Recently Purchased/Borrowed

[abecedarian]

Awwww, yeah:




My liver will never be the same.

We're in the middle of Ken Burn's Prohibition series..that looks like SOME still!:flowers:

 

[sparkchaser]

That's not a still, it's a brew kettle.

 

[abecedarian]

That's not a still, it's a brew kettle.

And that is why we have these chats...I did not know there was a difference. Always good to learn something new!

 

[beer good]

A still's for making booze. That's for making beer.

Which I am rather fond of, in case you didn't know.

Joan Baez - Copper Kettle (lyrics) - YouTube

 

[sparkchaser]

That book lists over 300 breweries in my area.

 

[shadforth]

The Horse Witch by Sheila Fulton
The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan

 

[pontalba]

Shiloh by Shelby Foote (fiction)

Washington, D.C. by Gore Vidal

Dark Shadows, Angelique's Descent by Lara Parker (who, btw, played Angelique in the original T.V. soap opera)

 

[Peder]

The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived - Allan Lazar, Dan Karlan and Jeremy Salter.

A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway.

Admission - Jean Hanf Korelitz.

 

[Peder]

Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges finally arrived. Just in time to slip into the reading sycle.

 

[pontalba]

Cinderella Sims by Lawrence Block (in a really neat slip cover numbered edition, signed by the author)

The Specialists by Lawrence Block (also signed by the author)

 

[mmyap]

I picked up three at the used book sale at our library. All for $1.50.

The Green Mile / King

The Black Tower / P.D. James

Velocity / Koontz

 

[pontalba]

A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski

The Woman Who Wasn't There by Robin Gaby Fisher & Angelo J.Guglielmo, Jr.

 

[Peder]

Vladimir Nabokov - Selected Poems ed. by Thomas Karshan.

Bloody Crimes by James Swanson. From the cover: "The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse."

 

[pontalba]

Blind Goddess by Anne Holt

The Lost Empire of Atlantis by Gavin Menzies

The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan

The Honey West Files, Volume One by G.G. Fickling

 

[Peder]

The Posessed - Elif Batuman. Following recommendation here.

Gabriel's Inferno - Sylvain Reynard. For comparison with that other book.

 

[Fantasy Moon]

Borrowed from the Kindle lending library:
Bewitching - Alex Flinn

 

[pontalba]

Twelve Desperate Miles by Tim Brady (true story)
from the cover
"November 1942, the largest convoy ever to cross the Atlantic attacked Axis forces in North Africa in the first major battle of the war in Europe. It was led by a rusty transport out of New Orleans & a gang of ex-cons from a decrepit Virginia jail."

Crossing the Borders of Time by Leslie Maitland
from the cover
"A true story of war, exile, and love reclaimed."

Jackie as Editor by Greg Lawrence
from the cover
"The literary life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis."

 

[Peder]

Six Red Months in Russia by Louise Bryant. From the cover: "The Bolshevicks took Petrograd and Jack and I were part of it all." The Jack Reed who was author of Ten Days That Shook the World.

 

[Fernie]

Recently!
Fantasia of the Unconscious, D.H. Lawrence
Puer Aeturnus, von Franz
The Glass Castle, Walls
Songs of My Families, Kelly Fern

 

[Peder]

The American Bible by Stephen Prothero. Looks like a fantastic book!
Five stars after reading only the Table of Contents.


Plus some for my insatiable espionage appetite:

Istanbul Passage by Joseph Kanon

The Trinity Six by Charles Cumming

Typhoon by Charles Cumming