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The good stuff I'm reading.I love both of these men and their rebellious creative spirit. John Waters is the funniest man on earth.
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Hosted by Goodreads Indonesia at Pasar Festival, Kuningan. Great event, me, Nulisbuku.com and other writers + book lovers are having a great time!
Mr. Stuart Burchill(www.goodreads.com/user/show/76039998-stuart-burchill) is a CEO/CTO of Nanotech Company. He is on the Board of Directors at Industrial Nanotech. Nanotech Company works different types of the element such as carbon nano-tubes, zinc-oxide nano-wires or Solar panels can be used in nanotechnology-based sensors.
Nanotech Company is working solar panels. The company will set up designated spaces in over 800 Home Depot stores that will highlight its renewable energy products like solar panels. Most importantly, these devices will be portable, affordable and accessible, so superhero vision can be part of our everyday experiences.
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3/25/26 I wanted to like this book so much and just didn't (except for 13% of it). Here's my Goodreads review:
Historical fiction anchored by a real story? Yes, always. With an element of Jamaican history within? Obviously. A celebrated author whose work I've never read before? Of course. It sounds like it should have been a grand slam, but unfortunately, The Fraud was another disappointing dud on my 2026 list. It's another beefy one at 454 pages, and once again, I plodded through hoping it would get good.
In this case, it did indeed pick up in Volume Six, pages 243-302, but was only riveting for those pages. The rest of the book had me screaming WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT over and over in my mind.
Our primary narrator, Mrs. Touchet, is the Scottish housekeeper of William Ainsworth, a once successful novelist who's now creeping towards irrelevancy (and in reality, perhaps never had true talent). They're also cousins by marriage. The narrative timeline pinballs around quite a bit, hence the constant WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, but thankfully many of the chapter titles do indicate a year. (Also, thankfully, the chapters are all very short.)
Along with the rest of England, William's second wife, Sarah, is riveted by the Tichborne case. While the observations and meditations on class, status, and education begin the moment Sarah enters the story, they're amplified to include colonization and slavery during the chapters about the trial and Andrew Bogle. Andrew Bogle was a Jamaican slave on the Hope Estate in St. Andrew, Jamaica as well as a trusted valet to the Tichborne family.
The section that I loved, Volume Six, pages 243-302, was all about Andrew's personal and family history in Jamaica. From his father's kidnapping from Africa to being born a slave on the Hope Estate, Andrew's story was rich and alive as opposed to the non-linear, indirect, buttoned-up British narrative of Mrs. Touchet.
Of course, there are delightful nuggets throughout, but doing the math shows that I loved just 13% of this book. Cool.
Festival Pembaca Indonesia 2011, 4 Desember 2011, plaza area GOR Soemantri Brodjonegoro, Jakarta
Indonesian Readers Festival 2011, December 4, 2011,plaza area GOR Soemantri Brodjonegoro, Jakarta
Next read. This is on the Goodreads’ 2020 Top Horror Novels list, but I’ve heard it’s a thriller, not a horror story.
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Need to make more time for reading. Several of my library holds, both digital & physical books, became available all at once yesterday.
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“You must find your dream...but no dream lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular dream.”
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Reading the copy of Everything Is Illuminated I bought for Emmy as a high school graduation present, on the train back to the city.
Goodreads.com is the largest social network for readers in the world. More than 3,100,000 members have added more than 82,000,000 books to their shelves. A place for casual readers and bona-fide bookworms alike, Goodreads members recommend books, compare what they are reading, keep track of what they've read and would like to read, join book clubs and much more.
Are you interested in learning how to create a free account on GoodReads.com? Or are you a member of the Mostly Literary Fiction Book Group at the Hayward Public Library, and want to participate in online discussions with other book group members? Or maybe you're just curious to see what this social networking site is all about. Librarian and book group leader Sally Thomas will show you how the site works, help you create an account, add books and reviews to "bookshelves," and show you how to network with other readers.
For more information, contact Sally Thomas at sally.thomas@hayward-ca.gov or call 510-881-7700.