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Style Watch: Electra Mustaine outside Jacobs Music Center in San Diego
Skip ahead to 2:00 to see Electra Mustaine in a stunning wine-red evening gown exiting the symphony hall through the backstage door.
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Joy in the Morning
"Joy in the Morning" was only my second P.G.Wodehouse book. It's the one that has made me a life-long fan.
Funny and unendingly cleverly-worded, it made me laugh out loud several times.
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Super by Jim Lehrer
This book came into my life late one sleepless night watching the Charlie Rose show.
The guest was Jim Lehrer, who I recognized from television. What I didn't know was that he was a novelist as well.
He spoke about train movies and train books, and it turns out he's just completed a train story himself: Super.
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Tom Swift Jr: Tom Swift and His Flying Lab
This book, which I picked up as a treasure for just $1.00 as Wahrenbrock Book Shop was liquidating in downtown San Diego, turned out to be a kids book.
It was still mildly interesting. The pictures were cool.
Not really a fan, though.
The look and feel of the physical book are nice.
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The Flight of the Falcon by Daphne du Maurier
Just finished Flight of the Falcon, a novel that I'd never heard of before.
The gentleman in the used bookstore in Long Beach where I bought it (all books $1) said he'd never heard of it before, either.
Of course the author is very famous: Daphne Du Maurier.
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The Grapes of Wrath
Finished The Grapes of Wrath today. Been working on it for a few months. Little bit at a time. Really enjoyed it ( Read more... ) -
A Painful Read
A return visit of mine loaned me a book: A History of God by Karen Armstrong ( Read more... ) -
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Reading John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath ( Read more... ) -
Nancy Drew & the Clue Crew #1: Sleepover Sleuthing
This is an odd book for me to have read. That's what my wife thought when I showed her what I was reading in bed last night. It's all about 8-year-old girls, in particular, the young Nancy Drew ( Read more... ) -
Book Review: Maniac McGee
This book is for kids, like middle-schoolers ( Read more... )
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