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Finished "The Overlook" Bosch book number 13. Really liked it!!! On to number 14, but first I am reading the following:
So far... WOW...
So far... WOW...
I'm delving into audiobooks for the first time, and just finished Ann Cleeves' The Darkest Evening. The story was excellent as usual, but it was the narration that blew me away. It was just superb with all of the character voicings. I read everything she writes, and of course watch the TV series based on them as well (Shetland and Vera).
I had previously tried the audiobook of David Sedaris' latest, The Best of Me, but found after about an hour I just couldn't listen to his voice with pleasure any longer. I used to enjoy listening to him on public radio, but this time his voice grated on me.
I exchanged it for Steve Martin's Born Standing Up. I love Steve Martin's books, but hadn't read that one before. It's fun to listen to him narrate and imagine his facial expressions at this passage or that. My favorite book of his is An Object of Beauty, and I hope it will be adapted into a movie.
I had previously tried the audiobook of David Sedaris' latest, The Best of Me, but found after about an hour I just couldn't listen to his voice with pleasure any longer. I used to enjoy listening to him on public radio, but this time his voice grated on me.
I exchanged it for Steve Martin's Born Standing Up. I love Steve Martin's books, but hadn't read that one before. It's fun to listen to him narrate and imagine his facial expressions at this passage or that. My favorite book of his is An Object of Beauty, and I hope it will be adapted into a movie.
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I'm currently reading Andrzej Sapkowski's eight The Witcher books.
Read a very interesting piece - a sort of "long article" - entitled "The Regular Army Before The Civil War 1845-1860" by Clayton R Newell.
I think it's going to be something by one of the nineteenth century authors.
If you want to try something 20th century (that is not Solzhenitsyn) might I suggest Children of the Arbat by Anatoly Rybakov.
Thanks I'll put that on my list. It's part of a series isn't it?
How about The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulakov? It's one from the 20th century that I'm considering.
A friend has offered loans out of her collection. For Russian writers, she says she has mostly 19th century classics.......so that's going to be a factor in selecting, initially anyway.
Yes, it is the first book in a series, and, I believe that a TV series may have been based on the book, as well.
To be honest, I haven't read any of the sequels, but I did think that the first book was very good.
When it was first published in the perestroika years in what was then the USSR (in the late 1980s) it was a publishing sensation.
The Master and Margarita is brilliant.
Re the 19th century Russian classics, I've read most of them, and must confess to a deep dislike of much of Tolstoy; but then, such things often come down to personal preference.
However, I do recommend the works of both Turgenev and Chekhov.
Personal preference always gets the final say..... fortuantely.
I've only read a little of Tolstoy, and none in recent years. I remember liking Anna Karenina when I read it years ago. Beyond that I've only read some of his short stories. How about Dostoyevsky? My friend says she has a copy of The Brothers Karamazov that I can borrow.
The Master and Margarita interests me, but I'll have to buy it and wait for it to arrive.
Personally, I far prefer Dostoyevsky to Tolstoy, deeper, darker, but also far better (to my mind, and taste, and preference).
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, by Ian Mortimer. If you want to take your mind off the pandemic and current world tensions, this will transport you back to a fascinating and most different past.
Now, that looks absolutely fascinating, exactly the sort of book that I would love to lose myself in.
I'm reading 'The Wild Truth' by Carine McCandless. The sister of Chris McCandless, the subject of Jon Krakauer's 'Into The Wild'. This is the kid who died while out in the Alaska wilderness for a year on his own. Tells the back story of the brother and sister's upbringing with their ' absolute whacko' parents.
Parts of it are disturbing. S
Parts of it are disturbing. S
Some years ago, I had read an article about Chris McCandless, and had ordered about his background.
Eddie's Boy: A Butcher's Boy Novel - Thomas Perry - New Release - 👍
4th book in the series - can't wait 😃 for this book to arrive - the first 3 books were awesome 💕
4th book in the series - can't wait 😃 for this book to arrive - the first 3 books were awesome 💕
Just finished "Hidden valley road: Inside the mind of an American family".
Wow.
It is an engrossing, entertaining, heart wrenching, based on true events book about a family from about 50-80 years ago.
Wow.
It is an engrossing, entertaining, heart wrenching, based on true events book about a family from about 50-80 years ago.
I ended up buying The Master and Margarita and borrowing The Brothers Karamazov
Following "how to think like Sherlock Holmes" by Maria Konnikova (pretty good!) I read Kareem Abdul Jabbar's first two novels about Mycroft Holmes (Sherlock's older brother). A diverse 19th century world, with all the same detecting and danger and ... Sherlock's still in school! The local library is open for lending again, you just have to put a book on hold and make an appointment to pick it up. Yay!