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4th February 2017, 11:16 AM
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Reading in February, 2017
I've switched to PD James' Dalgliesh mysteries. I've read them all before, but not for a long time. Unfortunately, I like to read series in order, but cannot because the library has discarded her earlier works. I have some moneys on a gift card on Amazon, so I might be tempted to make a purchase or two. Still undecided.
I had checked out a bunch of novels new to me (none of them mysteries), but find I really don't need new challenges, even in fiction, right now. I need familiar friends. What are you reading in February? 
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4th February 2017, 11:48 AM
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A trilogy by Pat Barker -- Life Class, Toby's Room, Noonday -- it follows three friends (Brits) from 1914 to WWII. Not a lot of plot -- no old unsolved mysteries -- just people dealing with life. Barker's writing is insightful and precise. She won a Booker for her WWI trilogy.
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4th February 2017, 12:09 PM
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I am all about re-reading favorites, in general but especially now. Just now I am re-reading The Body in the Library and Lady of Quality for the GR groups.
once done with those I'm going to re-read Track of the Cat, the first in the serious about Nevada Barr.  I stopped reading them at some point (too dark?) but I know I liked some of them so I am going back to the beginning.
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4th February 2017, 06:36 PM
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13th February 2017, 01:16 PM
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I've been reading Stross' _The Atrocity Archives_ which has been amusing. I hope to finish it this weekend.
I've also been reading a collection of short stories by Atwood, _The stone mattress_. I don't think I'm getting it, but I'm only on the third story so far. They seem more like character studies than plots.
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13th February 2017, 01:59 PM
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A weird bit of synchronicity -- a paleolithic statue called the Venus of Willendorf was mentioned in the Barker book, and then today I'm watching the first episode of The Young Pope and there it is -- the Venus of Willendorf. It's bizarre to me that sometimes obscure shit is mentioned in a book and then it's on TV or in a movie shortly after.
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15th February 2017, 07:47 PM
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I'll be shopping on the Kindle tonight for my next read. I'm finished with all the Christmas books.
 This last one -- Noonday by Pat Barker -- has the best-written scenes of Londoners dealing with the Blitz than any other novel I've read about it, and I've read quite a few. I'd recommend it just for that, actually.
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17th February 2017, 01:53 PM
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I finished the Archive and have started on collection of short stories by Larry Niven.
Did you find anything new and cool for the Kindle? Or old and free?
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23rd February 2017, 10:12 AM
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I saw Arrival a few weeks ago and enjoyed it quite a lot so I picked up a collection of Ted Chiang's short stories for bedtime reading.
Once I finish with that, I really need to get started on Heaven's Coast which was lent to me by a friend and I need to return it. It's the memoir of the author's time during and after his partner succumbed to AIDS. Mark Doty, the author, is a well-respected poet and my friend considers this book, which is not poetry to be the closest prose can get.
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#11
25th February 2017, 11:57 AM
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The Debbie Reynolds book was fun. When I finished, Amazon suggested I might like Instant Mom by Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding), and Amazon was right. It's great. The focus is on Nia becoming a mother, first through fertility treatments and then via adoption. She's very honest and straightforward, and I think anyone who's adopting or thinking of adopting or who has adopted would find a lot of thoughtful, helpful, inspiring without being smarmy stuff here. Also, she's quite funny.
ETA: The Kindle version is only $1.99.
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