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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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ISBN: 039915390X
| 2007-01-21 | 039915390X | The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers | Jackson Braun, Lilian | | | | I've been a fan of Lilian Jackson Braun's Cat Who mysteries for a long time, as has my mother who often lends me her copies to read. They're not high literature or even the best writing in the murder mystery field. Rather they're "cozy mysteries" or the murder mystery equivalent of romance novels, light airy books to take your mind off the world for a few hours. Unfortunately with this 29th book featuring Qwill and his cats, the series comes to an end for me. The writing is awful, the dialogue insipid and the ending intolerable, at least for fans of the series. Other online reviewers of this book agree with me, and some even speculate that Braun, who must be about 94 years old, is impaired or dead and that a bad ghostwriter was used for this book. Bless her heart if Braun is still alive, but if she or whoever does manage to pump out another Cat Who book, I'm not reading it. | |
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