INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE by Anne Rice Now I know how to kill a vampire. Have him or her read this dreadful book!
Tried that years ago at the request of my wife. Made it to a two page description of the colors in a bit of paisley and decided it wasn't for me...
Just finishing Lee Child's latest Reacher novel, Night School. Reliably entertaining as usual if you like the series. This one goes back in time when he is still an MP. Sent from my SM-N910W8 using Tapatalk
Its really an excellent book, if you are into the history of how the Maine coast was settled and developed. However the end of the book it lays out how - like you see elsewhere in the country - the Maine coast is changing with much of the shoreline itself going to the highest bidder (mostly residential/commercial) and many of the smaller communities are losing their history and culture. Where about are you going next month? I'll be there for about a week - May 17-22. I plan on stopping in Kittery and visiting where my first ancestor lived after being granted land in 1633. Then I'll head up to Vinalhaven Island to do some more family history research. My ancestors go back to the early 1700s there. I may try to spend a night at Old Orchard beach as well. That's where my parents took us every summer for the obligatory vacation. A great beach - the last sandy one before hitting the real rocky coast. Trying to do all this before the tourist season starts.
I rereading The Great War series by Harry Turtledove. I'm on the second book, Walk in Hell. For those who don't know Turtledove, he does alternate history. The Great War sees WWI on American soil, as the USA and CSA go at each other (USA sides with Germany, CSA with Britain/France). It is a great series. Turtledove is my favorite author.
We always stop at the Kittery Trading Post to stretch and shop around. 95 up to Agusta, 3 over to Belfast, 1 up to Columbia Falls ('bout an hour up from Ellsworth). My folks are in Addison, three miles off Rt 1.
Mostly just reading instructional on Coticule honing and my obsession with shaving gear, soaps and that stuff in general.
I often would visit my grandmother (father's side) in Surry, just south of Ellsworth. That whole area is great.
STIFF, The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach Roach is a writer who has no formal science background yet writes books about science. To get understanding about her and why she would write a book about human cadavers I would suggest doing a wiki search first. To say this book is interesting is an understatement. Roach to her credit write about this subject in a respectful and sometimes funny way.
Reading up on autism since 3 of my 4 children are on the spectrum. Explains a lot but it's dry reading when you don't have a doctorate...
Just finished "A. Lincoln" by Ronald C. White. Terrific book. Not too dense or academic. It doesn't delve too much into Lincoln's home life, and certainly skips the stormy relationship with Mary Lincoln, but as an overall biography is tremendously worthy. Highly recommended.
Getting close to the halfway point of In Cold Blood. Pretty good though Truman Capote gets very wordy in parts. He obviously had a very high intellect and advanced vocabulary. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Currently, I'm re-reading the 'Florida Friends' series on storiesonline - for the third time in a row. Don't do this unless you're a speed reader. The stories are good, but HUGE. In some ways, they're similar to a Russian novel, in that they are excessively wordy. They're unlike a Russian Novel in that the excessively wordy isn't terrible to read. Across the room from me is a copy of Charlotte MacLeod's "The Corpse In Oozaks Pond". I highly recommend Charlotte MacLeod and her other aliases (Alissa Craig, for one). Well written light mystery books. She was mostly a contemporary of Agatha Christie, but died just a few years ago. The bulk of her books were written in the timeframe of the 50's and 60's, and into the 80's. No computers and so forth, but it doesn't detract from the stories.
Just finished "The Wright Brothers" by David McCullough. Took the family to the Outer Banks about twenty years ago and felt privileged to have walked the Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills area. I'll get back there one day I hope.
Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night. Inspired by his friendship with Mr.and Mrs. Gerald Murphy. Before moving to France, Murphy had worked for his father's company Mark Cross (Mark Cross Razor 1913). While for a short time he painted (The Razor, 1924) he would spend the rest of his working life at Mark Cross after his father's passing. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk
