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Books in the mail
I belong to three book exchange sites: paperbackswap.com; bookmooch.com and titletrader.com. I list the books I want... and they come in the mail... eventually. I often have to wait till they ...
The Novel
Author: James Mitchner Most of this author's novels have to do with a place - often far from these shores. This book has to do with the writing of books, reviewing and publishing of books. Th...
Letting go
I have STACKS of books waiting to be read. In clearing things out around the apartment, I am finding various books I stopped in the middle somewhere and never got back to. I am learning... slow...
Lots of space
I live in a large apartment in Manhattan. There are six rooms (including the kitchen) and a LONG hallway. I used to be married. I used to have MANY more pets - up to 4 dogs and five cats at t...
binge reading
I read one book by an author, then want to read EVERYTHING that person wrote... or everything about that topic. I've read through many books - novels mostly - about the Chinese settling in the U...
Wild
author: Cheryl Strayed I am very much an armchair traveler. I used to think I wanted to walk the Appalachian Trail, but having read Bill Bryson's account of his trip... uh, never mind! This b...
Brain on Fire
subtitle: My month of madness author: Susannah Cahalan This is an AMAZING book. It's like the show "mystery diagnosis" where the patient goes through doctor after doctor, diagnosis after dia...
The Intelligencer
author: Leslie Silbert THAT WAS GOOD!! Just what I like - a LOT of history, and literary history - Christopher Marlowe being a main character; a LOT of espionage - Christopher Marlowe had bee...
Two books
1 - I'd like to apologize to every teacher I ever had; author: Tony Danza Yes, THAT Tony Danza. After his talk show was cancelled, he was approached to do a "reality show" about the life of a ...
Georges
author: Alexandre Dumas The author of The Count of Monte Cristo and the Musketeers books wrote this fascinating book set in the islands of the Indian Ocean. There are various ethnic groups the...
The Shelf; adventures in extreme reading
author: Phyllis Rose This literary critic/author gave herself a challenge: read all the books in a library shelf... then gave herself rules to determine which library shelf to pick. There had...
My Suburban Shtetl
author: Robert Rand This slim novel deals with a community in Illinois, Skokie, which had to deal with a Neo-Nazi deciding to march through it. There's LOTS of background story - of the narrat...
The last days of Dogtown
Anita Diamant, author This author writes SO beautifully! This slim book is about a small community that was "passed by" when a larger city, Gloucester, grew up nearby - a port city. Early in t...
Stealing Athena
Karen Essex, author This is the story of the Elgin Marbles - pieces of the Greek Parthenon that currently reside in the British Museum. They are the stuff of international friction as they were...
splurge!
I had in mind to go to the local (to my job) thrift shop - everything is 25% off today. But then I went to the bank and the Chinese restaurant... and saw tables... on the sidewalk... they were s...
A girl from Yamhill
author: Beverly Cleary This author of children's books was once a child... actually in the very early 20th century. She grew up in Oregon, starting in farm country, moving to the city, then mo...
the Lost Diary of Don Juan
author: Douglas Carlton Abrams Supposedly a "found" diary of the noted cavalier/womanizer Don Juan, this book is a "handbook" in how to seduce a woman... slowly carefully. It is also a treatis...
700 Sundays
author: Billy Crystal This memoir has you laughing AND crying. It's story told as a series of routines...jokes... shtick. The title refers to the fact that he calculated that since his father...
Half Broke Horses
author: Jeannette Walls This is another book by the author of The Glass Castle... a very popular, very saddening memoir. This one, called by the author a true-life novel, is about her grandmot...
Leonardo's Swans
author: Karen Essex This book, set in Europe in the late 16th/early 17th centuries describes in detail the political struggles of the different states - in Italy, France, Germany - all jostling...
The Fallen Angel
author: Daniel Silva Another in the series about Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and Israeli operative. He keeps trying to retire and just work on art... but the "world" won't let him. There w...
The Sea House
author: Elizabeth Gifford This book, set in the islands of the Hebrides, off the coast of Ireland, ties together the stories of two couples who lived in the same house over a century apart. I...
Grania
author: Morgan Llywelyn I've read a number of this author's books before. She usually writes about the far past history of countries that became part of the British Empire. (For and Anglophil...
The Pursuit of Happyness
author: Chris Gardner I never got to see the movie with Will Smith, but bought the book YEARS ago. Mr. Gardner's memoir is heartwrenching. An amazingly smart man, quick learner in many differ...
Pyramid
author: Tom Martin Using some fringe type historical and scientific theories and ideas, the author puts together a book that deals with civilizations before the historical period, cross cultura...
Book Description
I read a LOT!! i enjoy both paper and electronic books. I have tons of reviews from OD that I might actually post here.
I often read more than one book at a time.
It’s my retirement PLAN… LOL
