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Jude
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Does anyone know crime writer Donna Leon? I just came across her in this video where she discusses Rossini's Semiramde:



All of a sudden I want to read her books. Should I?

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I don't know her, but if you like her talk you'll probably like her writing.

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I'm pretty sure I read one of her books - a somewhat gritty, police procedural mystery set in Italy. It was well done, but not really my taste and I never read another.

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For anyone else who loved Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane, I just finished his novel The Graveyard Book and it has a similar feel. I thought it was excellent, well deserving of the awards it's received.

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I loved The Graveyard Book. YouTube has videos of Gaiman reading it that are very good. He has such a rich voice.

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Ursula LeGuin has a new nonfiction book out, No Time to Spare. I'm saving it for a post-Christmas treat, though I'm having a hard time not dipping into chapters like "Doggerel for My Cat" or "A Modest Proposal: Vegempathy," just out of curiosity to see what they're about.

One of her quotes On the absurdity of denying your age:
"If I'm ninety and believe I'm forty-five, I'm headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub."

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Update: I'm enjoying the LeGuin book, but apparently the little essays have been taken from her website blog. So it seems that you could get the same thing online.

I don't necessarily agree with her on everything, but her viewpoints are often interesting and sometimes novel. It's like having a casual talk with a refreshingly opinionated friend.

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I just finished "Otherworld" by Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller. I thought it might last me a week, but in the end, I couldn't put it down and finished it in a couple of days. It's actually the first of a trilogy - I hadn't realized that until I was most of the way through.

A lot of it takes place inside of a video game. Alatar, I think you might like this one a lot.

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Will check it out. I presume you've heard of "Ready Player One"?

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No, I've never heard of it. Is it good?

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I actually haven't read it yet, but the Spielberg movie is out this year:

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I've read it several times. It's great! And the trailer looks good, too. I might just go see that one on big screen. :love:


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Former top judge Beverley McLachlin to become published novelist in May
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Simon & Schuster Canada says the debut novel, entitled Full Disclosure, is about a defence attorney who tries to unravel a web of secrets around the murder of a wealthy man's wife.
This is of particular interest to me because I used to be her piano teacher. I'll definitely be picking up a copy of this book when it comes out.

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Just discovered Scottish author Val McDermid through her "A Place of Execution". If you like crime novels, this one is a real page-turner.

I went on to reserve a whole bunch of her books from my local library. I just hope they don't all come in at once...

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Chronological Index of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Blog. I don't know how much longer this will be up.
http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Blog-Index.html
None of the book contents are there, but there's a lot of other wonderful stuff, about her cat, and whether Prospero should have been changed to Prospera in a 2010 version of The Tempest (with Helen Mirren, and very much worth seeing, btw), and Donald Trump as a golem, and why Amazon has changed book publishing for the worse... and a lot more.

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I've bookmarked it to work my way through. Thanks for the link!

Sent from a tiny phone keyboard via Tapatalk - typos inevitable.

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Jude
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Any fans of Henry Treece here? Supposedly he was a well-regarded author of historical fiction, but the book I just finished doesn't really want me to check him out further.

Unless we have any die-hard fans here who think I should give him another try...

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Saw this, and I think I'll read it.
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I'm saying this because I'm 1/3 of the way into @aliettedb's Tea Master and the Detective and she has absolutely *nailed* Holmes and Watson as Asian women in a distant future where one of them is a spaceship.
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