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Book #72 was Jacob’s Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War by Donald McCaig. Actually, I didn’t quite finish this book. But I invested so much time in it, I’m counting it, dammit. I was disappointed in it — I was looking for much more story about the people, and much less descriptions of battles. I expected it to be a story about Duncan,
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Book #69 was Charleston, by John Jakes. I so enjoy John Jakes. And I got an extra tickle from this one because he refers to a few of his other books in it. Book count: 69 Pages in book: 532 Page count: 24,802 15,000 page goal reached 6/14/05! 50 book goal reached 7/19/05!
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Book #67 was Hell at the Breech, by Tom Franklin. Overall, not a bad historical novel. Doesn’t especially have a happy ending. And it’s no To Kill A Mockingbird, despite what some of the reviews say. Took me a while to get through this one. I guess I wasn’t real excited to read it. As a side note, I packed away all of my unread
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Book #60 was The Rebels, the second book in John Jakes’s Kent Family Chronicles. I enjoy Jakes’ books immensely. I especially like this series because it’s an era I haven’t read a whole lot about. The only problem was, in between the first book in the series and this one, I read North and South. I had to re-establish the characters in my head all
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