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29 Sep 2012, 2:45 am

Nearing the end of Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts. Been reading it on and off all summer. Compelling mystery but easy to walk away from and come back to ...



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30 Sep 2012, 12:48 pm

Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan.
The book is a companion to a PBS documentary of the same name.

i watched the documentary first and only now, some two years later, started on the book. which was a birthday present from my brother.



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30 Sep 2012, 12:58 pm

The Colorado kid by Stephen King.


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30 Sep 2012, 1:52 pm

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky



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01 Oct 2012, 2:58 pm

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finished listening to this audiobook and really liked it a lot!


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02 Oct 2012, 6:10 pm

Cicero: Selected Political Speeches by Marcus Tullius Cicero

This is the first Cicero I've read. He strikes me as the ultimate sleazy lawyer. However, his speeches bring to light Rome at a very human level that one cannot know from reading Livy, Polybius, Dio or Appian...

From the finer points of [ancient] global finance to the social lives of Catiline Pansies, Cicero's texts give us insights into the last days of the world's greatest republic like no other source can.


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Sometimes I've felt as if I've crossed through hell and back in a way of phrasing such..



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08 Oct 2012, 2:58 pm

The Legacy...seventh book in the Legend of Drizzt series.



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10 Oct 2012, 8:46 am

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finished listening to this audiobook and really liked it a lot!


Did you know a fourth book is being released in that series this month.



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A book which was somewhat different from the movie but, neverless thought provoking and creepy as the film..



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10 Oct 2012, 11:55 am

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It says "Between Ambon and Amsterdam". It's basically a biographical novel about one of the first Moluccan medical doctors to work in the Netherlands. It's written quite engagingly, unlike another book I've read on a similar subject.


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Very interesting indeed..



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12 Oct 2012, 5:18 pm

thewrll wrote:
Woodfish wrote:
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finished listening to this audiobook and really liked it a lot!


Did you know a fourth book is being released in that series this month.


Now I do! Thanks!


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13 Oct 2012, 2:49 pm

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I should have read that 2 years ago, actually. Better late than never, I say.


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