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[Karin]

I have come back to earth, and am heading to Connecticut, USA with The Summer of the Great-Grandmother by Madeleine L'Engle.

[Michael]

I am with Tamil and Singala communities in Sri Lanka during the civil war, Island of a Thousand Mirrors, and with one descendant that emigrates to LA.

[Booknblues]

Michael wrote: "I am with Tamil and Singala communities in Sri Lanka during the civil war, Island of a Thousand Mirrors, and with one descendant that emigrates to LA."

That one sounds up my alley.

[Denizen]

Michael wrote: "I am with Tamil and Singala communities in Sri Lanka during the civil war, Island of a Thousand Mirrors, and with one descendant that emigrates to LA."

It looks like you've found another good one, Michael. I'll be watching for your review.

[Lesley]

Denizen wrote: "Michael wrote: "I am with Tamil and Singala communities in Sri Lanka during the civil war, Island of a Thousand Mirrors, and with one descendant that emigrates to LA."

It looks lik..."

We were there during the war, 1986 and it was very scary, superb, beautiful, languid (we used to take a pack of cards to the restaurants as the simplest meal took and hour, but worth the wait)... This is a must order, for me. Thanks Michael.

[Michael]

Lesley, it was wnderful with the audiobook version, which I got through my state library. The lyricism of the prose amd character's voices came through well.

[Lesley]

I wish I could 'magik' myself back to Sri Lanka for 3 months. Our pensions are paid, even if we are out of the country. It's the travel itself, that is a problem for me.. SIGH.. Should just be grateful I have been once..

[Karin]

I'm travelling all over the Pacific as well as to China with Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them

[Lesley]

Karin wrote: "I'm travelling all over the Pacific as well as to China with [book:Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, I..."

Sounds like fun.. I do remember hearing something about this.

[Michael]

I am in Kansas and Missouri in the 1850s with a pre-teen slave boy who gets linerated by the radical abolitionist and religious nut John Brown and ends up surviving the madness by pretendimg to be a girl: The Good Lord Bird (McBride's book recommended by BnB). I am also in recent San Francisco with nerdy hacker kids who strike back against all the oppresssion of Homeland Security after a terrorist attack: Little Brother.

[Dosha (Bluestocking7)]

I am in Kansas with All the Ugly and Wonderful Things Yikes!

[Story]

I'm in NYC and the Netherlands with The Last Painting of Sara de Vos.

[Lesley]

Storyheart wrote: "I'm in NYC and the Netherlands with The Last Painting of Sara de Vos."

I am interested in this one, as well..

[Jgrace]

Storyheart wrote: "I'm in NYC and the Netherlands with The Last Painting of Sara de Vos."


I hope you like it. It's one of my favorites for the year.

[Booknblues]

I'm in India reading The Association of Small Bombs.

[Story]

That sounds good Fran.

Judith, I'm enjoying the audio a lot so far.

[Denizen]

Booknblues wrote: "I'm in India reading The Association of Small Bombs."

I'm definitely interested in what you think. It caught my eye the first time I saw it mentioned in prerelease chatter.

[Booknblues]

Denizen wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "I'm in India reading The Association of Small Bombs.".."

I'm liking it so far.

[Karin]

Lesley wrote: "Sounds like fun.. I do remember hearing something about this."

Fun, but also rather alarming as I learn about what happens to plastic in the ocean. I feel I'm back to age 10 when I told my father I'd never ride in a car again because we'd been learning about air pollution in school (he was able to use logic to convince me to still ride with them).

[Karin]

Dosha (Bluestocking7) wrote: "I am in Kansas with All the Ugly and Wonderful Things Yikes!"

Wow, I'll be interested to hear what you have to say about this one!

[Karin]

I am in various US states with Interface

[Denizen]

Karin wrote: "I am in various US states with Interface"

Karin wrote: "Dosha (Bluestocking7) wrote: "I am in Kansas with All the Ugly and Wonderful Things Yikes!"

Wow, I'll be interested to hear what you have to say about this one!"

It sounds harsh to me - will be interested in seeing your final tak, Dosha..

[Denizen]

Karin wrote: "I am in various US states with Interface"

I want to read something by Stehphenson. Maybe I'll make him one of my six new-to-me authors for 2017. I think I'll start with Seveneves.

[Karin]

Denizen wrote: "Karin wrote: "I am in various US states with Interface"

I want to read something by Stehphenson. Maybe I'll make him one of my six new-to-me authors for 2017. I think I'll start with [b..."

Yes, I gave Seveneves 4 stars. This is my third novel by him.

[Michael]

Denizen wrote: "I want to read something by Stehphenson. Maybe I'll make him one of my six new-to-me authors for 2017"

I've read seven, missing only his 3 historical adventures called the Baroque Cycle. All were 4 or 5 stars, sign of fandom. Snow Crash was the most fun (but dated now in predictions for the internet). Cryptonimicon, about cryptology, the one to make the 1001 list. The shortest is Zodiac, a comic tale of eco radicals fighting polluters, which was pretty zany. Seveneves was satisfying for me as a realistic saga of a small group surviving in earth orbit after an extinction event for Earth.

[Denizen]

Michael wrote: "Denizen wrote: "I want to read something by Stehphenson. Maybe I'll make him one of my six new-to-me authors for 2017"

I've read seven, missing only his 3 historical adventures called the Baroque ..."

Thanks for the summaries, Michael. I tried to put your recommendations in private notes on Seveneves so I would have them when I actually am ready to read Stephenson but couldn't remember how to do it. Arrrgggghh.

[Karin]

Michael wrote: "Denizen wrote: "I want to read something by Stehphenson. Maybe I'll make him one of my six new-to-me authors for 2017"

I've read seven, missing only his 3 historical adventures called the Baroque ..."

But wait, you're missing Interface, at least according to your read list, and perhaps the others he co-wrote with J. Frederick George under a pseudonym, but they are now out with his name. The other book is called The Cobweb.

Not that you'd necessarily know this, and I certainly didn't. I found it dong a google search for "618 pages."

I had never heard of this, but needed a book with a total page number containing only digits in 1896, and you get the same points as the hundreds digig (to a maximum of 10 for >1000). I didn't have enough days left to finally read Cryptonomicon.

So far I like it, and I'm a third of the way through.

[Lesley]

I just had a wonderful, satisfying re-read ofThe Garden of Evening Mists.. Started and DNF quite a few EBOOKs recently, but as they are free, nothing lost.

[Lesley]

I am about to be in Sheffield in The Year of the Runaways..

[Denizen]

Lesley wrote: "I am about to be in Sheffield in The Year of the Runaways.."

It's on my TBR so looking forward to your review.

They list it as similar to A Fine Balance which is currently near the top of my ever changing read soon list.

[Lesley]

Denizen wrote: "Lesley wrote: "I am about to be in Sheffield in The Year of the Runaways.."

It's on my TBR so looking forward to your review.

They list it as similar to A Fine Balance..."

Lucked into seeing Hot Milk, so decided to go to Spain instead. HMMMM interesting choice for Man Booker....felt like stopping earlier, but may as well finish it. Enjoying the contemporary-ness, and having been to that desolate part of Spain, have a frame of reference.

[Denizen]

Lesley wrote: "Denizen wrote: "Lesley wrote: "I am about to be in Sheffield in The Year of the Runaways.."

It's on my TBR so looking forward to your review.

They list it as similar to A Fi..."</i>

I was going to put Hot Milk on hold but already have [book:LaRose on hold and three hold books checked out that I haven't started. I'm like a kid in a candy store.

[Lesley]

Last comment disappeared ???? Anyway, I'm off to read the rest of Hot Milk...

[Booknblues]

Lesley wrote: "Last comment disappeared ???? Anyway, I'm off to read the rest of Hot Milk..."

I'll be interested in your reaction. So many friends loving it, but the description doesn't draw me in.

[Michael]

I am exploring the history, geology, biology, and cultural meanings of the Rocky Mountains in Gary Ferguson's The Great Divide: The Rocky Mountains in the American Mind. I am also beginning a visit to Rouen in the 1820s, considering an affair with Madame Bovary, which has so many reads among GR friends I was feeling left out. Time will tell if I continue, but I feel the urge to try more classics before the end of the year. Why take a risk with all this modern stuff or fluff, when so many books have stood the test of time.

[Karin]

I was in and out of WW I Germany in less than 24 hours and am happy to be done since I'm not into military history.

[Denizen]

Karin wrote: "I was in and out of WW I Germany in less than 24 hours and am happy to be done since I'm not into military history."

So what took you into Germany?

[Karin]

I'm nearly out of England and then am going to head to Sweden with Britt-Marie Was Here

[Lesley]

For all the Elena Ferrante fans the question is : do you really want to know ?

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/p...

[Denizen]

I'm starting To The Bright Edge of the World tonight. I'm looking forward to it!

[Booknblues]

I am back in India reading The Association of Small Bombs after taking side trips to Mozambique and Poland reading At the Mercy of the River: An Exploration of the Last African Wilderness and Irena's Children: A True Story of Courage respectively.

[Dosha (Bluestocking7)]

I'm not quite sure where I am, but it's that time of year again and I'm somewhere in the USA (I think) with Alex, little dead five year old boy that is haunting his daddy. This is the month I devote to horrors.

[Booknblues]

Dosha (Bluestocking7) wrote: "I'm not quite sure where I am, but it's that time of year again and I'm somewhere in the USA (I think) with Alex, little dead five year old boy that is haunting his daddy. This is the month I devot..."
I'll be looking forward to your reaction to this one.

[Michael]

I am in an old elegant building in the East Village of NYC in various decades between the 80s and 2000, following a cast of writers, artists, AIDs activists, public health workers, and their families --Christodora. My audiobook on deck after a month wait has me in the life of Churchill during the war and beyond, Reed's completion of William Mancheter's The Last Lion 3: Winston Spencer Churchill, Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965.

[Denizen]

Michael wrote: "I am in an old elegant building in the East Village of NYC in various decades between the 80s and 2000, following a cast of writers, artists, AIDs activists, public health workers, and their famili..."

I'll be watching for your review of Christodora.

[Booknblues]

Christodora has been on my radar so I'm interestedin your reaction. Speaking of Churchill, I saw a new book today about Churchill by Candice Millard who wroteThe River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey, it's called Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill.

[Lesley]

I am in Amsterdam and surrounds in the latest Herman Koch spellbinding novel Dear Mr. M

For people who enjoyed 'The Dinner and Summer House with Swimming Pool

[Denizen]

Lesley wrote: "I am in Amsterdam and surrounds in the latest Herman Koch spellbinding novel Dear Mr. M

For people who enjoyed 'The Dinner and [book:Summer House w..."

I've never tried anything by Koch. I need to see if I have him on my authors to try shelf.

[Dosha (Bluestocking7)]

I'm interested in how well you like Dear Mr M I loved the audio of The Dinner.

[Karin]

I have left Sweden and am now in New England with The Cringe Chronicles: Mortifying Misadventures with My Dad: A Memoir. One of the authors also wrote The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue which is being made into a major motion picture, but I haven't read that one. This one is mostly by his daughter, but he has a section in every chapter. My husband heard them speak at some event or other, I think at one of his historical societies (he belongs to no less than 4, three around here and then his mother gave him a lifetime membership to the one in his hometown, but it's out of state and too far for him to attend.)