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Post by maurinsky on Apr 8, 2019 6:22:59 GMT -5
Started The Fifth Discipline. Lots of food for thought regarding systems.
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Post by emmjay on Apr 8, 2019 7:07:33 GMT -5
Just finishing up Girl At War by Sara Novic. It’s a novel mostly set during the Balkan War, which I only know the basics about even though it happened so recently.
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Post by junebug on Apr 8, 2019 9:59:48 GMT -5
Went to the used bookstore yesterday and picked up several new (old) books! Currently reading The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton. Kind of trashy, lots of fun!
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Post by Miss Prudey on May 6, 2019 14:06:26 GMT -5
I read The Great Gatsby, & The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn for book club, & I picked The Hobbit up again, planning to finish it this time around. The next book club book is The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. I really feel like I’m off my reading game & it bothers me.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on May 6, 2019 17:50:57 GMT -5
I read Skyward by Brandon Sanderson which is a sci-fi book from him. I enjoyed it. I also read Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor which I also really enjoyed. Now I'm reading Ship of Smoke and Steel by Django Wexler. It's just okay - YA fantasy but with a weird world that I don't 100% dig.
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Post by marianparoo on May 12, 2019 1:55:35 GMT -5
Has anyone read Eli Rubenstein's _Witness_? We met him in a bar last night in Tel-Aviv and he sounds like a great guy!
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Post by maurinsky on May 13, 2019 8:23:13 GMT -5
Started reading for school again. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. Meh.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on May 14, 2019 19:05:01 GMT -5
I'm reading Viscous by VE Schwab - and I have no way of describing it but I'm completely enthralled. I held off reading it because I couldn't get into her Darker Shade of Magic but this is so good. Basically it's about two college roommates who are very smart and very arrogant and they decide to see if they can create someone (themselves) who is ExtraOrdinary (think X-Men/mutants). They are successful - but nothing goes quite right. The book jumps back and forth between 10 years ago when they did it and now - when Victor (the main character) gets out of prison - both male characters are very morally grey - but it's fabulous so far.
I'm also reading Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie - it's his memoir. It's written in the 3rd person which is slightly off putting in a memoir but so far I'm enjoying it.
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Post by junebug on May 14, 2019 21:41:26 GMT -5
I'm reading The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell... slowly. He does an amazing job of bringing you into the Dutch / Japanese world, but the story is so painful to read! I loved Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks, but I'm really slogging through this one.
Recently read Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife. Did not love.
Listening to Mrs. Hancock and the Mermaid by Imogen Hermes Gowar. It's... okay. Man, I need something GOOD to read!!
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Post by Wise Old Goat on May 23, 2019 17:13:54 GMT -5
Well I loved Vicious so much I circled back and read A Darker Shade of Magic and LOVED it. I'm not reading it's sequel . So I'm glad I gave it a second go. It's a fantasy (adult) about a man who can travel between Londons - his London is one filled with magic and our London is not. And there are a couple of other Londons - time period in our London is Mad King George - although little time is spent there (in the first book - I'm not sure about the others). Magic, pirates, thieves, handsome princes - it has it all really.
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Post by junebug on May 24, 2019 14:56:32 GMT -5
Well I loved Vicious so much I circled back and read A Darker Shade of Magic and LOVED it. I'm not reading it's sequel . So I'm glad I gave it a second go. It's a fantasy (adult) about a man who can travel between Londons - his London is one filled with magic and our London is not. And there are a couple of other Londons - time period in our London is Mad King George - although little time is spent there (in the first book - I'm not sure about the others). Magic, pirates, thieves, handsome princes - it has it all really. Sounds great! I just put myself on the wait list for the audio and print versions. Just wrapping up Gary Shteyngart's Lake Success. I love it (I love all of his stuff).
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Post by maurinsky on Jun 3, 2019 13:44:34 GMT -5
I just bought the book TPatt recommended in the health and fitness, but I'm reading a workbook on strategic planning. Workbooks do not make for good reading.
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Post by junebug on Jun 3, 2019 13:58:40 GMT -5
I'm rereading The Flame Trees of Thika and listening to The Gown.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Jun 4, 2019 16:51:45 GMT -5
I blew through all the Darker Shade of Magic books and now I have regrets that I read them so quickly
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Post by marianparoo on Jun 5, 2019 8:52:35 GMT -5
The Late Scholar - one of Jill Paton Walsh's Peter Wimsey/ Harriet takes. She does them well.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Jun 19, 2019 18:46:28 GMT -5
It took me a month but I finally finished my Salman Rushdie memoir - it was primarily a memoir of the fatwa years and it was truly interesting. It was also odd - he wrote his memoir in the 3rd person and it was hard to get into that at first. I'd say there was lots of name dropping but I think that was just the world he moved in. He was not kind to people he didn't like (Roald Dahl had large "strangler" hands ), including one of his many ex-wives. He really just put it all out on the table - although I think he glossed over his own infidelities a little too kindly. All in all it was thought provoking and I'm glad I read it. I'm reading a couple of YA fantasies that are just okay - not great enough to recommend. I think the Scwhab book hangover is going to be very long.
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Post by maurinsky on Jun 21, 2019 9:02:37 GMT -5
I just pre-ordered Ben Folds' autobiography, A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons. Looking forward to doing some fun reading while on school break.
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Post by Eli on Jun 21, 2019 12:17:55 GMT -5
I am currently reading What the Wind Knows. It’s a lot like Outlander series and I am enjoying it. Many of the names are Gaelic such as Eoin and I’ve had to use YouTube to hear them pronounced correctly. Makes me think of Maurinsky!
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Jun 21, 2019 13:11:36 GMT -5
My library doesn't have it
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Post by marianparoo on Jun 22, 2019 13:31:46 GMT -5
My library doesn't have it Interlibrary Loan
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