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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jan 5, 2022 20:58:27 GMT -5
I'm just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns
That will be my last novel for a bit as Winter Term is starting.
For Winter Term, I have to read (yanno, in case you're interested. LOL )
Rossi, P. H., Lipsey, M. W., & Henry, G. T. (2019). Evaluation: A systematic approach (8th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Bolman, Lee G. & Deal, Terrence E., Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership (6th Edition), Jossey-Bass, 2017.
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Post by Happy prose on Jan 6, 2022 17:57:11 GMT -5
Knee Deep in Water Chloe A Thousand Splendid Suns was one of my favorite books. I liked it even better than The Kite Runner.
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Post by seriousthistime on Jan 7, 2022 12:13:58 GMT -5
I never read The Kite Runner, but I have to agree about A Thousand Splendid Suns. A wonderful book, difficult to read. But many good books are difficult to read.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2022 12:59:28 GMT -5
A Thousand Splendid Suns was an excellent book. It was haunting. Another good read about Afghan history is Sparks Like Stars.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jan 7, 2022 13:02:57 GMT -5
Finished Arsenic and Adobo. It is a cozy mystery book that is wrapped up in Phillipino culture. It follows your typical cozy mystery format: girl moves back to small town to work in family business, thinks she's ugly and overweight yet two guys are obsessed with her, she gets involved in a murder yada yada. I enjoyed it, it was a nice light read. I got the official oral biography of Anthony Bourdain for Christmas that I am now reading. I keep picking it up and putting it back down, not because it isn't good or interesting but because it makes me sad to think about. I did the same thing with Jim Henson's biography.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jan 7, 2022 15:02:38 GMT -5
A neighbor gave me The Judge's List - John Grisham. Haven't read him is forever since just tired of his books. Was good and light reading and enjoyed it.
Reading Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer. Read it eons ago when it first came out but picked it up again last week for some reason.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2022 16:20:58 GMT -5
Weird question here - can anyone recommend a good book on the governance in modern-day China, how the government and economy actually work? Not a dates-and-stats textbook, but something readable? Don't ask me why, but DH wants something like that. He's fascinated by what he sees on some of the cable channels, stuff like the Evergrande debacle, the housing bubble, regional political corruption, financial instability, etc.
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Post by Happy prose on Jan 7, 2022 19:55:47 GMT -5
NoNamePerson I haven't read Grisham in awhile either. I saw The Judges List for sale at BJs, so I put a hold request in at my library.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jan 7, 2022 20:38:27 GMT -5
Weird question here - can anyone recommend a good book on the governance in modern-day China, how the government and economy actually work? Not a dates-and-stats textbook, but something readable? Don't ask me why, but DH wants something like that. He's fascinated by what he sees on some of the cable channels, stuff like the Evergrande debacle, the housing bubble, regional political corruption, financial instability, etc. Huh... I would need to google it to see if he's done one on that topic, but Bill O'Reilly (yes, he's nuts on the telly) does write good history books.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jan 7, 2022 20:40:15 GMT -5
A wonderful book, difficult to read. But many good books are difficult to read. That's how I feel about most of Anna Quindlan's books.
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Post by seriousthistime on Jan 8, 2022 11:12:46 GMT -5
I LOVE Anna Quindlen's books.
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Post by snapdragon on Jan 10, 2022 13:05:28 GMT -5
Started the Devil's Sea by Cussler -- Dirk took over writing after being a co-author for multiple books after Clive Cussler's passing. Liking the book so far plenty of adventure to be had.
Also read Guild Boss by Jayne Castle -- I adore the dust bunnies in this series.
Started to re-read some old favorites too -- Take a Thief by Mercedes Lackey is just a fun book.
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Post by snapdragon on Jan 12, 2022 12:28:48 GMT -5
Picked up audiobook 4 of the lost fleet series last night and will get that in the car next Monday.
Right now I am listening to Death Distilled - a mystery and the narrator is enjoyable.
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Post by snapdragon on Jan 18, 2022 11:20:30 GMT -5
Finished the 3rd book in the Firebird Chronicles by T.A. White -- Pretty sure more books are coming with how the 3rd ended so looking forward to that. Starting the Becoming by Nora Roberts. Sometimes she is hot or miss for me so Enjoying Valiant in the car. Hoping to have it finished next week.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jan 18, 2022 11:36:35 GMT -5
I just finished Providence by Max Berry. It's a science fiction book and it was REALLY good. It has a lot of social/political commentary in it that made you think as you read it. It was slow to start but really picked up. I found it similar in tension to The Martian which I also enjoyed.
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Post by dogmom on Jan 18, 2022 11:49:34 GMT -5
Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies.
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Post by tcu2003 on Jan 18, 2022 21:20:30 GMT -5
My 2022 finished books include:
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman The Last Chance Library by Freya Sampson The Apostle (Scot Harvath #8) by Brad Thor
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Post by snapdragon on Jan 28, 2022 10:40:05 GMT -5
Have finished Valiant and enjoyed it lots. The next book is on order but I will have to read it. No CD for the car.
I have several books going at the moment and finished Client From Hell by R.J. Blain last night. About 3/4th done with Endgame by Michael Anderele.
The Booksellers Secret is on the list for the weekend. Picked it up at the library and thought the blurb sounded interesting.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jan 28, 2022 17:59:26 GMT -5
Ordered Main Street by Sinclair Lewis based on this article I read the other day. If Main Street is anything like Sinclair's It Can't Happen Here it should be a good read. Edith Wharton’s groundbreaking Pulitzer was originally meant for Sinclair Lewis
This week we’re celebrating the 160th birthday of Edith Wharton—novelist, short story writer, and the first woman to win a Pulitzer prize. But as it turns out, the 1921 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction wasn’t initially meant to go to Wharton—the jury wanted to give the honor to Sinclair Lewis, but they were overruled by the Pulitzer board. In The New Republic that year, Robert Morse Lovett—a juror for the prize—revealed that despite Wharton being “one of our best artists in prose,” the jury had tried to choose Main Street by Sinclair Lewis for the Pulitzer. Yet here was the problem: the Pulitzer Prize for a novel was originally meant to be awarded to “the American novel published during the year which shall best present the wholesome atmosphere of American life, and the highest standard of American manners and manhood.” Main Street’s satire of small-town life was too biting to be “wholesome”; it sent up the conformity of American life, rather than ascribing it value. So the Pulitzer board—likely led by Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University—chose to award the prize instead to Wharton’s The Age of Innocence, a social story set in 1870s upper-class New York City. Rest of article here: Edith Wharton’s groundbreaking Pulitzer was originally meant for Sinclair Lewis
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Post by tcu2003 on Jan 30, 2022 1:16:17 GMT -5
I just finished I Want to Thank You: How a Year of Gratitude Can Bring Joy and Meaning in a Disconnected World by Gina Hamadey. This one started a little slow, and then grew on me. I love a handwritten note - I love to receive them, but even more, I love to send one (and don’t do it often enough). The closest I’ve come to a year of thank you notes is 40 notes to 40 women who positively impacted my life for my 40th birthday, and this book brought back some of those wonderful feelings that project gave me. It also gave me inspiration and ideas to bring more gratitude into my life, connect with people I haven’t connected with in far too long, and to remember to slow down and savor the moments.
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Post by irishpad on Jan 30, 2022 22:50:07 GMT -5
Ordered Main Street by Sinclair Lewis based on this article I read the other day. If Main Street is anything like Sinclair's It Can't Happen Here it should be a good read. Have read both of them a good decade ago. I thought of It Can't Happen Here when Trump won in 2016. Was introduced to Sinclair Lewis in high school when we read Elmer Gantry. Babbitt is also a good one. Need to read more of his books, they are almost timeless. I've driven through his hometown (Sauk Centre, MN) hundreds of times but have never stopped in at the museum/interpretive center they have of him there.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jan 30, 2022 22:55:57 GMT -5
Ordered Main Street by Sinclair Lewis based on this article I read the other day. If Main Street is anything like Sinclair's It Can't Happen Here it should be a good read. Have read both of them a good decade ago. I thought of It Can't Happen Here when Trump won in 2016. Was introduced to Sinclair Lewis in high school when we read Elmer Gantry. Babbitt is also a good one. Need to read more of his books, they are almost timeless. I've driven through his hometown (Sauk Centre, MN) hundreds of times but have never stopped in at the museum/interpretive center they have of him there. After trump got elected and all the nonsense started I read It Can't Happen Here and got my siblings to read it too. We all saw the similarities.
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Post by steph08 on Feb 5, 2022 22:01:31 GMT -5
Here are the books that I have finished so far this year.
1. Something in the Water - started off promising but found it muddling starting about halfway
2. In an Instant - really enjoyed
3. The Last Flight - really enjoyed, went by quickly but also thought it wrapped up a little too quickly
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Feb 5, 2022 22:17:19 GMT -5
Finished Reckless Girls. It's a murder mystery. It went fast and was a really good read.
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Feb 6, 2022 22:15:06 GMT -5
My hairdresser recommended the 10 book Outlander series. Ten books.
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Post by irishpad on Feb 8, 2022 20:20:36 GMT -5
Just started listening to Diana Gabaldon's "Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone" It's close to 50 hours!!!! Have enjoyed the entire series and the TV series too. I'll report back in February when I get through it. lol It's February, I just finished listening to it. I have never read any of the books but have listened to all of them. I love historical fiction and science fiction and this has been a wonderful combination of both. The current book is set in the latter years of the Revolutionary War, some continued story lines, some new lines. The main characters (Jamie and Claire) are probably about in their early 60's at this point. I wasn't sure if Diana was going to make this the final book in the series. It seemed like several things were at the point that it could be a good end to the series but then at the very end she definitely left the door open to continue the series.
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Post by raeoflyte on Feb 9, 2022 15:00:05 GMT -5
My hairdresser recommended the 10 book Outlander series. Ten books. That's a love or hate series. I loved the first book but the ending (or near ending) turned me off the rest of the books.
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Post by snapdragon on Feb 10, 2022 11:21:27 GMT -5
I have started 19 Minutes to Live -- It's about being a helicopter pilot in Vietnam. It's so-so for me. Started Deep Focus by Nick Sullivan and enjoying the book quite a bit.
Book 6 of the Lost Fleet is on order from the library. No Audio this time either.
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Post by snapdragon on Feb 15, 2022 11:28:30 GMT -5
Finished "19 Minutes" and was really annoyed with the upper management thoughts on Rules Of Attrition...Actually I was pissed for a few days. The only reason we even got involved was because Vietnam had been held by France and they wanted to keep their "colony" and the fear of the USSR and the Cold War. I have got lighter reading and am starting "The Eighty Dollar Champion Snowman, the Horse That Inspired A Nation"
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2022 12:24:47 GMT -5
Last night I started Love & Saffron by Kim Fay. It's an epistolary book that I have been anxious to read. I love epistolary novels.
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