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Recently finished Persian Fire by Tom Holland. A very good read about the rise of the Persian empire and their battle with the Greeks. I'm now reading 1421 The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies, very interesting.
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I'm reading "The Art Of War" by Sun Tzu (Special Edition). I read this book every January. I love it!!
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I just finished The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis. Now I'll try and make sense of the Abolition of Man. I think I get smarter just looking at the book cover.
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For fun: Brisinger by Christopher Paolini & The Deerslayer, by James Fenimor Cooper
Professionally: Grace Upon Grace, by Rev. John Kleinig & The Preached God, by Gerhard Forde & The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
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The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
A christmas gift from my step-mom who is my partner in literary gluttony. I forgot how much I love a good legal drama.
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I just finished The Keepsake by Tess Gerritsen. Another winner.
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Glad to see ther is another Michael Connelly fan here Miss Kitty. If you like Harry Bosch then you will like Ian Rankin's series with Inspector John Rebus. |
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I'm also a Connelly/Bosch fan. I'll have to check out Ian Rankin. Any suggested order or first one to read?
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I read them in order-the first few are short novels, and the entire 15 or 16 book series sort of develops his personal relationships-as well as leads up to his retirement.
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Feeling at Home
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A book that a fellow BOTL gave me to read, Unintended Consequences
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Semper Fi: Stories of the United States Marines from Boot Camp to Battle by
Clint Willis (Editor)
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Just finished Sixty Days and Counting by Kim Stanley Robinson. He is entirely too optimistic but it made a nice capper on the trilogy.
Next up I'll try to finish C.J. Cherryh's Port Eternity. I'm about halfway through it, I kind of lost it for a few days. |
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Not So Memorious
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I just finished The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon. One of the strangest books I've come across and I'm not sure what to think of it. It got under my skin, but not necessarily in a good way.
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Finished Trunk Music by Connelly, read Cornwell's Sharpe's Fortress, now reading Sharpe's Trafalgar and next is Wally Lamb-I know this Much Is True. I have never read one of his books.
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