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The Lincoln Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer (very good; gets better the further in I go) via book on tape (and the reader is very good).

How to Build Animal Housing by Carol Ekarius is excellent in the concepts, planning, and how to build details but not so much in the examples of structures.

Fruits and Berries for the Home Garden by Lewis Hill, just starting; no high hopes for it but it was available.

Seed Starting Primer & Almanac by Rodale have only skimmed through so far, I have higher hopes for this one.

And the sequel to Armegeddon's Reef by David Weber arrived via interlibrary loan. In audio. Twenty or twentysomething disks so it should last through my upcoming trip to visit my kids (at least 22 hours drive time to get to each; a bit more if I catch the closer ones on the way back too). Reviews say it is the least good of the series but the reasons they give (less action and more character development/conversations/something like that) mean it will probably be my favorite of the series.
 
Today’s book haul!
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IDK if this thread is alive... I scrolled through greedily copying and pasting people's reading recommendations! Wow! Y'all are eclectic readers. An answer to a slightly different question: WHAT BOOKS HAVE REALLY STAYED WITH YOU?

1. Bible (well parts of it. I certainly lost track of the begats and some of the rules in Leviticus)
2. 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - I have re-read this book about once a decade since I was 18 y.o., and find new things each reading.
3. Don Quixote (and the Novellas) by Miguel Cervantes - Just great stories & characters, but with Don Quixote, you can see how the character sort of highjacked the book.
4. anything by Alexander Dumas, sr and jr. - more great stories (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Three Musketeers, and so on)
5. The Harry Potter series
6. The Dragons of Pern series
7. Chrestomanci series by Dianna Wynne Jones
8. Narnia series and most of what C.S. Lewis wrote in non-fiction about religion, too
9. Lord of the Rings & the Hobbit (not cheating! they go together)
10. Books that are a window into a culture (this IS a bit of a cheat, because it is SUCH a big umbrella and SUCH a vague definition). Examples are:
 
Boppo said:
IDK if this thread is alive... I scrolled through greedily copying and pasting people's reading recommendations! Wow! Y'all are eclectic readers. An answer to a slightly different question: WHAT BOOKS HAVE REALLY STAYED WITH YOU?

1. Bible (well parts of it. I certainly lost track of the begats and some of the rules in Leviticus)
2. 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - I have re-read this book about once a decade since I was 18 y.o., and find new things each reading.
3. Don Quixote (and the Novellas) by Miguel Cervantes - Just great stories & characters, but with Don Quixote, you can see how the character sort of highjacked the book.
4. anything by Alexander Dumas, sr and jr. - more great stories (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Three Musketeers, and so on)
5. The Harry Potter series
6. The Dragons of Pern series
7. Chrestomanci series by Dianna Wynne Jones
8. Narnia series and most of what C.S. Lewis wrote in non-fiction about religion, too
9. Lord of the Rings & the Hobbit (not cheating! they go together)
10. Books that are a window into a culture (this IS a bit of a cheat, because it is SUCH a big umbrella and SUCH a vague definition). Examples are:
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This thread is definitely alive!

Thanks for sharing!
 
Boppo said:
IDK if this thread is alive... I scrolled through greedily copying and pasting people's reading recommendations! Wow! Y'all are eclectic readers. An answer to a slightly different question: WHAT BOOKS HAVE REALLY STAYED WITH YOU?

1. Bible (well parts of it. I certainly lost track of the begats and some of the rules in Leviticus)
2. 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - I have re-read this book about once a decade since I was 18 y.o., and find new things each reading.
3. Don Quixote (and the Novellas) by Miguel Cervantes - Just great stories & characters, but with Don Quixote, you can see how the character sort of highjacked the book.
4. anything by Alexander Dumas, sr and jr. - more great stories (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Three Musketeers, and so on)
5. The Harry Potter series
6. The Dragons of Pern series
7. Chrestomanci series by Dianna Wynne Jones
8. Narnia series and most of what C.S. Lewis wrote in non-fiction about religion, too
9. Lord of the Rings & the Hobbit (not cheating! they go together)
10. Books that are a window into a culture (this IS a bit of a cheat, because it is SUCH a big umbrella and SUCH a vague definition). Examples are:
Click to expand...
darn! I didn't mean to post that yet.
a. My Name is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok
b. Roughing it, by Mark Twain (this is actually a memoir of his time in the Nevada Silver Rush - talk about a different place and time!!)
c. The Best We Could Do, by Thi Bui
d. Almost anything by Amy Tan
e. Almost anything by Jumpa Lahiri
f. All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
g. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
h. Almost anything by Isabel Allende
i. Almost anything by Toni Morrison
j. Almost anything by V.S. Naipaul
k. Dostoevesky, Gogol, Turgenev, and Tolstoy (including War & Peace, which needs to be read slowly enough to keep track of all the patronymics!! What a bear!)

and I am sure I will be pounding my head going, WHY didn't I think of that one??!!
 

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