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Post by lillielangtry on Sept 25, 2023 4:16:30 GMT -5
Claire Keegan, Foster Another tiny gem from Keegan, this one about a young girl from a poor Irish family who is sent to live with another couple because her mother is expecting yet another baby and can't cope/afford to feed her. Every word perfectly chosen. I didn't love it as much as "Small Things like These" but it is still wonderful.
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Post by Liiisa on Sept 26, 2023 19:44:50 GMT -5
70) Steve Burrows, A Siege of Bitterns
A murder mystery set in the marshes of Norfolk, UK-- an area renowned as a birding magnet. I don't usually read murder mysteries, but found this one quite entertaining because of the author's use of environmental science and birding gossip/lingo throughout.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Sept 27, 2023 4:57:34 GMT -5
67. Killer at the Cult, Alison Golden. Cozy mystery about an English vicar, but the author seems to know very little about the real life of a vicar. The plot was quite good, with some sinister themes.
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Post by Webs on Sept 27, 2023 12:45:54 GMT -5
Would anyone else find it preposterous that a 5 or 6 year old would read Nabokov?
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Post by scrubb on Sept 27, 2023 13:32:15 GMT -5
70) Steve Burrows, A Siege of Bitterns A murder mystery set in the marshes of Norfolk, UK-- an area renowned as a birding magnet. I don't usually read murder mysteries, but found this one quite entertaining because of the author's use of environmental science and birding gossip/lingo throughout. That sounds like I should put it on my list for when I'm in the mood for a mystery.
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Post by Liiisa on Sept 27, 2023 15:10:31 GMT -5
Would anyone else find it preposterous that a 5 or 6 year old would read Nabokov? Completely. His work isn’t all incredibly inappropriate for children like “Lolita,” but it’s not particularly straightforward; I can’t imagine what even a 12-year-old would get from reading that.
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Post by Q-pee on Sept 28, 2023 3:51:30 GMT -5
Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller Oliver Darkshire Funny and charming tales from a rare bookseller, there's an attempt to make the stories fit into the shops departments, but much like the books in the shop the stories overflow and leak across departments. And I do LOVE footnotes so very very much. Some of the footnotes are helpful explanations, but mostly they are personal commentary or utter snark. It should have been a quicker read than it was, I spread out the pleasure of it. I will share that pleasure and pop it in the post tomorrow.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Sept 28, 2023 4:21:39 GMT -5
68. Murder on Monday, Ann Purser. More depth and more believable than most cozy mysteries.
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Post by scicaro on Sept 28, 2023 15:20:31 GMT -5
70) Steve Burrows, A Siege of Bitterns A murder mystery set in the marshes of Norfolk, UK-- an area renowned as a birding magnet. I don't usually read murder mysteries, but found this one quite entertaining because of the author's use of environmental science and birding gossip/lingo throughout. Ooo must look for that. I'll probably know most of the locations having grown up in Norfolk.
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Post by Liiisa on Sept 28, 2023 16:24:04 GMT -5
Hopefully it's accurately portrayed! It's not high art, but it was amusing.
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Post by scicaro on Sept 28, 2023 23:58:34 GMT -5
Hopefully it's accurately portrayed! It's not high art, but it was amusing. Not high art seems to be all I can manage at the moment. There have been several murder mysteries in a row.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Sept 29, 2023 5:11:13 GMT -5
Hopefully it's accurately portrayed! It's not high art, but it was amusing. Not high art seems to be all I can manage at the moment. There have been several murder mysteries in a row. They’re my go to especially when I’m working.
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Post by Liiisa on Sept 29, 2023 5:13:33 GMT -5
I get it (currently reading yet another postapocalyptic sci-fi novel.)
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Sept 29, 2023 23:03:53 GMT -5
69. Cat Got Your Cash, Julie Chase. Stereotypical American modern cozy mystery set in New Orleans. There were some cute bits, but I don’t feel the need to read the sequel.
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Post by Liiisa on Sept 30, 2023 21:13:00 GMT -5
71) N. K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate
Part 2 of the 3-book series that I started reading earlier this year. Magic plus plate tectonics! I'll probably read the third one fairly soon; I like these.
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Post by scicaro on Oct 1, 2023 2:49:06 GMT -5
71) N. K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate Part 2 of the 3-book series that I started reading earlier this year. Magic plus plate tectonics! I'll probably read the third one fairly soon; I like these. I read these a while ago. Definitely enjoyed them.
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 1, 2023 4:44:33 GMT -5
Right? I think the geology angle is so great. For some reason I hadn't gotten around to reading these, but realized I wanted to since I enjoyed her New York books so much.
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Post by scicaro on Oct 1, 2023 7:53:18 GMT -5
I haven't read the new York books but have the first in the inheritance trilogy. Should probably get the others.
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Post by lillielangtry on Oct 1, 2023 10:51:54 GMT -5
Finished yesterday:
Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress One of the later Poirots in which Poirot tackles a murder that looks like an open and shut case - obviously it's not.
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Post by Webs on Oct 1, 2023 12:20:20 GMT -5
"Lessons in Chemistry" is entirely misleading. It's not a great work about 1950s and 60s women overcoming men. It's a preposterous work about an author who is time traveling back to what she thinks the 1950s science community was like.
It's done nothing but made me angry.
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Post by scrubb on Oct 1, 2023 17:19:58 GMT -5
In Sept. I finished the most recent David Sedaris, "Happy Go Lucky". I always enjoy his books, but this one isn't up with his best.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Oct 1, 2023 17:33:24 GMT -5
"Lessons in Chemistry" is entirely misleading. It's not a great work about 1950s and 60s women overcoming men. It's a preposterous work about an author who is time traveling back to what she thinks the 1950s science community was like. It's done nothing but made me angry. Interesting. I just bought the audible version. As I lived in the fifties, and studied science mostly in the 60s and 70s, by teachers would have been 50s scientists. I’ll report back.
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