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I’m taking a bit of a break from fantasy with “Showdown on the Hogback” by Louis L’Amour, collected in Big Medicine. Made it about three chapters in quite a while ago, then got sidetracked and never returned until now, so I decided to start over. Now on Chapter VI.
 
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I've been polishing off a few series before the end of the year. Margaret Barnes' Cassie Hardman books - focusing on a young(ish - she's taking silk by the third book) female barrister's trials and tribulations - are done and dusted. I'm beginning on the third book in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Dogs of War trilogy, Bee Speaker, to get that done before 2025 ticks over into 2026. I still have Morning Star to come before the end of the year to end the first Red Rising trilogy, which I am immensely looking forward to. I also have the fourth book in Peter Murphy's Walden of Bermondsey series to complete, along with the two remaining Jeeves and Wooster novels. All before the end of this year - then 2026 can be a fresh reading start after a year dominated by certain series. I'm not sure it's been a good year for reading in that regard as I feel like I've been exposed to too much of the same voices over a period of time.
 

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Been reading Esther Hoskins' Johnny Tremain about a teen boy in 1770s Boston who struggles to make ends meet after an accident that burns his hand. Just got to the part where the accident happened, and the people he’s worked for in the silversmith business for the past four years basically tells him to frick off.

Basically, from what the description tells me, the inside of his hand was covered with molten silver, the back side was fine. His fingers are pretty much curled inward and can barely move. The Missus was like, 'The boy was only pranking, he didn't mean to hurt you.'

I'm like, 'Bitch, he basically ruined Johnny's life. I wouldn't be surprised if he wanted to kill him. I'd be rooting for him.'

I'm enjoying this book. <3
 
Kiraann said:
I remember the old Disney film about Johnny Tremaine! Enjoyed it as a child but haven’t seen it since.
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I was just thinking about that film yesterday. Doc said he could separate the fingers in a trifle, but Johnny refused, no?
 
Okay, now my mind is all set for Johnny Tremaine. I wonder if the library still has it. I'm about to start Agatha Christie's Peril at End House.
 
CatrionaGrace said:
Okay, now my mind is all set for Johnny Tremaine. I wonder if the library still has it. I'm about to start Agatha Christie's Peril at End House.
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Oh, I love Peril at End House! I won't spoil it by naming the guilty party. But Hercule Poirot and Hastings feature. Enjoy. :)

I just finished reading Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree. It is, by turns, exciting, funny, and tear-jerking. Recommended, but I recommend reading the previous entries first Bookshops & Bonedust and Legends & Lattes).
 
I’m reading Rock Springs, a short story collection by Richard Ford. I appreciate his verse and tone, which infuses his small town reprobate characters with spirit and gravitas. Impressive storytelling from top to bottom.

I’m also working my way through The Germans by Gordon A. Craig. Picked up a copy at a used bookstore. I’m learning a lot, but it would have been to my advantage to have read some German history (specifically the German Empire) before taking the book on.
 
Bone2pick said:
I’m reading Rock Springs, a short story collection by Richard Ford. I appreciate his verse and tone, which infuses his small town reprobate characters with spirit and gravitas. Impressive storytelling from top to bottom.

I’m also working my way through The Germans by Gordon A. Craig. Picked up a copy at a used bookstore. I’m learning a lot, but it would have been to my advantage to have read some German history (specifically the German Empire) before taking the book on.
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My aunt knows him a little. She's a professor at his Alma Mata. Ever read any of his novels? Independence Day or The Sportswriter?
 
Homer Potvin said:
Ever read any of his novels? Independence Day or The Sportswriter?
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I haven’t. I was eyeing Canada as the next work of his to move on to, though maybe I should give The Sportswriter a go before that? It probably doesn’t matter.
 
Bone2pick said:
I haven’t. I was eyeing Canada as the next work of his to move on to, though maybe I should give The Sportswriter a go before that? It probably doesn’t matter.
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I wasn't a fan of Canada. It was kind of... blah? Sportswriter is good so long as you're into the overly contemporary literary thing.
 
Hello all.My first time posting on this thread.
I have finished, "The Making of another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece " by Tom Hanks.
While not great literature, it is well written, and seems to do just what the title says it will do.
It starts way before with, should we make this movie to its release. With chapters named Backstory, Source Materal, Development Hell, Casting, Shoot ect.
It tells of the trials, and the triumphs of the
production, politics, and mechanics, planning of the making of a motion picture.
Also regressions for the backstories, of many of the people in front of the camera and behind.
I found it a very pleasant read.
A quote from the book . " you're loved"
 
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