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hermetic

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Sun Feb 17, 2019, 02:04 PM Feb 2019

What Fiction are you reading this week, February 17, 2019? [View all]


This is "House of Wisdom." Sure could use more of that around here. Of course, you can lead a man to books but you can't make him think.

I'm reading Galore by Michael Crummey. I had started this last year right after reading his Sweetwater but this one paled in comparison to that masterpiece, so I put it aside. Enjoying it now, though. The characters are so outlandishly funny. You just have to laugh at things like the little war that erupts between the Catholics and Protestants back in harsh and grim medieval Newfoundland.

Just finished listening to Before the Fall by Noah Hawley. Really good. Gave me some important things to consider about today's society.

So, I have this problem now. My computer died, murdered by Microsoft, so I am using an old, wonky tablet.
Typing is awkward so I will have to limit my replies today. I typed this all up in advance so I could paste it.
Hopefully by next Sunday I will have something better to use. Til then, do carry on our fine tradition of
recommending great things to read. Maybe write a little something about them.
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"Stonehenge" by Bernard Cornwell dameatball Feb 2019 #1
The heartbeat of wounded knew by truer. Not fiction nonfiction. notdarkyet Feb 2019 #2
Knee. notdarkyet Feb 2019 #3
The Collected Speeches of 2naSalit Feb 2019 #4
Just finished Stone Circle by Elly Griffiths The King of Prussia Feb 2019 #5
American Pastoral by Philip Roth Cuthbert Allgood Feb 2019 #6
Cool! hermetic Feb 2019 #9
"How to Stop Time" by Matt Haig. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2019 #7
Besides Trump's "National Emergency Declaration"? nt Atticus Feb 2019 #8
Necroscope 3: The Source exboyfil Feb 2019 #10
Island of the Sequined Love Nun SeattleVet Feb 2019 #11
Thank you for the weekly thread, hermetic. Condolences on the death of your computer. japple Feb 2019 #12
Thanks! hermetic Feb 2019 #14
Congrats and happy typing! japple Feb 2019 #15
Newcomer by Keigo Higashino Ohiya Feb 2019 #13
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