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Mary ordered James Comey's A Higher Loyalty so I'm "borrowing" it and scanning it to see if I really want to read it..
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I've decided to read it! I haven't gotten to any of the Trump stuff which is fine. The beginning deals with mafia kingpins and the whole Martha Stewart episode.
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I'm out of reading material. .....any suggestions?
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I'm keeping it simple and light.... I've mostly just read posts on the boards, by member's in our community, or news articles. Mostly here, though.
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re-read Jane Eyre
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Yes you are welcome, and it is also available online for free at gutenberg.org along with many other classics that are in the public domain (mostly books published up to 1922)
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"The television aspect of The Great American Read involves a two-hour opening show to air on May 22 on PBS affiliate stations, then, after summer tapings of “entertaining and informative documentary segments,” the show returns in the fall for six one-hour episodes led by NBC News correspondent Meredith Vieira..."
There is a list of 100 titles as follows: At their web site, with nice front covers: http://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/books/#/ 1984 George Orwell A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving A Separate Peace John Knowles A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain The Alchemist Paulo Coelho Alex Cross Mysteries (series) James Patterson Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie And Then There Were None Agatha Christie Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery Another Country James Baldwin Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand Beloved Toni Morrison Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya The Book Thief Markus Zusak The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz The Call of the Wild Jack London Catch-22 Joseph Heller The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Charlotte's Web E. B. White The Chronicles of Narnia (series) C.S. Lewis Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel Coldest Winter Ever Sister Souljah The Color Purple Alice Walker The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Doña Bárbára Rómulo Gallegos Dune Frank Herbert Fifty Shades of Grey (series) E. L. James Flowers in the Attic V.C. Andrews Foundation (series) Isaac Asimov Frankenstein Mary Shelley Game of Thrones (series) George R. R. Martin Ghost Jason Reynolds Gilead Marilynne Robinson The Giver Lois Lowry The Godfather Mario Puzo Gone Girl Gillian Flynn Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Great Expectations Charles Dickens The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood Harry Potter (series) J.K. Rowling Hatchet (series) Gary Paulsen Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad The Help Kathryn Stockett The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy Douglas Adams The Hunger Games (series) Suzanne Collins The Hunt for Red October Tom Clancy The Intuitionist Colson Whitehead Invisible Man Ralph Ellison Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan Jurassic Park Michael Crichton Left Behind (series) Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Little Women Louisa May Alcott Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry Looking for Alaska John Green The Lord of the Rings (series) J.R.R. Tolkien The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold The Martian Andy Weir Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden Mind Invaders Dave Hunt Moby-Dick Herman Melville The Notebook Nicholas Sparks One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez Outlander (series) Diana Gabaldon The Outsiders S. E. Hinton The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan The Pillars of The Earth Ken Follett Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Ready Player One Ernest Cline Rebecca Daphne du Maurier The Shack William P. Young Siddhartha Hermann Hesse The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut The Stand Stephen King The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway Swan Song Robert R. McCammon Tales of The City (series) Armistead Maupin Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe This Present Darkness Frank. E. Peretti To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee The Twilight Saga (series) Stephenie Meyer War and Peace Leo Tolstoy Watchers Dean Koontz The Wheel of Time (series) Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls White Teeth Zadie Smith Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë I have emphasized just a few of the above which I have read... Personally, I would add a few classics, such as: The Odyssey of Homer: Homer, the Richmond Lattimore translation. This is such a fun adventure story. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles Histories by Herodotus also, The Canterbury Tales and, Beowulf, especially when read aloud! |
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The Great American Read (cont'd)
Just looked at the list and realized that I wasn't clear about all the books that I have read, which may or may not interest some:
1984 by Orwell, which I won't read again The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Alice's... by Carroll All of Agatha Christie's books Anne of Green Gables Another Country by Baldwin Atlas Shrugged Catch22 The Catcher in the Rye the Auel series I have all the series of George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones The Grapes of Wrath Gulliver's Travels I can't stand Atwood.... lol Have read all of the Potter books Conrad's Heart of Darkness ..."the horror, the horror" (Kurtz uttering it also in Apocalypse Now) All of Tolkien's books many of Marquez's books quite a few of Austen's books Siddhartha & Steppenwolf by Hesse all of Vonnegut's books, anything sci-fi actually... most of Hemingway all of the Twilight books I would also recommend any of Yasunari Kawabata's books, each book a work of art (shame he committed suicide...) As well, any of V.S. Naipaul's books |
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"Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women"
by Kate Moore "The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark danger The Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War. Meanwhile, hundreds of girls toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories. The glittering chemical covers their bodies from head to toe; they light up the night like industrious fireflies. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" are the luckiest alive ― until they begin to fall mysteriously ill. But the factories that once offered golden opportunities are now ignoring all claims of the gruesome side effects, and the women's cries of corruption. And as the fatal poison of the radium takes hold, the brave shining girls find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest scandals of America's early 20th century, and in a groundbreaking battle for workers' rights that will echo for centuries to come. Written with a sparkling voice and breakneck pace, The Radium Girls fully illuminates the inspiring young women exposed to the "wonder" substance of radium, and their awe-inspiring strength in the face of almost impossible circumstances. Their courage and tenacity led to life-changing regulations, research into nuclear bombing, and ultimately saved hundreds of thousands of lives..." Well-written book on a topic I was mostly unfamiliar with although some of the images will stay with you. Certainly makes me give pause to "newly discovered" things/processes that will help me lead a smart/futuristic lifestyle that claim to be perfectly "safe." Whatever "safe" means anymore..... Katniss~~ |
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I started this before and lost interest. I tried it again a few days ago, and while I am not loving it, I am able to stick with it. It's called The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. Elif Batuman is the author. She writes, or used to write, for The New Yorker. And her second book, a novel, was widely and well reviewed. It was a Pulitzer finalist. It's called The Idiot. From the reviews, some of it sounded so like my twenties that I decided not to check it out. I feel no need to revisit that decade.
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The Whip: a novel inspired by the story of Charley Parkhurst
Inspired by the true story of Charlotte "Charley" Parkhurst (1812-1879) who lived most of her extraordinary life as a man in the old west. As a young woman in Rhode Island, she fell in love with a runaway slave and had his child. The destruction of her family drove her west to California, dressed as a man, to track the killer. Charley became a renowned stagecoach driver for Wells Fargo. She killed a famous outlaw, had a secret love affair, and lived with a housekeeper who, unaware of her true sex, fell in love with her. Charley was the first known woman to vote in America in 1868 (as a man). Her grave lies in Watsonville, California. |
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The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
An enthralling historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption. Decisions decisions......... |
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