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The Bookworm: A Novel
The Bookworm: A Novel | Mitch Silver
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A stunning and surprising new thriller, Mitch Silvers latest novel takes readers from a secret operation during World War IIwith appearances by Noel Coward and Winston Churchillto present day London and Moscow, where Lara Klimt, the Bookworm, must employ all her skills to prevent an international conspiracy. Why did Hitler chose not to invade England when he had the chance? Europe, 1940: Its late summer and Belgium has been overrun by the German army. Posing as a friar, a British operative talks his way into the monastery at Villers-devant-Orval just before Nazi art thieves plan to sweep through the area and whisk everything of value back to Berlin. But the ersatz man of the cloth is no thief. Instead, that night he adds an old leather Bible to the monasterys library and then escapes. London, 2017: A construction worker operating a backhoe makes a grisly discoverya skeletal arm-bone with a rusty handcuff attached to the wrist. Was this the site, as a BBC newsreader speculates, of a long-forgotten prison, uncharted on any map? One viewer knows better: its all that remains of a courier who died in a V-2 rocket attack. The woman who will put these two disparate events togetherand understand the looming tragedy she must hurry to preventis Russian historian and former Soviet chess champion Larissa Mendelovg Klimt, Lara the Bookworm, to her friends. Shes also experiencing some woeful marital troubles. In the course of this riveting thriller, Lara will learn the significance of six musty Dictaphone cylinders recorded after D-Day by Noel Cowardactor, playwright and, secretly, a British agent reporting directly to Winston Churchill. She will understand precisely why that leather Bible, scooped up by the Nazis and deposited on the desk of Adolf Hitler days before he planned to attack Britain, played such a pivotal role in turning his guns to the East. And she will discover the new secret pact negotiated by the nefarious Russian president and his newly elected American counterpartmaverick and dealmakerand the evil it portends. Oh, and shell reconcile with her husband.
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Sharpeipup
Bookworm | Mitch Silver
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I must say I‘m fascinated by “ink drinker”. What about you?

📸@bookloverworld IG

LeslieO Ink drinker is my fav. 4y
Come-read-with-me I love ink drinker too! 4y
BennettBookworm This is why I love French 😍 4y
Gissy French style here please😍: Ink drinker🖋 4y
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3CatsAndABook
Bookworm | Mitch Silver
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I'm a Bookworm 🐛 What are you?

JacqMac I love ink drinker the most. 4y
julesG I prefer the term Book Dragon, but since I'm German it's be read(ing)-rat. 4y
LiteraryinPA I love the term Library Mouse! 4y
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jouleian I‘m not French but I‘m gonna go with Ink Drinker. Not only is it rather lovely on paper but it sounds pretty hardcore when you say it out loud 😂😂😂 4y
MotionChickness Technically a bookworm.... but I‘m obsessed with Ink Drinker! 4y
catsuit_mango I am French but I have never heard the buveur d'encre expression ! And looking it up apparently it was mostly for people who wrote a lot as a profession. ;) 4y
catsuit_mango As for myself I like read rat :) 4y
eeclayton As a Hungarian, I'm a book moth 🙂 4y
BookwormM I am a book worm but feel the need to upgrade to library mouse 🐁 4y
KathyWheeler I‘m fond of reading horse. 4y
claudiuo Definitely a library mouse 🙀 4y
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thereadingowlvina
Bookworm | Mitch Silver
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Saw this on a Facebook page. I find it quite true and accurate! 😁

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Birdsong28
Bookworm | Mitch Silver
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Not me btw but it was on Dozen Best Book's Facebook page but I thought I would post as it is an idea for a Halloween costume. 😂📚📖

Gissy Love it! 😍❤️❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏 5y
brit91 Love it! 5y
Ms_T Perfect! 👌🏻 5y
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TheDrunkenLibrarian
The Bookworm: A Novel | Mitch Silver
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Anatomy of a Book Worm

brit91 LoL!!🤣😂 5y
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BooknerdsLife
Bookworm | Mitch Silver
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Day 6: #30JuneBooks ...I've only showed you my least messy #shelfie before,but here's the Truth! I have more books than I can shelf, Like most of you here but I also like to hide my stacks of books all around the house, so doesnt seem overwhelming ? and I "borrowed" space from my husband's DVD/BluRay shelf for my books. So what's #BookwormProblems besides too little time?
Too Many Books & Too Little Space for them! ?
#Bibliophile #booksaddict

Crazeedi We all feel your distress! I'm with you!!😬 6y
BooknerdsLife Hahaaa Thank you so much 😂💕🙌🏼📚📚 Books still bring me joy but so sad I‘m not able to put them all on the shelf 😭 6y
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bookish_wookish
The Bookworm: A Novel | Mitch Silver
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Book-Club-Mas Day 3

This is the one i was missing and it literally just got delivered! Perfect timing! Today was this super cute Kiss The Bookworm apron!

BookwormAHN Cute 😺 6y
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Texreader
The Bookworm: A Novel | Mitch Silver
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And one more added to my tbr list

Loric Can‘t wait to hear what you think... I‘ve heard mixed reviews 6y
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amb
Bookworm | Mitch Silver
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#50KReadingLifeGiveaway
@Mitch that is an amazing number maybe I will get there in 10 years lol.
My words are:
Eclectic
Engrossing
Entertaining
Enjoyable
Extravagant

Mitch Love it - engrossing! Nothing better than getting lost for days in a book. 💕👏🏻💕 6y
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kstadt929
Bookworm | Mitch Silver
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Every time in a bookstore 🤣📚

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GraciesLibrary
The Bookworm: A Novel | Mitch Silver
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Panpan

Pitched as a thriller, this book aims to evoke the Cold War era but with a modern twist. There are 2 simultaneous threads to follow (loosely connected) - an oil deal between Russia and the US, and an old hoax played on Hitler which Russia wants to use to shame the West. I found the plot to be a bit contrived and not particularly well developed. A quick read for a lazy afternoon. Hint, but not a spoiler, “book worm” does not refer to the heroine.

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MrBook
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@BookBabe & I stuck around the bookstore for awhile taking in the magnificence that is #RJJulia! Couldn't help but purchase a few books ???. "The Bookworm" has the best title and the plot sounds grilling! "A Suitable Boy," well, it's Vikram Seth ???, and I'm a sucker for cranium-cracking books ?☺️, and this one's size doesn't disappoint at just shy of 1,500 pages ???!!! #CTLitsyMeetUp

Mitch I read A Suitable Boy a few summers ago. I remember sitting the garden for a week straight with my nose in the book! Hope you have a memorable reading experience ! 7y
ValerieAndBooks I‘ve read A Suitable Boy twice !! 7y
writerlibrarian A suitable boy is just a wonderful, enthralling read. It is an amazing read. 7y
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arubabookwoman I‘ve heard that a sequel (companion book?) is coming out soon—A Suitable Girl— but I‘ve been hearing that for several years. If so, I need to reread A Suitable Boy. 7y
batsy I loved A Suitable Boy! @ValerieAndBooks Twice!! 👏🏽👏🏽 7y
SaraFair Did you see Roxanne? 7y
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StaceyKondla
Bookworm | Mitch Silver
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In my defense, they were on sale 😬

BookMaven407 👍 7y
Jess7 Nice! 7y
lauraodom They‘re lovely. ☕️ 7y
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twohectobooks Awesome! I need to get myself some cool mugs. 7y
Nute Buy all the mugs!!!😅 7y
ValerieAndBooks Awesome mugs!! 7y
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julesG
Bookworm | Mitch Silver
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Mehso-so

This book had a lot to offer. Mysterious recordings of a plot that changed the German strategy of WWII, several historical figures, oil fields in Alaska, and a female MC and her twin brother in the midst of all this.

Given the above mentioned, this should have been a 5-star book. Sadly, I found it ran out of steam around the middle of the story.

Publishing date: Feb 6, 2018

#MountTBR

#NetGalley #ARC

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julesG
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Barely into the first chapter and I encounter a sight that is in spitting distance from where I live. (okay, about 45 minutes to drive)

One of only a few triangular shaped castles, the Wewelsburg.

BookishMarginalia That‘s cool! 7y
DivineDiana Field trip? 📚 7y
julesG @DivineDiana Tomorrow, maybe. Although my son won't be very keen, we've visited the castle several times already. 7y
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DivineDiana How nice! I‘m sure you‘ll think of something nice for him as well! 🙂 7y
Bklover I can‘t imagine living so near something like that castle! I am surrounded by corn fields. I love corn fields, but wow! Does anyone live in the castle? 7y
julesG @Bklover it's a youth hostel these days. Not sure it's family owned though. 7y
CarolynM Fabulous! 7y
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julesG
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Sumatra coffee and this #NetGalley #ARC that has collected a little dust on my shelf. I think all the books in my NetGalley account have been published meanwhile. 🙈

#LitsyPartyOfOne @Ambrosnazzy
#booksandcoffee

JazzFeathers I'm always running after my Netgalley TBR 😕 7y
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