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Robert Cosgrove
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Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe, by Cullen Murphy. Growing up with the artist of Big Ben Bolt, and later on, Prince Valiant, and his neighbors and pals, Mort Walker, Irwin Hasen, Leonard Starr, Stan Drake, Curt Swan, Charles Saxon, Jerry Dumas, and others. Great stories on every page, from the tutorial Norman Rockwell gave his neighbor and model, John Cullen Murphy, to the dinner lecture by Hal Foster ("God's Canadian younger brother")t o Cullen Murphy on how to write a Sunday adventure comic strip. Lots of photos and illustrations. If you have any interest in comic strips, you will like this book.
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Eric Ladd
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Working on "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card.
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Robert Cosgrove
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Just finished Daniel Silva, House of Spies. This is a sequel of sorts to Silva's book of last year, The Black Widow, with a return engagement by its escaped villain, "Saladin." As is typical with Silva, the action moves through a number of countries. I enjoyed the book in the early chapters, and near the end, although I found the middle slower going than some of Silva's other books. The series has accumulated a number of recurring characters that seem to demand attention, and Silva's hero Gabriel Allon, having been promoted to head of his spy service, no longer operates naturally in the field (although he is inevitably drawn there). The reformed mafia assassin turned British agent, Keller, otherwise often acts as a surrogate.
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Don Zomberg
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How far into WOOL are you, Shane? I threw the book across the room after spending thirty pages reading about a couple of old timers walking down stairs.
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Gundars Berzins
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Reading these right now.
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James Best
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Now starting a book that has been on my radar screen for a long while now.
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Robbie Parry
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Starting this shortly:
It's about a people called the Kosekin, living in Antarctica with prehistoric monsters, who have values and beliefs very different to our own. Sailors find a manuscript at sea, in a cylinder, detailing the exploits and journeys of Adam More, who visited this strange land.
I can't wait. I wonder if this novel, published in 1888, is one of the first examples of a prehistoric land within Antarctica.
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Steven Brake
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Geza Vermes on the Nativity
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James Best
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Now starting:
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Wallace Sellars
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THE UTTERLY UNINTERESTING AND UNADVENTUROUS TALES OF FRED, THE
VAMPIRE ACCOUNTANT
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Robert Cosgrove
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Just finished the audiobook of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot. For several years now, I've seen this book on the display tables at Barnes & Noble and have been intrigued, but never read it. When my library recently acquired the audio version, I decided I'd listen to it. Henrietta Lacks was a poor black woman in her thirties who had cancer of the cervix. While treating her (ultimately unsuccessfully), her John Hopkins doctor shaved some tissue which he provided a researcher colleague. In a medical breakthrough, these cancer cells were successfully grown in the laboratory and distributed to other researchers, providing the raw material for any number of important medical discoveries and cures. Skloot researches the background of the unwitting donor and the effect on her family, particularly daughter Deborah Lacks, when Henrietta's unknowing contribution to science becomes known. This book taught me a lot about the development of biological research, and how ethics and laws have changed. It has things to say about paternalism, race and class divides, and the human faces behind the science, those of the doctors, researchers, patients, and family.
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James Best
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