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Monthly Archives: August 2013
The Richest Woman in America:
The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age by Janet Wallach 2012/ 304 pages Rating 7 /biography Hetty Green is a fascinating character – at least I’m fascinated. She was born very well off and was the … Continue reading
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Hetty
Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America’s First Female Tycoon by Charles Slack 2004/288 pages Rating: 8 / biography What a fun book! I really didn’t expect it to be so entertaining. And Hetty is a rather surprising woman in some … Continue reading
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Love Medicine
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich 1984/4o0 pages (rev. 1993, 2009) Rating: 8.5 / contemp Native American fiction Heck of a good book! I’ve read several of Erdrich’s novel’s and I think this is the best of the lot so … Continue reading
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The Cuckoo’s Calling
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (England) (J.K. Rowling) 2013/464 pages Read by Robert Glenister 15 h. 54m. Rating: A- / Crime After losing a leg in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is currently semi-employed as a private investigator. It looks … Continue reading
I caved –
I’m doomed. In my last post I wrote about how I couldn’t decide what to read next, whether to tackle the books on the tbr shelf, listen to a couple of Audible books or just go ahead and read … Continue reading
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Between Books –
Oh dear, except for one really long history book, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, I seem to have caught up on the reading. At least I’ve finished the “group reads” scheduled. Now … Continue reading
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