What was the last book you read?

[Crimson]

THE LIONESS by Chris Bohjalian

Set in the early 1960s, a Hollywood actress and her entourage on recreational safari in Africa are kidnapped; a well developed character study and gripping survival tale. I enjoyed it.

 

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High Desert by Katherine V. Forrest (Kate Delafield #9)
Forrest isn't exactly flooding the market with these. There was a nine year gap between this one and the last and, unlike some other literary characters (I'm looking at you, Simon Templar), Kate ages in real time.
This starts with Kate a few months into mandatory retirement - and it's not going well.

 

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Lewis Carroll in Numberland by Robin Wilson
As the title suggests, a biography that focuses more on Carroll's genius as a mathematician and puzzle-maker than his fantasy novels.

 

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Summer of '49 by David Halberstam (about the Yankees and Red Sox and the big pennant race those two clubs had in 1949 in the American League)

 

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The Saint and the Fiction Makers (The Saint #40)
This one has a rather convoluted history. It started out as a two-part TV episode before being reedited and released as feature film, and finally rewritten as a novel.

 

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Flashback (1988 medical thriller by Michael Palmer)

 

[kenneth]

The Mammoth Hunters by Jean M. Auel. Very Stoneage Twilight at times.

 

[DallasFanForever]

Summer of '49 by David Halberstam (about the Yankees and Red Sox and the big pennant race those two clubs had in 1949 in the American League)

Regrettably I haven’t read this one yet. I know it’s considered a sports classic. Did it live up to the hype? I know Joe D. ends up looking very human towards the end of that season, which is kind of hard to believe for me.

 

[kenneth]

The Midwife of Auschwitz by Anna Stuart.

 

[Jolly Jimmy Tinsel Todd]

Long Way Down- Jason Reynolds

 

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The Quest For Mary Magdalene by Michael Haag
Gathers information from a number of sources to produce a more complete picture than the official Gospels provide, and explains why the Church was determined to portray her as whore when there's no historical basis for it. At the other extreme, Haag also notes that there's no historical basis for the fanciful story of her and Jesus founding a bloodline as depicted in Holy Blood Holy Grail and popularised in The Da Vinci Code

 

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The Saint Abroad (The Saint #41)
Adaptations of two more Roger Moore-era television episodes.

 

[Emelee]

I finished the last book in the Erlender Sveinson series by Arnaldur Inđridason. An Icelandic police procedural, on the realistic side. I much enjoy realistic police fiction. I want to feel that the author really knows what he or she is writing about.

 

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Delafield by Katherine V. Forrest (Kate Delafield #10)
Kate is a few years into retirement now and a case from the past comes back to bite her.
From the emphatic title on, this has the hallmarks of finality about it. But still there are some unresolved questions, and hints that Kate may set up a private detective agency, so I hope we haven't seen the last of her quite yet.

 

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Anne of Green Gables & Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
The Anne books were my mother's favourites when she was a girl. I remember she started to read them to me when I was little but I don't think we got further than the first couple of chapters, although I did eventually see the old movies and later TV miniseries. I'm sure she would be pleased to know I've finally gotten around to reading them, but perhaps not so pleased that I think I like Susan Coolidge's Katy Did series better.

 

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You Can't Park There! by Dr. Tony Bleetman (about his adventures aboard a British air ambulance)

 

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Bumping this up: the 1935 Perry Mason novel The Case of the Counterfeit Eye (1965 Pocket Books printing)

 

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The Saint in Pursuit (#42)
The Saint and the People Importers (#43)

The former is unique in that it's based an a comic strip written by Leslie Charteris ten years earlier. The latter returns to the practice of adapting television episodes.

 

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The 1934 Perry Mason novel The Case of the Curious Bride (1944 Pocket Books printing)