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Just finished The 7 and 1/2 Deaths of...

I don't know how many of you have a local library that has the account, but both of those books by Turton are on the CloudLibrary App--so you can listen to them for free. I imagine my next long trip...

Wasn't there already a first edition of this by a guy named Lloyd?

Just finished The Indispensables by Patrick O'Donnell. Very interesting (if a tad overly detailed) book about the Marblehead Regiment who did a lot of water work for George Washington. They were...

I don't think there's much correlation between the show and the story -- especially since they don't actually have the rights to the main story.

I recently listened to Malcolm Gladwell's book Talking to Strangers. It's very interesting. He talks about some of the research around why we have a difficult time recognizing when someone is telling...

Just listened to Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown. Philbrick is a really good story-teller. I knew most of the story here, but...

I wouldn't go that far, but I think Perelandra's understanding of temptation may actually be greater than Screwtape's.

I just finished a book called Angels in the Sky by Robert Gandt. It's about the volunteers who went to fly for the new Israeli air force in 1948 when the various arab countries invaded the newly...

One of the bad guys is described as having sex with a young boy and then murdering him. It's a relatively graphic scene as I recall--and it happens early to show just how bad the dude is. Other than...

Yeah, Barbara Tuchman. I combined her names.

Just finished *The Guns of August* by Barbara Tuchman (corrected). It's a Pulitzer Prize winning telling of the first month of WW1. Insightful and at times pretty witty, it is another book where you...

Finished The Expanse yesterday. Overall it’s a very good series. They did a pretty good job of finishing up the series. If you create a super-powered villain it’s hard to finish it without having a...

By the way, Leviathan Falls releases tomorrow.

I've read a few of Harlan Coben's books in the last couple of weeks. Good mystery/thriller type writer. If you're familiar with him, I'm way out of order in my reading--mainly because I just went...

I just finished Annihilation (book one of Southern Reach), but I don't think I'll be continuing to the other two books. I really didn't like the first book that much and the reader reviews are pretty...

I like it well enough, but still think it's the weakest of the five -- and it makes me worry about where it's going. I really dislike what he did to Dany in this book. I'll be interested to see how...

I decided to listen to Dance with Dragons (book five of the Game of Thrones series). It's been more than 10 years since I read it and supposedly there's a new book coming by next year -- ha. ...

Just read two history stories. Rick Atkinson's An Army at Dawn is about the American army fighting in N. Africa. Interesting story that I wasn't all that aware of (other than playing Allied General)....

On a history note, I'm about done with The Quartet by Joseph Ellis. It's basically about the development of the Constitution -- especially the role that Washington, Jay, Madison and Hamilton played...

Based on recommendation here, I read Gaiman's Ocean at the End of the Lane. That's a very good book. Thought it was a creative direction and liked the perspective he told the story from. Also finally...

Listened to a few things lately -- some of them from recommendations here. Liked The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Kind of odd story, but entertaining. Loved The Lies of Loch Lamora. That's a well...

I'd read the first one then decide if you want to go another way. I just finished the Starfisher's Trilogy by Glen Cook. An odd one. I really liked the first book. Thought it was excellent and it...

Just finished Ken Follett's Column of Fire. It's book three of the Kingsbridge series that started with Pillars of the Earth. Basically, Follett takes a century and tells a story around a local...

Fletch, especially, is not always a great person. Flynn is actually a bit of a saint. They come together in the book Confess Fletch (which is probably my favorite Fletch book) -- which is actually...