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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1350 on: November 12, 2020, 12:00:09 PM »
Reading a standard spec. Not the most boring I've read but not a lot of fun either, and I think it's a fairly bad standard.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1351 on: November 15, 2020, 07:04:16 AM »
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1352 on: November 15, 2020, 08:33:19 AM »
This board. It's more fun than that spec from the other day. :P
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1353 on: December 22, 2020, 10:15:09 AM »
Still plowing through The Autobiography of Henry VIII, With Notes by his Fool, Will Somer.  I'm on page 720 =/- out of 900 plus pages.  It's a book I keep in the car for the odd moments of down time.  I know the story and can pick up the thread where I left off quite easily.

Deleted a BDSM novel about gay lovers.  I've read better BDSM.

Reading a Victorian historical romance, a biography of William the Conquerer, and a government issue pamphlet about World War I food rationing.  At least I'm eclectic.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1354 on: December 22, 2020, 10:51:51 AM »
Just finished reading "Sex with Presidents"  by Eleanor Herman.  A decent quick read, but, eventually got a little mind numbing when it reached the Clinton era up till the trumpolini era and then finished with a chapter about philandering of the french and italian PM's.  OY
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1355 on: January 03, 2021, 04:20:58 PM »
About to start on Obama's 700-page tome. This could be interesting.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1356 on: January 03, 2021, 04:40:02 PM »
Another history book! 
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1357 on: July 02, 2021, 11:40:54 AM »
One of WolFish's early Nanowrimo projects from our shared world, that I managed to dredge up out of our archives. A Map of Karn. Sadly unfinished, because looking back at it now, it could have been Charles de Lint levels of awesome.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1358 on: July 02, 2021, 01:06:27 PM »
Nothing at the moment!
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1359 on: July 04, 2021, 12:14:35 PM »
Calvin and Hobbes strips.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1360 on: July 04, 2021, 12:50:57 PM »
Smithsonian Magazine.  They are having a 250th anniversary of their founding by James Smithson!
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1361 on: July 04, 2021, 06:21:55 PM »
This site.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1362 on: July 04, 2021, 08:17:22 PM »
The Queen  Bio of Elizabeth II
The Pockes *mystery set in England concerning the introduction of syphilis into England            Yeah, I know I'm weird but whoever would write this is weirder.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1363 on: July 05, 2021, 11:09:19 AM »
"Erebus" a really good read, by Michael Palin, of Monty Python fame.  It's about the early history of English exploration of the Arctic region and the quest to find the Northwest Passage.  His post Python career has been busy doing explorations all over the world and hosting documentaries of his travels.  He is also quite an Author in his own right.  He was once president of the Royal Geographical Society.

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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1364 on: July 10, 2021, 02:48:46 AM »
Calvin and Hobbes. :)
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