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Top Ten Book Titles with Numbers In Them

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Top Ten Books Book
Titles with Numbers In Them

TTT for October 1st, 2019
#TopTenTues day

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I’m so thrilled and honored that for this edition of #TopTenTuesday, my suggestion topic was accepted!
So this is about Book Titles with Numbers In Them. You can challenge yourself and do numbers 1-10 or just any numbers you want.
I’m listing books that I have really enjoyed, and that you may not have heard about.

Please click on the covers to access my reviews

1

One Sip at a Time

2

The World Between Two Covers

3

Three Lives Tomomi

4

The Sign of Four

5

Five on a Treasure Island

6

The 6:41 to Paris

7

Seven Letters From Paris

8

The Band that Played On:

The Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians

Who Went Down with the Titanic

the band that played on

9

Nine Fold Heaven

10

the first rule of ten

Have you read any of these?
Show me your list!

Year of reading 2018: Part 1 – My top 14

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Year of reading 2018
Part 1
 My top 14

To follow my tradition, here is part 1 of my yearly recap.
There is a total of 3 parts:

  1. my favorites, with my usual categories, see here below
  2. my stats
  3. my fun list with titles

With only 77 books read, this is my most pathetic year in the last decade.
My final choice is based on the quality of the book, on how it resonated with me and my own experience, and on how it stayed with me. Some of these books may actually have got only 4 out 5 Eiffel Towers at the time I read them.

MY FAVORITES

click on the covers to access either my review,
or the Goodreads page for the couple of titles I have not reviewed yet

PRINT COPIES​

Fiction Historical Fiction NonFiction Mystery
Killing Commendatore  The Shadow Land  The Piano shop  Only the Rain

EBOOKS​​​​

Fiction Historical Fiction NonFiction Mystery
 The Face of Another  The Blue  Conan Doyle for the Defense  The Word is Murder

AUDIOBOOKS​​

Fiction NonFiction Mystery
 Armada Democracy in Chains  Les nymphéas noirs

 

OTHER

GRAPHIC “NOVEL”

Monet

SPIRITUAL BOOK

Modern Orthodox Thinkers

BOOK COVER

On la trouvait plutot jolie

DO YOU HAVE SOME FAVORITES
IN COMMON WITH MINE?

MORE FUN RECAP TOMORROW!

HAPPY NEW YEAR OF READING TO YOU!

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Book review: Conan Doyle for the Defense

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Conan Doyle for the DefenseConan Doyle for the Defense:
The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World’s Most Famous Detective Writer

by  Margalit Fox
Random House
6/26/2018
Genre: Nonfiction/True crime/History/Biography
352 pages
Goodreads

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This brilliant nonfiction reads like a thriller, both because of its topic and because of the writer’s skill at structuring her story.

Conan Doyle for the Defense is about what was supposedly  “one of the most notorious murders of its age”, a bit like a “Scottish Dreyfus affair”.

A case all too common: a rich old woman was robbed and killed in Glasgow, and for various reasons explained in the book, the police targeted Oscar Slater, a German Jewish gambler, even though they soon had evidence he could not have done it.
“An innocent man was pursued, tried, convicted, and nearly hanged”, a “supreme example of official incompetence and obstinacy”, of “judicial and prosecutorial misconduct.” A “disgraceful frame-up, in which stupidity and dishonesty played an equal part.” Nothing new under the sun…

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