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ChrisinHove wrote:
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“The Mirror and the Light” by Hilary Mantel, the end of a great trilogy about Thomas Cromwell, Lord Privy Seal to Henry VIII.
Just finished this. What an excellent book! The power of Kings...

I was working near the site of Lewes Priory a couple of weeks ago, and spotted carved tracery in stones in an old garden wall, obviously reused from the suppressed and demolished priory. It was close to Anne of Cleves House - an old house that was part of her divorce settlement but never occupied by her.
Oh cool, Lewes is not far from Brighton and Hove, is it?
I felt bad for Christophe at the end of the book lol
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08Q83YB9T/re ... 805&sr=8-6

Here's all three of my books in the series.
I Pray Heaven to Bestow The Best of Blessing on THIS HOUSE, and on ALL that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof! (John Adams regarding the White House)

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Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King--
Else, wherefore born?" (Tennyson)



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I am still a fan of Danielle Steel and JK Rowling.

Expect a Miracle - Danielle Steel
The Ickabog - JK Rowling
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My favorite of all the Jack London books I've read. Intensely gritty and brutal story; very gripping.
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That is a good read.
I Pray Heaven to Bestow The Best of Blessing on THIS HOUSE, and on ALL that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof! (John Adams regarding the White House)

Follow the Christ, the King,
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Reading again, The Rainmaker, by John Grisham
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The Fifty Year Sword

The book uses five different font colors, each representing a different character. I'm sure I'll be reading through it more than once....his books tend to be disorienting the first time through.
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Just finished The Sea Wolf by Jack London. Probably the fourth or fifth time I've read it.

Began The A.I. War by Doc Dan.
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Anti Fragile.

Really interesting stuff. Very thought provoking.

https://www.amazon.com/Antifragile-Thin ... 0812979680
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The Meat man wrote:
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Just finished The Sea Wolf by Jack London. Probably the fourth or fifth time I've read it.

Began The A.I. War by Doc Dan.
Connor, I hope you enjoy it. Now you have all three which is really one long story.
I Pray Heaven to Bestow The Best of Blessing on THIS HOUSE, and on ALL that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof! (John Adams regarding the White House)

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Doc Dan wrote:
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Just finished The Sea Wolf by Jack London. Probably the fourth or fifth time I've read it.

Began The A.I. War by Doc Dan.
Connor, I hope you enjoy it. Now you have all three which is really one long story.
It's excellent so far. I imagine it'd be difficult to write a prequel that fits seamlessly with the existing works but you've done it well.
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On a Grisham binge
The Pelican Brief
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Dr. Larrin Thomas' Knife Engineering. :D
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Thieves in the Night: A brief history of supernatural child abductions, by Joshua Cutchin.

Joshua Cutchin is one of the absolute best researchers/authors on the paranormal. He brings open-mindedness with a healthy amount of down-to-earth, level-headedness to the subjects he writes about. He never states that any of the cases he covers are “this” or “that”, but simply presents cases from ancient to modern eras as they happened, or as they were reported, and compares them to beliefs in folklore.

Like Jacques Vallee (author of Passport to Magonia and other books), he presents the many parallels that exist between faery/fairy abductions and “changelings” in folklore and ancient reports, and the modern “UFO abduction” phenomenon. But he is never in one ‘camp’ or another; he cautions that one must approach such subjects with the ability to consider any possibilities. One of my favorite quotes from this book is: “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail; If all you have is a UFO researcher, everything looks like extraterrestrials.” Cutchin never states that he or anyone else knows the answers (quite the opposite, in fact); he simply presents the stories and invites the reader to draw his or her own conclusions. He also mentions how and why some reports *could* have perfectly mundane explanations, and explains why some others could not.

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Watch My Back, by Geoff Thompson.

The most interesting and entertaining autobiography I’ve read so far. Contains lots of colorful British slang (Thompson is from Coventry, England), but for whatever reason I’ve had no problems understanding or figuring those out based on context pretty easily.

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The anniversary of the Vietnam War just passed and I am reading We Were Soldiers Once and Young by Moore. It is about the first Air Cavalry battle that took place in the Ia Drang river valley in 1965. It is a gripping moment by moment account and it is hard to read sometimes because of thinking about what those men when through.
I Pray Heaven to Bestow The Best of Blessing on THIS HOUSE, and on ALL that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof! (John Adams regarding the White House)

Follow the Christ, the King,
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Else, wherefore born?" (Tennyson)



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Doc Dan wrote:
Sat Mar 20, 2021 7:56 am
The anniversary of the Vietnam War just passed and I am reading We Were Soldiers Once and Young by Moore. It is about the first Air Cavalry battle that took place in the Ia Drang river valley in 1965. It is a gripping moment by moment account and it is hard to read sometimes because of thinking about what those men when through.
I listened to that book on audio, awhile back.
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