Read any good books lately?
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ferri! Billy Fingers has arrived, but I won't make it in to the branch now until Tuesday *augh*
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It's all an evil plot to keep you from being as enlightened as CoffeeCanuck and I. I'm sorry for you.
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The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Canadian author now living in Virginia
Canadian author now living in Virginia
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Barney Google wrote:The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Canadian author now living in Virginia
I read the Kitchen House a few months ago and loved it. A fantastic read that I couldn't put down.
Ohhhhh now I'm excited. Just found out there is a sequel!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/258 ... everything
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I just picked up Hello From Heaven from the library. I'll let you know what I think Ferri.
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I fully intend to get to the library before closing, today.
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So I've been making myself read books that i usually would have turned my nose up at. LOL
I just finished reading Lie Down In Darkness by William Clark Styron I had never read any of his books, but decided to give him a shot. (He wrote Sophie's Choice and The Confessions of Nat Turner) I love his writing!
I just finished reading Lie Down In Darkness by William Clark Styron I had never read any of his books, but decided to give him a shot. (He wrote Sophie's Choice and The Confessions of Nat Turner) I love his writing!
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I have finally read the Afterlife of Billy Fingers.
Sorry to disappoint, but I did not enjoy it. :(
The theology is wrong, and based in deception. Very much eastern new-age stuff. I am a fundamentalist evangelical christian, and the book made my skin crawl.
Sorry to disappoint, but I did not enjoy it. :(
The theology is wrong, and based in deception. Very much eastern new-age stuff. I am a fundamentalist evangelical christian, and the book made my skin crawl.
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That's okay! I loved it, but then I'm weird. haha
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last three months worth
1. Free will by Harris 5/5
No padding
2. Possibility of an Island by Houellebecq 3.5/5
themes: aging, sex, Raelians. Submission I enjoyed better
3. Siege of Mecca by Trofimov 5/5
audiobook about a not well-known incident in KSA
4. Lullabies for Little Criminals by O'Neill 4.5/5
Very well written novel about a girl growing up while having a hard life
5. Infidel by Ali 3/5
I could do without so much info about her family and relations, but an interesting story about a Somali woman's life and adapting to the west. Everyone makes such a hero out of her but actually I didn't like her.
6. Templars by Read 3/5
Chock full of facts, something to counter the more conspiratorial speculations about this military order
7. Dancing Girls of Lahore by Brown 2.5/5
A hard read, a quasi-insider's view of Pakistan's red-light district
8. [current] 1Q84 by Murakami ?/5
fiction tome
No padding
2. Possibility of an Island by Houellebecq 3.5/5
themes: aging, sex, Raelians. Submission I enjoyed better
3. Siege of Mecca by Trofimov 5/5
audiobook about a not well-known incident in KSA
4. Lullabies for Little Criminals by O'Neill 4.5/5
Very well written novel about a girl growing up while having a hard life
5. Infidel by Ali 3/5
I could do without so much info about her family and relations, but an interesting story about a Somali woman's life and adapting to the west. Everyone makes such a hero out of her but actually I didn't like her.
6. Templars by Read 3/5
Chock full of facts, something to counter the more conspiratorial speculations about this military order
7. Dancing Girls of Lahore by Brown 2.5/5
A hard read, a quasi-insider's view of Pakistan's red-light district
8. [current] 1Q84 by Murakami ?/5
fiction tome
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Thanks Hermes.
I'll search the ORL and UBCO to see which of these is available.
I just finished reading Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault, by, Stephen Hicks:
Public domain upload:
http://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/ ... p-full.pdf
Also, Project Gutenberg has great free books.
http://www.gutenberg.org/
I'll search the ORL and UBCO to see which of these is available.
I just finished reading Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault, by, Stephen Hicks:
Public domain upload:
http://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/ ... p-full.pdf
Also, Project Gutenberg has great free books.
http://www.gutenberg.org/
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BTW, I picked the Hicks book up on recommendation by Jordan Peterson in Glacier’s third OP video over here— viewtopic.php?f=27&t=72206#p2166629
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I haven't read this book yet, but I got an autographed copy for my birthday.
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That one looks fantastic!
Has that particular author published others?
Has that particular author published others?
As WW3 develops, no one is going to be dissing the "preppers." What have you done?
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I got a taste for pioneer histories when I was a teen working an info desk in a tourism centre in the Cariboo - I've read that author before though I can't remember which books . . .
*checks*
There it is, "Chiwid", about a native lady and her life.
The library has the new one on order, I'm #5 in line for that new one. Autographed copy, eh? Nice.
I also found this title, "Gumption & grit : women of the Cariboo Chilcotin" which I can't quite remember if I've read or not, so I've put in a request for it as well.
*checks*
There it is, "Chiwid", about a native lady and her life.
The library has the new one on order, I'm #5 in line for that new one. Autographed copy, eh? Nice.
I also found this title, "Gumption & grit : women of the Cariboo Chilcotin" which I can't quite remember if I've read or not, so I've put in a request for it as well.
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