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The Stockholm Octavo by Karen Engelmann. A literary thriller set in 18th century Sweden. Fun. Lovers at the Chameleon Club:Paris, 1932 by Francine Prose. A novel based on the life of Violette Morris, French athlete, race-car driver, and Nazi collaborator.

Went to hear Luis Urrea, the author of the last book I posted in this thread, Into the Beautiful North speak last weekend. Very articulate speaker. Impressed me enough to buy two more of his books. Am now reading The Devil's Highway, his account of the Yuma 14, Mexican workers brought across the...

Many, many rabbits and snowshoe hares. Magpies and Steller's jays. Shrews. Ermine. Moose. The moose will jump the four-foot fence into the yard, mope around for a while, leave their droppings, and jump back out. Sometimes they bring their babies. An occasional bear. Sandhill cranes. A...

Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea. It's the Big Read book in my town this year. Pretty funny so far.

Well, now I'm dying to read this, but Amazon says it won't be released until May. :sorrow:

In my capacity as congenital grammar nazi, I forgive you.

Might as well get one of my favorite threads going over here in the new place: Continental Drift by Russell Banks. This fellow was the keynote speaker at the Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference several years ago. He was not a very likable guy--seemed aloof and sort of stuck on himself--but he...