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Favorite Books
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Posted 10 April 2019 - 09:53 PM
Funny that. I read blue highways a long time ago and still have the paperback. When we drove to AK two years ago i got the audio version and it was great being read to. He writes very well, great turns of phrase. I was saddened to read about Travels with Charlie in a New Yorker article that he spent a lot of his time in a NY city hotel writing that and Charlie passed away in a kennel. I was devastated.
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Posted 16 January 2020 - 02:01 PM
New Book just out on the west... I have not read it but ordered it on the 'book-mobile' at my library ... Here is a link to the NYT review.
Imperfect Union
The Man Who Mapped the West, and the Wife Who Made Him Famous
https://www.nytimes....-civil-war.html
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Posted 16 January 2020 - 02:23 PM
Thanks Buckland. Maybe when your done with it you could share it on https://www.paperbackswap.com/ Irrespective of its name, they swap other forms as well. I have drastically reduced my amazon purchases since joining. That said, getting the latest books is a challenge for some genres.
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Posted 16 January 2020 - 04:20 PM
I try to be patient and wait for the library to get a copy. I do buy from Abe’s Books. A great deal sometimes $3 or even less. Takes 2weeks to get the book, used. I’m used to slow. Thanks for the link I’ll check it out.
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Posted 16 January 2020 - 06:46 PM
Just read a review in Sundays SF paper about that book.
Living in Cal.and in the Monterey area,we have a lot of history about the Fremonts.
They were a very interesting couple.
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Posted 20 January 2020 - 05:09 PM
Anyone else enjoy sci-fi/fantasy?
Author Robin Hobb.
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Posted 21 January 2020 - 02:36 AM
Anyone else enjoy sci-fi/fantasy?
Author Robin Hobb.
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Posted 21 January 2020 - 04:31 AM
There are so many great books that have been mentioned. How will I ever find the time to read them or even some of them?
Even so, I have 4 more for people to consider:
- The Journals of Lewis and Clark edited by Bernard Devoto https://www.amazon.c...y/dp/B005ZWDDHU Anything by Devoto is worth reading -- what a wild man of letters with a passion for conservation he was! Wallace Stegner wrote a biography of him.
- Idaho for the Curious by Cort Conley (part atlas, mostly a framework for interesting historical tidbits and histories of Idaho.)
- The Wolverine Way by Douglas H. Chadwick -- wolverines are way more kick-bu__ than you could ever have imagined.
- Bretz's Flood - about a rebel geologist that first described the Channeled Scablands of Washington and the numerous outbursts of glacial lake Missoula.
I am awaiting four books I just ordered from the great reading list suggested by everyone. Thanks!
Tony
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Posted 22 January 2020 - 12:03 AM
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Posted 22 January 2020 - 12:55 PM
Just finished a very good book, that any traveler or dog owner will love.
"Be More Dog" by Rene Agredano and Jim Nelson
It's a story about them taking their newly diagnosed dog with cancer and 3 legs on a year long road trip. so the dog can enjoy himself. But it is also about living in the moment as dogs do. Its well written and enjoyable. Available on Amazon as well as their website bemoredog.net
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