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Jan C is starting Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
I'm starting this on the anniversary of the date the pilgrims set sail.
Sep 16, 2020 01:32PM Add a comment
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

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Jan C is on page 236 of 400 of Anne Morrow Lindbergh: A Gift for Life
In the pre-WWII period when Charles has started speaking his mind. He's right and everyone else is wrong. What's sad is that she is going along with him.
Jul 13, 2020 12:21PM Add a comment
Anne Morrow Lindbergh: A Gift for Life

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Jan C is on page 98 of 240 of The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett
Just discovered that I have this in both hardcover and on the Kindle. Didn't know about the copy on Kindle.
Jun 30, 2020 12:57PM Add a comment
The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett

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Jan C is 59% done with Twenty-five Books That Shaped America: How White Whales, Green Lights, and Restless Spirits Forged Our National Identity
Sam Spade as first of the hard-boiled American detectives. He cut the mold, to be followed by the likes of Lew Archer, Marlowe, and including Kinsey Milhone and V. I. Warshawski - they follow the mold - hard-boiled, knowledgeable about their world and witty at the putdown, skating just inside the law Nemesis. Even Agatha Christie got it.
Jun 12, 2020 11:24PM Add a comment
Twenty-five Books That Shaped America: How White Whales, Green Lights, and Restless Spirits Forged Our National Identity

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Jan C is 51% done with Twenty-five Books That Shaped America: How White Whales, Green Lights, and Restless Spirits Forged Our National Identity
Just finished the chapters on The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises. Are these chapters shorter? Or is it just that these are two of my favorite books?
May 30, 2020 08:07AM Add a comment
Twenty-five Books That Shaped America: How White Whales, Green Lights, and Restless Spirits Forged Our National Identity

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Jan C is on page 196 of 344 of Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties
The author keeps pointing out that no women were on the jury - they weren't allowed on a jury until 1939! He could just point that out once instead of continuing to point it out with each case he discusses.
Apr 19, 2020 09:06AM Add a comment
Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties

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Jan C is on page 151 of 344 of Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties
I was all set to put this down when I noticed that the next murder took place in my home town. I couldn't resist reading on. Actually this is more local politics than murder - town vs. gown! Some things never change. The sophs and frosh used to rush each other, tie people up. Civilized folks stayed inside.
Apr 12, 2020 09:01AM Add a comment
Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties

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