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[quote="Veda"]I am really into the mercy Thompson novels and also reading about the Tudors which I find fascinating

I love the male characters in the mercy Thompson novels. I can't help but think to myself "This is what real men should be like"
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Finally got around to reading I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson.
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I'm currently reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
I guess that now I get why it won the Nobel Prize of litterature :O
Pretty interesting read!
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I'm switching between reading a travel blog, and a book called 'Kitty Hawks and the Curse of the Yukon Gold".

The travel blog is displaying a post about Rome, while the book is telling about the adventures of a teenage girl who decides to fly to Alaska to view whales.
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I am about to commence Sixty Lights by Australian author Gail Jones. I have previously read a later novel of hers, Dreams of Speaking, which was very good, so I have high hopes for this one.
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I am reading The Cinderella Murder by Mary Higgins Clark. I'm from NJ and met Clark at a book fair once, although I hadn't ever read any of her books. I really like it. I like the style of writing, the characters keep you guessing. It's very entertaining.
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I am currently rereading Le Petit Prince in french. Even though this book is a children's book, Le Petit Prince has so many life lessons that even adults can benefit from. Also, reading this book in its original language is so much more satisfying than reading it in English.
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Just started reading Surviving the Essex: The Afterlife of America's Most Storied Shipwreck by David O. Dowling.

About 50-pages into it... very interesting. It looks at the events that followed the true life story that inspired Moby Dick. Not so much the ship and the whale as the lives of the survivors afterward and how their competing and contradictory versions of what "really" happened shaped the rest of their lives and the world's perception of the event and those involved. Very compelling so far.
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Dragonfly in amber by Diana Gabaldon which is the second book in the outlander series and almost finished!
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Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
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A world is born again that never dies.
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Where They Found Her by Kimberly McCreight
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Started "Save the Last Bullet for God" today. So far a really interesting book.
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Finished "My Brother Sam is Dead", starting "Mysterious, Discovered, Accepted".
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I'm starting Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks (love his books!) and rereading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (love her books, too!)
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I'm reading two interesting books at the moment! My audio book is The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton, by Elizabeth Speller, about a missing child. I also started reading The Lunatic at Large, by J. Storer Clouston. This is for my 19th century reading group. Apparently it was very popular when it was published, and a movie was made in the 1920s.
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