I started reading 11/22/63 tonight. Just finished Part I. I wish I didn't have to work tomorrow, because I could easily stay up half the night reading this one. It's off to a great start.
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Started End of the Beginning which s the sequel to Days of Infamy. Im still not sure if the yanks will get Hawaii back. Their first try was a big failure with three sunken carriers for the US against only two injured carriers for the japanese. Halsey had to retreat with the rest of the fleet. But the japanese top man is worried because he knows the factories of the US can turn out new ones faster than the japanese factories. But we are mostly see g this through the eyes of ordinary soldier, private, corporal and sergeant. Also some ordinary residents on Hawaii that react a little different on the japanese power. My guess is that the factories power will tell in the end but that it will cost. Well see.
Starting a new review book tomorrow: The Black Book of Arabia. Hopefully it will remove the bad taste the last book left. Such a disappointment after the silly, funny book last week. I've been bargaining with myself: no more buying new books until I read all the ones on my shelf that are as yet unread. Can I do that? We'll see.
I would never make it......
Has anyone read Shantaram? HAve heard very good things of it.
I read it a few years ago, and found it fascinating!
If you can pull that off, lemme know how you did it, please. I've got piles of new books TBR but my B&N gift cards are calling me!!!!
Long story short, I picked up Phantoms by Dean Koontz thinking, "This might just be the book that makes me like him!" Wrong. I have to force myself to read it. I'll finish it, but it may be 2017 by the time that happens. I can only get through a few pages a day. His writing is middle of the road, at best.
Nothing to do with Phantoms, but since you live in New York I need to ask- has One World Trade Center had its grand opening ceremony yet? I've never seen anything on the news about it and I would think that it would have been all over the television. I was thinking about going to it.
You'd think I would know, huh? I know it's open to tourists to go to the observations deck(s) but as far as an official grand opening? I'm not sure. Talk about us jaded NYers.
Edit: One World Observatory - Tickets | Now Open | New York City
You'd think I would know, huh? I know it's open to tourists to go to the observations deck(s) but as far as an official grand opening? I'm not sure. Talk about us jaded NYers.
Edit: One World Observatory - Tickets | Now Open | New York City
Opening day was at the end of May 2015. I know only because I listen to Elvis Duran and the Morning show on my morning commute and they broadcasted from the Observatory deck that day.
I need to correct myself. Inside it says
UNSINKABLE
My Untold Storu
SILKEN LAUMANN
with Sylvia Fraser
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Sylvia Fraser is a Canadian novelist.
That sucks! There was no news coverage that I saw about this. Nothing. Nada.
Just to set the record straight... I don't actually live in NYC; I live across the Hudson River from it in Hoboken, NJ. I work and play in NYC, so it's just like living there.
Thanks. I feel better now.
My dad's father immigrated to the States from Sweden around 1900. My dad's mother immigrated to the States from Finland around 1900. They both settled in Chicago where they met and fell in love
Started Give me back my Eagles about the battle of Teutoburger Forest AD 9 and what led up to it. Historical novel of about the battle that put a stop to the Romans tries to make Germany in to a Roman province. The main characters are Arminius of the Cherusci tribe and Varus, the Roman Governor. Started good.
I try to read what I own before buying more, but then Saturday shows up, and I make my weekly visit to the used bookstore.
Picked up Shane today--I think a few people here said it was good? I've not read it previously, and it was going to be thrown into the donate/trash box at my son's school library, so...
I have no self control around books.
I have no self control around books.
OOOOOOOOOH! Now I know what 'ironwood' is! And Roland and Shane are definitely simpatico. Should have read this one long ago, I guess--it's definitely an influence on The Gunslinger.
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