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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Chip of the Flying U
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B. M. Bower
monicapdx
, September 29, 2011
My mother introduced me to the Flying U Ranch when I was a kid; I adored all the books. Chip Bennett is a "reg'lar cowboy" of the old days, who most reluctantly finds himself falling in love. He's bound and determined not to get roped, but the Little Doctor has different ideas. Written by a woman who lived on the range in the early 1900's, "Chip" is Bower's first Flying U adventure, and one of the best. Full of real cowboys and their life, with plenty of humor and great characters, it gives you the feeling of living in the Old West. Bower's books were classics in her time. They're still classics today.
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Peshawar Lancers
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S M Stirling
monicapdx
, August 20, 2008
I'm a big fan of alternate histories; I grew up reading Kipling and Halliburton; I've always loved grand adventures. For anyone who enjoys any or all of these genres, The Peshawar Lancers is an absolute pip of a novel. In the late 1800's, Earth was bombarded by pieces of a comet, causing massive climate change, millions of deaths, a long setback in development of technology, and exodus from starvation in northern climes. Now it's 2025, and the British Raj still rules the Empire from its new capital in India. Captain Athelstane King of the Peshawar Lances is returning from duty on the frontier for leave...but even before he makes it home, he becomes dangerously embroiled in the Great Game. Russian spies, sinister plots, Thuggees, assassins, traitors, murders, a psychic, a foreign emissary intent on the arrangements for the marriage of the Emperor's daughter, and more, all make for an absolutely ripping good time. The future India and its changes are lovingly detailed and logical; the characters are solid; the story pulls you in and won't let go. It's a wild ride to the thoroughly satisfying climax of the book. At the end, I wanted to yell, "Shabash!"...and read it again.
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It Itches A Stash Of Knitting Cartoons
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Franklin Habit
monicapdx
, August 07, 2008
Really looking forward to this. Franklin's blog is hilarious, even for non-knitters. (The Panopticon was an early addition to the blogroll on Sid Leavitt's "Readers and Writers Blog.") His writing is witty enough; add in his cartoons, and any computer part within range of a spit take is in danger. It's hard to have to wait until October! I'm not rating it just because I'm a rule-follower like that, but I still know before seeing it that I'll rate it a 5. ;)
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