Posted on 01/23/2024 5:03:13 AM PST by Tanniker Smith
A long time ago, there was a Free Republic Book Club ... mostly because I opened my mouth and a bunch of people told me to organize one. I haven't pinged it in a long time. (Actually, another book club started, so I stopped.)
Any way, has anyone read any good books lately. Fiction, non-fiction, genre, mainstream. Anything you want to share?
Has anyone WRITTEN any good books that the rest of us should check out?
Interesting account of the intermittent war between France and England over control of the lucrative fur trade in North America. We forget just how important that business was in world affairs then.
Hell, I forget we even had FR pages.
It's a bit hard science, a bit space opera, and a bit military. Earth becomes aware of alien beings in the first book. By the second, there's an invasion and our space fleet gets destroyed ... or does it?
You’re welcome!
Just finished Dean Koontz’s The Bad Weather Friend.
Currently, on JD Robb’s Random in Death (#58 in the series).
I haven't read that one, but have enjoyed many of his books. The Odd series. The Jane Hawk series...
If you liked the Odd series, you’ll like this book. I actually liked the protagonist, Spike. Maybe he’ll write another with Spike.
Some of the writing seemed convoluted to me but Koontz does have a way of doing this sometimes. Still I enjoyed it very much.
Spunky young women doing anything that has not been done before in that town village universe....
Men who are portrayed as thick or unaware.
Know it all children
Are characters I avoid
Insult conservative thought?
I am gone.
Little Women is a book that raised me. I read it over again now every 10 years or so.
The two Miss Read series written by Dora Saint. Miss Read is her pen name. FAIRACRE is one series. THRUSH GREEN is the other. About 30 books total. These are more character sketches with simple plot lines. Cover small town Cotswold life from 1900s to 80s.
One can see the mindset in place that has led to GBs current destruction. Although Miss Read is against it.
Your post about Walt and Vic in Longmire made me laugh. My sister and I often re-watch series we like over every couple of years. She hated that Vic and Walt ended up together so much that she won’t think about watching it again. Hated Vic.
Haven’t read the books, but enjoy both Longmire and Dark Winds series on TV.
“Little Women is a book that raised me. I read it over again now every 10 years or so.”
Me, too! My favorite book ever. Just bought one for my three great nieces.
I think that every time I re-read it maybe Beth won’t die, and Jo will love Laurie. (I’ll never forgive her for not loving Laurie; I loved Laurie.)
I’m currently listening to the audio book version of The Life and Times of Joseph Warren, by Richard Frothingham. Someone was nice enough to record it into audio and it is both a phenomenal book and recording quality.
I don’t know about an officially organized club, but there is a FReeper Book Club keyword that sits up in the top bar of the main forum page, I have been using it every single time we release a new audio book. Perhaps take a look and see what’s available as there are some potentially good things that might be of interest.
https://freerepublic.com/tag/freeperbookclub/index
Honestly, I haven't been as active on FR as much in the past few years, mostly because I do a lot of internet reading on my iPad, but I hate typing on that thing. I prefer a keyboard, but I'm not in front of one as much.
Plus I always have to be careful using this site at the different places I work because, well, people are nuts.
Well I’m glad you got the ball rolling!
That probably puts us with a commonality, since I have some reason to believe I’m the first one who started with audio book creation. Pretty sure I’ve gone the longest if I wasn’t the first.
Also, I agree with your last sentiment. Nobody at work knows the things I believe. You never know who would be vying to fire you for thinking incorrect thoughts.
as I have gone through life reading Little Women I have been each of the women in the book, from little Amy, My book was inscribed to me when I was 8, to the rest of the girls, to Mother, to Aunt March.
It has been a journey. And it still makes me cry.
The scary thought is that I was still at my old job, which would've been around 2000-2001. I'm hoping it was after that. LOL!
Oh, I agree fully.
But Cornwell said that he felt his Starbuck character was simply too similar to Sharpe to continue with the series.
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