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What have you been reading?

Discussion in 'Non-Vegas Chat' started by ken2v, Jun 15, 2020.

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  1. bshowell

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    I just read one of the Joe Pickett novels by C.J. Box. I really enjoyed it and plan to read the whole series.
     
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    Lars Emmerich’s 4 book series
    James Patterson’s - Cajun Justice, Texas Outlaw, NYPD RED series, Revenge
    John Sandford’s Dark of the Moon, reading now Heat Lightening

    I’m bored so reading a lot, gets me out of the “house”!
     
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    My mother loves the Mitch Rapp series

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  5. ken2v

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    Two new arrivals ...

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    The Overstory won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. I just finished it and have conflicting feelings. Think the Monkey Wrench Gang meets trees that communicate. It's brilliant; it's often tedious; it's also often heart-racing adventurous. There are too many characters to follow, but what Characters they are.

    If you are of an environmental persuasion, as am I, you'll enjoy the book and perhaps go gaga over it. Now I sit writing this on a cool, rainy, Pacific northwest day in front of a fireplace feeling guilty for cutting and burning trees and thinking that I should never fly again, especially to Las Vegas, nor drive my car. Now I leave you to put another stick on the fire.
     
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    "Maybe It Should Have Been a Three-Iron" My Year as a Caddie for the World's 438th Best Golfer

    Entertaining piece by actual journalist on lower edges of the European Tour
     
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    Absolutely all in the series in order, and definitely read "The Narrows" while driving from LA to Vegas. Harry Bosch deserves to be read during Vegas, its amazing!
    Also make sure to include Jack Mcavoy, he counts too in the series.
    Rachel Ballard too, she's new, but important when reading recent Harry Bosch.
     
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    Hieronymous Bosch novels are indeed enjoyable and entertaining, but his less than legal tactics would be all over the news today. That said, I need to finish the series.
     
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    About 5 chapters into Catch-22. I read it before when I was about 16. Loved it then, love it better now. Neurotic, frenetic, paranoid. Everyone is crazy!
     
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    Just finished CIRCE-----a take on the story of the Greek mytholgical witch. We meet lots of characters known from reading the myths but also many minor characters. Absolutely fascinating and highly readable. The author has a BA and MA from Brown in classical studies---but writes with a fluidity that is not high brow.
     
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    Zoe Leonard’s “I Want a President” - a bracing post-voting aperitif... :blink::cool::ssst:
     
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    Somewhat dry, pun intended, and a little tedious at nearly 500 pages, but very well written and researched.

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    Just finished The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, I really enjoyed it.
     
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    Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945 by Leo Marks.

    About the SOE, and the code making techniques they used in WWII.

    It has some good historical information, but the author seems to have a pretty high opinion of himself, and so far, the prose is a little too purple for me. I'm only about 25% of the way in, so we'll see how it goes.
     
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    Just finished these two:

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    Now on this:

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    In case anyone has Prime there is Prime Reading included which allows you to download books from a list Amazon's creates for free for as long as you want them.
    There is a limit, sometimes it has been 3 lately 6 at one time.
     
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    A Man with One of Those Faces by Caimh McDonnell. Knew nothing about the author, and only a couple of chapters in so far, but liking it up to this point.

    Unusual for me (a fiction reader primarily) but I have two biographies on deck. The Answer Is - the Alex Trebek biography and Failure Is an Option: An Attempted Memoir which is H. Jon Bejamin's biography, best known as the voice of Bob from Bob's Burgers and Archer from Archer.
     
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    For too much of my life, my reading was educational or career oriented and was dull and boring. Now that I’m middle aged and can just pleasure read, I tend to have a handful of books sitting around that I can pick up and finish a chapter in whenever I feel like it. These are the four I’m working through now.
     
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