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SheriC

Portable Magic

Reading, for me, is entertainment and an escape from the real world. But it can also inform and stretch the boundaries of the life I live.

Currently reading

A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, #1)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Whisper Network
Chandler Baker
Progress: 54 %
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Progress: 28 %
The Mystery at Lilac Inn
Carolyn Keene
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories
Gary Raisor, Richard Chizmar, Al Sarrantonio, Avram Davidson
Progress: 70/512 pages
Leading Change
John P. Kotter
Peanuts Classics
Charles M. Schulz
Progress: 66 %
The Bungalow Mystery
Carolyn Keene
Progress: 192/192 pages
The Bungalow Mystery #3
Carolyn Keene
Progress: 192/192 pages
The Mystery at Lilac Inn
Russell H. Tandy, Mildred Benson, Carolyn Keene

The Monstrumologist - progress: 14/447 pages

The Monstrumologist - Rick Yancey

I know I fixate on stupid things sometimes, but my start on this (so far entertaining) book was derailed by the question: Would this country "doctor" have rubber boots and gloves in his laboratory in the year 1888? 

 

According to the internets, the rubber boots were being manufactured as early as the 1850's, and the first surgical rubber gloves were created in 1889-1890. So... it may be a bit of a stretch, but I can buy it. 

 

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