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PostWed Feb 01, 2012 10:22 pm 
My two best reads for the last year: 'Cutting for Stone' by Abraham Verghese.....wonderful writing about a family saga - in context of early 20th century medicine Ethiopa - and then the US. Some of the best narrative I have ever read.... 'Empire' by Niall Ferguson. Good history of British Colonial rule and how it translates to todays politics....

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PostMon Feb 06, 2012 12:16 pm 
Currently reading: Only One Year, by Svetlana Alliluyeva (Stalina). This is Joseph Stalin's daughter (1926-2011). She writes of her decision to defect to the United States during a visit to India in 1967. She tells why she decided not to return to the Soviet Union, and her memories of her father and the brutal regime he ran in the USSR. And she describes how she left the Soviet Embassy in Delhi two days before she was due to fly back to Moscow, taking a cab to the American Embassy, which flew her to Italy the same night and then to Switzerland that next day, before being granted entry to the United States. http://www.amazon.com/Only-One-Year-Svetlana-Alliluyeva/dp/0060101024/ref=pd_sim_b_2/192-5919523-5497331 It's probably in your library or available through ILL. Check it out.

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PostTue Feb 07, 2012 11:01 am 
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World Made By Hand,
Nice one, weird one. I enjoyed the follow-up more: Witch of Hebron
Just finished that one, too. They're both great books. I hope he writes more. I also just completed One Second After by William Forstchen. And with that, I think I'm done with post-apocalypse fiction for a while.

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PostTue Feb 07, 2012 11:19 am 
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That's a cool name, and not very common. How old is he now?
He's 16. I gave him a more generic middle name, thinking that if Corwin was too weird, he could use that. I am happy to report that he quite likes his name!

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PostWed Feb 08, 2012 4:46 pm 
Summer of the Apocalypse, by James Van Pelt

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PostThu Feb 09, 2012 8:36 am 
The Angry Hiker wrote:
I also just completed One Second After by William Forstchen.
Funny ... I just started that. Pretty cheesy but I'm getting into it anyway. These apocalypse books make me think about turning my crawlspace into a bunker.

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PostFri Feb 10, 2012 12:07 pm 
I've started collecting bottlecaps and bobbleheads. This will probably be the last doomsday novel for a while. I had a bunch on reserve at the library and they all arrived at around the same time.

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PostFri Feb 17, 2012 4:11 pm 
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PostMon Feb 20, 2012 10:49 am 
The White Plague by Frank Herbert

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PostMon Feb 20, 2012 12:06 pm 
No Easy Hope. Surviving the Dead book one. -James N Cook

"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide." — Abraham Lincoln
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PostTue Feb 28, 2012 11:44 am 
Surprised I haven't seen more reference to Instant Karma: The Heart and Soul of a Ski Bum. http://www.amazon.com/Instant-Karma-Heart-Soul-Ski/dp/0979625505/ref=pd_sim_b_2/175-5083850-2172337 If you haven't read this classic, get it. It's probably at your library. About a guy who grew up a misfit after literally being dropped on his head as a kid, only to find his place in the Colorado Rockies as a ski instructor and bum. Five stars.

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PostTue Feb 28, 2012 1:52 pm 
on hold...looking forward to reading this one. edit: I really enjoyed her book signing/reading at Third Place Books last Friday eve. 3/23.

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PostThu Mar 01, 2012 10:11 am 
Hers was a desire only a tenured MIT professor could satisfy...

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PostThu Mar 01, 2012 11:17 am 
The second death of George Mallory, by Reinhold Meissner. Mostly a historical account with the majority of the book being Mallory's journal entries. Kind of dry, yet interesting.

Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
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PostThu Mar 01, 2012 3:16 pm 
Just finished Thousand Autumns Highly recommended.

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