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Old 02-10-2008, 02:15 AM   #501
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Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos, by Donna Andrews, the third in her series of mystery cozies that started with Murder with Peacocks. Fun reading. I read the first and bought all the sequels.

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just finished 2 more books on the civil war--terrible swift sword by catton and the illustrated history of the civil war--by geoffery ward. i am fascinated by the eccentricities of the various generals. george h. thomas is my favorite. he seems so normal. dick ewell is next--he seems so nuts. frances barlow is up there.

couldn't find a civil war book that i hadn't read at our town library this a.m. i have the flu again so i couldn't drive the 30 miles to the county library. on a chance i checked something that sort of called to me --("yoo-hoo, shake, over here!"-- maybe it was the fever.)

it is a novel written in 1941 about brittain at the very beginning of the war. i am loving it so far. characters are a bit flat--outside of the heroine who is a plain, 42 year old spinster who has lost her home to a german bomb. the feeling for the times is great. kind of cheery and pip pip for my taste but think how frightened everyone was then. thery had no idea they were ggoing to win. germany looked pretty invincible and france had just fallen. the us was not in it yet. they were going it alone. the same time virginia took her dip in the ouse, because she could see no future but war.

of course they wrote about humanity and inspiration and the happy stuff. the author is elizabeth goudge (?). hope i got that right. anyone ever hear of her? she is too damn good to be out of print---imho---s6
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oh--yeah. and the farfarers by farley mowat. i like this one. i am giving up on 'wild card quilt'--too much lecture i guess. kind of slowed down on the carol burnett autobiography. i might finish it. have one on sam cooke but i can't get into it. --s6
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just finished 2 more books on the civil war--terrible swift sword by catton and the illustrated history of the civil war--by geoffery ward. i am fascinated by the eccentricities of the various generals. george h. thomas is my favorite. he seems so normal. dick ewell is next--he seems so nuts. frances barlow is up there.

couldn't find a civil war book that i hadn't read at our town library this a.m. i have the flu again so i couldn't drive the 30 miles to the county library. on a chance i checked something that sort of called to me --("yoo-hoo, shake, over here!"-- maybe it was the fever.)

it is a novel written in 1941 about brittain at the very beginning of the war. i am loving it so far. characters are a bit flat--outside of the heroine who is a plain, 42 year old spinster who has lost her home to a german bomb. the feeling for the times is great. kind of cheery and pip pip for my taste but think how frightened everyone was then. thery had no idea they were ggoing to win. germany looked pretty invincible and france had just fallen. the us was not in it yet. they were going it alone. the same time virginia took her dip in the ouse, because she could see no future but war.

of course they wrote about humanity and inspiration and the happy stuff. the author is elizabeth goudge (?). hope i got that right. anyone ever hear of her? she is too damn good to be out of print---imho---s6
I quite like the sound of these books. Maybe I'll read them one day.
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Men of Tomorrow by Gerard Jones

And what a fantastic book this is! I highly recommend it to any comic book enthusiast. It's informative, but light. Rather than trying to ram more historical facts down your throat than you can swallow, Jones tells the history of the superhero comic book as if it were a superhero story in itself.

This may sound insane, but any hater of Schumacher's Batman is likely to discover a new found respect for his films. I always loved em', but reading Men of Tomorrow has confirmed my loyalty FOREVER (oh, that was just BAD).

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"The God of small things" by Arundhati Roy. I read it several years ago but it left absolutely no impression on me. When my son's girlfriend (who has excellent taste in both literature and men - if I say so myself!) gave it to me for Xmas I felt I had to read it, and I am now enjoying it enormously! Can't put it down, or only for my addictive doses of AW!
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murikami. I really didn't think I was going to like it, but now that I'm halfway through I'm having to accept that I was wrong about that.

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Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger (again. While I do love the book, I'm using it mainly so as a sort of guide to short story writing--yes, I know I'm going to have to pick up some different books).

A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut

I just finished Macbeth in my APLAC class.

When I get my hands on them, I plan on reading A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin and Dragonflight by Anne McCaffery when I can get my hands on these books.

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Heartsick, by Chelsea Cain. She spoke to my writers group late last year & she's a real hoot, can't wait to dig into this one!
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As She Climbed Across the Table, by Jonathan Lethem, which should take me, oh, another hour or so. And then I'm going to go and reread some Tad Williams, I think. It's feeling like an epic fantasy kind of week.
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