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by Dr J
Sun Dec 01, 2024 8:15 am
Forum: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Topic: Mysteries May Abound, But Your RSVP Shouldn't: Check In Here!
Replies: 6
Views: 1825
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New Zealand

Re: Mysteries May Abound, But Your RSVP Shouldn't: Check In Here!

Dear Chris,

Thank you so much for inviting me to participate in your book discussion. I am rather attracted to the idea and will be lurking about so that I might see a suitable discussion to participate in.

While I sometimes like mysteries, if they are new and innovative, and even wrote one once ...
by Dr J
Sun Jun 16, 2024 1:50 am
Forum: Fiction General Discussion
Topic: What book would you recommend that no one else seems to have read?
Replies: 12
Views: 11191
Gender:
New Zealand

Re: What book would you recommend that no one else seems to have read?

Another that no one has read because it is new (about a year old).

It is The Money Cure by Linda Peer. Again, you can find it on Amazon and Kindle.

This is another Spec Fic book, my favourite genre!

It is set in 2035. It is the more frightening because you can see a lot of trends in current ...
by Dr J
Wed Jun 12, 2024 7:33 pm
Forum: Fiction General Discussion
Topic: What book would you recommend that no one else seems to have read?
Replies: 12
Views: 11191
Gender:
New Zealand

Re: What book would you recommend that no one else seems to have read?

Here's one that no one has read because it's new.

Tiana Dokerty's Chronicle of the Knights of Joshua, Book I The Order Of The Black Robe is a wild ride. It is spec fic, a picture of central Europe of the middle ages if the Roman Empire had never happened (think Romulus and Remus eaten , not ...
by Dr J
Wed Jun 12, 2024 6:58 pm
Forum: Current Events & History
Topic: 2037, a year that will live in history.
Replies: 10
Views: 6800
Gender:
New Zealand

Re: 2037, a year that will live in history.


Major Combatants: Japan and China were at war in 1937. I won't challenge Eurocentrism, it's easy forget things not so close to home.


Then why not start in 1931, when Japan took Manchuria and set up a puppet State? That was the start of hostilities between China and Japan. China never recognised ...

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