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... Kingsolver*
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini*
Fluke: Or, I know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher Moore*
The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen*
What Came Before He Shot Her by Elizabeth George
Creepers by David Morrell
Nonfiction:
The Egg and I by Betty MacDonal ... ... about a city beset with plague and the actions they take to protect themselves. Read a modern take on the story recently The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen, so I though I would check out the original.
Added a book that I own but had been missed in entering books onto LT
Bread and W ... #27 FicusFan - I agree. There is a lot going on in The Last Town on Earth - and Mullen does an excellent job portraying the polarized viewpoints on all topics broached in the story - you are correct, the war took a minor role compared to the issues you pointed out in your post. I look forward ... # 26 I also enjoyed The Last Town on Earth I read it for my RL book group. At one point I had to put it down for a while, because the character seemed so vulnerable and bad things were going to happen to him. I really like the inclusion of the labor unrest, and anti-war sentiment. I think WWI ... I finished The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen - a great historical fiction that examines the hypothetical question: How does a small, isolated mill town in Washington state deal with the influenza epidemic of 1918, while America is at war in Europe?
In quick order I picked up and ... ... page.
Next up is the crime mystery Thumbprint by Friedrich Glauser and after that I am thinking about diving into The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen. ... do what they want. The Grey Wolves are real, and there was interesting info about that too. Still overall it was meh.
7. The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen, Fiction, Completed 6/28/09, Stars: 4
This is a book for a RL book group. I took time off in the middle to read other ... ... fiction, TBR
Texas
Utah -- The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff, fiction, TBR
Vermont
Virginia
Washington -- The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen, fiction, finished
This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff, non-fiction, finished
West Virginia
Wisconsin -- The Story of Edga ... The Last Town on Earth sounds like an incredible and horrific story. And it takes place in my corner of the world. I will have to check and see if I can find it someplace. I can see how it would be difficult not to put it down upon occasion. Sounds like a tough but good read.
Also an ... 66. The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen, Fiction, Completed 6/28/09, Stars: 4
This is a book for a RL book group. I took time off in the middle to read other books. I got to a point where bad things were going to happen and I just didn't want to face it. I kept putting the book ... I finished Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen, about a town in the Pacific Northwest that quarantines itself against the pandemic Flu at the end of WWI. It was very good. The writing was smooth, and I really ended up caring about the characters. It also included information about the labor ... ... Grange. It is a mystery set in modern Paris and involves Turkish immigrants. It was pretty blah.
Now resuming The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen, about a fictional town in the Pacific Northwest set during WWI and the Flu Pandemic.
I am back in the Pacific Northwest in the fictional town of Commonwealth, during WWI and the Flu pandemic with The Last Town on Earth. I had to put it down to read 2 other books to meet a deadline.
... the Flu pandemic, WWI. The town quarantines itself and ends up with a sick soldier seeking admittance. The book is called The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen. ... when Brant & May are elderly.
I read it for a RL book group, but will read more in the series.
I am now starting Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen. It is also for a RL book group. It is about the 1918 Flu pandemic during WWI and a small Pacific Northwest town that quarantines ... The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen; read a few years ago 11. The last town on earth by Thomas Mullen
Historical fiction 416p.
The story of a small town, Commonwealth, outside Washington that tries to protect itself from the flu epidemic of 1918 by imposing a quarantine. After a soldier appears amongst them distrust and sickness cause the town's ... ... Annals of Alchemy and Blood series.
SF/Horror about agents who are tracking and trying to eradicate vampires.
The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen
A RL book group book.
It is set in the Pacific Northwest and is the story of a town that quarantines itself during the great Flu ... ... ghost by Robert Harris
February
9. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
10. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
11. The last town on earth by Thomas Mullen
12. Running the war in Iraq by Andrew James Molan
13. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
14. The wild by Matt Whyman
1 ... ...
Sway: A Novel by Zachary Lazar
{ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn } by Betty Smith
The Last Town on Earth: A Novel by Thomas Mullen
Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan
The Story of the Cannibal Woman: A Novel Town Without Pity by Don Hale
The town and the city
by Jack Kerouac
The Last Town on Earth
by Thomas Mullen
Home Town
by Tracy Kidder
Calamity Town
by Ellery Queen
Here are the three I liked the best in June:
Small Island by Andrea Levy (Jamaica, England, WWII)
The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen (Influenza 1918 in Pacific NW))
Bright of the Sky by Kay Kenyon (First book of The Entire and the Rose series - SF) - I have the second book ... A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynne Jones
The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice by Catherynne Valente
The last town on earth by Thomas Mullen
Sixpence House : lost in a town of books by Paul Collins
The Little Country by Charles De Lint
6 - black & white by Dani Shapiro
7- the last town on earth : a Novel by Thomas Mullen
8- the zookeeper's wife by Diane Ackerman8-
9- Intrusions by Ursula Hegi
10- Hope & Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami
11- the air we breathe by Andrea Barrett ... Hosseini
5- for the relief of unbearable urges by Nathan Englander
6- Black & White by Dani Shapiro
7- the Last Town On Earth : a Novel by Thomas Mullen
8- the Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
9- intrusions by Ursula Hegi
10- hope and Other Dangerous Pur ... I finished Standard Hero Behavior and (finally!) The Last Town on Earth.
Moving on to The Luxe by Anna Godbersen for some trashy, fluffy fun, and listening to Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See. So far, so good on both. Glad you liked The Last Town on Earth! I've seen a lot of LTers who didn't care for it, but I thought it was a great novel, particularly impressive as a debut. Perhaps I liked it because I found the themes to be particularly timely--I've been thinking about these sorts of issues for the last ... I just finished The Last Town on Earth and have started The Zookeeper's Wife, which is non-fiction with an intriguing plot. I just finished The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen, who is coming to speak in my area in March. A compelling story with a tightly woven plot. It addresses big issues, such as who defines what is for the greater good and can right or wrong be determined by a group? The author also uses ... I just started The Last Town on Earth. The author, Thomas Mullen is coming to my area to speak in March so a few friends of mine and I are chicking out this debut novel. ... the author is a friend of a friend, but judging by the cover it looks like it'll be fun.
Also, I am STILL listening The Last Town on Earth - I need to make a major push and just finish it this week so that I can listen to something that I will hopefully be more into. ... at the airport before my flight out. Hooray! An excuse to buy a new book!
I'm also still plodding through listening to The Last Town on Earth. It's dancing right on the edge of not being bad enough to quit, but not being good enough to make me excited about listening. ... Reviewers program, but found an ARC in the Friends of the Library bookstore about a month later!
I've been listening to Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen, which so far is okay, not great, but it's gone on the back-burner for a few days so I can listen to Beowulf while I've got it out ... ... Da Vinci code : a novel by Dan Brown
Rival crock-pot cooking by Marilyn Neill
Human croquet by Kate Atkinson
The last town on earth by Thomas Mullen
Hometown killer by Carol J. Rothgeb
The fourth hand by John Irving
Married to murder by Robert Scott
The Templar ... ... this afternoon - it wasn't that interesting; certainly didn't grab me the way the Bartimaeus Trilogy did.
Moved on to Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen - it's got middle-of-the-road reviews so far, but it's been on my to-be-listened list for about eight months now, so we'll see how it ... ... Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
48. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
49. The Last Town on Earth: A Novel
50. Heat by Bill Buford ... Pearl
95. Riptide by Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston
96. Glasshouse by Charles Stross
97. The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen
98. The Haunted Mesa by Louis L'Amour
99. Shakespeare's Trollop by Charlaine Harris
100. Fluke by Christoph ... Finished Glasshouse by Charles Stross today. Currently reading The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen and The Haunted Mesa by Louis L'Amour. ... weigh in. I had a bad reading month, only seven books and I didn't really love any of them. If I have to pick one it was The Last Town on Earth - reminiscent of Year of Wonders, except this was during WWI and the influenza epidemic.
Hope some of you can recommend some good ones. Snow Falling on Cedars and Last Town on Earth are two that are coming to mind, set around WWII and WWI, respectively. I really enjoyed Snow Falling on Cedars; I haven't read Last Town on Earth but am looking forward to it.
Both of them might be a bit long, dense or "grown-up" for your ... The Road, oh, I was disappointed. It was OK for me, but not the great book I pictured. Much better was The last town on earth which has to do with the Spanish Influenza epidemic. clear light of day written by a Methodist minister about a minister. Wrong touchstone, should be by Penelope Wi ... ... Spanish Flu. Something like Year of wonders, only they quarantined to keep from spreading the small pox from their town. The last town on earth did have more of a detailed plot, that covered a lot of historical information about WWI and the labor strikes. The unpopularity of that war seems to ... ... and winning the Pulitzer was quite a disappointment to me. That was my last August book. I thought my first September book, The Last Town on Earth was much better.
So now I must go eat chocolate and start Gilead. I am working on the Pulitzer prizes as I can find them. ... couldn't believe it was the Pulitzer winner.
OK, you may all beat me with a stick for being a dissenter. Yesterday I read The Last Town on Earth and I liked it much better.
OK, cowering in the corner, reading Gilead as I wait for the blows to fall. ... of Colour which was an LT recommendation at Borders last night and of course today I found another book I want called Last Town on Earth. My TBR pile will never shrink at this rate. The Plague and I by Betty McDonald
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
The Last Town on Earth
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman I have been slogging through three very slow and sad books over the past two weeks (The Jungle, The Last Town on Earth and All over but the shoutin' and now that I have finished all but one of them I'm ready for something light and easy to read to cleanse my palate. I'm going to read shaopoho ... Finally finished The Jungle but am still getting through The Last Town on Earth which I'm not really enjoying and All over but the shoutin' which I am enjoying. But all three are downer books so I think I'm going to need a definite fun book soon. ... yet hilarious.
I finished The Memory Keeper's Daughter which I wasn't thrilled with, but it was interesting. I started Last Town on Earth today and am looking forward to diving a little deeper into it.
# 15: hazelk - you'll have to let me know how that Hornby book is, I've been wanting ... A countless number of books, but immediately Papa Hemingway, Last Town on Earth and A Man without a Country.
I have hundreds on my list though. Books on my reading list for March are:
Finish the three I'm working on
Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors
Last Town on Earth
IF I get those done, it will put me at 11, still a little behind for my goal. ... of Motherhood (for a yahoo book group), and The Collectors by David Baldacci.
I have set aside The Thirteenth Tale, The Last town on Earth and Beneath a Marble Sky next to read. The last two are also for book clubs.
I only have one big book finished Outlander. I'm not sure ... ... Expectations by Charles Dickens c
This month I have slated to finish Great Expectations, Beneath a Marble Sky, The Last Town on Earth and not sure what the last would be yet. I have so many that I want to read!! ... by Jane Austen
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Poet of Loch Ness by Brian Jay Corrigan
The last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen
Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors ... c
I decided that I would list the books that I want to read next.
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen-this is for a February book club
Poet of Loch Ness by Brian Jay Corrigan
Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Game ... I've just finished the harrowing first chapter of The Last Town on Earth. This is going to be a tough read, I think, but should be worth. Fascinating subject, and I love really good historical fiction. This morning I finished Trader, a rather touching fantasy. Monday I'm back to work, and won't ... ...
I'm almost finished with Trader by Charles deLint. It's a nicely written and rather touching fantasy. Next up is The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen. I think it will suit my morbid inclinations. And after that, The Children's Hospital, so I'm glad to hear that it's so good.
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