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Just checked half dot com – the cheapest copy of her bio is over $80, which is about $79 more than I am curious.
(Hey – you guys busy Saturday the 22nd? We’re doing a Philly Doper Dinner.)
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I’d have to consult with supervenusfreak on that. Is there a thread on it? We’ll look at our schedule.
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That’s Flash for Freedom! 
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I just finished reading that one. It’s really good, but cringe-worthy in spots. Flashy starts off as a crew member on a slave ship, then he ends up in New Orleans and gets roped into helping runaway slaves escape to the north. If you’ve read any Flashman book you can just imagine his reaction to all of it. I had to be careful not to let my kids read it over my shoulder.
This weekend I’m traveling to Washington, DC with my son’s fifth grade class. It’s a 13-hour bus trip times 2, and the only thing good about that is I’ll have a lot of time to read. I have my motion sickness patches all ready to go. I’ve assembled a variety of paperbacks to take:
Half the Blood of Brooklyn, Charlie Huston
The Quiet Gentleman, Georgette Heyer
*Flag in Exile *(Honor Harrington book 5), David Weber
The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris (never anything by him before)
[QUOTE=jayjay]
I’d have to consult with supervenusfreak on that. Is there a thread on it? We’ll look at our schedule.
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[QUOTE=Eleanor of Aquitaine]
This weekend I’m traveling to Washington, DC with my son’s fifth grade class. It’s a 13-hour bus trip times 2…
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…with a busful of fifth-graders? Yeah, you’ll get a lot of reading done. 
[QUOTE=twickster]
…with a busful of fifth-graders? Yeah, you’ll get a lot of reading done.
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They’re putting the kids on one bus and the parents on another! They said that otherwise the kids will want to swap around every time the buses stop.
Deliverance by Ellen Glasgow. Published in 1904 or thereabouts, it’s a vengeance story set in the south about 10 years after the Civil War. I’m enjoying it. It’s remarkably free of racial or regional stereotyping.
Working my way through* Suite Francaise* by Irene Nemirovsky and Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman; I finished off Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Middlemarch for classes (I’m so proud of me!) and now I’m treating myself to a reread of Tolkien’s Return of the King.
I gave up on A Distant Mirror. It got successively more boring after the Plague. Good to know politics were always so bloody dull.
Working on Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan right now.
I finished Elmore Leonard’s Pagan Babies. Unfortunately, it’s going to be a few days before we can get to the library, so today, to fill the gap, I’m taking up one called The Case of the Lonely Heiress, by Erle Stanley Gardner. A Perry Mason mystery. The wife likes those. I hope it’s not as stupid as the title makes it sound. Have to have something to read while traveling around on the buses and Skytrain here.
I’ve just started The Good Guy by Dean Koontz. I’ve never read anything by him before and so far it looks interesting.
Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments by Alex Boese. It’s my toilet reader. I read about a bizarre experiment or two and put it back down. Cool stuff.
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini. Not a whole lot to elaborate on beyond the title. It’s a bit basic, but I’m almost done, and I figure that I might as well finish it. It’s my book I read before going to bed.
Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are by Joseph LeDoux. All about synapses and how they get wired up and that shapes our behavior. Really, really cool stuff, but I can only read it for so long before my head starts to hurt. It’s my book I read between classes.
[QUOTE=DataZak]
I’ve just started The Good Guy by Dean Koontz. I’ve never read anything by him before and so far it looks interesting.
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I have not read The Good Guy yet, but enjoy Koontz. Some people have called him the poor man’s King, but I like him much better than King.
Let us know what you think of him.
[QUOTE=ForumBot]
Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments by Alex Boese. It’s my toilet reader. I read about a bizarre experiment or two and put it back down. Cool stuff.
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Dunno about the book, but I would not want to watch that. :eek:
That’s good. I wouldn’t want you watching me poop, either.
I somehow caught up with all my reading, and it doesn’t look like I’m getting anything in at the library this week. 
So I’m re-reading Duma Key, which I wanted to do anyway, just not quite so soon! It’s that, or watch ForumBot poop.
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It’s that, or watch ForumBot poop.
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The one thing that the Internet has taught me in the last 12 years I’ve been using it is that there are probably people who’d pay good money for that.
Full Disclosure: I don’t want to watch ForumBot poop OR elephants on acid.
I finished re-reading the first two books in the Gemma Doyle Trilogy - A Great and Terrible Beauty; Rebel Angels) and read the last one, The Sweet Far Thing, this week. Great stories, great characters, horribly unfair though not entirely unexpected ending.
I’m reading a collection of Carson McCullers stories now…almost done, actually. I’m about 1/4 way through “The Member of the Wedding” and that’s the last story in the book.
I’ve never been much into contemporary fiction (as opposed to fantasy or science fiction), but McCullers is really good…there’s this sense of dread in the back of most of her writing, like you KNOW there’s something coming and it’s not going to be pleasant. Very, very enjoyable.
[QUOTE=jayjay]
The one thing that the Internet has taught me in the last 12 years I’ve been using it is that there are probably people who’d pay good money for that.
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I’m listening…