What was the last book you read?

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Go Ahead, Secret Seven (5)
This is the one I had when I was a kid, and surprisingly I actually remembered a lot of it. Of course, in those days one would have a small number of books and read them over and over. These days there's too much to choose from to revisit things.

 

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Firefighters from 1988, by Dennis Smith (inside what it's like to be in that profession, and the related profession of being a paramedic and rescuer; wanted to read this because I'd been enjoying [and still do enjoy] seeing the fictional squad of Station 51 of the L.A. County Fire Department in Emergency!, and I wanted to read about real people who were like that)

 

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Further Chronicles of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery.
A follow-up to the previous "Chronicles" on the periphery of the Anne series.
I remember my mother saying that she knew of this one but had never seen it. It's crazy to think that now I've read one that she never did. Pity the internet was not around when she was a kid.

 

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The Patient by Michael Palmer from 2000 (11 of that former doctor-turned-author's works, I've read now)

 

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Paper Girls: The Complete Story by Brian K. Vaughan
This is a graphic novel collection of the comic book series which was the basis for the Prime Video show.
I watched the show only recently and was disappointed to find that it was cancelled before coming to a conclusion. Reading the original I see that a lot of changes were made. The basic premise is the same, and the characters are true to the comics, but the plot details are quite different, so not really enlightening as to how the show might have continued.

 

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Earlier finished Miracle Cure by Michael Palmer, from 1998...





And so finishing, like Arthur Hailey, this is the last of Palmer's books I will own (12 of them, from his prime [1982-2007])...

 

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Good Work, Secret Seven (6)
Secret Seven Win Through (7)

 

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Perfect Husband from 1989 by Gary Provost

 

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Bumping this up: Calling Dr. Kildare by Max Brand (1961 paperback reprint of this 1939 or '40 medical novel)

 

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Three Cheers Secret Seven (8)
Secret Seven Mystery (9)
Puzzle for the Secret Seven (10)

 

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The Company by John Ehrlichman (key figure in the Nixon Administration during Watergate), first published in 1976 (republished in this 1977 edition [which I got from EBay] to promote the 70s ABC miniseries Washington Behind Closed Doors)

 

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Bumping this up: another John Ehrlichman book (the longest novel I've ever read in my life): The China Card from 1986 (635 pages), gotten from EBay...

 

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Error In Diagnosis, by Gary Birken, M.D., from 2023 (thought I'd try a more contemporary author of medical and hospital thrillers, being as I enjoyed 12 such works from the late Michael Palmer, M.D.)...