Tagged: Books

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[openbook booknumber=”0099324512″] Australia, 1955. “At the turn of the century Stan Parker takes a wife and makes a home as a small farmer in the wilderness of Australia. Amy bears his children and time...

[openbook booknumber=”0396070809″] Amazon.co.uk Review “Elizabeth Peters’ unforgettable heroine Amelia Peabody makes her first appearance in this clever mystery. Amelia receives a rather large inheritance and decides to use it for travel. On her way...

[openbook booknumber=”0517079348″] Non-Fiction. Covers "May 10, 1972, Air War, North Vietnam" in very good detail. As the name implies; just what happened on that one day. Out of print and obtained 2nd hand from...

Am re-reading the classic 1991 Australian novel “Cloudstreet a broken down house of former glories on the wrong side of the tracks, a place teeming with memories of its own, a place of shudders,...

Current book is the Vietnam War account that is [openbook booknumber=”1417823801″]. The cover says: “The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time – John le Carre” To quote...

Reading the WWII history book [openbook booknumber=”0312423926″]. I understand this was one of the two main books used as the source for the excellent "Downfall" film. The other one, I have also recently read....

Currently Reading the 1962 SciFi book [openbook booknumber=”1857988833″]. Borrowed from the local library

Finished this book [openbook booknumber=”0753820552″] Was one of the books used in the creation of the brilliant movie Downfall. Book borrowed from the local library

Currently reading the somewhat forgotten 1939 (!) masterpiece [openbook booknumber=”0876854455″]. Borrowed from the local library. Thanks to Marieke et al on the First Tuesday Book Club for pointing out this wonderful book