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Mike got me a Kindle for Christmas, and although it isn’t the physical pleasure of an actual book, it solves the problem of easily getting new books while we are in Turkey. I returned to Istanbul with 7 books on my Kindle and read them all. Could it be that I am reading faster now that I am not distracted by the cover, the endpapers, the bindings, the feel of the paper? Or maybe it is the gloomy rainy weather that has me reading so much. Anyway, I soon added 7 more books and now my Amazon shopping list is empty, so I asked two of my favorite readers for suggestions.
Cynthia gave me these suggestions for mysteries:
Andrea Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano series set in Sicily.
Jo Nesbø and his Harry Hole series set in Norway.
Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallender.
Fred Vargas’s Inspector Adamsberg set in France.
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And Henri has these on her reading list:
The House on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Diane Ackerman’s book from ~5-10 yrs ago about the brain
House at Sugar Beach , about Liberia
The White Tiger Arvind Adiga
The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo
Traveling with Pomegranates
Greg Mortensen’s new book
Marilyn Robinson’s Home
Netherland by John O”Neill
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
The Art of Choosing, Sheena Iyengar
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So what have I added to my pile of kindling? The Terra-Cotta Dog for mystery, Margaret Drabble’s The Pattern in the Carpet for memoir, The Art of Choosing for non-fiction, and Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand for fiction.
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What about you? What are you reading these days?
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Ann Marie, who is recovering from back surgery, sent me this note:
I recently had back surgery, and I’ve been reading up a storm. Last night I started FANNY HILL, which I’d never read. It’s a little like reading a porn movie in Victorian English. I don’t think I’ll bother to finish it. You can get free books, though, from http://manybooks.net. They’ll downlad to your computer, and you can transfer them to your kindle.
HELP by Kathryn Stoddard
THE BOOK THIEF by Marcus Zusak
I AM THE MESSENGER by Marcus Zusak
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS by Sara Gruen
INFIDEL by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
At the moment, I seem to be re-reading Isaac Asimov.