive research, chasing down diaries, letters, newspapers, even relations and friends of the victim and the investigating officers, to compile the entire story and write it up as a nonfiction novel.
It's going to be turned into a miniseries that will be coming out later this year, or sometime next year, so I understand.
It's a fascinating story about the murder of an English teenage girl in the Peking Legation Quarter in January of 1937. It follows the attempts of British and Chinese police to track down the killer before the city falls to the Japanese in just six months' time.
It's all true. It was a real crime. And it remained unsolved at the outbreak of war. French did extensive research, chasing down diaries, letters, newspapers, even relations and friends of the victim and the investigating officers, to compile the entire story and write it up as a nonfiction novel.
It's going to be turned into a miniseries that will be coming out later this year, or sometime next year, so I understand.
Hercule
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What did you think of it? I just "finished" it this past weekend. I got about halfway though it then just read the parts about the recent expedition to find the plane. I thought it was a bit odd and kinda read like fiction which I didn't care for.
Harp
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Benn Steil, The Battle of Breton Woods, John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White,
and the Making of a New World Order
Keynesian crossings
and the Making of a New World Order
Keynesian crossings
John Boyer
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I enjoyed this book immensely. However, I still appreciate the Scholastic Economists and the Distributists. You should consider "Redeeming Economics: Rediscovering the Missing Element" by John D. Mueller
Feraud
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I felt the pace was unbalanced. The author spent most of the book working towards the salvage of the wreck. The actual finding of the plane came too near the end of the book.
mikepara
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I'm a few chapters into The Hunted by Brian Haig. He is head and shoulders above every other fiction writer in my eyes.
Harp
I'll Lock Up
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Steil certainly pierced the veil covering Keynes' mercurial perspective
and White's odd Soviet infatuation. Will consider Mueller's Missing Element
this winter.
Vera Godfrey
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Just finished up The Chaperone and getting ready to start on Palisades Park
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I, Claudius.
