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Callender Girl said:
My favorite from that group is Pearl Buck's The Good Earth. Great book, terrible movie.
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I didn't know they made a movie. Now I know to skip it. Thanks.

I haven't been reading anything really good, just some that are pretty good.

This is one thing I really DISLIKE about reading on a Kindle: I don't recall the titles of books and their authors, because I don't see them every time I pick up the "book." I couldn't tell you the title of what I'm reading now, nor who wrote it. It's a novel, diary of an 83 year old man in a nursing home in Amsterdam. Pretty good.
 
So it’s been a bit since I’ve updated. I’ve had new chicks, family illness and job searching going on.
I won’t try to recall everything I’ve read in the past month but I list a few of my favorites.

Radium Girls
A frankly horrifying documentary style book about the girls who painted glow in the dark dials with radium paint and their fight for justice.

Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card

A Midsummer night’s dream
This is the first of Shakespeare’s plays that I’ve read and I loved the poetry and the flow of the lyrics.

I’ve also started The Sign of Four by Sie Arthur Conan Doyle
I wondered why it was so hard to find a copy compared to the other Sherlock Holmes books. (None of the local libraries have a physical copy) The answer is the blatant drug use that starts in the literal first sentence of the book.
 
I always admire how much you read. If I listed ALL the books I've read in the past one, it would be a quite short list of ONE.

My newest shipment from Book Outlet is collecting dust on a table; I have so much outdoor work to do that book reading is on the back burner for a while.

I just Googled "Radium Girls." Wow! True stories are often the scariest ones.

The closest thing I have on my table right now is "Ordinary Men," about a police battalion in Poland that was responsible for mass shooting and round ups of Jewish people who were sent to death camps in 1942. The premise is that ordinary people can fall victim to societal pressure and commit horrible crimes. Not exactly light-before-going-to-bed reading, I'm sure.
 
I know I haven’t been posting much. Mainly been working on the Enderverse. Orson Scott Card did several books and series of books set in the same world as Ender’s Game and Speaker For the Dead. So far I’ve finished Enders game the first three prequels, and am working on Fleet School and the Shadow Series. There’s nearly 20 books set in this world and several more short stories so I will probably be working on this one for quite awhile.
 
The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeongseo Lee

It reads like a well written novel although it is an autobiography of a girl who defected from North Korea. It handles the cultures of North and South Korea and of Korean Chinese very well. It doesn't shirk from some of the uglier aspects if life in NK or of life as an illegal immigrant in China but doesn't focus on them either.

Excellent book! On many, many levels.
 

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