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What are you reading?

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    AndyD
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    Easby Moor has a monument to Captain Cook and can be seen (with binoculars) from where we live.
    He's still a bit of a local hero, his life taught in schools; people of a certain age know DCI Morse was named after his ship.

    I'll endeavour to get the book

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      Easby Moor has a monument to Captain Cook and can be seen (with binoculars) from where we live.
      He's still a bit of a local hero, his life taught in schools; people of a certain age know DCI Morse was named after his ship.

      I'll endeavour to get the book

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      @AndyD I hadn’t realized that Cook’s last voyage was really about the Northwest Passage; I only knew that he was killed in Hawaii (we spend time in Hawaii most Decembers).

      I worked in a salmon cannery on Kodiak Island, Alaska, which paid for university. Long hours. But the descriptions of Alaska in The Wide Wide Sea brought it all back to me!

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        RealPlayer
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        Too much news.

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          CHAS
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          Cannot find much of what I like so I am reading another Daniel Silva book, The Cellist. Spies, intrigue, mysteries, and the like hold my interest. I need to broaden my selections.

          “I’m at an age when remembering something right away is as good as an orgasm.”—Gloria Steinem to Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Wiser Than Me

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            "Democracy in Chains"
            Just started it but so far it's a page-turner

            fear is the thief of dreams

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              "The American Heritage History of The Law In America" by Bernard Schwartz (1974)

              And as soon as I see my friend, which should be in the next week or so, I'll be reading her new book, "Propaganda Girls."

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              @Bernard said in What are you reading?:

              "The American Heritage History of The Law In America" by Bernard Schwartz (1974)

              And as soon as I see my friend, which should be in the next week or so, I'll be reading her new book, "Propaganda Girls."

              Please give Lisa a hug from me. She is amazing.

              fear is the thief of dreams

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                "Democracy in Chains"
                Just started it but so far it's a page-turner

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                Bernard
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                @pique said in What are you reading?:

                "Democracy in Chains"
                Just started it but so far it's a page-turner

                I'll have to look for it.

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                  @Bernard said in What are you reading?:

                  "The American Heritage History of The Law In America" by Bernard Schwartz (1974)

                  And as soon as I see my friend, which should be in the next week or so, I'll be reading her new book, "Propaganda Girls."

                  Please give Lisa a hug from me. She is amazing.

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                  @pique said in What are you reading?:

                  Please give Lisa a hug from me. She is amazing.

                  I will.

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                    "Original Intent and the Framer's Constitution" by Leonard W. Levy. I read about half of it some years back. Now I'm re-reading it and finishing it. Quite enjoying it.

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                      Still waiting for my library to supply the Captain Cook book...
                      Reading these:

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                      The Dorothy Wordsworth (bought) is a keeper; after a brief interesting historical introduction, her 225 year old diary is immediate and lyrical - after all she was her brothers inspiration, muse and recorder. And has artwork throughout.

                      Censoring Victoria is quite academic (library book borrowed 9 times in 11 years).
                      30 pages in, I may skip through to the end.

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                        I just read Conclave by Robert Harris. That was a fun read. Helped me imagine what went on recently at the Vatican.

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                          Lonesome Dove.

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                            Currently on the 13th book in the Maisie Dobbs series, by Jacqueline Winspear. Maisie is a psychologist/private investigator, between WW1 and WW2.

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                              I have never read any of Ursula K. Le Guin, so I'm starting the Left Hand of Darkness.

                              Crazy economist who likes to write about higher education.

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