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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 9, 2021 5:19:15 GMT
One of the jays?! That really is exciting. What with all the information about terrain, the population, history, etc., it kind of makes the book an addendum to your very own history. This makes me think that maybe I over-think what books I post on the e-book thread. If I hadn't groundlessly assumed that no one besides me would enjoy that book, I would have publicized it when it was on special & you would have known about it way back in early January. Out of curiosity, I quickly looked over what comes up when you google "books about lycoming county". There are tons of hits. You may already have this site: www.linkpendium.com/lycoming-pa-genealogy/ and might enjoy some virtual traveling around with this one: www.acrevalue.com/plat-map/PA/Lycoming/?lat=41.438329&lng=-77.652272&zoom=8
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Post by htmb on Mar 9, 2021 13:27:27 GMT
Thanks for the links! The kindle edition was $17, so a cheaper version would have been welcomed. However, I’m not sure I would have noticed the post even if you’d given a link. I haven’t been reading fiction, particularly mysteries, and don’t usually pay much attention to suggested reads. I’m going to download a sample of the next book, but it will have to be really good to justify paying for a copy.
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Post by htmb on Mar 10, 2021 3:46:07 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 10, 2021 7:03:24 GMT
I kept wanting to stop reading that, for the obvious reasons. But, as you say, it is very compelling. It is easy to draw a line from that directly to the character Gideon. It also makes Gideon even more interesting, somehow, as you can see the tracing-paper image of the modern, educated author laid over the well colored in image of the uncomfortable, deep farm boy.
Thank you so much for that!
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Post by joanne28 on Apr 24, 2021 22:41:27 GMT
I was in Iceland in September 2019 (my last major trip, sadly) and found a mystery novel by Yrsa Sigurdardottir. Her detective is a female lawyer, single mother and all the cares and chaos of both, set in the 2000s. I so enjoyed the book I picked up that I had to hunt more down.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 24, 2021 23:03:37 GMT
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Post by joanne28 on Apr 26, 2021 21:01:41 GMT
Blurbs really can be off-putting. My method, for all books, is to read the first page. It has got to have some interest for me.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 26, 2021 22:16:43 GMT
Blurbs really can be off-putting. My method, for all books, is to read the first page. It has got to have some interest for me. I am very wary about blurbs partly because they can be completely misleading, but also because sometimes they contain infuriating spoilers. I may look at the first page when judging whether or not I want to read a book, but my main method is to open the book here and there at random in order to read some paragraphs and get a better idea of the writing. No matter where you buy your books, it's always worth checking a given book's Amazon page for the very useful "look inside" feature.
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