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kcghost

Lifer
May 6, 2011
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I am enjoying Colette Clark's 13th entry in the Penelope Banks mysteries titled "A Murder in Blue". Penelope and her usual gang of misfits are off to solve a murder mystery while traveling on the "Bleu Train".

A Murder in Blue: A 1920s Historical Mystery (Penelope Banks Murder Mysteries Book 13)
 
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JoeW

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I’m reading The Cabinet of Dr Leng by Preston and Child. My wife and I have read all their books since The Relic. They are probably the best to fill the void left when Crichton died: not great, but at least they were smart enough to keep their best character (Agent Pendergast). As summer page turners, they’re good enough.
 
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MartyA

Starting to Get Obsessed
Jan 5, 2024
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Lately, I've been enjoying "The Lunar Men," by Jenny Uglow. It's a rather long, somewhat rambling, but very well written account of a group of men who met during the 1700's timing their meetings around the full moon, as most people did before street lighting became a thing. Some of the most prominent were Erasmus Darwin, Matthew Boulton, James Watt, Josiah Wedgewood, and James Preistley. A somewhat diverse group of business tycoons, industrialists, natural philosophers, (what we'd now call scientists,) artists and doctors.
They've all been dead for over 200 years, but they had considerable influence on their times, much of which remains to this day.
 

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Snook

Starting to Get Obsessed
Oct 2, 2019
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I read this book when I was about 10 years old. I bought most of the series.
I picked it up this week and since I have read everything in the house, I started reading this again. I'm about 5 chapters in.
Has anyone else read this series?
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No way. I just thought of this one and added it to my "to read" list last month. I loved these books as a kid! How is it holding up?
 

Derby

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Call Sign Chaos, a book on leadership by Retired Marine General Jim Mattis and Bing West.
 
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