Heir to the Empire trilogy, a.k.a. The Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn (in Dutch). Read them and owned them in 1996 and 1997. Lend them out around the 2000s, but forgot to whom....
So I bought them again this week.
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Heir to the Empire trilogy, a.k.a. The Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn (in Dutch). Read them and owned them in 1996 and 1997. Lend them out around the 2000s, but forgot to whom....
So I bought them again this week.
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My brother gave me A Gentleman in Moscow as a gift a few years ago, and I must say that I loved it.
This (Table For Two) sounds interesting - and worth investigating further.
Towles has quickly become one of my favorite authors.
A Gentleman in Moscow is one of my favorite reads in recent history.
Rules of Civility is also brilliant.
The Lincoln highway as well...
Busy reading "Apple in China" on my kindle.
My next book will be something Google related but haven't found one yet unless someone can recommend something.
My next book will be something Google related but haven't found one yet unless someone can recommend something.
about a quarter through Station Eleven. Interesting take on a post apocalyptic world and the important of art in life. Easy ready and enjoying it so far. I have a soft spot for post apocalyptic stuff, though usually those are pretty trashy simple stories to offset the classics I read part of my book club.
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"As the planet emerged from the last ice age, a language was born between Europe and Asia, by the Black Sea. This ancient tongue, which we call Proto-Indo-European, soon exploded out of its cradle, changing and fragmenting as it went, until its offspring were spoken from Scotland to China. Today those descendants constitute the world’s largest language family, the thread that connects disparate cultures: Dante’s Inferno to the Rig Veda, The Lord of the Rings to the love poetry of Rumi. Indo-European languages are spoken by nearly half of humanity. How did this happen?"
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ETA: Olia Hercules is a fine writer; these sentences truly moved me:
I don't find public speaking difficult, at least not when it's about Ukraine or my family, as it's what I know. The words normally just fall out of me, one after the other, all pushed out by the tightness of love in my chest, with my brain doing almost no work.
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ETA: Olia Hercules is a fine writer; these sentences truly moved me:
I don't find public speaking difficult, at least not when it's about Ukraine or my family, as it's what I know. The words normally just fall out of me, one after the other, all pushed out by the tightness of love in my chest, with my brain doing almost no work.
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Proto sounds absolutely fascinating, the kind of thing I love reading.
In fact, it sounds so absolutely fascinating that your post has just prompted me to check whether my library stocks it (it does) and, thus, I have now placed a reservation request on the book.
The Day After Roswell
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The Day After Roswell is a hoax memoir[1] that claims the U.S. government made use of extraterrestrial technology it recovered from the 1947 Roswell incident. It was ghostwritten by William J. Birnes and credited to Philip J. Corso. Published as Corso's tell-all autobiography by Pocket Books in 1997, the book spent three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and received mixed reviews. Analysts have noted a large number of errors about basic, known facts in the text, as well as chronologically impossible feats the book attributes to Corso.
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Reading for entertainment purposes 😂
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The Day After Roswell is a hoax memoir[1] that claims the U.S. government made use of extraterrestrial technology it recovered from the 1947 Roswell incident. It was ghostwritten by William J. Birnes and credited to Philip J. Corso. Published as Corso's tell-all autobiography by Pocket Books in 1997, the book spent three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and received mixed reviews. Analysts have noted a large number of errors about basic, known facts in the text, as well as chronologically impossible feats the book attributes to Corso.
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Reading for entertainment purposes 😂
I've been waiting for this one to come out in paperback 😉 I'm surprised at how little has been published (or on the tv) about all this. Despite all our supposed differences across our rainy archipelago of islands we're all just (probably somewhat thuggish*) Beaker people in the end...Ha! I had a feeling that one would catch your eye...
* I reckon they were pretty thuggish but YMMV...
Yes, it did.Ha! I had a feeling that one would catch your eye...
Actually, I am compelled to admit that it caught (and captured) my beady, bespectacled eye more or less immediately upon reading your post.
Re-reading The Ender Quintet, and interleaving with Jurassic Park, having re-watched both films recently.
Can't go wrong there. I've reread Ender's Game so many times I finally bought a used copy to keep on my bookshelf. And recently reread Michael Crichton's Timeline. He sure was a storyteller.
I just finished The Mountain in the Sea. Not really what I was expecting.
Next up is John Scalzi's Old Man's War.
Joanna Bourke: An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth Century Warfare, Granta, 1999.
Let me know what you think of this; I am pretty partial to the writing of John Scalzi.
After you finish, I'd be interested to hear if you agree with this reviewer:
I haven't read the book, yet, but if I do I wonder if Bourke's viewpoint (my local library's edition is the 1999) will extend to stalemates dominated by drone warfare.
Since it looks like you've read at least a couple of Bourke's titles, have you read Disgrace? If so, what did you think? Or The Story of Pain? Both caught my eye while checking library holdings.