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I'm doing an essay on Hula Dancing, so I have a stack of books on Hawaii, sharkskin drums, nose flutes, folksongs etc.

Hard Times, Charles Dickens

The Century's Best Horror Fiction, Vol. One (ed. John Pelan)

Which I bought because it contains "The Tower of Moab", which I've been looking for everywhere. Some very good stories, some not-so-good.

Also I read Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle today. It was dire. There were many things wrong with it. The writing was bad (I learn there's an entire branch of humour dedicated to mocking the style.) It was horrendously racist. The plot was stupid, paper-thin, transparent. The 'science' was silly. I liked the bit where Tom accidentally shoots a "wireless bullet" from his Electric Rifle through the wall of a nearby house when he noticed that "the range dial was set wrong" and casually "invented something to make sure the gun would never fire when the range dial was set wrong" - which to me sounds like an AI complete problem...

300 Important Combinations by B.V. Raman

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.

Finally finished the last of the Camel Club series books by David Baldacci. For now, I am reading Looking for Alaska by Peter Jenkins. Read the first half of the book a few years back and just picked it back up yesterday. I've read both of Jenkins' Walk Across America books but guess I decided I needed a break from him and was reading some more action-packed books for awhile. Ready now to go back to something a little slower and more outdoorsy.

I've been reading The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye. It's a cool mystery book that takes place in 1855 New York City. I love historical fiction and this book is doing it for me. Plus it has a cool serial killer story in it so it very enjoyable.

That sounds right up my alley. Have you ever read The Alienist by Caleb Carr? It's a serial killer mystery set in 1890's New York when forensics was so new that fingerprints were not yet admissible as evidence. The alienist is an early version of a profiler and Teddy Roosevelt is one of the characters. Great book! I'm going to look up The Gods of Gotham. Thanks for the idea, I've been looking to curl up on the couch with some murder and mayhem.

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That sounds right up my alley. Have you ever read The Alienist by Caleb Carr? It's a serial killer mystery set in 1890's New York when forensics was so new that fingerprints were not yet admissible as evidence. The alienist is an early version of a profiler and Teddy Roosevelt is one of the characters. Great book! I'm going to look up The Gods of Gotham. Thanks for the idea, I've been looking to curl up on the couch with some murder and mayhem.[/quote]

Cool I am going to look up The Alienist as soon as I am done reading The Gods of Gotham.

Dear Aimless, in terms of the book, I had previously read as, I had stated the author of such book was autistic such is the case..


ProfessorX

I'm reading a French book, to see if I can still do it, since I used to be in French Immersion so I'm somewhat fluent.

Jataka Parijata

The Secret Holocaust Diaries, written by Nonna Bannister and co-written by Denise George and Carolyn Tomlin. It's a biography/autobiography of a woman who was a Holocaust survivor.