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It is a contemporary mystery and police procedural style thriller.
I haven't read a play in a very long time - and this is quite good. Very good dialog and a quick pace. I recommend it for an easy read.
Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin before it gets turned into a show. About a month ago I read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick
Yes I like Science Fiction.
Yes I like Science Fiction.
Got my classes reading To Kill A Mockingbird. Always a favorite. Starting my seniors on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World.
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I was really surprised by how much I really enjoyed the three body problem series. They are all amazing, but that 2D destruction scene was just absolutely sublime and depressing and intense.
I'm working my way through a series of books by Seth Hunter. They are set in the Napoleonic era and concern the adventures of a British sea captain. In the vein of Patrick Obrian's works.
The action is rousing and the detail incredible. Not so much of the nautical terminology or the intense feeling that you are actually there that Obrian managed, but filled with historical figures and excellent writing.
The action is rousing and the detail incredible. Not so much of the nautical terminology or the intense feeling that you are actually there that Obrian managed, but filled with historical figures and excellent writing.
Finished cat and mouse by mj ardlidge yesterday. Quite decent, I think the first and last 150 pages better than the middle 200 ish pages. The grand finale was a bit predictable, but exiting to read. If this would be the end of the novel series it would be a bummer, a bit to open for a good closure.
Im going to start reading Apollo Murders by astronaut Chris Hadfield
Im going to start reading Apollo Murders by astronaut Chris Hadfield
Steinbeck is one of the best. Enjoying the book so far.
I like to sit outside on a swinging chair with a churchwarden full of Autumn Evening and a dusty old book full of fascinating historical detail. I've just started "The Life of William Whewell, D.D." by Mrs, Stair Douglas, 1881.
Although the original owner of this book proudly put his name inside the front cover with a little sticker, he never cut any of the 590 pages, so while I have to make sure I've cut enough pages before I go out, I get to be the first person to read the book after 143 years. :D
Although the original owner of this book proudly put his name inside the front cover with a little sticker, he never cut any of the 590 pages, so while I have to make sure I've cut enough pages before I go out, I get to be the first person to read the book after 143 years. :D
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Might I suggest a few then? ‘Silence‘ by Shusaku Endo, ‘1Q84’ Haruki Murakami (or anything by him), and ‘Number 9 dream’ by David. Mitchell (he’s not Japanese but this book is set in Japan and the author has spent a fair amount of time there and I think translates to and from Japanese). [Also if you have discussed having read any of these before, my apologies].
Dylan Foster, “The Book of Yōkai”. Popular academic compendium on Japanese folk creatures and phenomena ranging from the oni (wild brawlers, bandits, ogres ) through the famous kappa, the tsukumogami (neglected household items that become animate), a maiden with a disfigured face who accosts passers-by, spider-demons, immense skeletons, nurikabe, an invisible barrier to a traveller and many more. Read as a tribute to my late sister, who adored Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away”.
