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Jilly_in_VA

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17. Still struggling through
Sun Aug 25, 2024, 01:38 PM
Aug 2024

Gerald Bellett's Age of Secrets, which I hope to finish this week. Interesting, but long and slow. Tells me more than I ever wanted to know about Howard Hughes, Richard Nixon, and the CIA, but is mostly about a guy I never heard of called John Meier, who dealt with all of them. If even half the stuff in the book is true, holy crap! This, BTW, is NOT fiction!

Also sort of reading, on my other Kindle, To Fail with Flying Colors, by Paul John Adams, which purports to be a psychiatrist's casebook of some of his most fascinating cases. Haven't had the time to devote to it as we're getting ready for a gem show next month.

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Two books Delphinus Aug 2024 #1
Both sound terrific hermetic Aug 2024 #3
I am mixing it up. Moostache Aug 2024 #2
Lotsa good stuff there hermetic Aug 2024 #4
2/3rds through "Lucifer's Hammer" TexLaProgressive Aug 2024 #5
A big, ol' comet would do that hermetic Aug 2024 #8
I heard that Raymonvillle, TX had to close some schools TexLaProgressive Aug 2024 #15
Niven and Pournelle wrote some great science fiction. Jeebo Aug 2024 #22
The 8th book in the Aubrey/Maturin series(Master and Commander series) Bristlecone Aug 2024 #6
Action adventures on the high seas hermetic Aug 2024 #9
Only one book this week Bayard Aug 2024 #7
Sure, and hermetic Aug 2024 #10
Very cute kitty family in the OP. Thanks, hermetic, for hosting this weekly japple Aug 2024 #11
Aww, that's great hermetic Aug 2024 #12
I'm working with a foster Jilly_in_VA Aug 2024 #14
That's wonderful! hermetic Aug 2024 #16
I read A Sea of Tranquility a couple of years ago iemanja Aug 2024 #13
Read both of those earlier this year Zoomie1986 Aug 2024 #20
Still struggling through Jilly_in_VA Aug 2024 #17
I've been on a Bernard Cornwell kick this summer. rsdsharp Aug 2024 #18
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng Zoomie1986 Aug 2024 #19
"River God" by Wilbur Smith Jeebo Aug 2024 #21
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