frandroid: Library of Celsus at Ephesus, Turkey (library)
frandroid ([personal profile] frandroid) wrote2024-10-23 10:24 am
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Reading Wednesday

Book you've returned before finishing it:
The Hundred Years War on Palestine. I've now put a new hold on it. Give someone else a chance. :P. (I mean they have 29 copies, but the hold line is 5 times that)

Book I mean to start on:
East Jerusalem Noir. This is for a radical book club that's starting next door to me, but it looks like I'm the only one who has borrowed one of the library's 8 copies, so... We'll see.
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[personal profile] arlie 2024-10-23 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm about to return The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War unfinished. A fellow library patron has put a hold on it.

I may get it back eventually, but I'm not going to put a hold on it right away - it's 565 pages long, and whoever's getting it next might have trouble reading all that in a mere 21 days. (I wouldn't - my problem is that I was on page 36 or so when I found out I had only 4 more days with the book.)

I made it to page 222 before I decided to give up speed reading it. By then I'd decided that the book was merely OK, not especially good.

I still haven't read The Hundred Years War on Palestine, but it's on my overgrown list of books I'd like to read.
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[personal profile] sabotabby 2024-10-23 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooof. It happens.