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DUgosh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 11:57 PM
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What are you reading the week of December 19, 2010?
Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger
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jwirr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-10 12:03 AM
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1. The Black Plague by Stephen Porter. Read a novel that had plague
Edited on Sun Dec-19-10 12:11 AM by jwirr
in it and wanted to know more. One thing I have learned is that government funded health care started in most countries in Europe as early as the 1400s. Take that you freepers!

Sorry wrong title. Should be "The Great Plague".
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AmandaMae Donating Member (330 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-10 12:05 AM
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2. Still reading The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
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texastoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-10 12:09 AM
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3. The Hiram Key
Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas.

It's about Freemasonry.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-10 12:13 AM
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4. The Portrait of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde nt
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Onceuponalife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-10 02:05 AM
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20. I love that book
Cheers.
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theophilus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-10 12:13 AM
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5. The Autobiography of Mark Twain n/t
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-10 12:44 AM
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8. That might be my next one
I have the audio book to listen to while I spin.
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Vegetarianist Donating Member (39 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-10 12:38 AM
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6. Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
Edited on Sun Dec-19-10 12:38 AM by Vegetarianist
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-10 12:43 AM
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7. Two things
An audio book while I spin up the last of the lace weight greenish turquoise merino, "Mornings on Horseback" by David McCullough, a surprisingly good and very detailed biography of T. Roosevelt; and "I Still Dream About You," some wonderful fluff from Fannie Flagg that has started off with a suicidal faded beauty queen who owns a dying real estate business. The snark in the latter is thick and syrupy as only Fannie Flagg can manage it.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-10 01:21 AM
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9. Almost done with "The Two Georges", by Harry Turtledove..
...and I brought out an oldie but a goodie from the attic "Science Fiction Thinking Machines", printed in 1954. Some of the short stories in there date back to the 1920's!
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fadedrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-10 03:40 AM
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10. Great book, IRON LAKE
Krueger's Cork O'Connor series is good - I read'em all.
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DUgosh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-10 03:46 AM
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11. I like it.
Even better than Margaret Coel's - Father Omalley and Vicki Holden series
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-10 10:14 PM
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16. I've met the author. He's a Minnesotan and had a signing at
my favorite local mystery bookstore.
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fadedrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-10 11:36 PM
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18. Don't know how many of his books you've read,
but Iron Lake is worth reading, as well as the rest of them.

This book has stayed with me for quite a while. His living "away from home" experience was so poignant and so sad...(avoiding spoiler)
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denbot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-10 03:46 AM
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12. Re-reading The Mote in God's Eye, Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
Mote is a great science fiction book I first read around twenty years ago, and I noticed a sequel in the book store last week so I wanted to refresh my memory of the first before picking up "Gripping Hand".
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-10 05:36 PM
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13. Keith Richards' biography. So far it is pretty interesting..especially for
those who know music and instruments. Lots of technical details.
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-10 05:22 PM
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14. The War That Killed Achillies
Great read for fans of The Illiad and the Trojan War.
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getting old in mke Donating Member (96 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-10 06:39 PM
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15. _Changes_ by Jim Butcher
Getting a Harry Dresden fix.
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-10 10:17 PM
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17. "My Soul to Take" by Yrsa Sigardurdottir
Another fine Scandinavian mystery writer, this time from Iceland. A lawyer is called in by the flaky developer of a New Age spa to prepare a case for suing the sellers of the property on the grounds that they should have warned him that the property was haunted. But this is definitely NOT a comedy-mystery.
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mvccd1000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 04:46 AM
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19. I totally scored this week...
I got to my hotel and sitting on a table in the lobby were both a Harlan Coben book (Caught) and a Lee Child book (Worth Dying For) that I had not yet read. Both were already on my wish list on Amazon. I managed to read both while I was there, and put them back on the table for the next person. That saved me a few bucks to download two more selections on the new Kindle I got for Christmas. :)
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