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Just finished re-reading Children of Time as I decided to pick up books 2 & 3 in the trilogy. Maybe not a great one for people that don't like spiders... but I found the vision of alternate advanced technology based on bio-engineering pretty interesting.

Will finish the other two books then probably start up Central Station that seems to get mixed reviews but I like the premise.

And I need to gird my loins to finally finish House of Leaves which reminds me of my experience with James Joyce back in school. One of the reviewers on Goodreads captured it well with:
"It's like one of those very psychedelic albums from the late sixties, where they do all those funny stereo effects, and all that phasing or whatever it was called - all great fun but you still had to have good songs.
It's about the story of the book about a film about a house, but let's not over complicate things. The film at the centre of it all is called "The Navidson Record", and so is the book about it. And so is the book about the book about the film - STOP doing that!"

I set a 40 book goal for 2023. I beat that in 2022 but we'll see how it goes.
 
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Just finished "Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs," a collection of essays by Stegner. Now reading Lincoln Highway, On the Spine of Time and Strange New World. You WWII nuts need to read Boys of Winter.
 
Thomas Mitchell said:
Just finished re-reading Children of Time as I decided to pick up books 2 & 3 in the trilogy. Maybe not a great one for people that don't like spiders... but I found the vision of alternate advanced technology based on bio-engineering pretty interesting.

Will finish the other two books then probably start up Central Station that seems to get mixed reviews but I like the premise.

And I need to gird my loins to finally finish House of Leaves which reminds me of my experience with James Joyce back in school. One of the reviewers on Goodreads captured it well with:
"It's like one of those very psychedelic albums from the late sixties, where they do all those funny stereo effects, and all that phasing or whatever it was called - all great fun but you still had to have good songs.
It's about the story of the book about a film about a house, but let's not over complicate things. The film at the centre of it all is called "The Navidson Record", and so is the book about it. And so is the book about the book about the film - STOP doing that!"

I set a 40 book goal for 2023. I beat that in 2022 but we'll see how it goes.
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I'm still waiting on the thrid Children of Time book. I enjoyed the first two.
 
Buzzy in that you like Sanford , Johathan Kellerman will probably be right in your wheel house too. His wife and son are both good writers and kind of in the same style.

Just started his "Bad Love".

Dave
 
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My favorite find this week, for $6 I couldn’t complain. Been my morning coffee and read wake-up while the dog plays with his kong.
 
MillCreekMinnow said:
What Sandford books have you read? Davenport?
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I have read them all, Virgil Flowers is my favorite protagonist but Davenport is excellent also. Latest two have Davenports daughter as an agent.
just read Carl Hiaasen‘s Basket Case; in addition to being a fly fisherman Hiaasen is an excellent investigative reporter and crime novelist. One of his books is about a crook who tries to fix a bass tournament.
 
Just finished Comanche Empire by Pekka Hamalainen (umlauts over all of the “a”s), a Finnish author who is a Rhodes Professor of American History at Oxford. An in depth study of how the Comanche consolidated their power over the entire southern plains for nearly 200 years by becoming masters of horse culture and political maneuvering. They were originally related to the Northern Cheyenne with an almost exact language and allied with the Utes when they left their original geographic setting of the NW plains and migrated south in multiple groups in the early 18th century. Their eventual empire and economy was designed via the “raiding and trading” philosophy.
Highly mobile, living in rancherias that eventually spread from the Mississippi to the Rockies and the Missouri River south into Coahuila Mexico they drove out the Apache, kept the Spanish, then Mexico at bay by playing them off against the French in the lower Mississippi valley while insulating themselves from the onslaught of the westward expanding Euro-Americans. They were the catalyst that eventually gave birth to what is now Texas by starting to trade with Euro-Americans after the Louisiana Purchase and isolating the Spanish to the south and west of the Rio Grande.
Interestingly, their eventual demise began just prior to Civil War when the southern plains were involved in a 15 year period of drought which drove their herding of horses and their primary protein supply, the Bison, back up into the headwaters of the west>east flowing rivers of the plains where the critical mass of food supply, short plains grass and even the cottonwoods were stripped bare. Micro-Climate change affecting an entire geographic area. By being highly mobile, living in many different rancherias, or groups, they were isolated from and less affected by the small pox and cholera epidemics that raged through the migratory routes of other indigenous peoples. With the end of the Civil War (what was so civil?) and westward expansion of Euro-Americans via the railroads their society was eventually doomed. A rather in depth economic and political study of a people who defined a large part of history for the American west by an author from without, who wasn’t impacted at an early age by pre-conceived ideas on early American history. Not for everyone, but I found it very interesting and informative as it reinforced my believe that the environment defines the people….not vice versa.
 
Big Tuna said:
Finished Lincoln Highway...not as good as A Gentleman in Moscow, but well worth the read.
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Interesting - I loved Lincoln Highway and really enjoyed A Gentleman in Moscow.. at any rate, I hope he has a new book soon.
 
VAGABOND said:
Just finished Comanche Empire by Pekka Hamalainen (umlauts over all of the “a”s), a Finnish author who is a Rhodes Professor of American History at Oxford. An in depth study of how the Comanche consolidated their power over the entire southern plains for nearly 200 years by becoming masters of horse culture and political maneuvering. They were originally related to the Northern Cheyenne with an almost exact language and allied with the Utes when they left their original geographic setting of the NW plains and migrated south in multiple groups in the early 18th century. Their eventual empire and economy was designed via the “raiding and trading” philosophy.
Highly mobile, living in rancherias that eventually spread from the Mississippi to the Rockies and the Missouri River south into Coahuila Mexico they drove out the Apache, kept the Spanish, then Mexico at bay by playing them off against the French in the lower Mississippi valley while insulating themselves from the onslaught of the westward expanding Euro-Americans. They were the catalyst that eventually gave birth to what is now Texas by starting to trade with Euro-Americans after the Louisiana Purchase and isolating the Spanish to the south and west of the Rio Grande.
Interestingly, their eventual demise began just prior to Civil War when the southern plains were involved in a 15 year period of drought which drove their herding of horses and their primary protein supply, the Bison, back up into the headwaters of the west>east flowing rivers of the plains where the critical mass of food supply, short plains grass and even the cottonwoods were stripped bare. Micro-Climate change affecting an entire geographic area. By being highly mobile, living in many different rancherias, or groups, they were isolated from and less affected by the small pox and cholera epidemics that raged through the migratory routes of other indigenous peoples. With the end of the Civil War (what was so civil?) and westward expansion of Euro-Americans via the railroads their society was eventually doomed. A rather in depth economic and political study of a people who defined a large part of history for the American west by an author from without, who wasn’t impacted at an early age by pre-conceived ideas on early American history. Not for everyone, but I found it very interesting and informative as it reinforced my believe that the environment defines the people….not vice versa.
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worthwhile.
 
had to stop Hillary Mantel Wolf Hall, too dry, the style was not fun. The tudors were lopping off heads, sleeping around, betraying one another but most of that juicy stuff didn't make the book!

So I am binging Kevin Wilson books instead- Nothing to See Here and Now is Not The Time to Panic

I really enjoyed the last one, it has some Don Delillo meets fanzine vibes to it plus his style is really good, simple
 
"The Outsider", by Fredrick Forsyth. An autobiography about his journey through life as an RAF pilot, then journalist covering international events. Enjoying it so far. His first novel was "Day of the Jackal", an historical fiction about the attempted assassination of Charles de gaulle.
 
Zero Night by Mark Felton. Just started reading and haven’t formed any opinions.
 
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