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from amazon;
In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men-Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication-whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time.

Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy coasts of ( Read more... )

apparently carole nelson douglas passed. i say "apparently" because wikipedia has a date of oct. 2021 for when she passed, but googleing her name gives me her obituary as a suggestion which only had a random mystery book reader blog that mentions it and that's it ( Read more... )

1) What is the best book you've read?
i can't think of just one that's the best ever.

2) What is the worst book you've read?
one of the worst, if not the worst books i've read: the deus machine by pierre ouellette. an interesting concept according to the blurb on the back quickly turned WTF?! & i skipped/skimmed large parts of it just to get to the ( Read more... )

a little more than four years ago i decided that i was going to read a book on or about most every u.s. president. it's been a hard slog, because 1. it's hard to find books for like 1/3 of them & 2. they're mostly boring ( Read more... )

full title; Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

from goodreads;
September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city ( Read more... )

1) Have you read more books, or fewer books, this past year than usual?
about the same.

2) What book are you reading now (or what book did you read most recently)?
the most recent one was Anne Boleyn, A King's Obsession by Alison Weir. it'snot that good.

3) What is the best book you read in the past few years?
there's been a few; Charity and Sylvia: A ( Read more... )

( Any, any, green tea or black tea? )

from amazon;
Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase and for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her upbringing, lovingly and wittily describing her parents (so memorably fictionalised by her sister Nancy); she talks candidly about her brother and sisters, and their politics (while not being at ( Read more... )

from booklender.com (originaly from amazon?)

Charity and Sylvia is the intimate history of two ordinary women who lived in an extraordinary same-sex marriage during the early nineteenth century. Based on diaries, letters, and poetry, among other original documents, the research traces the women's lives in sharp detail. Charity Bryant was born in ( Read more... )