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Comment by Linny 8 hours ago

I don't know if this will work, but this is the TPL newsletter referring to Old City Hall and Robert Rotenberg.

Newsletter%20August%202010[1].pdf

Comment by Annette Tilden 17 hours ago

Linny. have you read "Watchers" by Dean Koontz? If not, I think you'd really like it. A lot of his books, including this one, have wonderful dogs in them.

Comment by Marilyn Fraser (nee Mills) 17 hours ago

I've just started reading "Against Destiny" by Alexander Dolinin, a member of the Hamilton Writers group. It tells an amazing fictional account of escape from Stalin's Gulag; a story of courage and determination in the face of the impossible. The dilemma of the unjustly condemned: Die in slavery or die fighting fro your freedom.

It is a very engrossing story but I have some difficulty with all the Russian names. It is a hardcover with dustjacket I bought from the author at a meeting. Unfortunately, the publisher went out of business, so Alexander has all the copies of his book.
It is ISBN 978-1-60164-173-1

It is the author's first book and based on truth and is well researched. Worth reading for the info we seldom hear about the USSR and their extreme cruelty.

Comment by Linny 17 hours ago

My first Dean Koontz was Life Expectancy and it caught me in the first chapter when the main character was in the waiting room while his wife was giving birth and his father was also dying in the same hospital. There was a clown in the waiting room with him. Before he died his father sat up in bed and said "beware of the clown; he is not what you think he is". Well, how could you not read it.

Comment by Linny 17 hours ago

I just got a new one on my Kobo called Fear Nothing. I have never been disappointed by Dean, but I guess you have to be in the mood for him, hahaha. I have two books for the TPL book buzz group ready to read for September and October. I seem to get way ahead there. I haven't been disappointed in any of their reads though and find its a good resource for new authors to read.

Comment by Barb Gudgeon 18 hours ago

I love Dean Koontz too! Haven't ready any in awhile tho'

Comment by Annette Tilden 21 hours ago

OOH, yeah! Dean Koontz! I didn't know you were a fan too, Linny.

Comment by Linny 1 day ago

Does anyone love Dean Koontz as much as me??

Comment by Annette Tilden 1 day ago

The Stephen King I'm reading now is "Under The Dome". I read "Duma Key" about a month ago. Never mind his subject matter, King really knows how to keep you captivated.

Comment by Barb Gudgeon 1 day ago

I think the kindle has an audio (voice) feature, but someone told me it's a computer generated voice and not too good to listen to. Not like an audio book. You can download audio books to a laptop and listen to them too. I've downloaded some from the library for long road trips where I don't want to read.

Duma Key was the last Stephen King I read. It was the big heavy hardcover book. Hard to hold when I read in bed, but in any case, a very entertaining book.

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