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Finished listening to Real Tigers, the third novel in the Slough House series by Mick Herron. Very enjoyable. The caustic and sarcastic comments towards his employees by the boss from Hell, Jackson Lamb, and the staff's responses are lots of fun.

Started listening to Spook Street, the fourth novel in the Slough House series by Mick Herron.

Started reading An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, by Neal Gabler.

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Finished reading An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, by Neal Gabler. Very Good and interesting.

Will return to reading The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith on my Kindle. Put it on hold while I read the borrowed library copy of the Gabler book.

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Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque

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Finished listening to Spook Street, the fourth novel in the Slough House series by Mick Herron.
Finished listening to London Rules, the fifth novel in the Slough House series by Mick Herron.
Finished listening to The Last Dead Letter, a short story in the Slough Series featuring Jackson Lamb.

Started listening to City on Fire, a crime/mob novel set in Providence Rhode Island, by Don Winslow.

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Finished listening to City on Fire, a crime/mob novel set in Providence Rhode Island, by Don Winslow. Very good. It is the first of a planned trilogy.Hope it pans out as well as his Cartel series trilogy.

Finished listening to The List, a novella in the Slough House series by Mick Herron.

Started listening to Joe Country, the sixth novel in the Slough House series by Mick Herron.

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Finished Blood Meridian finally. Not my favorite McCarthy novel by a long shot.

Started The Overstory by Richard Powers.

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Finished listening to Joe Country, the sixth novel in the Slough House series by Mick Herron.
Finished listening to The Catch, a novella in the Slough House series by Mick Herron.

Started listening to Slough House, the seventh novel in the Slough House series by Mick Herron.

Obviously I am really enjoying this series. The reader, Gerard Doyle, is excellent and adds to the enjoyment of this series of novels. He is the same reader who read many of the books in the great Sean Duffy series of crime novels written by Adrian McKinnty.

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And now, nearly two years after first picking up the book, I am still working my way through Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast And Slow !
I took 5 or 6 months away from it, just to clear my head. It's incredibly slow going, and I found that the deeper into the book I got the more it made my brain hurt just from trying to remember how what I was reading right now related to what I was reading yesterday. But I'm finally within a few chapters of the end, so just on principle I am determined to finish it.

I still can't believe enough people read this book for it to achieve New York Times Bestseller status.

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Finished listening to Slough House, the seventh novel in the Slough House series by Mick Herron.

Started listening to Bad Actors, the eighth novel in the Slough House series by Mick Herron.

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Finished listening to Bad Actors, the eighth and last novel in the Slough House series by Mick Herron. The ending makes obvious that there are more novels to anticipate in this superior series
Started listening to Nobody Walks, a stand alone novel by Mick Herron, though some of the [size=13px]characters[/size] are players in the later books of the Slough House series.

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Finished listening to Nobody Walks, a stand alone novel by Mick Herron, though some of the characters are players in the later books of the Slough House series. Just as good as the Slough House series novels featuring Jackson Lamb and the cast of Slow Horses.

Started listening to After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost its Soul by Tripp Mickle. It should pick up where Walter Issacson's excellent book, Steve Jobs left off.

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Finished listening to After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost its Soul by Tripp Mickle. Quite an interesting presentation on the personalities of Jony Ive, the former head designer at Apple and devoted friend of of Steve Jobs, and Tim Cook the CEO since the demise of Steve Jobs and how their decisions played out at Apple over the last decade.

Started listening toThis Is What Happened, a stand alone novel by Mick Herron.

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Currently reading "Project Hail Mary." Just started it, but it reads fast... Written by Andy Weir who also wrote "The Martian." And yes, it is also filled with science and math. Love it so far.

Oh, and it's a real paper book, with a hard cover. Requires no external power... just light.

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Been reading a lot lately

just adventure fiction -- Clive Cussler is my favorite -- my mother recently asked me if i was ever going to retrieve a couple of tote boxes of books from her house that had been in a back closet for literally 20+ years , and i was delighted to rediscover them

But -- just completed a re-read of the MEditteranean Caper




His series about a turn of the century private detective is occasionally fun but this book , The Gangster - drags on and on -- im 200 pages in and am waiting for it to get lively




And this one is on deck --- I like this guy from his podcast appearances on Carolla and others so when i saw the book at Sams , i figured id put it in rotation

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Finished listening to This Is What Happened, a stand alone novel by Mick Herron. Predictable and slow didn't pick up until the last third of the book. OK, but on a level below the author's Slough House (Slow Horses on Apple+ TV) series.

Finished listening to What's So Funny, by Donald Westlake, the 13th book in the John Dortmunder crime caper series. Good light hearted heist tale.

Started listening to the White Darkness, non fiction by David Grann, dedicated to the adventures of British explorer Henry Worsley in Anarctica

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Finished listening to the White Darkness, non fiction by David Grann, dedicated to the adventures of British explorer Henry Worsley in Anarctica.
Started listening to We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption, non-fiction account of policing in Baltimore by Justin Fenton.

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Finished reading the novel involving identity theft, murder and police procedural, The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith. A classic deserving of its reputation. Adapted with many changes for two big production movies, Purple Noon with Alain Deloin (French 1960) and the 1999 version with Matt Damon, Gweneth Patrow and Jude Law. I recently watched both and enjoyed them also.

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I now read "Pride and prejudice", for lovers of classics and culture, quickly read with a cup of tea

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Finished listening to We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption, non-fiction account of policing in Baltimore by Justin Fenton. Too long, needed serious editing.
Finished listening to Somebody Owes Me Money, crime novel by Donald Westlake. Just OK, he has written many better books.

Started listening to Hitler's American Friends, The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States, by Bradley W. Hart, non fiction account of Americans in the 30's and early 40's who supported and admired Fascist strongmen. A timely read.

Started reading Emergency War Plan, The American Doomsday Machine, 1945–1960, by Sean M. Maloney, examines the theory and practice of American nuclear deterrence and its evolution during the Cold War.

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Finished The English Civil War: A People’s History by Diane Purkiss. All sorts of interesting asides. I always though it was a war over Parliament vs. King's power, but actually much more of a religious war.

Also finished An Unlikely Spy: A Novel by Rebecca Starford. Fictional story of young woman who spies on Nazi sympathizers in Britain during the early years of WW II.

Started In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire by Laurence Bergreen.

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Finished listening to Hitler's American Friends, The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States, by Bradley W. Hart, non fiction account of Americans in the 30's and early 40's who supported and admired Fascist strongmen. A timely read and indicates Trump, and his cultish followers had precedents in the U.S. and early 40's. The Republican Party back then also had some quality leadership that stood up to the far right tyrants and bigots in their midst, unlike today's crop of admirers of bigoted strongmen.

Started listening to The Long-Legged Fly, crime novel by James Sallis, The first in the Lew Griffin series of novels about an African American private eye, set in New Orleans,