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3. Hello everyone! Thank you for the thread, hermetic!
Sun May 22, 2016, 07:21 PM
May 2016

I'm glad you read The Power of the Dog, hermetic. That is some ending! Hey, I have family with cows.

This past week I finished Entry Island by Peter May. This book blew me away. Peter May can plop the reader down all over the map and do it convincingly. Not only that but he can take the reader somewhere on the map during a different time and again do it convincingly. Entry Island was an excellent story. It's a "who done it" actually. But it is far more than that. It's a sort of history lesson about people we might never have known existed, unless you happen to live on one of these islands in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence or on the Hebrides Islands.

Now I'm reading When the Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman. This is the first of the Alex Delaware series. I was afraid I would find When the Bough Breaks deficient after Entry Island but that is not so.

Mrs Enthusiast is still reading The Stand by Stephen King—a huge book. She is finding this very appealing as I thought she might. I have persuaded her to read several Stephen King's works in the past. She loved 11 22 63 and enjoyed Under the Dome, The Girl that Loved Tom Gordon, Joyland and a number of his short stories like Shawshank Redemption and Misery.

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I'm only 2/3 through John Scalzi's "The Ghost Brigades" TexasProgresive May 2016 #1
That reminds me of myself wanting to buy a kayak to fish from. I have never been in a kayak. Enthusiast May 2016 #4
Almost done with "Merciless" by Richard Montanari shenmue May 2016 #2
Hi, shenmue. I can't find Merciless by Richard Montanari on Fantastic Fiction. Enthusiast May 2016 #7
Yes shenmue May 2016 #8
Found this one... hermetic May 2016 #13
Thank you, hermetic! Enthusiast May 2016 #15
Hello everyone! Thank you for the thread, hermetic! Enthusiast May 2016 #3
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalup pscot May 2016 #5
Hi, pscot. I can't find that Paolo Bacigalup guy on Fantastic Fiction. Enthusiast May 2016 #6
Hi, Enthus hermetic May 2016 #12
Thank you, hermetic. Enthusiast May 2016 #20
I have The Water Knife on my list. Maybe the library has it on japple May 2016 #16
I*'m rereading The Outsiders. I have to teach it tomorrow. mackerel May 2016 #9
Thank you for your service. Enthusiast May 2016 #10
As long as they aren't throwing stuff at you pscot May 2016 #11
Good for you! hermetic May 2016 #14
Right now I'm doing 8th graders but next mackerel May 2016 #18
Thanks for the thread, hermetic. I enjoyed your comments on japple May 2016 #17
Hermetic, I got so carried away in your review of The Power of the Dog japple May 2016 #19
I love Margaret hermetic May 2016 #21
I had forgotten that TV series Adam One! Thanks for the japple May 2016 #22
My reading. CrispyQ May 2016 #23
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