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Wednesday memin’

WHAT have you finished reading recently? A Prophet without Honor, an alt-history novel told in letters about a German officer who leads to Hitler’s downfall in 1936. WHAT are you reading now? Precipice, Robert Harris. As Europe drifts into suicide … Continue reading

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WWW Wednesday + Pensacola Pics

Plus today’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews, but that would make for a long title. WHAT have you finished reading recently? And God Came In, a biography of Joy Davidman, who became C.S. Lewis’ dearest friend, writing collaborator, and … Continue reading

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WWW Wednesday

WHAT have you just finished reading? Flash Back, an alt-history/SF novel about the discovery of time travel and nation-states’ attempt to change the 20th century. Amusingly, I just found it yesterday via Athena @ One Reading Nurse’s TTT post. Review … Continue reading

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WWW Wednesday

WHAT are you reading now? The Book Thief, Markus Zusak. Needed a print book to read at lunch (I hate staring at my phone like everyone else) and after tackling Mount TBR I’ve precious few left. This proved absorbing. WHAT … Continue reading

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WWW Wednesday + A Book I Wish Was More Popular

Today’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews is, “What’s a book you wish were more popular?” Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death was published in 1985, but Postman’s analysis of how modern technology, especially television, trivializes information and supplants it … Continue reading

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WWW Wednesday

WHAT have you finished reading recently? For “real” reading, I just finished Star Trek: The Higher Frontier, a TOS-MOVIE era novel. I also read three books in the Marvin Redpost series for Blast from the Past. WHAT are you reading … Continue reading

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WWW Wednesday

WHAT have you recently finished reading? Yesterday I finished Damned Un-English, a novel about a fellow who joined the submarine service in the early 1910s and…er, just spends the novel talking to people about the big European war that’s looming. … Continue reading

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