Here's my Mystery Scene magazine review of the [url=https://www.mysteryscenemag.com/component/content/article/26-reviews/books/6814-framed]S.L. McInnis thriller [I]Framed[/I][/url].
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Here's my Mystery Scene magazine review of the [url=https://www.mysteryscenemag.com/component/content/article/26-reviews/books/6814-framed]S.L. McInnis thriller [I]Framed[/I][/url].
Newest book to read:[I] Bob Dole: The Republicans' Man for All Seasons[/I] (1994) by Jake H. Thompson. It was a Christmas gift 25 years ago, so I figured it was about time I take it on. ;)
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I think i’ll give [I]The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade[/I] (1857) another try. I love Melville but goddamn his books can be a slog.
Clive Cussler has passed away.
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One of my favorites, going all the way back to the late '70s when [I]Raise the Titanic[/I] was a newspaper comic strip (I read the Dirk Pitt-starring book a few years later in high school). In recent years, I have been reading his turn-of-the-last-century-set Isaac Bell novels and have one in my reading pile to go through sometime this year.
RIP
Newest Kindle read: [I]Seven Pillars of Wisdom[/I] (1926) by T.E. Lawrence.
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My recent reads :)
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Latest book I'm reading: [I]The Stranger[/I] (1942) by Albert Camus. I know I read it in high school back in the early '80s, but I can't recall if it was the entire novella or just a chapter or two (I do remember that it was the first time I ever discussed existentialism). At any rate, I'll be a more conscientious reader this time. :)
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[B]The Rebels' Hour by Lieve Joris[/B]
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[B][U]'Much more than a portrait of a Congolese herd boy who becomes an important military man, THE REBELS' HOUR is the portrait of a vast and chaotic country in a state of near-anarchy. I have long admired Ms Joris's African books, but this one is both powerful and timely, intensely imagined.'-Paul Theroux[/U][/B]
Jesus Freaks - a book on the children of God cult. It focuses on Davidito aka Ricky Rodriguez a boy raised in the cult to be its messiah who later went on to try and kill his own mother, co-founder Karen Zerby, for leaving him exposed to brainwashing and abuse..
(While I'm here) What do you think are some UNDER-published books you feel deserve more exposure?
My nominees are Frank L Baum's sequels to Wizard of Oz, Thomas Harris' Black Sunday and Peter Reich's A book of dreams. And YOU?
I finished reading the Joanna Schaffhausen mystery [I]All The Best Lies[/I]. Here's my [url=https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3207829346]Goodreads review[/url].
New book: [I]Baseball's Western Front: The Pacific Coast League During World War II[/I] (2004) by Donald R. Wells. Though not like getting an autograph from Stephen King or J.K. Rowling :), I had it signed by the author at a SABR convention.
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New Orleans and Chicago histories always seem to be the best to me
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Latest read: the Pulitzer Prize-winning [I]The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt[/I] (1979) by Edmund Morris, the first of a trilogy of books about the 26th president (I read the second book from the series [I]Theodore Rex[/I] a few years back).
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I finished reading the J.A. Konrath thriller Whiskey Sour.