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03-28-2016, 11:24 AM | #16 | ||
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Hey Grav, have you ever read any of Stephen Leather's books?
I think you might enjoy his Spider Shepherd series. Shepherd is ex-SAS, injured in Afghanistan before joining the police and becoming a member of an elite undercover unit. http://stephenleatherbooks.com/dan-shepherd/ First one is called Hard Landing Quote:
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03-28-2016, 08:00 PM | #17 |
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Some autism book by this chick named .... as soon as I clear the shelf space.
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03-28-2016, 08:19 PM | #18 |
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I started reading it briefly at work and forgot to put it in my bag to bring home with me tonight. Grr. It's good so far. Clodfobble's brain works on paper too.
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03-29-2016, 05:55 AM | #19 |
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Hey glatt, you wanna take her name out of that post?
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03-29-2016, 03:03 PM | #20 | |
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Thanks for the suggestion, Dana. I'll try to give him a look. I don't ordinarily read military-themed novels. Popdigr picked that one up for me on the supercheap. Same with the Tom Clancy book "Threat Vector", which was a decent read, as those types of books go.
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03-31-2016, 06:30 AM | #21 |
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Reading some book by some chick from Texas.
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05-15-2016, 02:16 PM | #22 | |
We have to go back, Kate!
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I've been re-engaging with military history - thoroughly enjoying The Armies of Wellington, by Philip Hawthornthwaite. I dipped in and out of it during my studies, but now I'm reading it cover to cover. He has a really nice engaging style of writing, and it's so well researched. I particularly like the chapters on the rank and file.
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05-15-2016, 06:49 PM | #23 |
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Just finished Once upon A river by Bonnie Jo Campbell. A Michigan author from Kalamazoo. I got in to her when I read Q Road -a random shelf pick at the library. It's not action/adventure. But it was pretty hard to put down because it flows..... and the lifestyle to norm but so alien to a chick from Manchester
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05-15-2016, 07:35 PM | #24 |
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I read a book years ago that was a collection stories of women living on the Canadian frontier of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Occasional big happenings but mostly the trials and tribulations of everyday life on the prairie. Adding children, changing seasons, things we don't think about or didn't realize they faced. As it's been over 30 years and I bought it at a stop in Saskatchewan, I have no idea what the title was.
Ooh, I think I've found it. The Pioneer Years, 1895 1914: Memories Of Settlers Who Opened The West by Barry Broadfoot Also there's a pdf online by Broadfoot.
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05-15-2016, 09:01 PM | #25 |
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elvis costello's autobiography
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05-16-2016, 06:40 AM | #26 |
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Hamilton - Chernow
Need to get on Clod's book as well but for some reason its still at work. I guess I'm scared it'll be a bit of a bus-man's holiday.
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05-17-2016, 12:46 PM | #27 |
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I can't seem to actually start this one. I'm afraid I won't like it, and then it'll just become a chore. A 2400 page chore.
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05-17-2016, 08:19 PM | #28 |
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Yeah, I know the feeling. I have a book right now that I really, really want to quit, but it is just so hard for me to quit a book. I keep telling myself there's only a few hours left, but it keeps getting worse and worse...
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05-17-2016, 08:46 PM | #29 | |
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I'm reading Send In the Idiots -stories from the other side of Autism by Kamran Nazeer. I've had it out of the library for nearly a year -since before Fobble's book was published, but I think that gave me the kick up the ass to actually read it. It's kind of interesting. I'll finish it. but I really really really need something good and absorbing and completely mindless to read next
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05-28-2016, 02:44 PM | #30 | |
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I've come to the end of the Hellequin Chronicles! Or, to the end of what's been published. There's another due out in September.
You know when a book, or series of books gets you so hooked, you're basically wandering around with it permanently in your brain? Yep. that's how this was. Soooo good. Best urban fantasy I've read so far - well, top three anyway because the Daniel Faust books and the Thrice Cursed Mage books were also outstanding. I think though, Hellequin might just pip them to the post though as the most entertaining and consistently awesome. If you like urban fantasy check them out. They're a little bit different from most. The central character is wonderful and the stories take in all sorts of mythology and history from Arthur and Merlin to Japanese spirits, the Wars of the Roses to the Hundred Years War and Nazi Germany. Fucking outstanding.
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