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Jul 14, 2014 09:18AM
32. Crescent and Star -great intro to Turkey and the historical events that shape the country today
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Donna wrote: "Triple Chocolate Cupcake from Cupcake Royale in Seattle, and, oh it was exceedingly yummy."do you live in Seattle Donna? I visited a friend there a couple of years ago. I'd never been before. the friendliest city I have ever visited. and beautiful. I really enjoyed my stay.
No, I live outside Chicago, also a beautiful (in some places) and friendly (in most places) city. I vacationed in Seattle last fall and filled some of my time with a chocolate tour. That's the map under the cupcake. I agree friendly, easily navigable and so scenic. I have to work out a return trip before I'm too old to walk down by the market or take another hike on Mt. Ranier. They called it a zero calorie tour, even though we ate LOTS of chocolate, for a reason.
33. The Ottoman Cage by Barbara NadelI am not a big reader of mysteries and only picked this as Nadel has spent a lot of time in Turkey and sets her books there. I needed something a little lighter to read in between the density of the historical podcasts and non-fiction books I am currently reading about Turkey.
34. Lost to the West
35. Black Moon
cause what is life with out a little sci fi / post apocalyptic / dystopian fiction!
36. Islands of Silence
37. White Mars
38. Rules of Civility
41. Starfish by Peter Watts i don't reread a lot of books but this is one of my favourite sci fi novels and has some really interesting ideas that i wanted to revisit.
43. Maelstrom by Peter Watts.2nd of the sci fi trilogy i am rereading.
44. How to be Alone by Jonathan Franzen
I loved his novel The Corrections and had pretty high expectations of this collection of essays. i found it really spotty and ultimately i was kind of disappointed.
45. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry. a simple sentiment story that you can read in an evening.
46. Behemoth Book 1 by Peter Wattsi continue my reread of this sci fi trilogy that is really 4 books. i loved the first one alot and upon second reading of this series, i'm still going to say, it is the best of the lot. but i persevere. i will finish rereading the series.
47. Singularity by Stephen Jamessuppose to be another sci fi but it is more mystery, suspense / conspiracy thriller than true sci fi. it was enjoyable ... like popcorn is enjoyable.
AND holy moly! had no idea how many books were named Singularity until I looked to include it here. I could spend the next year reading nothing but books on the singularity!
48 ... and now for something more serious ...
A Marker to Measure Drift.
great title ... AND .... it is the perfect title for this story.
and it's no surprise that typing in that name gets me only one option.
49. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie SocietyI'm a little late to this party - it was such a popular book a few years ago. It's okay -cute and touching in all the right ways. It's popularity is completely understandable
50. The Hours
another one from years ago that I am just getting around to reading
51. Rebecca by Daphne De MaurierI had never read this classic. Comparable to Jane Eyre but Jane is a far better heroine ...
52. The Back of the Turtle by Thomas Kinga fun satirical story.
just read that Thomas King won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction for The Back of the Turtle whoo hoo!
53. Echopraxia by Peter Wattskind of a hard sci fi .... much more challenging than my usual sci fi reading material with a lot of ideas about the melding of human and technological evolution.
54. All The Light We Cannot Seeif you liked The Book Thief, you will probably like this one too.
55. Station Eleven a really good story set in a post apocalyptic world - but I would not call it a survivalist story ... not what you typically think of when you think post-apocalyptic. a really really good story.
56. The Book of Strange New Thingsan off-world story that even non sci fi lovers could enjoy.
57. Wolf in White Vanan interesting short sharp novel
59. the secret history of wonder womanfalls into the category of truth is stranger than fiction.
60. Tigerman by Nick Harkaway.damn. for a while i thought maybe i had another 5 star book on my hands but about 2/3 of the way through it kind of fell apart a bit. still, a very good read. very enjoyable. just a little short of stellar.
61. last one of the year is The Ploughmen by Kim Zupan ... another really good novel ... especially as this is Zupan's first. i expect very good things from him.
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