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[Karin]

Blueberry wrote: "I'm learning to row and heading to the 1936 Olympics in German. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics"

I agree, this is a top notch book. I hope you enjoy it!

[Karin]

I'm on NYC with Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship and Ireland with Broken Harbour

[Lesley]

I have read several books, lately, but been slack about writing it here. Best read Chicago and a small Iowa (I think) town.

[Denizen]

Lesley wrote: "I have read several books, lately, but been slack about writing it here. Best read Chicago and a small Iowa (I think) town."

Glad you liked it!

[Michael]

Karin wrote: "Blueberry wrote: "I'm learning to row and heading to the 1936 Olympics in German. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics"I ..."

It was a great read. Just saw a wonderful PBS show on the "boys", their leaders, and the race. Wonderfully done with lots of great film and discussions from the author.

[Michael]

Am spending one long day in Dublin 1904 in the minds of some charming humans and their warm hearted visions, Joyce's Ulysses. I avoided it for so long. A free audio version from LibriVox makes it so accessible.

[Karin]

Michael wrote: "Karin wrote: "Blueberry wrote: "I'm learning to row and heading to the 1936 Olympics in German. [book:The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics|..."

I'm trying to get my son to read it now.

[Blueberry]

I am stalking the streets of Reading with Jack Spratt and Mary Mary Quite Contrary seeking the serial killer, The Gingerbreadman.
The Fourth Bear

[Story]

Blueberry wrote: "I am stalking the streets of Reading with Jack Spratt and Mary Mary Quite Contrary seeking the serial killer, The Gingerbreadman.
The Fourth Bear"

Ooh...sounds like fun!

[Blueberry]

Michael wrote: "Karin wrote: "Blueberry wrote: "I'm learning to row and heading to the 1936 Olympics in German. [book:The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics|..."

I saw it. It was PBS' American Experience titled "Boys of '36". I saw it about a month ago on tv but it's also on Netflix and was at my public library.

[Dosha (Bluestocking7)]

I am in North Carolina reading No One is Coming to Save Us. Very good debut by Stephanie Powell Watts. Life, with all of its ups and downs for the Black residents in a small town, varies from one person to the next. The story centers on Sylvia and her family and friends. I'm glad to be reading it. This is a new author for me.

[Karin]

After returning to earth after my interstellar journey with The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, I spent a lovely times in left England with the delightful The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise. I am also in Ireland with Broken Harbour and all over the galaxy with Earth 2788 - The Earth Girl Short Stories. Exhausting travels!

[Dosha (Bluestocking7)]

Blueberry wrote: "Michael wrote: "Karin wrote: "Blueberry wrote: "I'm learning to row and heading to the 1936 Olympics in German. [book:The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 ..."

I read The Boys in the Boat, what a wonderful book!

[Karin]

Dosha (Bluestocking7) wrote: "
I read The Boys in the Boat, what a wonderful book! "

It is, isn't it?

[Story]

Just left the UK 1950s and 2010s: Magpie Murders This was really fun (& J Grace, great on audio too.)

[Karin]

Dosha (Bluestocking7) wrote: "I read The Boys in the Boat, what a wonderful book!."

I'm so glad you're enjoying this. I told my son he had to read it as assigned reading, a chapter a day, to help his writing skills, but he loves it and keeps reading it when he's supposed to be doing other things. He even read it all the way two and from his YPO seating audition & chamber group auditions yesterday AND since he didn't like losing the excitement, put it in his backpack case to read while he waited. That last thing is a first ever for him.

[Karin]

I'm in early nineteenth century England with Persuasion and also in the far reaches of the galaxy centuries from now with The Ghost Brigades

[Karin]

I've been flitting back and forth between Australia and England, but am now travelling between the two on a fictional ship called Leviathan (can't be the real one because it's in the wrong century) with Oscar and Lucinda.

[Denizen]

Karin wrote: "I've been flitting back and forth between Australia and England, but am now travelling between the two on a fictional ship called Leviathan (can't be the real one because it's in the wrong century)..."

I'll be interested in your take on Oscar and Lucinda. I know it's been on my TBR at some point but isn't there now.

[Michael]

I am in remote rural Norway in mid-19th century with a dedicated farmer, Hamsun's Growth of the Soil. I am also with a Tasmanian doctor in Adelaide alternating with his time as a Japanese prisoner being worked to death with nearly 1,000 others on the Thai-Burma railroad in WW2, Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

[Lesley]

Denizen wrote: "Karin wrote: "I've been flitting back and forth between Australia and England, but am now travelling between the two on a fictional ship called Leviathan (can't be the real one because it's in the ..."

re Oscar and Lucinda. Decades ago when I still like Peter Carey, I loved it. I have it as a back -up and have tried to re-read it, a few times, and no go... I loved Highways to a War , Christopher J. Kochbut admit to skimming through many of the fighting scenes.

[Booknblues]

Michael wrote: "I am in remote rural Norway in mid-19th century with a dedicated farmer, Hamsun's Growth of the Soil. I am also with a Tasmanian doctor in Adelaide alternating with his time as a Japa..."

I'll be interested in your take on The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

I just left Denmark and Department Q with one of my favorite series inThe Scarred Woman and have moved to a new series set in medieval England inThe Colour of Poison: A Sebastian Foxley Medieval Murder Mystery

[Blueberry]

I'm in 1930's Los Angelos with Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep. I am loving his used of similes and metaphors. He's hilarious.
I just left 1800's England, mostly Bath, in Persuasion by Jane Austen.

[Michael]

Blueberry wrote: "I'm in 1930's Los Angelos with Philip Marlowe ...I just left 1800's England, mostly Bath, in Persuasion..."

That's a charming combination. And so is Karin's doing Persuasion with a space opera that has some comic aspects too. I also just love how BnB tours mystery/thrillers over all history and nation.

[Booknblues]

Michael wrote: "Blueberry wrote: "I'm in 1930's Los Angelos with Philip Marlowe ...I just left 1800's England, mostly Bath, in Persuasion..."

That's a charming combination. And so is Karin's doing Persuasion with..."

I actually read 4 books set in America in September for PBT. I was ready to bust out and go somewhere else.

[Karin]

I was very disappointed with Oscar and Lucinda despite the fact that Peter Carey writes well--I'd have probably liked it if I'd read it before it came out at a young enough age, though. My review is here https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Lesley]

Karin wrote: "I was very disappointed with Oscar and Lucinda despite the fact that Peter Carey writes well--I'd have probably liked it if I'd read it before it came out at a young enough age, though. My review i..."

Yes I tried to read it, again, but gave up. Liked it when I was young. I really liked The Chemistry of Tears even if many GR reviewers didn't, so much.

[Denizen]

Lesley wrote: "Karin wrote: "I was very disappointed with Oscar and Lucinda despite the fact that Peter Carey writes well--I'd have probably liked it if I'd read it before it came out at a young enough age, thoug..."

Thanks for the input. As I am no longer a spring chicken, I think I'll pass.

[Story]

It's 1910 and I'm in an orphanage in Montreal. The Lonely Hearts Hotel. Enjoying this more than I have any book in months.

[Karin]

Storyheart wrote: "It's 1910 and I'm in an orphanage in Montreal. The Lonely Hearts Hotel. Enjoying this more than I have any book in months."

I'm glad you've found such a good book!

[Dosha (Bluestocking7)]

It is so much fun to get into a winning book!

[Lesley]

I was in Paris in The Necessary Angel by C.K. Stead. A Kiwi poet and author. One of the best books IMHO, I have had the pleasure of reading for months. Also references next years 100 years since the end of WW1.

I am now in England with one strand being about the Unknown soldier, which is coincidentally poignant as we celebrate 'him', today Remembrance Day, 11th hour of 11th day of the 11th month, from WW1. Wake by Anna Hope.. Easy reading, pleasant enough.

[Blueberry]

I am in the library with the librarian, deciding which books to cull from the libraries collection and writing letters to my books explaining why I am keeping or eliminating it. Dear Fahrenheit 451: A Librarian's Love Letters and Break-Up Notes to the Books in Her Life

[Karin]

Blueberry wrote: "I am in the library with the librarian, deciding which books to cull from the libraries collection and writing letters to my books explaining why I am keeping or eliminating it. [book:Dear Fahrenhe..."

Fie on you for gibing me another book for my tbr ;) !

[Karin]

I am in 19th century Europe with Frankenstein

[Story]

Blueberry wrote: "I am in the library with the librarian, deciding which books to cull from the libraries collection and writing letters to my books explaining why I am keeping or eliminating it. [book:Dear Fahrenhe..."

Oh, that sounds really good!

[Booknblues]

I am slowly making my way down to Patagonia from Guatemala in Patagonian Road: A Year Alone Through Latin America. I had hoped that it would be better than it is.

[Story]

Booknblues wrote: "I am slowly making my way down to Patagonia from Guatemala in Patagonian Road: A Year Alone Through Latin America. I had hoped that it would be better than it is."

Too bad because it sounds interesting.

[Booknblues]

Storyheart wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "I am slowly making my way down to Patagonia from Guatemala in Patagonian Road: A Year Alone Through Latin America. I had hoped that it would be better than it is...."

I had hoped it would be better. Too much information about her personal life and not enough about the places she went to. I am almost done. She is teaching English in Buenos Aires.

[Story]

I'm in an Irish village in the 1820s immersed in the world of The Good People (Thar be fairies....)

[Michael]

Storyheart wrote: "I'm in an Irish village in the 1820s immersed in the world of The Good People (Thar be fairies....)"

I am around the same time in Germany, on the path of a doctor scientist under the wing of Mephistopleles, Faust: First Part. Fortunately, things are more lively for me in contemporary Manhattan North, in the corrupt kingdom of Da Force: The Force.

[Karin]

I'm in 18th Century England reading a suprisingly delightful and insightful novel by one of Jane Austen's favourite novelists, Evelina.

[Denizen]

About 25% into the book, I decided to leave turn-of-the-century England and Reservoir 13. I wanted something more conrete and wanted to find some characters I could settle in with. I'm moving on to Autumn, staying in approximately the same time period but hopefully finding more of a core.

I may go back to Reservoir 13 but will probably move on. I'm trying to stay away from holds so my reading fits my immediate mood a little better.

[Karin]

Denizen wrote: "About 25% into the book, I decided to leave turn-of-the-century England and Reservoir 13. I wanted something more concrete and wanted to find some characters I could settle in with. ..."

It's always disappointing when a book doesn't turn out to be something we like.

[Denizen]

Karin wrote: "Denizen wrote: "About 25% into the book, I decided to leave turn-of-the-century England and Reservoir 13. I wanted something more concrete and wanted to find some characters I could..."

I have difficulty walking away from a book, but realized I'd be lucky to get through just one with the Christmas hubbub. This is definitely not the time of year to spend time on a book that's more work than pleasure.

[Lesley]

I am in Shelby County Texas in Blue Bird, Blue Bird
Not that special, but worth the read.

[Booknblues]

Lesley wrote: "I am in Shelby County Texas in Blue Bird, Blue Bird
Not that special, but worth the read."

I'd like to read that. I read one other by her and thought it was good but not great and this one has made several lists so I thought I might try it.

[Lesley]

Booknblues wrote: "Lesley wrote: "I am in Shelby County Texas in Blue Bird, Blue Bird
Not that special, but worth the read."

I'd like to read that. I read one other by her and thought it was good bu..."

I think I deducted 1/2 star, due to a literary device that annoys the sherbert out of me...

[Karin]

I am in England during the 20th century with White Teeth.

[Lesley]

Karin wrote: "I am in England during the 20th century with White Teeth."

I really loved this book. I hope you do, too.