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Further to my study of southeasst Asia, my next read is Misadventures in Nature's Paradise: Australia's Cocos (Keeling) ...

My friend C lent me a copy of his book, A Brief History of Indonesia: Sultans, Spices, Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southea...

K's next book for our Postal Book Club is The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of Histo...

I finished I Am Pilgrim  over a series of nights when I was having trouble sleeping.  Listening to an audiobook is a good thing ...

I like reading short stories for the reasons I already said.  One of the difficulties with short stories, I find, is that you ha...

Recently I needed something to keep me entertained while I did load of things around the house, a whole weekend full of chores, ...

In the grand tradition of easy-to-read-while-traveling books, my next pick is a short story collection called In The Gloaming , ...

Dazed and Confused follows a bunch of high school stoners through the end of one particular school year in the 1970s. Matthew M...

This was one of my 2025 Reading Challenge books. Why did I elect to read it in the summer, despite its subject matter?  Simple...

Somehow - and right now I can't remember how this happened - Stoic philosophy came into my consciousness recently.  I took ...