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hermetic

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Sun Mar 9, 2025, 11:35 AM
Mar 9

Some nice recs there. Putting them on my list.

I finished Sipsworth last night. Not just good, extraordinary!

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I just SARose Mar 9 #1
Thanks hermetic Mar 9 #2
I read Crow Mary last year and liked it very much. I am partial to books about the japple Mar 9 #6
I love Anya Seton's books..I haven't read them all but really enjoyed the ones I did read yellowdogintexas Mar 10 #14
Mine too! Jilly_in_VA Mar 10 #19
that book (Catherine) was the beginning of my lifelong interest in the Plantagent Dynasty yellowdogintexas Mar 13 #24
Me too! Jilly_in_VA Mar 13 #26
Just started Jilly_in_VA Mar 9 #3
Wow. A serious undertaking hermetic Mar 9 #4
I love it so far Jilly_in_VA Mar 10 #20
I have the first one. I may read it next nt yellowdogintexas Mar 10 #15
Still reading Anne Tyler's book, A Spool of Blue Thread. japple Mar 9 #5
I just got hermetic Mar 9 #7
3/4 of the way through "Fatherland" by Robert Harris. Number9Dream Mar 9 #8
I read that years ago. I'll probably reread it, as I've been on a Harris kick recently. rsdsharp Mar 9 #10
I keep having this vague feeling that I have read it and it would have been 42 years ago yellowdogintexas Mar 10 #16
I think I've got a paperback copy kicking around here somewhere. rsdsharp Mar 10 #21
aha! Thank you ! Well back in 1983 I read a revisionist history of WWII and I think it was called Fatherland yellowdogintexas Mar 13 #25
I am starting the Cicero Trilogies. Am loving the first book. Polly Hennessey Mar 13 #27
I enjoyed all three. I read Pompeii several months ago, which was his first book regarding Rome, but obviously set in rsdsharp Mar 13 #28
A couple of excellent transfixing books: cbabe Mar 9 #9
Helle & Death by Oskar Jensen The King of Prussia Mar 9 #11
Hello! hermetic Mar 9 #12
Halfway through, "The Pharaoh's Secret," Clive Cussler Bayard Mar 9 #13
Clive Cussler SARose Mar 10 #18
Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up Tom Phillips yellowdogintexas Mar 10 #17
Dogs! Mystery! QED Mar 10 #22
Oh yes hermetic Mar 10 #23
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