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5. This is a theme I repeat time after time. I looked up The English Passengers

Reply to mackerel (Reply #4)

Mon Dec 7, 2015, 07:44 AM

Dec 2015

on Good Reads and found it compelling. I ended up ordering a used copy. I have many such books "to read" piling up.

Some years back I read The Fatal Shore. It kind of wet my appetite for more Australian history.

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What are you reading this week of December 6, 2015? [View all] hermetic Dec 2015 OP

There have been several mentions of the Outlander series by Diane Gabaldon TexasProgresive Dec 2015 #1

Welcome to the bonny banks... hermetic Dec 2015 #2

Hello, everyone! Thank you for the great thread, hermetic. Enthusiast Dec 2015 #3

The Lacuna hermetic Dec 2015 #7

That was one of the saddest parts of the book, IMHO. The worst was the japple Dec 2015 #8

I'm reading The English Passengers mackerel Dec 2015 #4

This is a theme I repeat time after time. I looked up The English Passengers Enthusiast Dec 2015 #5

Yes my boyfriend read Fatal Shore and he would agree, it's compelling. (He's an Aussie.) mackerel Dec 2015 #6