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hermetic

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Sun Jan 7, 2018, 02:05 PM Jan 2018

What are you reading this week of January 7, 2018? [View all]

I am delighted to be reading Reincarnation Blues, a captivating contemporary fantasy by Michael Poore. I like Jason Sheehan of NPR's description:

Reincarnation Blues is like Cloud Atlas written by Douglas Adams. Something that could've been so grim and sad turned bright and cheery (and also sad) by a mind just made for the appreciation of absurdity, dry humor, shark attacks, philosophical anarchy, and an acceptance of the hard fact that every life is a death sentence, made valuable only by what we choose to do between the first day and the last one.


Listening to The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz, a Sherlock Holmes story. It took me a little bit to warm up to this, I suspect because I have become spoiled by Benedict Cumberbatch, whom I adore as Holmes. This story is like Doyle's originals and Horowitz really does a great job and I am now totally into it. Wonderful stuff.

I finally got The Lincoln Lawyer (Michael Connelly) DVD from the library. I've watched it twice now. It's great.

So, besides Wolff's book, what are you reading this week.
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"Fire and Fury" on audiobook shenmue Jan 2018 #1
Ditto nt avebury Jan 2018 #2
Squee! shenmue Jan 2018 #3
Yeah hermetic Jan 2018 #4
Kieran Smith, boy by James Kelman PoorMonger Jan 2018 #5
I just found hermetic Jan 2018 #8
Just finished, PoorMonger Jan 2018 #19
I am reading murielm99 Jan 2018 #6
Yes, I remember hermetic Jan 2018 #7
"Fire And Fury" of course PJMcK Jan 2018 #9
Finally finished Ivy Pochoda's Visitation Street and recommend it. Am looking forward to reading japple Jan 2018 #10
Gosh, Fallada sounds like an amazing man hermetic Jan 2018 #13
Even though I do most of my reading on e-books, I was very happy to find that most of japple Jan 2018 #14
A Wrinkle in Time and The Goldfinch Cuthbert Allgood Jan 2018 #11
The Goldfinch hermetic Jan 2018 #15
Goldfinch is on back burner because I got a reserve copy of Underground Railroad Cuthbert Allgood Jan 2018 #18
The Art of Detection by Laurie R. king PennyK Jan 2018 #12
Nice hermetic Jan 2018 #16
Wonderful PennyK Jan 2018 #17
Gone To Dust by Matt Goldman PoorMonger Jan 2018 #20
Cool! hermetic Jan 2018 #21
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