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Message 1870310 - Posted: 31 May 2017, 12:44:25 UTC

Another clutch of airport novels - can't recall any of the titles (which is normal), the plots are all about the same, but some had "quite innovative" ways of killing people, and some very improbable escapes from death by the hero.
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Message 1870334 - Posted: 31 May 2017, 16:46:00 UTC
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Next book to read.
Liberty Lady.

Liberty Lady is a highly personal yet also credible and important history of both US airmen and the men and women of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS later CIA) in Sweden during WWII.
In short, Liberty Lady is THE English language book about espionage and love in WWII Sweden, especially in Stockholm, the Casablanca of the north.
http://larsgyllenhaal.blogspot.se/2017/05/casablanca-of-north.html
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Message 1873118 - Posted: 15 Jun 2017, 13:12:14 UTC
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The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
Did the singer-songwriter take portions of his Nobel lecture from SparkNotes?
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2017/06/did_bob_dylan_take_from_sparknotes_for_his_nobel_lecture.html
Some think he did and that the prize should go to SparkNotes instead:)
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Message 1873145 - Posted: 15 Jun 2017, 14:22:47 UTC

I'm hoping to find the time to re-read The Pigeon, by Patrick Suskind. I have my reasons :)
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Message 1874070 - Posted: 19 Jun 2017, 22:34:13 UTC
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"When Breath Becomes Air", by Paul Kalanithi. Famous neurosurgeon/neuroscientist faces his own mortality.
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Message 1876175 - Posted: 1 Jul 2017, 12:13:34 UTC
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"Thank You for Being Late", by Thomas L. Friedman.
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Message 1877597 - Posted: 9 Jul 2017, 13:19:13 UTC - in response to Message 1860973.  

Dear Suzie-Q
I brought my 3 daughters up on Winnie the Pooh, actually a collection of 4 books - 2 poems and 2 stories and managed to get the books signed by Christopher Robin! They all became teachers at some point and nice to think they read the Winnie the Pooh stories to their children.

Current reading: Just finished Most Secret War by R V Jones - techie WW2 history or early days ECM warfare. ISBN: 978-0-141-04282-4

Now: One-third through Ray Monk's Inside the Centre, The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer - biography of brilliant but often strange guy. ISBN: 978-0-09943-353-8 Bonus of this book is that the author explains physics clearly where necessary.

Both the above books have superlative reviews.

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Message 1878006 - Posted: 12 Jul 2017, 17:55:13 UTC

Last week's flights and flight-delays were profitable from the reading point of view. A couple of work related books that I've been trying to read for some time, three "airport novels" and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (again - must be forth or fifth reading and I still find new twists in it).
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Message 1878061 - Posted: 13 Jul 2017, 7:59:42 UTC - in response to Message 1878006.  

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If you are into spy trilogies, then John Gardner's The Secret Trilogy might be of interest http://www.john-gardner.com/
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Message 1878200 - Posted: 14 Jul 2017, 9:15:30 UTC
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The Horatio Hornblower series... let every buckle be swashed!!!
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Message 1878321 - Posted: 15 Jul 2017, 1:59:53 UTC

"Mozart's Starling", by Lyanda Lynn Haupt.
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Message 1878327 - Posted: 15 Jul 2017, 3:13:55 UTC - in response to Message 1878200.  

The Horatio Hornblower series... let every buckle be swashed!!!


Darn, I was waiting to be swashed but someone else blew his horn.... You know how those Jazz players are....

How many books about HH did he finally write?

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Message 1878328 - Posted: 15 Jul 2017, 3:20:01 UTC

Cecile Pineda: "Face"

Reading it again.

Read it many years ago when a young one but then knew it as "The Mask"

It disturbed me. It mixed both the experience of losing ones physical face (through accident) and only having the lottery to rely on for possible treatment (poor and no national health service) and wanting so much to be loved by the girl he liked who might never look at him as a valid person.

I never forgot this book because of the impossibility of the situation and because it was really well written from behind the eyes of the main character.

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Message 1878336 - Posted: 15 Jul 2017, 5:06:11 UTC
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How many books about HH did he finally write?

Eleven. I'm just starting the first, but we bought the whole series. When Ol'Pookers and I are done reading the series, we're passing the books along to a niece, age thirteen and a nephew, age 16. After they read them, if they don't want to keep them, they can donate them to a library.
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Message 1878348 - Posted: 15 Jul 2017, 8:16:25 UTC

Starman Jones by Robert Heinlein.

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Message 1878349 - Posted: 15 Jul 2017, 8:22:42 UTC

Book 2 of The Mallorean by David Eddings.

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Message 1878452 - Posted: 15 Jul 2017, 22:54:50 UTC - in response to Message 1878348.  

Starman Jones by Robert Heinlein.


Right on!

And a great "Nija Racoon" picture!

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Message 1879120 - Posted: 19 Jul 2017, 23:36:30 UTC

Just finished, "Hillbilly Elegy", by J. D. Vance.
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Message 1879304 - Posted: 20 Jul 2017, 19:37:05 UTC

The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad by Robert Athearn

The early history is really fascinating. Lots of political, financial, and legal intrigue. Courts overriding each others' rulings and "interpreting" SCOTUS decisions, sheriffs and parties of "deputized" armed men from the Rio Grande and its rival Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe enforcing whichever judge they prefer, townspeople and newspaper editors either supporting or hating it and then changing their minds when they got what they wanted and it was worse. And I'm only through the first ten years.

The original intent of the founder was exactly what the name said: to go down the front range of the Rockies and connect Denver to the Rio Grande River at El Paso, and from there perhaps all the way to Mexico City. All the lines west into the mountains were just branches to lucrative traffic sources that would pay for more construction.
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