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Post by Liiisa on Sept 26, 2017 20:55:56 GMT -5
41. George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
Wow... what a strange and wonderful book. Read it! Mr. Bevins' speech at the end made me cry in the train station.
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Post by scrubb on Sept 26, 2017 23:45:20 GMT -5
I loved it, Liiiiiisa.
Today I finished "Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942-43 by Antony Beevor. I don't think I will read any more military history, but it did give me an appreciation for how significant Stalingrad was to WWII, and some insight into Stalin.
According to Goodreads, i'd been reading it for a full year.
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Post by lillielangtry on Sept 27, 2017 1:28:23 GMT -5
Hm, I don't really want to read any more Man Booker books, but people whose tastes I respect keep on recommending Lincoln in the Bardo!
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Post by mei on Sept 29, 2017 11:13:08 GMT -5
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Post by Liiisa on Sept 29, 2017 12:36:28 GMT -5
Ooh mei, hadn't seen that - thank you!
I've already read (& loved) two of them, "Borne" and "New York 2140"- will look for the rest!
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Post by Queen on Sept 29, 2017 13:05:21 GMT -5
#49 Anna Katharine Green, The Leavenworth Case Enjoyed it - but guessed the outcome although not how they'd reach it! Will read more, thanks lillielangtry
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Post by Webs on Sept 29, 2017 15:28:39 GMT -5
Have decided to listen to the Audiobook of Lincoln in the Bardo. Am glad I did. I think reading it would have confused me.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Sept 30, 2017 5:23:43 GMT -5
56. Death at Dartmoor, Robin Paige. This book is more absurd than the previous one I read in the series, and I won't be looking for any more! The author takes a rather superior attitude to Conan Doyle, and again gets small details wrong, and they grate. I can't imagine an Edwardian vicar condoning spiritualism, much less taking part in not one but two seances!
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Post by lillielangtry on Oct 1, 2017 6:45:33 GMT -5
#67 Wilkie Collins, Armadale Strictly speaking, I have a few pages of this left, but I really want to put it in for September as it's taken me quite a while to get through! I read Collins' The Woman in White and The Moonstone as a teenager. This is one of his rather less well-known works (but was still a big hit when he wrote it, in serialised form). The story centers around two men, both called Allan Armadale, whose fathers were also both called Allan Armadale. You think that's a stretch? That's only the start! A big suspension of disbelief is required to deal with all the coincidences involved - but then, Chance/Fate is one of the themes of the novel. I quite enjoyed it.
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