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    France's reading 2021

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    On 2/27/2021 at 3:15 AM, France said:

    If you haven't read any of the Iron Druid books I recommend those, they are huge fun and there's an irresistable telepathic Irish woldhound.

    I just put Book 1 of the Chronicles on hold at the Library. should be available in a few days.

    BTW, I finished reading The Giver Of Stars and rate it 4.5. I also rate The Book Woman From Troublesome Creek 4.5. Both are well worth reading with similar but different stories.

    Your Book Activity - March 2021

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    12 hours ago, France said:

    Funnily enough I finished The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes last night. It's also about the packhorse librarians though from what I've read it's a very different story. It's an excellent  read - when Jojo Moyes is good she's very good, otherwise I find her a bit meh and very saccharine, this one is easily the best since Me Before You.

     

    There's been claims that Moyes "plagairised" the story as The Book Woman came out 5 months before hers, was seen and rejected by her American publisher and there are a couple of similar type incidents. Frankly, without knowing too much about it, I'd doubt it very much. Both authors used the same research material - the Smithsoniam Instittute published a paper on the Kentucky bookwomen in 2017 and it wouldn't be the first time that historical novellists have used real life events to create very similar story lines  (if you read CS Forrester, DUdley Pope, Alexander Kent, Patrick O'Brian et all they all include somewhere a small ship taking a much larger one by a trick that was actually performed by The Earl of Cochrane in about 1802 and is written up in every book about about him) and I expect that's how you get a mule knocking over someone threatening to attack a bookwoman in both books etc.

     

    Also the plagairism claims ignore how long it takes to write a flipping book and get it out there. Most books are delivered to the publishers a year before they hit the shelves and even a very fast author will take a good 9 months to write a full length novel so the timing doesn't fit either.

     

    Whatever, Giver of Stars is well worth reading.

     

    My wife has Giver of Stars on her kindle and she also enjoyed the book. I downloaded the book from her Amazon library to my kindle and have started to read it. I am anxious to compare the book to the Book Woman and see which I prefer. :) I started reading it this evening.

    Your Book Activity - March 2021

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    On 3/23/2021 at 8:40 PM, poppy said:

    Just finished The Bookwoman Of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson. Very interesting novel based on the Blue Fugate people of Kentucky, who carried a very rare recessive gene that turned their skin blue and a group of mostly women who trekked over miles of rural areas to deliver reading material to the locals. 

    I finished reading The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek tonight. It sounds like I probably enjoyed the book more so than you as I thought it was very good reading. The book took place in about 1936 in the very mountainous and remote areas of Kentucky. The Book Women rode horses / mules to deliver all types of reading material to the hill people.

     

    I am reading some very good books this year. probably about 4 or 5 that I would rate a 5/5. 

    Brian's Book Log - Ongoing

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    On 3/10/2021 at 6:31 AM, Brian. said:

    Update time.

     

    A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (5/5)

    The book begins in June 1922 where we see Count Alexander Rostov escorted out of the Kremlin and into the Hotel Metropol after a trail. He is found guilty of being an aristocrat in a Bolshevik but instead of prison of death he is put under house arrest in the hotel. Instead of being returned to his plush suite he is put in an attic room which is very small in comparison. Instead of feeling sorry for himself, the Count decides to get on with life and the trials that await him.

    This is another one of those strange books in which not a huge amount happens but it is captivating all the same. The characters are all really well written, none more so than the Count who you just can't help but love. The Hotel Metropol also becomes a kind of character which changes over the course of the book and reflects the world around it.

     

     

    I am glad you enjoyed A Gentleman In Moscow. It is definitely a 5/5 in my opinion. At some point I will probably go back and reread the book.

     

    I enjoyed The Last Kingdom maybe a little more than you did, or maybe not. There are, I believe, 16 books in the series and I have read them all and so it is hard to remember the ones I enjoyed the most of the group.

    I also read the other book written by Towles.....Rules of Civility. Entirely different type of book but i gave it a 4.5/5.

     

    I read Norwegian Wood and somewhat enjoyed the book but have not decided it I will venture into any more of Murakami's books.

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