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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1230 on: March 16, 2020, 12:41:16 AM »
I've had an involuntary break from reading the last few days but started again last night. Le Carre for me.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1231 on: March 25, 2020, 11:39:25 AM »
Three things at once, in bits -

The Old Ways - Robert Macfarlane
I Am Legend - Richard Matheson (started reading this last month... seems apt)  :hide:
Deadly Class - comic book series, dark, violent and quite funny)


I'm a sporadic and disorganised reader these days.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1232 on: March 25, 2020, 08:19:28 PM »
Finished City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert yesterday and started The Quintland Sisters by Shelley Wood today.

I'm already 3 books behind on where I need to be to make my goal of 50 books this year. My brain isn't cooperating on holding onto plot lines like it usually does. So frustrating.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1233 on: March 25, 2020, 08:34:42 PM »
Quote from: Lord of the Ales on March 25, 2020, 11:39:25 AM
Three things at once, in bits -

The Old Ways - Robert Macfarlane
I Am Legend - Richard Matheson (started reading this last month... seems apt)  :hide:
Deadly Class - comic book series, dark, violent and quite funny)


I'm a sporadic and disorganised reader these days.

I read the "I am legend" book long ago.  Still remember it vividly.   Especially the main character taking suicide as his route out of a world gone to hell.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1234 on: March 26, 2020, 02:40:56 AM »
"I Am Legend" is a terrific book. It's been years.

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« Reply #1235 on: March 26, 2020, 08:17:28 AM »
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"I Am Legend" is a terrific book. It's been years.

The Vincent Price movie was the closest to the story except for the ending.  The others were just dreck. 
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1236 on: April 05, 2020, 04:13:11 PM »
Finished Quintland and just started Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott. It's about Boudicca. It's super long though. Might shelve it to read something easier to process.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1237 on: April 05, 2020, 04:53:09 PM »
A comprehensive update on Custer and the battle of Little Big Horn.  During the US Indian wars of the 1870's.  Custer was a fucking prick glory hound!
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1238 on: April 07, 2020, 01:47:46 AM »
The Practice Manual, a book about golf training.
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« Reply #1239 on: April 08, 2020, 05:41:48 AM »
Shelved the Boudicca book for now. It's too deep to take on at the moment.

Currently reading The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey. I heard her interview on NPR and it was fantastic. Borrowed the book (digitally) from the library. Really interesting background to it.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-beautiful-sound-of-a-_b_710413
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1240 on: April 11, 2020, 06:19:03 PM »
Finished the Bailey book (it was really interesting) and now I'm reading Theft by Finding by David Sedaris.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1241 on: April 13, 2020, 01:49:27 AM »
I've had a hard tome focussing enough to read books the last couple of days.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1242 on: April 13, 2020, 10:25:01 AM »
A historical account of the battles in the then western parts of the young US during the War of 1812.  Kentucky, Michigan, Illinois and Indiana.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1243 on: April 14, 2020, 01:01:13 AM »
Got back into reading yesterday evening. Woot.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1244 on: May 01, 2020, 12:34:43 PM »
Finished Untamed this morning and this afternoon I started From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle.
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