Inanna, would you recommend it?
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Amelia Peabody
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Mornings wouldn't suck so badly if they came later in the day.
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Hmmm. If you have really enjoyed the Egyptology angle of Peabody's works - yes. This deals with the famous head statue of Nefertiti, and all that stuff was interesting to me.
If you know all that, abd enjoy Peabody sorely for her writing.... maybe not. By the end of the book - the style was really annoying.
If you know all that, abd enjoy Peabody sorely for her writing.... maybe not. By the end of the book - the style was really annoying.
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I received my copy a couple of days ago, but am in the middle of a Barbara Michaels book, which I should finish today.
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Ah, I was wondering about you, Jude.
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I'm about 100 pages in and my impression so far is much more favourable than Inanna's. Let's hope it doesn't all go south later on 
I'll have more to say when I'm finished...
I'll have more to say when I'm finished...
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The first 100 pages I also really enjoyed,Jude. The last few chapters were the ones that grated on me.
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Just realized that I haven't read "deeds of the disturber". Its available on nypl only as an audiobook, so it escaped me. Buying it on Amazon now. Oh, wow, how I needed this, this week!
ETA: it is not available on Kindle.
ETA: it is not available on Kindle.
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Having read all of Elizabeth Peters' books, I'm now working my way through the Barbara Michaels books.
I have to say, the "seduction" scene at the end of "Search the Shadows" is probably the best writing of that genre I've ever read.
They should film it, and not change a word of the dialogue.
I have to say, the "seduction" scene at the end of "Search the Shadows" is probably the best writing of that genre I've ever read.
They should film it, and not change a word of the dialogue.
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Innana, I have it on kindle so it must be available!
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Mornings wouldn't suck so badly if they came later in the day.
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I read it! A couple of months ago.
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I'm re-reading the entire series. I gotta say, it's much, much better the second time though.
My library is closed indefinitely, so I have to buy all the books I didn't pick up the first time through...
My library is closed indefinitely, so I have to buy all the books I didn't pick up the first time through...
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Tried the Online library?
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I am guessing she is talking about the internet archive's emergency Library, which has caused quite a bit of controversy.
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Also many libraries will still lend ebooks, if that's an option. And there's the entire Project Gutenberg. 
Funny, I'm also rereading the first book now. Such comforting read.
PS: many local independent bookstores sell books online, including ebooks, and they really need support now.
Funny, I'm also rereading the first book now. Such comforting read.
PS: many local independent bookstores sell books online, including ebooks, and they really need support now.
Let the other societies take the skilled, the hopefuls, the ambitious, the self-confident. He’d take the whining resentful ones, the ones with a bellyful of spite and bile, the ones who knew they could make it big if only they’d been given the chance. Give him the ones in which the floods of venom and vindictiveness were dammed up behind thin walls of ineptitude and lowgrade paranoia.
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Uh no. I was talking about Jude’s public library’s online library. That’s how I get my books.Voronwë the Faithful wrote:I am guessing she is talking about the internet archive's emergency Library, which has caused quite a bit of controversy.
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You mean you don't already have a huge pile of books you bought but haven't gotten around to reading and also a Kindle stash? No? Just me?
Let the other societies take the skilled, the hopefuls, the ambitious, the self-confident. He’d take the whining resentful ones, the ones with a bellyful of spite and bile, the ones who knew they could make it big if only they’d been given the chance. Give him the ones in which the floods of venom and vindictiveness were dammed up behind thin walls of ineptitude and lowgrade paranoia.
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Nope. Nothing is left unread around me.
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Not sure what is sadder, having a pile of unread books, or not having a pile of unread books!!
The dumbest thing I've ever bought
was a 2020 planner.
"Does anyone ever think about Denethor, the guy driven to madness by staying up late into the night alone in the dark staring at a flickering device he believed revealed unvarnished truth about the outside word, but which in fact showed mostly manipulated media created by a hostile power committed to portraying nothing but bad news framed in the worst possible way in order to sap hope, courage, and the will to go on? Seems like he's someone we should think about." - Dave_LF
was a 2020 planner.
"Does anyone ever think about Denethor, the guy driven to madness by staying up late into the night alone in the dark staring at a flickering device he believed revealed unvarnished truth about the outside word, but which in fact showed mostly manipulated media created by a hostile power committed to portraying nothing but bad news framed in the worst possible way in order to sap hope, courage, and the will to go on? Seems like he's someone we should think about." - Dave_LF
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Neither is sad. One is the pleasure of future unknown words, the other the pleasure of future re-exploration of those words.
'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude