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Just seconds ago I finished Lover Reborn by JR Ward, it's the 10th book in the Blackdagger Brotherhood series.

You know it's a good read when, after reading it for the 4th time, it still has you in tears.
 

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"Scarpetta" by Patricia Cornwell (On CD, in the car)

"The Stand" by Stephen King (paperback)

"The Ghost Map" by Steven Johnson (On CD, in the house)

Recently finished:

Several of the "In Death" series by J.D. Robb

"The Problem of Pain" by C.S. Lewis

"On Writing" by Stephen King

"The First Five Pages" by Noah Lukeman

"Popular Crime" by Bill James

"Life at the Bottom" by Theodore Dalrymple
 

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This morning I finished The Haunting by Bentley Little.

Next will either be The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova or Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti by Genevieve Valentine.
 

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About to start Gallo Be Thy Name about the Gallo family wine enterprises, by Jerome Tuccille. The wine business and its people are endlessly fascinating.

--Ken
 
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Sorcery and Cecilia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot - Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
 

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Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Unfortunately, before I started it, I saw the play Oliver! and then watched the movie...now while reading I'm so tempted to start singing the songs, and that just feels a little wrong. :)
 

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Possession: An Emily Chambers Spirit Medium Novel (Volume 2) by C. J. Archer.

Set in Victorian London, Emily is a medium trying to solve a murder mystery. Very enjoying, light reading.
 

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The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

Been meaning to read it for years and finally got round to it this week.
 

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Most of the way through "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman, and on audiobook, Stephen King's "The Tommyknockers".
 

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The Glass Canoe by David Ireland. It won our Miles Franklin in 1976 and has just been re-issued. I first read about it on this blog - and I'm loving it. Funny and brutal and tender - marvellously Australian. Also, hideously mysogynistic - but I remember so much of that from my early years. It is the way things were, in some places at that time. We must hope all that has disappeared forever, of course; but I'm glad there's a record there - and one written with real brilliance and moments of poetry.






ETA: That blog I linked to is an incredible resource for anyone who loves really good antipodean writing.
 
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The Cold Dish: A Walt Longmire Mystery by Craig Johnson. His books are the basis for the Longmire TV series. Woo hoo! And Johnson's a Wyoming Boy, whom I'd love to support.