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Nov 10, 2018 08:55PM
What biography or history can you recommend?
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Sandy wrote: "What biography or history can you recommend?"1. Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello - author Cynthia A. Kierner, the book on which most of America's First Daughter, by Stephanie Dray is based. The Dray book is a novel, & very long.
2. Beethoven: Anguish & Triumph, by Jan Swafford. As I read this, I stopped & listened to each opus on youtube as it came up in progression in the biography, so it took quite a while.
3. A Ship Without a Sail: the Life of Lorenz Hart - Gary Marmorstein. One of my interests is music from the American Songbook.
4. The Storm: What Went Wrong & Why During Hurricane Katrina - Ivor van Heerden & Mike Bryan.
5. Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of WWII - Liza Mundy
To make this list, I reread my comments to myself on each title. I read some books in this category that I do -not- recommend.
Thanks so much - i will check these out.
When not reading a cozy, I go for the espionage, thriller, covert spy/get the bad guy type of books. I love Steve Berry's series with Cotton Malone, and Daniel Silva's Gabriel Allon series. I also love the almost mystical books of Kate Morton, intricate stories of past events affecting current lives and the mysteries surrounding those lives. I also love the standard classic mysteries, Agatha Christie, GK Chesterson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the dark Gothic mysteries of Daphne Du Maurier.
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there is a group that does classic reads?
Sandy wrote: "What biography or history can you recommend?"Two of my favorite authors of times in American history are David McCullough and Erik Larson. They both wrote many books on subjects as varied as the sinking of the Lusitania to the Johnstown Flood.
I am currently reading Vendetta by Lisa Harris
A very interesting mystery by a Christian author featuring a female FBI agent who is on a Missing Persons task force.
Karen M wrote: "I'm reading a long time favorite Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich. I'm waiting on a digital download of 25 and then I will have read them all. Makes me sad.[bookcover:Pl..."
Have you read the Lizzy & Diesel books by Evanovich yet?
~*Kim*~ wrote: "Karen M wrote: "I'm reading a long time favorite Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich. I'm waiting on a digital download of 25 and then I will have read them all. Makes me sa..."Not Karen, but I read the first one of those and thought it was awful. The Plum books have gotten ridiculous, especially the last one, but I still read them. I don't really care for the ones that Diesel shows up in!
MaryJo wrote: "Sandy wrote: "What biography or history can you recommend?"Two of my favorite authors of times in American history are David McCullough and Erik Larson. They both wrote many books on subjects as ..."
I second the approval of David McCullough. I haven't read any Erik Larson yet, though several are on my TBR list.
This week, I enjoyed
Chasing the Dime by Michael Connelly
I am reading two books and they are:
- I am reading this book on my Kindle from Amazon. I am loving this book. It is so good. It is a Fantasy Type Story. I am on Chapter 26.
- I am loving Sue Grafton's Alphabet Mystery Series. I have read A - W and now I am on X. After this book than I will just have Y to read and than this Series will be Completely Finished. I am hoping to finish this Series in a few weeks. Happy Reading :)
I'm working on Tim Heald's Simon Bognor series at the moment - I just finished Just Desserts, which is about Simon being dragooned into investigating a possible spy network supposedly being run by a chef/restauranteur, the network being staffed by waiters and maitres d'hotels. The chef commits suicide - was he blackmailed into it, depressed? Simon's boss isn't convinced such a network exists. When Simon is invited to Acapulco for a week as a guest of a French champagne vintner, the boss says he will be docked 10 vacation days while being gone only 5 if he's unsuccessful there. The series is not uproariously funny, but amusing. There is a cricket game taking up an entire chapter - echo of Death Bredon in Dorothy L. Sayers' Murder Must Advertise.
~*Kim*~ wrote: "Karen M wrote: "I'm reading a long time favorite Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich. I'm waiting on a digital download of 25 and then I will have read them all. Makes me sa..."No, not yet but I do love Diesel from the "between" books so I'm waiting on the digital copy of 25 because they didn't have the Kindle one available but promised they would speak to Amazon so now I'll have to wait again. Once I'm done with 25 I'll probably try a "Diesel" book!
Currently reading a lovely murder mystery call 12 Days.
I am reading
by Gary Inbinder. Set in 1889 Paris
I am currently reading Property of the Rebel Librarian by Allison Varnes, a children's book for the middle grades.
I bought that book, Beverly, but haven't had a chance to read it. I'm a librarian so I love the concept of the book! I really need to move it up my TBR. How are you liking it so far?
Cindy wrote: "I bought that book, Beverly, but haven't had a chance to read it. I'm a librarian so I love the concept of the book! I really need to move it up my TBR. How are you liking it so far?"Sorry, I didn't see your question earlier. I really liked it, but I also found it a little bit over the top. Maybe that is because I have mostly lived in big cities, where there is a greater variety of people, and rarely in a very small town. But I found it a bit unbelievable that every single adult in town was in total agreement about getting rid of most of the fiction books in the school library. (The public library, if there was one, was never mentioned.) The other thing I wondered about is why the school librarian did not contact the ALA Intellectual Freedom office and let them know what was going on.
The weekend's read a thon reviews:
Divorce Decree: A Novel by Nesly Clergehttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Under Cover Of Dark by Juanita Keeshttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Two Heartbeats by Rhonda Forresthttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Debt Collector by Chris Taylorhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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