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May 01, 2017 09:40AM
I have just completed a treacherous and grueling canoe trip with two post-high school teenagers from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay, Canada and the same day I left Sweden with A Man Called Ove. I am now embedded in Wyoming's Absaroka County with the sixth in the Longmire series, Junkyard Dogs. I am also touring a different kind of church every Sunday for a year throughout the US in Sundays in America: A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith.
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Blueberry wrote: "I have just completed a treacherous and grueling canoe trip with two post-high school teenagers from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay, Canada and the same day I left Sweden with [book:A Man Called Ove|187..."Which book was the canoe trip?
I'm in the middle of going over Niagara Falls in a (space age) barrel with three old ladies who are tired of being ignored. The Widows.
Storyheart wrote: "I'm in the middle of going over Niagara Falls in a (space age) barrel with three old ladies who are tired of being ignored. The Widows."You find the quirkiest books.
Storyheart wrote: "It's Canadian. You know how we are."This book is now on my tbr. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared was a 4 star read for me and I still have fond memories of it.
Karin wrote: "Storyheart wrote: "It's Canadian. You know how we are."This book is now on my tbr. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared was a 4 star read for me ..."
I loved this one too.
I'm in Michigan somewhere on a farm with
Farm somewhere with The Buried Book. Very good so far.
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I haven't heard of that one.
BB this is an audio version, the narrator is doing a good enough job, I can tell this one will be good both in print and audio The Buried Book, I am enjoying it quite a bit. Lot of mystery going on with the mother of a 9 year old little boy.
I am in Indiana (both figuratively and literally) getting to know the child Jim Jones with The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple. I couldn't resist.
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I'll be interested in your reaction to it.
I am currently in Guernsey, UK (?) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and am absolutely loving it. The people are so real that when one letter contained sad news, I had to remind myself this was (supposedly) fiction, not a real letter from a real friend about another... The scenery seems so spectacular I am sorry I never went there, all the years we spent in Europe. The historical facts are mindblowing, as I have never heard of German 5 year occupation so near England.. I feel a 5 star coming on!!
Lesley wrote: "I am currently in Guernsey, UK (?) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and am absolutely loving it. The people are so real that when one letter contained sad news, I ha..."I really loved this one too.
Lesley wrote: "I am currently in Guernsey, UK (?) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and am absolutely loving it. The people are so real that when one letter contained sad news, I ha..."I really enjoyed this one, too, but wasn't giving star ratings when i read it. I don't know if it would have been 4 or 5 stars, but I have fond memories of reading it. I might have added stars here once, or on Shelfari, but am not sure.
Karin wrote: "Lesley wrote: "I am currently in Guernsey, UK (?) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and am absolutely loving it. The people are so real that when one letter contained..."So lovely to 'fall in love' with so many KIND people. I didn't know this book's The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 's author, Mary Ann Shaffer was Australian. Reminds me of when we have natural disasters, afterwards the 'mud army', State Emergency Services, most of whom are just the people next door. Volunteers help the shock dissipate, so I imagine it is during and after, a war.
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I'm in Tehran reading The Last Days of Café Leila
Booknblues wrote: "Dosha (Bluestocking7) wrote: "It is 1943 and I'm in Italy in A Thread of Grace" I love that book and that author!I'm in Tehran reading The Last Days of Café Leila"
She is definitely one helluva author. I'm just getting started, but I can tell it is going to be intense.
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It is a very intense book. She did a lot of research about it.
I am with a set of foreigners trying to make their lives and fortunes through silver mining or trade in a fictional South American country circa 1859, Conrad's Nostromo. I am also touring the neuroscience of aggression and empathy, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst with an accessible writer, Sapolsky (who wrote about his fieldwork with baboons in A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons.
Dosha (Bluestocking7) wrote: "It is 1943 and I'm in Italy in A Thread of Grace"I am with BnB on everything that Russell writes. My 5 star review of: Thread of Grace.
Michael wrote: "Dosha (Bluestocking7) wrote: "It is 1943 and I'm in Italy in A Thread of Grace"I am with BnB on everything that Russell writes. My 5 star review of: Thread of Grace."
Yay for 5 stars. It's my favorite of all Russell's books ( and it is some pretty tough competition.)
Lesley wrote: "I am in Castellamare, Italy, and really enjoying (surprisingly) The House at the Edge of Night
."I'll be watching for your final take.
I am blissfully on my way to America aboard the Titanic unaware of pending doom in The Girl Who Came Home.
Denizen wrote: "Lesley wrote: "I am in Castellamare, Italy, and really enjoying (surprisingly) The House at the Edge of Night ."I'll be watching..."
Enjoying it even more !! Still only 1/2 way.
Blueberry wrote: "I am blissfully on my way to America aboard the Titanic unaware of pending doom in The Girl Who Came Home."I really enjoyed The Midnight Watch: A Novel of the Titanic and the Californian so will wait to hear what you think of this tale.
I'm in a forest in Germany learning about The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World
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I'm curious about that one.
I am in Connecticut in Most Wanted by Lisa Scottolini
I am in Ireland with The Likeness but hopping back and forth from England with The Pickwick Papers and Iowa, USA with Gilead.
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I am traveling all over Europe and into Asia with Mark Twain in The Innocents Abroad. I am also with folks in a hardscrabble life in Appalachia in If The Creek Don't Rise. Physically I am in Amherst, MA, where our group is putting on a telehealth conference.
Karin wrote: "I am in Ireland with The Likeness but hopping back and forth from England with The Pickwick Papers and Iowa, USA with Gilead."How are you liking Gilead? Audio or print? I found the audio very lyrical so I hope you're listening.
Denizen wrote: "Karin wrote: "I am in Ireland with The Likeness but hopping back and forth from England with The Pickwick Papers and Iowa, USA with Gilead."How are you l..."
Audio, and I am enjoying it at a full 4 star level, perhaps even 4.5 stars. I think the audio enhances it.
I am in England. I whipped through Curtain, which is now my favourite Poirot mystery, and am now reading Pigeon Pie.
I am still listening to Behold the Dreamers and do like it but my enjoyment has been lessened by interruptions. My daughter and grandbaby came for a week's visit (and my son for 5 days). It's difficult to find time to listen when you have a house full of people. As I got back to listening to it, my loan was expiring and I had to go onto a short holds list. I got an email telling me it was available but, when I logged in to check it out, I discovered my library card had expired that very day and I couldn't log on. This is my state library card so I have to travel over an hour to renew it. Fortunately (or unfortunately), I had a chemo treatment, etc. in Indy so was able to get it renewed a few hours before the hold expired. I am happily listening again.I'm currently about half through The Nix and am so impressed with Nathan Hill's ability to build a scene. His eye for a situation is spot on and often quite funny. The book has been well reviewed by Goodreads friends so have high hopes that it will carry through to the end.
I am in a London suburb mid-19th century with a charming busybody whose efforts at matchmaking for others tends to backfire, Austen's Emma. I am also with a Latina police officer, Bernie Manuelito, in Navaho country, trying solve crimes with her native honey, Jim Chee--Anne Hillerman's Song of the Lion (Tony's daughter keeping the series very much alive).
I am following a theme of book by or about Russia, so I took up Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time, which features army officers in the Caucasus circa 1850 with leisure enough to get into dangerous shenanigans with various Asians of the region. This is a LibriVox audio. For library books, I am in western Mass with a grouchy young academic woman, trying to fill a yawning gap in her life by trying to find her biological father, Dennis Lehane's Since We Fell. (That will make 11 out his 12 books I've read--u.e am a fan).
I am thoroughly enjoying being in Edinburgh in
.. reminds me of being there decades ago...
Lesley wrote: "I am thoroughly enjoying being in Edinburgh in .. reminds me of being there decades ago..."Hey, I'm reading that too!
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.. reminds me of being there decades ago..."Hey, I'm reading that too!"
Cool that both of you are reading that.
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I'm a fan and have a number of his on my TBR, but haven't read nearly that number.
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