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The Discovery of France by Graham Robb. Really good.
On Audible, listening to The Magicians by Lev Grossman
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いちきゅうはちよん ~ 村上 春樹 - 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Murakami spent four years writing the novel after coming up with the opening sequence and title.[11] The title is a play on the Japanese pronunciation of the year 1984 and a reference to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. The letter Q and the Japanese number 9 (typically romanized as "kyū", but as "kew" on the book's Japanese cover) are homophones, which are often used in Japanese wordplay. Excerpt from Wikipedia here |
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starting a book club next week. The book that was chosen is "The Women in the Castle." Has anyone read it? Thoughts?
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A neighborhood book club?!? I want to have one of those! Sounds like an interesting book. I look forward to hearing if you recommend it or not.
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Rereading The Handmaid's Tale because I'm really into the series on Hulu, so I wanted to read it again.
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I've got plans to buy this book next Tuesday. A close friend of mine from grad school read it recently. She gave it a thumbs up, so I'm looking forward to reading it.
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Got a few going right now as usual lol
Bard a telling of a old Irish bards tales A paranormal shifter romance about Alpha Wolves and Taltos by Anne Rice
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I want to read The End of Eddy. I heard about it on NPR. Has anyone read it?
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I want to start reading Fantastic Beasts, I have the book I just need to open it.
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Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis / by J.D. Vance
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis -- that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside.
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Listen, Liberal, or, What ever happened to the party of the people? / Thomas Frank
"It is a widespread belief among liberals that if only Democrats can continue to dominate national elections, if only those awful Republicans are beaten into submission, the country will be on the right course. But this is to fundamentally misunderstand the modern Democratic Party. Drawing on years of research and first-hand reporting, Frank points out that the Democrats have done little to advance traditional liberal goals: expanding opportunity, fighting for social justice, and ensuring that workers get a fair deal. Indeed, they have scarcely dented the free-market consensus at all. This is not for lack of opportunity: Democrats have occupied the White House for sixteen of the last twenty-four years, and yet the decline of the middle class has only accelerated. Wall Street gets its bailouts, wages keep falling, and the free-trade deals keep coming. With his trademark sardonic wit and lacerating logic, Frank lays bare the essence of the Democratic Party's philosophy and how it has changed over the years. A form of corporate and cultural elitism has largely eclipsed the party's old working-class commitment, he finds. For certain favored groups, this has meant prosperity. But for the nation as a whole, it is a one-way ticket into the abyss of inequality. In this critical election year, Frank recalls the Democrats to their historic goals-the only way to reverse the ever-deepening rift between the rich and the poor in America"-- Provided by publisher.
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The novel "Villa Europa" by Ketil Bjornstadt
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I just finished Serena by Ron Rash. I liked it but wish that Serena would have been killed sooner but that might have ruined the book.
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I read this book. It's totally worthwhile. I wish more folks would seek it out.
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I just finally finished reading Walter Cronkite's memoir, the other day. It's probably not most people's first choice in reading materials, but it brought back sweet memories of my mom's father, whom I had a very enjoyable relationship. He was the only grandfather I knew and I was his little princess. So I loved reading the Cronkite book.
I began to read the book by John Grisham (A Painted House), last night. When I first chose this book to read, I just chose it because of other books authored by Grisham (The Pelican Brief, and others), but I am glad I chose this book to read. A Painted House is a story told from the narrator's point of view: Luke Chandler, who is seven years old. It's a story about the life of his family, growing up as a kid of cotton picking share cropper's who live in Arkansas, caught up in the world of back breaking poverty. This story, although it's a fictional account (novel) turns out to closely parallel the lives of my grandparent's growing up years. My grandmother's parents were cotton picking share cropper's in the south...my grandmother was eldest of thirteen children, whom all grew old enough to help pick cotton on their parent's share cropping tenancy. I see my grandparents lives through the narrator's point of view. I'm only on page 52, but I'm loving this story. <3
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