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Post by maurinsky on Aug 9, 2020 11:54:43 GMT -5
The Color of Law, for my cohort book club. I'm in the 1st chapter and it's already infuriating to read how our laws have been designed and interpreted to place blockades in the progress of black people.
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Post by coachgrrl on Aug 9, 2020 12:18:29 GMT -5
American Dirt Very good!
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Post by emmjay on Aug 9, 2020 13:41:59 GMT -5
I started re-reading Pride and Prejudice yesterday (see my photo thread for my inspiration ). While we were walking, my husband asked what it was about because he never read it. I gave him a brief overview and he said, “Really. A rich white dude from the early 1800s ‘evolved’. I call bullshit.”
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Post by Miss Prudey on Aug 19, 2020 18:01:54 GMT -5
Just finished The Wrath & the Dawn for one book club, need to read Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon for my other book club.
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Post by Eli on Aug 20, 2020 10:17:26 GMT -5
Just finished The Girl With The Louding Voice. So very good.
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Post by coachgrrl on Aug 20, 2020 11:03:05 GMT -5
Finished American Dirt...excellent
Currently reading The Book of Lost Friends ..
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Post by nansel on Sept 1, 2020 8:48:30 GMT -5
I just finished Mary Trump's book. I was in line at the library, and not slated to get it until October. I can see why it made it's way to me sooner - short and fluffy. Not particularly well written, jumps all around in timeline and theme.
My takeaway on Mary is that she's just as much of an asshole as the rest of them. Just as money grubbing and obsessed, lived on a trust fund even while bitching about it. Mad that her dad was written out of her grandfather's will, which does make her grandfather look like a jerk, but it was his money. She seemed to think she was entitled to it. She went on an on the whole book about how her grandfather and Donald thrived in people kissing their asses, yet she hung around the family her whole life. If she really despised them, why didn't she move on and make her own living? She had excuses about herself and anyone else who also kissed ass, and it always came down to money. Even though she has a PhD and works herself, she wanted the loads that her grandfather made and Donald was squandering. Just like all of the family.
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Post by Inky on Sept 1, 2020 15:11:23 GMT -5
I just finished Mary Trump's book. I was in line at the library, and not slated to get it until October. I can see why it made it's way to me sooner - short and fluffy. Not particularly well written, jumps all around in timeline and theme. My takeaway on Mary is that she's just as much of an asshole as the rest of them. Just as money grubbing and obsessed, lived on a trust fund even while bitching about it. Mad that her dad was written out of her grandfather's will, which does make her grandfather look like a jerk, but it was his money. She seemed to think she was entitled to it. She went on an on the whole book about how her grandfather and Donald thrived in people kissing their asses, yet she hung around the family her whole life. If she really despised them, why didn't she move on and make her own living? She had excuses about herself and anyone else who also kissed ass, and it always came down to money. Even though she has a PhD and works herself, she wanted the loads that her grandfather made and Donald was squandering. Just like all of the family. Good! You read it so I don't have to!
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Post by nansel on Sept 1, 2020 23:07:35 GMT -5
Good! You read it so I don't have to! You’re welcome! . Luckily it was a quick read, so at least I didn’t lose too much of my life.
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Post by marianparoo on Sept 20, 2020 12:20:55 GMT -5
Reading a couple of books about the Essex. The whaling disaster that inspired Moby Dick
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Post by stellarfeller on Sept 20, 2020 13:46:36 GMT -5
I just started “Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe” - picked that off the suggestion shelf at the library. Maureen - you liked this post of mine, and do you know what? I can’t remember a single thing about it 😳😄
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Post by marianparoo on Sept 21, 2020 6:25:41 GMT -5
I find Kate Redman's Scimitar really disappointing. It is the first of her books that I have read. Are the others any better?
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Post by maurinsky on Sept 25, 2020 9:00:24 GMT -5
I am about halfway through The Leftovers by Tom Perotta. Pretty good. The pandemic prompted me to read it, since it's a world that is still running after losing hundreds of thousands of people in a moment. I thought we're kind of in the same amorphous "what is happening in the world" feeling right now.
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Post by marianparoo on Oct 19, 2020 9:30:31 GMT -5
Rereading Moby Dick now. I don't see how anyone can think it is boring.
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Post by emmjay on Oct 20, 2020 2:39:53 GMT -5
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Post by Miss Prudey on Oct 21, 2020 0:30:24 GMT -5
Finished Sense and Sensibility a couple of days ago, & started War of the Worlds today (also listening to David Tennant read it on audiobook). Will also work in A Fall of Marigolds & Circe in the next little while.
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Post by maurinsky on Oct 21, 2020 7:48:00 GMT -5
Rereading Moby Dick now. I don't see how anyone can think it is boring. It's a gay love story!
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Post by marianparoo on Oct 21, 2020 12:04:05 GMT -5
Rereading Moby Dick now. I don't see how anyone can think it is boring. It's a gay love story! Absolutely, positively
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Post by marianparoo on Nov 10, 2020 8:59:35 GMT -5
A Night in the Lonesome October. The one by Roger Zelazny. Confusing. I really need a scorecard to match the characters and their familiars, never mind what side the are on. At any given point, they keep on switching.
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Post by maurinsky on Nov 12, 2020 9:02:30 GMT -5
I loved Zelazny's Nine Princes in Amber.
I need to get back to book reading. I had to read so many non-fiction books for grad school, I haven't really sat down with a good book since then.
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