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Me, too. Just prior to The Keepsake, I read The Bone Garden. Also good but I liked The Keepsake better.

I'm also a Connelly/Bosch fan. I'll have to check out Ian Rankin. Any suggested order or first one to read?

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I read them in order-the first few are short novels, and the entire 15 or 16 book series sort of develops his personal relationships-as well as leads up to his retirement.

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:tu
Thanks.

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A book that a fellow BOTL gave me to read, Unintended Consequences

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Semper Fi: Stories of the United States Marines from Boot Camp to Battle by
Clint Willis (Editor)

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Just finished Sixty Days and Counting by Kim Stanley Robinson. He is entirely too optimistic but it made a nice capper on the trilogy.

Next up I'll try to finish C.J. Cherryh's Port Eternity. I'm about halfway through it, I kind of lost it for a few days.

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I just finished The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon. One of the strangest books I've come across and I'm not sure what to think of it. It got under my skin, but not necessarily in a good way.

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"The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Finished Trunk Music by Connelly, read Cornwell's Sharpe's Fortress, now reading Sharpe's Trafalgar and next is Wally Lamb-I know this Much Is True. I have never read one of his books.

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Planning ahead for golf season, I'm working my way through Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible.

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"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, translated by Gregory Hays. I've read different translations, but this is my favorite.

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About 100 pages into Dirty Snow by Simenon right now. I actually like this depressing story lol.

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The Sleeping Doll by Jeffrey Deaver

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Finished Sharpe's Trafalgar by Cornwell and now on to Wally Lamb. I may read something short and fluffy first. This book is huge.

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Still working on The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Vol. 1.

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I have the complete Sherlock Holmes works. It was copied directly from the original publication so it has the old school look to it. I have gotten about 3/4" of the way through the book. I am in the Return of Sherlock Holmes section now.

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What's your favorite story so far?

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I enjoyed 'The Red-Headed League' mainly because I am ginger. I also like 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'. That was his longest story he wrote.

Hers is the ne I have. The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes.

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Just finished a few Vonnegut books last week (Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, and Slaughterhouse 5) and this week I'm re-reading Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. Very good book about soldiers in/returning from Vietnam. Also teaches you a lot about how to write.

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About half way through "Memorial Day" by Vince Flynn. Good stuff.

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My reading decreases in the winter. I prefer to be sitting outside in the sun with a cigar, a drink and a book. This summer I knocked off the entire Stephen King 'Gunslinger' series. Those are great books.

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Red-headed League wasn't bad. I haven't gotten as far as The Hound of the Baskervilles yet. I'm realy fond of his first story, "A Study in Scarlet".

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Hound of the Baskerville's is one of my favs. The original movie was great as well...but my favorite Basil movie was The Musgrave manor. I never got into Jeremy Brett-will have to rent some DVD's.

I read the entire canon when I was in college( long time ago) I will have to read them again. I have the complete Annotated illustrated Sherlock-printed in columns like in the newspaper.

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I kinda thought he phoned in the last couple. I liked the series as a whole, but I thought the last two books didn't live up to the rest.

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I agree that the last couple were not as good as the first couple but I contribute that to the fact that he almost died and he relized that at the pace he was going he may never finish the series and the last thing he wanted was to leave it unfinished.

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Good point. I'm a fan of Robert Jordan's Wheel Of Time series, and he passed away from a rare blood disease before finishing. There's another author writing the final book based on Jordan's notes.

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I had to take a break form King after reading all 7 Gunslinger books this summer. That is when I started the Holmes book with all the Strand Magazine stories. The last book I read was 'Call the Yankees My Daddy' by former Yankees beat witer Cecil Harris. I have started to read 'The Highest Mountain: Death and Life in the Adirondacks" by David J. Pitkin.

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The Ax by Donald Westlake. What happens when you take downsizing a little too literally.

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Read "Band of Brothers" by Stephen Ambrose and followed that with "Biggest Brother: The Life or Major Dick Winters, The Man Who Led The Band of Brothers" by Larry Alexander

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I loved Band of Brothers! I followed it by reading D-Day by Stephen Ambrose.

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War Stories- Iraq by Oliver North

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I love Ambrose- such a shame he passed right after the bad taste from the hanky panky with his last book.

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Cigargal, is that the newest Rebus novel? I think I've read all the rest of them so far :tu

My Systems Librarian recommended the series to me when I started workig at our Cooperative. She enjoyed them so much that she talked her husband into a 2 week vacation in Scotland so she could visit all the places and haunts of John Rebus. :D Her husband wasn't even aware of her ulterior motives until she mentioned "this is the place where John Rebus met so and so in one of his stories".

I've enjoyed all of the Rebus books so far, including the short story collections.

Right now I'm re-readind "Red Storm Rising" by Tom Clancy.

BTW, what ILS system do you use at your library?



:dance::dance::dance:

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Mr. 00p,
Exit Music is the last John Rebus book. It came out last summer and covers the last week of his life as an Inspector before retirement.

Our library is 15'X20' and I am not sure it has(or needs) an ILS. We have an ILL system linked with other libraries in the state...I HOPE THIS ANSWERS YOUR QUESTION.

John Rebus rocks!

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Not to thread jack but do any of you avid readers use the Amazon Kindle ?

To keep on topic I'm currently reading Bitter Harvest by Ann Rule. I'm not much of a reader and I'm trying to do more of it. Right now I find myself leaning towards the True Crime books.

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"Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam Is Subverting America Without Guns or Bombs" (I know, long title) By Robert Spencer

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Almost through "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman. It's the first of his books that I've read.

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Spencer continues to warn us, too bad so few are paying attention!

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No kindle-too expensive for me. I listen to a lot of audio books, but I love the feel of a book in my hands.

True crime book-Devil in The White City. Great story of building the Chicago World's Fair and a serial killer.

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Just starting to read 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand

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My organic chem and biochemistry book. Awesome!
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O Chem = :bh

Biochem = :tu

Good luck!

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Cigars, Whiskey, and Winning.

Leadership Lessons from Ulysses S. Grant.

He was more than a drunkard!!!

My wife got it for me for Christmas. She knows I like cigars and single malts so she got it thinking it was about that stuff. She should have read full title:r:

But it is actually a great read. It is like "The Daily Bread" for leadership.
Good fro the civilian manager and the Military professional alike.

T

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Im reading and studying Essentials of Statistics For Business and Economics.
Also studying Managerial Accounting. Right now reading about short-term solvency analysis.

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"Cross Country" by James Patterson.

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Unintended Consequenses - John Ross

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Einstein, by Walter Isaacson.

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It was thought it was a very good read if you could accept the concept. I went on read Neverwhere and Anansi Boys by Neil and enjoyed both of them.

Just finished Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. The book really grabbed me, but the ending was a little too perfect.

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The American Crisis by Thomas Paine.

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Truman by David McCullough, trying to remember that we once had leaders and citizens with guts.