the year of the Kindle.
I found my reading gravitating to fiction and namely crime mysteries set in the past particularly tales of police spy Aristide Ravel set in revolutionary Paris , Bernie Gunther police detective set before during and after the Nazi era in Germany and a PI and his black partner set in Washington during the Civil War there and the latest set in 17th century Bavaria about a hangman who dabbles in medicine and crime detection with the help of his daughter.
At the moment I am reading Anne Applebaum's book
Iron Curtain (The Crushing of Eastern Europe) and in the on
deck circle World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American civil War. Recently I finished reading a very hard to obtain copy of Worlds in Collision by A.Velikovsky.
I have had the Kindle since May and so far so good although sometimes it skips a hundred pages ahead which is a bit disconcerting but easily fixed. An unexpected bonus is that I can easily read it while walking on the treadmill.
I have had the Kindle since May and so far so good although sometimes it skips a hundred pages ahead which is a bit disconcerting but easily fixed. An unexpected bonus is that I can easily read it while walking on the treadmill.
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I see you've adapted to the Kindle well, GFB.
I am reading "On the Natural History of Destruction" by W.G. Sebald which is about the absolute horror and devastation in the cities of Germany after the fire bombings in WW2 and the psychological effects of this.
He's a writer I love so I may be a little subjective!!!
I love crime thrillers that are well written. Not too many are, unfortunately. I read some terrific ones last year and must explore your list.
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