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I'll Lock Up
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'An End and A Beginning' by James Hanley

Hanley is a much neglected writer - probably because some of his work is bloody inpenetrable. However, the best of his work is wonderful. I read a few of his books in the 1990s but stopped after bad experiences with some of the more deliberately difficult ones. I've finally returned to him and am enjoying this one.
 

DNO

One Too Many
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Toronto, Canada
Found a copy of Carl Hiaasen's new book, Bad Monkey, today at a thrift store. It's only been out for two months! Had to lay Tom Sharpe aside (it was a re-read anyway) and dive into this one.
 

VintageBee

One of the Regulars
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Northern California
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society and re-reading Coming Home...which means I will feel its time for the yearly reading of The Shell Seekers :)
Yes, I am reading three books at the same time.
And drinking copious amounts of tea
 

Shangas

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Melbourne, Australia
In my ongoing fascination of the history of China 1911-1937, I recently purchased the bestselling true-crime novel "Midnight in Peking", by British writer and China historian, Paul French.

It's a fascinating story about the murder of an English teenage girl in the Peking Legation Quarter in January of 1937. It follows the attempts of British and Chinese police to track down the killer before the city falls to the Japanese in just six months' time.

It's all true. It was a real crime. And it remained unsolved at the outbreak of war. French did extensive research, chasing down diaries, letters, newspapers, even relations and friends of the victim and the investigating officers, to compile the entire story and write it up as a nonfiction novel.

It's going to be turned into a miniseries that will be coming out later this year, or sometime next year, so I understand.
 

Hercule

Practically Family
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Western Reserve (Cleveland)

Harp

I'll Lock Up
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Chicago, IL US
Benn Steil, The Battle of Breton Woods, John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White,
and the Making of a New World Order


Keynesian crossings
 

John Boyer

A-List Customer
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Kingman, Kansas USA
I enjoyed this book immensely. However, I still appreciate the Scholastic Economists and the Distributists. You should consider "Redeeming Economics: Rediscovering the Missing Element" by John D. Mueller

Benn Steil, The Battle of Breton Woods, John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White,
and the Making of a New World Order


Keynesian crossings
 

Feraud

Bartender
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Hardlucksville, NY
What did you think of it? I just "finished" it this past weekend. I got about halfway though it then just read the parts about the recent expedition to find the plane. I thought it was a bit odd and kinda read like fiction which I didn't care for.

I felt the pace was unbalanced. The author spent most of the book working towards the salvage of the wreck. The actual finding of the plane came too near the end of the book.
 

Smithy

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Norway
Very modern but possibly the funniest book I have read in a very, very long time. It's also possibly the frankest and most honest confession of being a modern fast jet fighter pilot.

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