What are you reading?
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A Short History of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich
More Fool Me, the third volume of Stephen Fry's memoirs. Started it today. Great so far.
Nicolae by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. Book 3 of the Left Behind series. 
I've read the series several times over the years.
I've read the series several times over the years.
Back to Building Harlequin's Moon, now that Halloween is over.
Just finished listening to The Haunted Heart: Winter by Josh Lanyon. I have read Josh's gay mystery novels before but this one was a gay ghost story (the ghost isn't gay, the guys sharing the house are). It was quite good novel and is narrated by Lee Samuels.
now I am listening The Love Story of Miss Queenie Hennessey by Rachel Joyce, narrated by Celia Imrie. This is a companion novel to The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry which I read in 2012. TUPOHF dealt with Harold's 600 mile walk to be with a dying Queenie whereas this novel deals with the events from Queenie's view.
My current e-book read is The Collected Works of AJ Fikry by Gabielle Zevin (UK and US title - The Storied Life of AJ Fikry)
now I am listening The Love Story of Miss Queenie Hennessey by Rachel Joyce, narrated by Celia Imrie. This is a companion novel to The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry which I read in 2012. TUPOHF dealt with Harold's 600 mile walk to be with a dying Queenie whereas this novel deals with the events from Queenie's view.
My current e-book read is The Collected Works of AJ Fikry by Gabielle Zevin (UK and US title - The Storied Life of AJ Fikry)
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I'm about 1/3 of the way though The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt.
I have just started listening to Novembers Winter, The Indian Cries by UC Berkeley, narrated by Lynn Benson. It is a biography of the Comanche chief, Quanah Parker.
Gallipoli, Alan Moorehead
My great uncle was at Gallipoli. He landed there lol the first day of the campaign.
Now I'm on to Diana Gabaldon's 2nd book in the Outlander series, Dragonfly in Amber.
Finished reading Outlaw by Ted Dekker a few nights ago. I enjoyed it until the last bit towards the end, where it starts to be too preachy. Fascinating story though, about a woman who loses both her father and her husband and decides to travel to a Mission in New Guinnea. Only that it doesn't go as planned, and the she boat hires encounters a heavy storm which throws her captain overboard, leaving only her and her child aboard, and eventually ending shipwrecked and captured by a tribe of cannibals. This is actually mirrored by the author's own life, in which he spent time among the Dani tribes, which he found both fascinating and harrowing.
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I've not gotten far into the campaign yet (ships are still working on the mines and forts), though I'm familiar with Gallipoli's legacy as a place of horrific tragedy. Did he survive the battle?
He was there for about 6-8 weeks before he was shot in the leg while advancing on the enemy. He was sent to a hospital in Greece and later to a hospital in England. He returned to Australia in 1916 and was still on crutches. He stayed with his family but some time after disappeared without a trace, the army did not know what became of him. In the 1920s his mother and sisters hired a private investigator to look for him he wasn't located. My grandmother thought he probably died in the Great Flu Epidemic and I did locate a death certificate that might be him but we haven't proved it beyond doubt.
