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SusannaG - Confessions of a Crazy Cat Lady

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.

1384 BOOKS

Currently reading

Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition

Paul Watson

Progress: 6 %

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

Ed Yong

Progress: 40 %

Wizard's First Rule

Terry Goodkind

Progress: 49 %

Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant

Tracy Borman

Progress: 14 %

Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life

Helen Czerski

Progress: 20 %

The Hanover Square Affair

Ashley Gardner

Progress: 10 %

Medieval Tastes: Food, Cooking, and the Table (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)

Beth Archer Brombert, Massimo Montanari

Progress: 10 %

Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth

Holger Hoock

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

Progress: 9 %

Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years

John Guy

Progress: 20/512 pages

Favorite books

Recently added

Where There's a Will - Rex Stout, Dean Koontz

Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars - John Gaudet

Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World - Jill Jonnes

April Roundup

6:28 pm 3 May 2014

Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15) - Agatha Christie

The Difference Engine - William Gibson

The Doorbell Rang - Rex Stout, Stuart M. Kaminsky

The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens

The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act - Clay Risen

A Dangerous Inheritance - Alison Weir

Well, I only finished three books this month - Cards on the Table, The Difference Engine, and The Doorbell Rang. However, I had one book I abandoned - A Dangerous Inheritance - and two of the books I have in progress are rather long - The Pickwick Papers and The Bill of the Century.

Best read of the month: Pickwick Papers, which is a reread.

Best new read: The Bill of the Century.

Strangest: The Difference Engine.

Worst: A Dangerous Inheritance. I wanted a historical novel about Lady Catherine Grey, and got Richard III taking up half the time, plus unwanted bonus ghosts.

Ah, well, could have been worse.

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