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Ha, I didn't like Farewell to Arms that much the first time I read it, but, I re-read it later and really ended up liking it. It changed my perception of Hemingway, who I always thought was heavily overrated. Since then I read several more if his, including For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old...

Cool! My mother was a bleeding heart liberal too. She heard JFK speak on campus when she was a student at the University of Michigan and promptly joined the Peace Corp. She went to East Africa and was a school teacher in Kenya and Uganda for several years! Which makes me even more embarrassed...

Wow... didn't mean to end the conversation... If it helps I detest most conservative posturing just as much. Does that help? lol Anyway, things I really really liked about the book were. 1. I loved the immersion in Nigerian culture in part one. I enjoyed the language and the cultural...

Tales from the Detroit Tigers Dugout: A Collection of the Greatest Tigers Stories Ever Told - Jack Ebling :star4: A fun collection for any fan of the Detroit Tigers, or baseball history in general. I knew a lot going in but this was full of all sorts of interesting factoids like : Willie Horton...

:D Me too. But.... I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt. The same people are producing and directing so I have to just trust them. But I don't want to.

Well said! You can't get all angry at a character unless it is a very well drawn and realistic character. Ifemelu invites criticism because she is so critical. And the hair thing!! I am apolitical, because politics in this country has become senseless, but her stance on hair typifies what I...

Tales from the Detroit Tigers Dugout: A Collection of the Greatest Tigers Stories Ever Told - Jack Ebling

LOL! Had never heard of that, just looked it up and well..... sort of. But actually it is much more than that. Adichie is a fantastic writer and the story really does pull you in. It was just tough to feel sympathetic for the main protagonist. At least for me.

Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie :star3:1/2

Stayed up to late last night finishing this. Partly because I wanted to be done by the 1st and mainly because I couldn't stop reading. If I had to summarize in a one sentence review it might go something like this : Well written tale of a Nigerian immigrant stumbling through her train wreck of...

December 6th - Martin Cruz Smith Amazon blurb : Amid the imperialist fervor of late 1941 Tokyo, Harry Niles is a man with a mission -- self-preservation. But Niles was raised by missionary parents and educated in the shadows of Tokyo's underworld -- making his loyalties as dubious as his...

I'm only at ten% but... likewise enjoying so far. Goal is to have it finished by December 1st.

Happy Holidays to you too Peder! I have got to read I Am Pilgrim. I have heard great stuff about it. Maybe after the December book of the month...

Got it, and it is in process.

I like Lehane a lot as well. Part of what I like is that he really knows the area (Boston) that his stories are set in. Another author I love and would recommend would be James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux series set in New Iberia and New Orleans Louisiana. There are a lot of them, but oh man...

Amazon and Goodreads. Yessir. Totally agree with you about Dickens, DATo. I think one of the things about Dickens, in addition to everything that you mentioned, is his readability. There are tons of lists of authors that you should read. I think somewhere along the line, the adjectives "Dense"...

I read it just last month. I didn't find it to be very scary at all compared to more modern stuff, but the writing really stands out. I think it comes up so much because it is one of the true archetypes of the haunted house story. If you are looking for something that will scare the wits out of...

I saw that this season is supposed to star Colin Ferrel and Vince Vaughn (!??).

I'll play : Literary Fiction : All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. Superb. Literary Fiction Runner Up : The Dog of The South by Charles Portis. A riot. Detective Fiction : Rose Gold by Walter Mosely. Good old Easy Rawlins. Historical Fiction : The Good lord Bird by James McBride...

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