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  • FitMary202
    FitMary202 Posts: 1,518 Member
    Happy New Year! Reading Kidnapped, which covers Scottish politics from the 1740s in more detail than I expected. As luck would have it, there was a question about a decisive 1745 battle in our New Year's Eve Trivial Pursuits game. It went to the other team, but still.... Never hurts to keep reading!
  • Catfish_Fan
    Catfish_Fan Posts: 524 Member
    FitMary202 wrote: »
    Happy New Year! Reading Kidnapped, which covers Scottish politics from the 1740s in more detail than I expected. As luck would have it, there was a question about a decisive 1745 battle in our New Year's Eve Trivial Pursuits game. It went to the other team, but still.... Never hurts to keep reading!

    The more you read, the more stuff you learn. Some of it isn't very practical... I just read Practical Magic and it wasn't very practical. It was an ok book but the end was abrupt it seemed to me, I wanted more story but no, it just ended. Maybe the sequel will have the answers I seek, but I am going to read something else before I get to it.

    A book that piqued my interest in a subject that I also like was the western series I recently read by William (aka his niece J.A.) Johnstone, they were drinking Lapsang Souchong smoked tea and they really liked it. I have never had any so I bought some to try (tomorrow). The Chinese tea leaves are smoked over pine, I wonder if it will taste like pine tar, or smell like pine tar medicated dandruff shampoo (yuck)? I would hope not, or one would wonder why or how it became popular?
  • FitMary202
    FitMary202 Posts: 1,518 Member
    Started reading two additional books: All the Beauty in the World and Meditations for Mortals. Those were the books I bought while shopping for others before Christmas...
    o:)o:)o:)
  • Catfish_Fan
    Catfish_Fan Posts: 524 Member
    Since I am probably the only person left that never read The da Vinci Code, I am starting with book 1 of the Robert Langdon series with Angels & Demons by Dan Brown. I'm almost done with it.
  • Btrflydog
    Btrflydog Posts: 1,501 Member
    @Catfish_Fan - hope you enjoy the Robert Langdon series. I loved the first 2 books - the ones after didn't seem to have the same depth as the first ones.

    I finished The Station. 3 stars on GoodReads. Didn't care for it all that much. One of the reviews said that the HBO series was much better, so I'll have to check that one out.

    Next book for me will be Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman. I didn't think much of it the first time I read it 25 years ago - I thought maybe that was because I loved the movie so much. After reading @Catfish_Fan's review I'm wondering if I'll still feel the same way about it. Time will tell. I will say that the other 2 books I've read in the series were much better than I recall Practical Magic being.

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