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I've always read. While growing up, reading was a refuge when I found life too unpleasant or stressful. Consequently I've bought a lot of books over time as well.
Now that I'm no longer in the rich corporate phase of my life I've rediscovered the library. Dayton's library may be maligned by some but is still a great resource. One type of book I like to read is gay fiction and I was surprised to see a lot of it in the Dayton library's catalog. Plus you can even ask them to buy particular titles, and they will!
Below you can see the five most recent books either that I'm reading or that I've acquired. You can search my books, or you can see all my books. Also my classes page has links back to this page for the books for each class.
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Author: Grimes, Martha
| 2007-04-01 | 0451412133 | The Old Contempibles | Grimes, Martha | | | | In Grimes eleventh Richard Jury novel, Jury takes getting attached to a figure involved in the case to the ultimate degree, falling in love with and intending to propose marriage to her before she dies. Grimes has her latest versions of her usual strong-headed independent children in this book, but it's still enjoyable. The ending has very strong echoes of a certain Agatha Christie novel set on a train. | | 2007-03-27 | 0451412079 | The Old Silent | Grimes, Martha | | | | Grimes' tenth Richard Jury book has the twist that Jury watches the murder being committed. | | 2007-03-18 | 0316328898 | The Five Bells and Bladebone | Grimes, Martha | | | | Grimes' ninth Richard Jury book | | 2007-03-17 | 0316328871 | I am the Only Running Footman | Grimes, Martha | | | | I started re-reading Martha Grimes' Richard Jury mysteries because when I read her latest earlier this year, I was confused by the ending. Finishing this one, as with the previous one, I realize that Grimes must sometimes enjoy ending books rather suddenly and with some ambiguity. I guess she likes to make her readers think when they finish a book. | | 2007-03-15 | 0316328863 | The Deer Leap | Grimes, Martha | | | | The seventh in Grimes' Richard Jury series, The Deer Leap features familiar Grimes characters and brings some of her common motifs such as children to play, but this book isn't as light and airy as previous ones, especially when it comes to the ending, which left me hoping the novel's main character (no, not one who'd appeared in past novels) survives but rather thinking she doesn't. Definitely not an upbeat "Murder She Wrote"-type ending with all the regulars recapping the episode. | |
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