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Post by lillielangtry on Sept 29, 2020 12:01:53 GMT -5
Of course, mei! Jan Morris, Conundrum The memoir, originally published in 1974 of the travel writer. Born James Morris in 1926, she joined the army, married and had five children - a typical upper-middle class British life. However Jan always knew she was a women and underwent surgery in Morocco in 1972. This book has VERY mixed reviews on Goodreads and I think that's largely down to the great changes in society's attitudes to trans people since it was written. It contains rather a lot of sexist stereotyping, including a consideration of how people expected her to be less competent when she presented as a woman and how she went along with it! My main complaint would not be that though, but rather that it doesn't actually go greatly into detail about the emotional turmoil she must have experienced at certain times. It is interesting though, including on her relationship with her great love, Elizabeth, who remained with her throughout her transition.
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Post by tucano on Sept 29, 2020 12:59:53 GMT -5
Oh, and, I think I am going to abandon an audiobook, Around the World in 80 Trains by Monisha Rajesh. That's the book I mentioned in one of these threads a while back - I was thinking of giving up on it because her twitter personality is so different to how she portrays herself in the book. I'm not exactly a prolific reader but I haven't felt inspired to get further than halfway through it. She comes across in some places as feeling a bit superior to others.
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Post by lillielangtry on Sept 29, 2020 13:24:13 GMT -5
Interesting, tucano! I was drawn to it by seeing a Goodreads contact reading it and I like travel writing by women. But not this particular writing.
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Post by scrubb on Sept 29, 2020 19:48:00 GMT -5
Bury Your Dead, by Louise Penney. The last Inspector Gamache mystery I'll read right now, because I don't have any more of them at hand. I think it was probably the best so far. It doesn't have such a far fetched murder. It has 2 murders being investigated in parallel, one of them based on the history of Quebec. I have no idea if there is any accuracy to any of the historical mystery, but it was interestingly done.
ETA: Ok, I googled. The historical mystery does exist as presented, but she made up a solution to it all.
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Post by scrubb on Sept 29, 2020 22:00:30 GMT -5
Grrrr. I decided to try to borrow ebooks from my library. What an enormous PITA, and I can't get it to work yet after a couple of hours. I mean, I know I'm old and not all that tech-savvy - but do they expect people borrowing library books to be super-users?
Seriously, I had to download a library app first. Fine, that was fairly easy. The interface is awful, but I found something I wanted to borrow. When I tried, it refused to download. So then I had to download a newer version of Adobe digital editions. And then I had to create an adobe account to get an ID. And then I had to figure out how to "reactivate my computer using your AdobeID". This last step has proven impossible. Restarting didn't work. White listing the adobe account page on my browser didn't work. The steps that google said would work do not work. My Adobe program claims my computer is authorized to read the book, but it still won't download it.
My mother would have had to give up after the very first step.
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Post by scrubb on Sept 29, 2020 22:13:06 GMT -5
ok, never mind. I finally got it to work. Just had to erase my computer's authorization and then authorize my computer again.
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Post by scrubb on Sept 30, 2020 19:53:43 GMT -5
There's an Inspector Gamache novella - less than 100 pages - called The Hangman, which I read this morning. It's not very good. I'd say not worth reading.
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Post by scrubb on Oct 1, 2020 23:18:53 GMT -5
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