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In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy
Jeff Biggers
A travel / history covering Italy’s second largest island. Pretty good book, although I wish the author had spent less time on obscure Sardinian poets, and more time on…well, anything other than obscure Sardinian poets.
The Reason for Flowers Stephen Buchmann
The history, culture, and biology of flowers. Good book, even though it covers a wide range of topics, which means that it doesn’t go into depth on any one subject.
Finished I Brake for Yard Sales and Flea Markets, Thrift Shops, Auctions, and the Occasional Dumpster, by Lara Spencer. Meh.
Now I’m reading Disobedience, by Naomi Alderman.
A little late to the party here but I’ve started the Expanse series. I’m reading Leviathan Wakes this week.
Now reading Here by Richard McGuire. It’s a graphic novel that chronicles a single point in space: a corner in what is apparently the living room in NJ where the author grew up at different points in time from the distant past to thousands of years in the future. It’s an interesting piece of art.
Finished Broadway Butchery by C.S. Poe. It’s the third book in her “Memento Mori” series, someone is sending clues to Cold Case detective Everett Larkin about murders committed in the 80s, that have been unsolved and generally unnoticed by law enforcement. Weird, creepy and with just the right amount of tension.
Finished The Militia House. I wasn’t bored along the way, but came to suspect that the ending would be a cop-out and it was. 
Started this morning on Going Zero by Anthony McCarten. It’s about ten people in a contest to test a new technology by disappearing and avoiding capture for thirty days. Pretty good so far.
Finished Disobedience, by Naomi Alderman. Some parts of it were interesting, but overall I can’t say I enjoyed it.
Now I’m reading All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia, by Simon Garfield.
This isn’t something I’m now reading, but this thread looks like the appropriate one.
I turned on my tablet in bed last night for some before-sleep reading, and turned on Kindle. I clicked on “Store” to see what new things were available, and then in “suggested for you”.
Every suggestion was either comic book-related material or a book of philosophy.
Really. The Guide to the DC Universe, Volumes 1 and 2, Friedrich Nietszche, Marvel Secret Wars Arthur Schoepenhauer, David Hume, Weird Superheroes, Bertrand Russell’s Why I am not a Christian
I am nothing if not eclectic. Too bad it didn’t suggest George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman. Or Nietszche’s Übermensch
I always have a few books On Hold at the library. They transfer them from other libraries.
The new one is by Bob Sears called The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump.
Something to read when you’re feeling blue, probably a few good laughs.
I’ve been doing threads on The Poetry of Donald J. TRump for over six years now, but it’s good to see that other people recognize The Orange One’s talent for unintentionaslly hilarious verse.
I finished Cradle of the Deep by Dietrich Kalteis. It’s an adventure story set in 1974 Vancouver, about an American draft dodger and the girlfriend of an Italian mobster. The pair steal a million bucks in cash from the mobster and set out on the run to northern Canada, pursued by a hit man, and then run afoul of the law as well. I found it quite entertaining.
I’ll probably look for more works by this author.
Finished:
Death in Daylesford, by Kerry Greenwood
Stranded in the Sky: The Untold Story of Pan Am Luxury Airliners Trapped on the Day of Infamy, by Philip Jett
Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire, by Richard B Frank
Started:
The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions, by Kerry Greenwood (Phryne Fisher short stories)
Next up:
Libra, by Don DeLillo
Good book, but I really prefer books at the tactical level – Band of Brothers, A Bridge Too Far, Brothers in Arms, &c.
Gotcha. I prefer strategic-level military history books myself.
Finished All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia, by Simon Garfield, which I enjoyed. The first Encyclopedia Britannica’s entry on “Midwifery” included step by step directions, with diagrams. (One wonders if it was ever put to emergency use.) The first Wikipedia entry on poodles said only, “The dog against which all others are measured.”
Now I’m reading The Rose Rent, a Brother Cadfael mystery by Ellis Peters.
Just started The Recovery Agent: A Novel by Janet Evanovich.
One of my favorite Brother Cadfael books.
I just finished The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbury last night and loved it. (Despite the downer ending.) It’s the perfect book for overeducated people in menial jobs, i.e. moi.
I’m working on finishing The Red Sphinx by Alexandre Dumas. It takes place right after the end of The Three Musketeers and focuses on Cardinal Richelieu (the titular sphinx) and how he tried to keep Louis XIII from being overrun by his relatives. It’s a fun swashbuckling adventure like most Dumas pere novels.
My book club gave The Elegance of the Hedgehog very mixed reviews after we read it about a decade ago. I didn’t care for it myself.
Just finished Martin House: Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect (no author given), the official guidebook to Wright’s residential-campus masterpiece in Buffalo, N.Y. Very interesting and well-illustrated; someday I hope to visit.