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Just another GR refugee. Other than that, I had a stroke in 2004, and read almost anything I can get my hands on, though I have a particular weakness for history, mystery, and historical fiction.
Currently reading
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
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6 %
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Progress:
40 %
Wizard's First Rule
Progress:
49 %
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
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14 %
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
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20 %
The Hanover Square Affair
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10 %
Medieval Tastes: Food, Cooking, and the Table (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)
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10 %
Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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9 %
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years
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20/512 pages
Summing up January 2014
It was a pretty good reading month, all told. The only book I genuinely disliked was The Windsor Faction; I gave Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives! only 2.5 stars, but at least it was interesting, despite my not agreeing with many of its arguments.
Best book: Wings of Fire, by Charles Todd. A sequel to a historical mystery I enjoyed, which was even better.
Worst book: The Windsor Faction, by D.J. Taylor. Literary fiction about a wet mess, sold as an alternative history thriller.
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