i think i saw a perry mason tv movie like that
June 2022 Reading Thread
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It might have been written by McBain. He did a lot of stuff including the screenplay for the hitchcock movie The Birds
It’s possible, although Perry Mason was the invention of Earl Stanley Gardner, who wrote about 50 Perry Mason novels.
Danny McG
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I'm now into the 3rd book of the Mortalis trilogy by David Morrell
The league of night and fog
If anything it's even more violent than his first two
The league of night and fog
If anything it's even more violent than his first two
Re-posting this in the correct thread this time. Sigh! Thanks @Vladd67
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Finished Head Case (book #2 in the Starship for Sale series) by M.R. Forbes. It maintains its slim hold on me. Just interesting enough to keep me reading, but always feeling as though there might be something a whole lot more in my zone to read. Showing my weakness (or maybe the series strength?) I have plodded on to book three Keep Away and am 42% through with it.
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Finished Head Case (book #2 in the Starship for Sale series) by M.R. Forbes. It maintains its slim hold on me. Just interesting enough to keep me reading, but always feeling as though there might be something a whole lot more in my zone to read. Showing my weakness (or maybe the series strength?) I have plodded on to book three Keep Away and am 42% through with it.
Danny McG
"Anything can happen in the next half hour!"
Daisy's Run - Book one of the Clockwork Chimera, a five book series by Scott Baron.
Some blurb from Goodreads:-
As if the creepy cyborg and the mechanically-enhanced human crew weren’t bad enough, what was supposed to be a simple flight home to Earth was going horribly wrong. A deadly plot was unfolding. One that could jeopardize the entire human race. And Daisy found herself stuck in the middle
It wasn’t her job, saving the world, and she sure as hell didn’t want it. But the tough young woman didn’t have a choice. But with Daisy reluctantly coming to the rescue, did humanity even stand a chance?
Some blurb from Goodreads:-
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Rudely yanked from cryo-sleep to find herself among a crew of modded humans in deep space, and on a burning spaceship, no less, Daisy's world just got a whole lot more complicated. And it was only going to get worse.As if the creepy cyborg and the mechanically-enhanced human crew weren’t bad enough, what was supposed to be a simple flight home to Earth was going horribly wrong. A deadly plot was unfolding. One that could jeopardize the entire human race. And Daisy found herself stuck in the middle
It wasn’t her job, saving the world, and she sure as hell didn’t want it. But the tough young woman didn’t have a choice. But with Daisy reluctantly coming to the rescue, did humanity even stand a chance?
Ian Fortytwo
A Poet, Writer and eclectic Reader.
Reading The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, for the first time, I wish that I had read it years ago.
Danny McG
"Anything can happen in the next half hour!"
Drat!
I've already read this, I need to find something else asap.
(I can't function without a book on the go)
Danny McG
"Anything can happen in the next half hour!"
New choice....
i know i have all of them. and love them
it's great. and the children tv show is fantastic
i like a few things from michael anderle. more one of his series. let's hope you got lucky
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I want to read it. I think I have it downloaded from Gutenberg
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Up there with Winnie the Pooh. Difficult to understand what childhood would have been like if it had not existed. Just wonderful.
Danny McG
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Yeah, it must be really awful out there in the colonies
Finishing up on some Beta reading this week and will start reading Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett.
Fun note: I bought this on-line and the book came with a price tag on it. 407.00...At first, I thought that I got a bargain!
Then I figured out that is the price in rupees'... I paid 5Xs the converted amount...Still worth it!
Fun note: I bought this on-line and the book came with a price tag on it. 407.00...At first, I thought that I got a bargain!
Then I figured out that is the price in rupees'... I paid 5Xs the converted amount...Still worth it!
Danny McG
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Satan loves you by Grady Hendrix
Funny!
Funny!
Elentarri
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Finished a science (light) book: The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women by Sharon Moalem
This is an interesting book that focuses mainly on the benefits (and occasionally costs) of having two X chromosomes as opposed to only one. The author barely mentions lifestyle differences or differences in hormones between the sexes, but then again, the book is subtitled "on the genetic superiority of women". The broad topics covered in this book include resilience, brain function, stamina, immunity, and that women's health is not men's health. The last is important, since women's bodies function differently, have different organs, and also metabolise drugs differently than men's organs. I do wish there had been more about the mechanics of these genetic differences. There are several anecdotes and case studies included in the book, most of which I felt weren't incorporated into the medical science sections very effectively - that rare beast known as an editor should have solved this issue! None the less, an interesting book and one which should definitely be read by medical professionals, just to raise awareness that "women's health is not men's health". The writing style is accessible and easily digestible.
This is an interesting book that focuses mainly on the benefits (and occasionally costs) of having two X chromosomes as opposed to only one. The author barely mentions lifestyle differences or differences in hormones between the sexes, but then again, the book is subtitled "on the genetic superiority of women". The broad topics covered in this book include resilience, brain function, stamina, immunity, and that women's health is not men's health. The last is important, since women's bodies function differently, have different organs, and also metabolise drugs differently than men's organs. I do wish there had been more about the mechanics of these genetic differences. There are several anecdotes and case studies included in the book, most of which I felt weren't incorporated into the medical science sections very effectively - that rare beast known as an editor should have solved this issue! None the less, an interesting book and one which should definitely be read by medical professionals, just to raise awareness that "women's health is not men's health". The writing style is accessible and easily digestible.
Danny McG
"Anything can happen in the next half hour!"
Tonight I'm having a go at Biblical by Christopher Galt
Goodreads blurb...
A strange phenomenon is sweeping the globe. People are having visions, seeing angels, experiencing events that defy reality. Bizarre accounts pour in from distant places: a French teenager claims to have witnessed Joan of Arc being burned at the stake; a man in New York dies of malnutrition in a luxurious Central Park apartment; a fundamentalist Christian sect kidnaps and murders a geneticist.
Then there is the graffiti WE ARE BECOMING that has popped up in every major city around the world, in every language. And everywhere people are starting to talk about John Astor, the mysterious author of the book that seems to be at the center of it all.
After a rash of suicides around the world by individuals experiencing the time traveling hallucinations, psychiatrist John Macbeth and a team of FBI agents and scientists assemble to find out what’s going on before it’s too late. Is this a spiritual phenomenon or something more sinister?
Goodreads blurb...
A strange phenomenon is sweeping the globe. People are having visions, seeing angels, experiencing events that defy reality. Bizarre accounts pour in from distant places: a French teenager claims to have witnessed Joan of Arc being burned at the stake; a man in New York dies of malnutrition in a luxurious Central Park apartment; a fundamentalist Christian sect kidnaps and murders a geneticist.
Then there is the graffiti WE ARE BECOMING that has popped up in every major city around the world, in every language. And everywhere people are starting to talk about John Astor, the mysterious author of the book that seems to be at the center of it all.
After a rash of suicides around the world by individuals experiencing the time traveling hallucinations, psychiatrist John Macbeth and a team of FBI agents and scientists assemble to find out what’s going on before it’s too late. Is this a spiritual phenomenon or something more sinister?
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