Read any good books lately?

[Lady tehMa]

ferri! Billy Fingers has arrived, but I won't make it in to the branch now until Tuesday *augh*

[ferri]

It's all an evil plot to keep you from being as enlightened as CoffeeCanuck and I. I'm sorry for you.

[Barney Google]

The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

Canadian author now living in Virginia

[CoffeeCanuck]

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

[CoffeeCanuck]

I just picked up Hello From Heaven from the library. I'll let you know what I think Ferri.

[Lady tehMa]

I fully intend to get to the library before closing, today.

[ferri]

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!

[Lady tehMa]

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.

[ferri]

That's okay! I loved it, but then I'm weird. haha

[Hermes]

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

[f/22]

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/

[f/22]

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

[Glacier]

I haven't read this book yet, but I got an autographed copy for my birthday.

[Queen K]

That one looks fantastic!

Has that particular author published others?

[Lady tehMa]

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.