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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.
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
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40 %
Wizard's First Rule
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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
The Marathon Conspiracy
This is book 4 of Gary Corby's series about Nico, a detective in classical Athens (the year is 459 B.C.), and I found it as entertaining as the other three. This one features a long-dead, much-hated tyrant's body showing up in the wrong place, a dead girl and her missing best friend, memories of the battle of Marathon, a giant dancing bear, a pissed-off playwright, Athenian divorce law, conspiracy theories, and Pericles trying to weasel out of another bargain. Also, Nico and Diotima finally get married. I enjoyed every minute of it.
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