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New Books
I found a few books when I stopped at Nearly New Books yesterday. Two by Adam Hall and two from other series I've been enjoying.
"The KGB kidnaps a top British spy, and the lives of the Leningrad cell are immediately endangered. Quiller is sent to get him out. Escaping from Lubyanka will be harder..."
"On a freelance mission in Southeast Asia. Probing the shadowed secrets of a devastating arms deal.
Stalking a beautiful smuggler who seduces, then kills any man who crosses her. Especially a man who knows too much. Like Quiller."
"Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, but ow he is heading out of his comfort zone. Way out.
Assigned to Thailand's highest profile case. Sonchai is tasked with ending international human organ trafficking. His hunt will lead him across five countries and will draw in a host of unwitting players, including an aging rock star wearing out his second liver, and his quarry, twin Chinese queenpins of the international body parts trade known as the Vultures. Meanwhile, there are rumors at home that Sonchai's wife is having an affair. Confronting the rumors - and controlling his jealousy - while embroiled in the most contentious case of his career may well be more than his Buddhist soul can handle."
"When Ram and Tulsi fall in love, the young woman's parents are dead set against the union. She's from a high-caste family; he's an Untouchable, from the lowest stratum of Indian society. Fortunately, India's Love Commandos, a real-life group of volunteers dedicated to helping mixed-caste couples, come to the rescue. But as soon as they free Tulsi from her father, Ram mysteriously disappears. It falls to Vish Puri to track him down. Unfortunately, Puri's having a bad month. He's failed to recover a stolen cache of jewels, and his wallet was stolen, forcing him to rely on his Mummy-ji to get it back. Worse yet, his arch-rival, suave investigator Hari Kumar, is hot on the case as well. In the daring race to find Ram, Puri and his team must infiltrate his village and navigate the caste politics shaped by millennia-old prejudices."
Future Reading Part 5
(Click on Future Reading above to see book synopses and book choices)
1. Canadian Content (CanCon). I planned to read 5 books and so far have read 3. Of the three books I'd proposed, I've read two so far. I still would like to read the third proposed -
Other possibles might include -
"This book is the first in Richards' acclaimed Miramichi trilogy. Set in a small mill town in northern New Brunswick, it draws us into the lives of a community of people who live there, including: Joe Walsh, isolated and strong in the face of a drinking problem; his wife, Rita, willing to believe the best about people; and their teenage daughter Adele, whose nature is rebellious and wise, and whose love for her father wars with her desire for independence. Richards' unforgettable characters are linked together in conflict, and in articulate love and understanding."
"Glen Garber, a contractor, has seen his business shaken by the housing crisis, and now his wife, Sheila, is taking a business course at night to increase her chances of landing a good-paying job. But she should have been home by now. With their eight-year-old daughter sleeping soundly, Glen soon finds his worst fears confirmed: Sheila and two others have been killed in a car accident. Grieving and in denial, Glen resolves to investigate the accident himself - and begins to uncover layers of lawlessness beneath the placid surface of their Connecticut suburb, secret after dangerous secret behind the closed doors. Propelled into a vortex of corruption and illegal activity, pursued by mysterious killers, and confronted by threats from neighbors he thought he knew, Glen must take his own desperate measures and go to terrifying new places in himself to avenge his wife and protect his child."
2. The Classics (Pre-1900)
I hoped to read 4 books in this category in 2017. I've only read two so far so I'm pretty sure I'll only read one more. But we'll see. I've read one of the two proposed so far. I may manage to just read the other.
Another possibility might be -
"Set in the rakish Regency society and written during the 1840s when the oppression of women was at its height, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is extraordinary for its impassioned and bold treatment of the issue of women's equality. 'The slamming of Helen's bedroom door against her husband,' wrote one critic, 'reverberated throughout Victorian England.' In short, Wildfell Hall can be said to be the first sustained feminist novel.
Much of Anne Bronte's painful experience acquired while she was governess is imprinted on the action of the novel. Nevertheless, the story of Helen Huntingdon and her swaggering, debauched husband and of Gilbert Markham, the man who falls in love with Helen, is notable for its honesty, psychological truth and burning sincerity--and for its startling modernity."
Non-Fiction
I hoped to read 5 books in this challenge and have so far completed 1, with one currently on the go. I will have one left of the 3 proposed books.
Other possibilities might be -
"Always secretive about his background and Secret Service career (blocking one biography from publication in the 1990s, then choosing a biographer who abandoned the project), John le Carre (David Cornwell) has finally given his blessing to Adam Sisman, who has delivered a biography that reads like a novel.From his bleak childhood--the departure of his mother when he was five was followed by "sixteen hugless years" in the dubious care of his father, a serial-seducer and con-man--through recruitment by both MI5 and MI6, his years as an agent for British Intelligence during the Cold War, to his emergence as the master of the espionage novel, le Carre has repeatedly quarried his life for his fiction. His acute psychological renderings of undercover operations and the moral ambiguities of the Cold War and our present-day politics lend his novels a level of credibility that is unmistakable. Sisman's great biography uncovers for us the remarkable story of an enigmatic writer whose commercial success has sometimes overshadowed appreciation for his extraordinary abilities."
"It was a crazy idea and good for a laugh at the time: When Tricia Stewart proposed a more risqué treatment for her local Women’s Institute’s annual calendar, which normally featured tranquil scenes from nature, laughing alongside her was John Baker, the husband of the soon-to-be Miss February, Angela. When John passed away from cancer, the Ladies of Rylstone decided that posing nude for the calendar and donating the proceeds was one way to honor his memory and cope with this devastating loss. No one could have predicted what happened next. The calendar began to sell, and soon the whole world, it seemed, was interested in their story, with an American tour following and appearances on the Today show, 20/20, CNN, and the Tonight Show."
So there you go, my last look at what books I might read for the rest of the year. It'll be interesting to see what I end up choosing in the next three months.
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