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Currently on “Towers of Midnight”, which is book thirteen of the Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
I can't help feeling a bit jealous; it was a delicious one!
I am taking a short break from my PerryMason/Nero Wolfe sequence to read a "A Study in Charlotte" by Brittany Cavallaro. The first book in a witty, suspenseful new series about a brilliant new crime-solving duo: the teen descendants of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. Light stuff but a pleasant read.
I picked up William Gibson's Neuromancer out of a box, haven't touched this book in 20 years, great writing. Find it needs you to take time to take in the various little details peppering the text that add to the feel. The story is almost secondary to the world building.
Started reading a biography on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
I'm almost through the Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age. I ordered it on a whim hoping it wasn't too academic, as I'm a complete lay person on the subject matter. Not surprisingly, I was instantly bored by the minutiae of the pottery differences between the various identified sub-periods, but being written as a general survey it's easy to skip down to the conclusory paragraphs to get the big picture. If I ever go to Greece, a side trip to Mycenae or Pylos will be on the itinerary.
I'm still working on finishing The Prize, about the history of oil. Finished Bryson's One Summer which was great. I just started re-reading Patrick O'Brian's The Fortune of War for the sixth time over 20 years. It's like getting together with an old friend every time I re-read O'Brian.
I am reading “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” to my 10 year old. She loves it.
I have started re-reading Dune by Frank Herbert in anticipation of the movie that is supposed to be out later this year.
I have started re-reading Dune by Frank Herbert in anticipation of the movie that is supposed to be out later this year.
Just finished "The Case of the Buried Clock" by Erle Stanley Garner. It is a Perry Mason novel.
Homer's Iliad in the original Greek, it's the only way to get close to the heart-rending angst of the characters and the situations portrayed.
The first of his books I've read, and only a couple of chapters in, but very interesting and engaging so far...really like his writing style.
UNKNOWN EMPIRE
THE TRUE STORY OF MYSTERIOUS ETHIOPIA AND THE FUTURE ARK OF CIVILIZATION
By Dean W. Arnold
dean-w-arnold.com
UNKNOWN EMPIRE
THE TRUE STORY OF MYSTERIOUS ETHIOPIA AND THE FUTURE ARK OF CIVILIZATION
By Dean W. Arnold
Unknown Empire — Dean W. Arnold
“CAPTIVATING, SCHOLARLY, MOST ENJOYABLE.” Prince Asfa-Wossen Asserate, PhD Great Nephew of Emperor Haile Selassie
dean-w-arnold.com
Are the claims true? Isn't Mt Ararat in Turkey?The first of his books I've read, and only a couple of chapters in, but very interesting and engaging so far...really like his writing style.
UNKNOWN EMPIRE
THE TRUE STORY OF MYSTERIOUS ETHIOPIA AND THE FUTURE ARK OF CIVILIZATION
By Dean W. Arnold
Unknown Empire — Dean W. Arnold
“CAPTIVATING, SCHOLARLY, MOST ENJOYABLE.” Prince Asfa-Wossen Asserate, PhD Great Nephew of Emperor Haile Selassie
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