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Reply #300 - Feb 26th, 2015 at 12:52pm
 
Notorious Australian Women by Kay Saunders.

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Reply #301 - Feb 26th, 2015 at 1:48pm
 
Annie Anthrax wrote on Feb 26th, 2015 at 12:52pm:
Notorious Australian Women by Kay Saunders.



That sounds intriguing actually.
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Reply #302 - Mar 1st, 2015 at 10:15pm
 
Try

"Kill the Body, the Head Will Fall"  by Rene Denfeld, if you want to read about a pioneering woman.
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Reply #303 - Mar 1st, 2015 at 10:36pm
 
or if you want some pretty real ..fiction.. read Martina Cole.. all about the East End of London,  the powerful women and the ethos of the families that worked the London grafts.

Fascinating, urgent, real, and a genuine insight into a particular 'state of being'. Highly recommended.
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Reply #304 - Mar 3rd, 2015 at 8:53pm
 
Just finished Breath, a novel by Tim Winton, very readable, good characters. Just started Passage to India, EM Forster. Dated, but great characters if you have an insight into the place and times.
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Reply #305 - Mar 4th, 2015 at 11:28pm
 
currently I am reading Death Watch  .. Jim Kelly.
A mystery, and this man can write.!

the prose is gut wrenching, and very human, and very confronting.
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Reply #306 - Mar 4th, 2015 at 11:32pm
 
About 2/3rds of the way through D-Day by Antony Beevor.

I'm not finding it as gripping as either his Stalingrad or Berlin, but that's probably down to my preference of the Eastern Front over the Western front during WW2.

But it's still an eye opener and gives a much more even handed account - and less selective - than Stephen Ambrose's earlier work of the same name.

Beevor shows the D-Day campaign to be every bit as vicious (when the US army is involved) as the Eastern Front or even the Pacific campaign. A rapid spiral of barbarity with both US and German forces committing atrocities and reluctant to either accept surrender or surrender themselves.
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Reply #307 - Mar 5th, 2015 at 4:39pm
 
issuevoter wrote on Mar 3rd, 2015 at 8:53pm:
Just finished Breath, a novel by Tim Winton, very readable, good characters. Just started Passage to India, EM Forster. Dated, but great characters if you have an insight into the place and times.


They're making a film of the Winton book. I saw a casting call for surfers yesterday.
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Reply #308 - Mar 6th, 2015 at 10:14am
 
I could (but I wouldn't) change the name of this thread to "What are you currently reading, or intending to read, or are listening to as an audio book, or have downloaded and intend to listen to?" except that it wouldn't fit.

I don't see any way I'll ever be able to post again otherwise.
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Reply #309 - Mar 6th, 2015 at 6:40pm
 
Currently reading  one of my fave gore  authors.

Tess Gerritsen .. Die Again. 

Good stuff.  Smiley
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Reply #310 - Mar 29th, 2015 at 4:47pm
 
Silent Voices

About the South Australian 10th Battalion AIF WW1
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Reply #311 - Apr 9th, 2015 at 9:28pm
 
'Tiger Force'.

An expose of the war crimes committed by a specialised guerrilla group of the US army in Vietnam.

Nasty goings on.

Necklaces made of severed ears, etc.
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Reply #312 - Apr 9th, 2015 at 9:54pm
 

'You' by Zoran Drvenkar.

About a serial killer who intercepts the hunt for a group of girls who ripped off a drug stash stored by a stand-over cop's brother.

Very complicated. Fascinating twisted people and sub-plots.
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Reply #313 - Apr 10th, 2015 at 9:57pm
 
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Reply #314 - Apr 16th, 2015 at 12:52am
 
Have to admit I'm on a bit of a binge of J D Robb at tjhe moment .. her series......???  in Death...  with Eve Dallas and Roarke.
Catching up on the more recent .  Love it.

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