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I’m on a roll and ready to rock

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Welcome back, it’s the second week of the Lockup Library Book Club. We’re still reading The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. I hope everything is going well in your reads

The Historian chapters 21-40

The action is starting to pick up a little. Our main character is with her dad, when she wakes up one morning, looks for her father, but finds a letter addressed to her instead.

“I’ve gone to find your mother…”

I was under the assumption that her mother had passed, but I guess I was wrong. So she goes off to find him. and starts her own adventure to find out her past, and the past of her father.

But the regular story from her father continues as well. By now he’s teamed up with a young woman, who says her father is Professor Rossi, the fathers advisor in university.

The mysteries continue in Budapest, and the mysteries get thicker and deeper.

What did you think of these chapters? We’re over half way through the book now. What do you hope will happen?

See you again next week!

I need a photo opportunity – I want a shot at redemption

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Went to SlightyBiggerTown today for some running around, including groceries. So we carved out some time for me to hit the second hand store for a…..

BOOK HAUL!

I walk in, and do a couple of passes on the book cases, and only find one lonely Stephen King. And it’s the book that I made fun of when we watched the movie long ago. MITER GAY! MITER GAY! Crystal does say the book is better than the movie. Fingers crossed

So I start to walk back to pay for it, and I spy a little blue sign that says fill a bag of books for a buck. Say no more, a nudge is as good as a wink to a blind bat, yanno! So I went up to the counter and asked for a bag, and went back for more.

I’ll try and be short with my motivations for buying each book. Please hold all questions to the end of the presentation.

Sometimes you just need a mindless book. Of course it’ll have to be a Jack Reacher novel – now with 100% less Tom Cruise.

I’ve never seen the movie, but a quick google says this one could be scary.

The Cemetery Dance is your chance to do the hump – now it’s stuck in your head too.

Now this one just looks kinda of cool. Who doesn’t judge books by their covers?

Now by this point of been over these 4 bookcases (that are a lot and I mean a LOT of Danielle Steel, and other romances), and this little gem is sitting there, just waiting for me to pick it up. I’d have pushed people out of the way to get it. The TV show was amazing.

Any questions?

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And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

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It’s cold. It’s cold, and I didn’t want to get out of a perfectly heated bed. According to my weather app, from now until the 24th, there’s 3 days that will be above freezing. 3 DAYS THAT WILL BE ABOVE FREEZING.

I’m not ready for this type of weather.

My jeans are too tight to fit long johns under them. I’m gonna freeze, and break into a million little pieces.

I think I’m actually going to have to close my window tonight. I was cold last night. About 5 thins morning, I had to climb under all the blankets.

I got a nice solid hour of reading The Historian. It’s starting to roll along at a faster pace now. I’m really enjoying it. Two separate stories going at once. After Ship of Theseus, this is easy to follow!

The one weird dream that I can remember from last night was a little strange. I was back at the cadet camp that went to from 13-19. I think I was my normal age, but I was a staff cadet, just arrived for duty so to speak. The camp had changed, as it does over time. I was in one of the staff tents getting my uniform ready for the next day. All my old friends were there. I guess Crystal had shipped up all the stuff she didn’t want to bring with her – there were books, and random boxes of stuff. I got hungry, went out the back of the tent, found Crystal, and we hopped on a motorcycle, and went for pizza.

Then a quick random dream of me going into a second hand store, finding two original gameboys, and a couple games – and letters back and forth between the previous owners and tech support trying to get them to work properly.

Then my alarm went off.

You walk like an angel, talk like an angel

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It’s a another book haul – with a twist. One of the books, if I had known it was part 1 I probably would’ve put it back. I have a feeling it’s going to be hard to find part 2 – book club edition.

So a while back, I bought a Stephen King book in a bag sale. When I got home, I found out it was part 2 of a trilogy. I figured it would be easy to find the other parts – because it’s Stephen King, and he puts out books like there’s no tomorrow. Well today I found part one! The King collection grows!

Why the hell would you split a book into two volumes? Then say it’s a “book club edition”? What the hell? I swear if it ends on a cliff hanger, and I can’t find part two, I’ll only read the Twilight Saga from now on.

I did put two books back, so when we go to SlightlyBiggerTown, I’d have $2 towards an even larger selection of books.

Happy reading!

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Shaking hand with the clock I can’t stop

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Welcome to the first Lockup Library Book Club. We’re reading The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. First published in June 2005. Its her first book. And, it’s my first reading of this book.

The Historian; chapters 1-20

I’m really enjoying the book. It’s a slow burn for sure, but so much information so far to process.

The book starts off in 1972 with a young girl finding a book and papers in her fathers library. Her dad is a diplomat, and is away a lot of time time.

My dear and unfortunate successor

This is the introduction to the world of 1930. She reads a fantastical letter on how the writer believes that Vlad Tepes or Dracula is still alive.

From there, she’s asks that her father take her on his trips into Europe, so he can tell her how he got these papers, and how, back in 1930, he went to find out if what he read is true.

The book switches back and forth from her fathers time (1930) and her time, 1972. He father is almost nervous and afraid to be relaying this information to his daughter, but he does. And at one point, requests that she wrote down what he’s telling her. I believe that this is his way of passing the the book, and the letters from the 30s to her and a new era of exploration.

The writer, Elizabeth Kostova, really draws you in to the world that she describes. I do however, find myself wanting more of the story. She can really build up the suspense as she unfolds the father telling his story.

So far, I’m totally into this novel. What about you guys? What parts have you enjoyed so far?