What was your favorite book you read this year?
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Or article, essay, etc.
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Books this year:
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Best book: The Cicero Trilogy by Robert Harris. Originally three books published over a ten year period, set in Ancient Rome. Really good read. Now onto David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - been on my Must Read list for years and finally got around to it. It's not disappointing!
Articles/essays: Couple of decent blogs out there, worth a look. A travel blog, https://travellin-bob.blogspot.com and a life and tech blog https://travellin-bob2.blogspot.com There's some good stuff on both of them. I know that to be the case because it's my writing! Check 'em out, please........ :-))
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Hey there! My favorite book this year has to be "The Midnight Library" by Matt Haig. It's a fascinating journey through a library where each book represents a different life you could have lived. Really makes you think about the choices we make and their impact. How about you? What's been your favorite read this year?
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I just finished book #6 in Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series:
What a talented woman!!!
It is a novelized history of the last years of the Republic, with an in-depth knowledge of Marius, Sulla, Pompey Magnus, Caesar, Cato, Cicero, Marco Antonius and their wives. And of course Cleopatra.
Serie:
The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)
The Grass Crown (Masters of Rome, #2)
Fortune's Favorites (Masters of Rome, #3)
Caesar's Women (Masters of Rome, #4)
Caesar (Masters of Rome, #5)
The October Horse (Masters of Rome #6)
Antony and Cleopatra (Masters of Rome, #7)
As a user of the Spanish blog (https://www.hislibris.com) of historical books used to say:
"I know three kinds of fans of historical novels: those who almost revere Colleen McCullough, those who detest her, and those who have yet to meet her. For the first ones, the reading of "The First Man of Rome" was possibly a real find, a happy encounter that pushed them to read inexorably (as if some hidden spring had sprung when they started reading it), the no less than 5,000 pages that make up one of the most famous and commented series of "Roman novels". The second ones were probably shipwrecked among dozens of characters, dizzying changes of scenery, constant explanatory digressions and a seemingly endless string of historical events. And the third ones... have most likely been living on some distant planet for the last few years."
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Books this year:
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Harold by Steven Wright. Unexpected and really touching.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62919437-harold
