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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 8, 2020 11:19:14 GMT -5
 Something very different for me, The Red Address Book, a Swedish woman chronicles her life, as she gets older I empathize that I am getting older, you think about people you know, lot of What If pauses, it resonated with me, very sad in the end. I have my mom's old address book. It's actually one of those metal sliding index things. She had another one that is a small spiral bound book with flowers on it. They have numbers and addresses for people who I knew when I was a kid, for my dead relatives and friends of hers that I didn't know but heard about. Sometimes I read through it and cry. |
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Post by kxg on Sept 8, 2020 12:43:37 GMT -5
I recently started reading Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe novels, after reading the article Chandler on the SmokingPipes blog.
I'm on number four of seven and am finding Chandler to be the master of the simile and good tales. The cultural material is obviously dated, but it is interesting to remember a time when cell phones weren't ubiquitous and research was done in a library.
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Post by Gandalf on Sept 8, 2020 12:51:57 GMT -5
Ascendant, the second book in the Genesis Fleet trilogy - by Jack Campbell
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Post by jay on Sept 8, 2020 18:16:58 GMT -5
Carbine and Lance: the Story of Old Fort Sill. I was born on post at Fort Sill, and spent some time there later one. It's an interesting read, and the early history of the post sometimes confirms my belief that the Army deliberately looked for a place that was hot, dry, cold, wet, and uncomfortable every day of the year. Every year.
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Post by instymp on Sept 9, 2020 17:22:08 GMT -5
Something very different for me, The Red Address Book, a Swedish woman chronicles her life, as she gets older I empathize that I am getting older, you think about people you know, lot of What If pauses, it resonated with me, very sad in the end. I do that too often without reading the book.  |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Sept 10, 2020 9:49:47 GMT -5
Gospel of Saint Luke in The Jerusalem Bible translated from the French version.
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Post by Gandalf on Sept 11, 2020 19:19:46 GMT -5
Triumphant, the 3rd book in the Genesis Fleet trilogy - by Jack Campbell
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Post by ironclad on Sept 12, 2020 14:07:02 GMT -5
Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle
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Post by toshtego on Sept 17, 2020 10:05:31 GMT -5
I recently started reading Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe novels, after reading the article Chandler on the SmokingPipes blog. I'm on number four of seven and am finding Chandler to be the master of the simile and good tales. The cultural material is obviously dated, but it is interesting to remember a time when cell phones weren't ubiquitous and research was done in a library. He provides a fascinating glimpse into 1940s Los Angeles. If you lived there, the nostalgia would get to you. It got to me. His descriptions of people are quite enjoyable. I also appreciate his humor and self deprecation. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 17, 2020 12:33:53 GMT -5
I've been reading The Thief Taker. It's set in England in 1660. Very interesting murder mystery with a probably accurate picture of life in the 17th century. We are so blessed to live when and where we do. Plague and all. When this thing first started they expected 2 million deaths, but they are fussing with 10% of that. The London plague would have killed 90 million by comparison. Hard to imagine.
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Post by lizardonarock on Sept 17, 2020 18:43:37 GMT -5
Always looking for a place that was. This the story of the area just down the road. Home of the first Tejas flag, the Dance Pistol and the first Baptists in Tejas and a glimpse into the early 1800s. www.countygenweb.com/txmontgomery/town_dacus.htm |
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 17, 2020 19:56:41 GMT -5
Always looking for a place that was. This the story of the area just down the road. Home of the first Tejas flag, the Dance Pistol and the first Baptists in Tejas and a glimpse into the early 1800s. www.countygenweb.com/txmontgomery/town_dacus.htmPretty interesting and looong! I hate reading the stuff about slavery, but facts is facts. I always thought that in Montgomery County it seems like you can't throw a stick without hitting a Baptist church. Usually not more than one Methodist church in a town. |
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Post by Gandalf on Sept 18, 2020 10:47:41 GMT -5
The Lost Starship by Vaughn Heppner - maybe - it's starting a little slow.
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Post by toshtego on Sept 18, 2020 14:46:09 GMT -5
I've been reading The Thief Taker. It's set in England in 1660. Very interesting murder mystery with a probably accurate picture of life in the 17th century. We are so blessed to live when and where we do. Plague and all. When this thing first started they expected 2 million deaths, but they are fussing with 10% of that. The London plague would have killed 90 million by comparison. Hard to imagine. That sounds like something I would enjoy. Thanks for the tip. Let's see, 1660 London. Seems to me they had a big fire and plague around then. Of course, I was too young to remember. |
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Post by toshtego on Sept 18, 2020 15:04:58 GMT -5
I found five novels with the same title- The Thief Taker. Fortunately, only one is set in 1660 London. One other is set in 1750 London and a third around the end of their civil war. So, I ordered all three. Used books are cheap.
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 21, 2020 21:39:05 GMT -5
I found five novels with the same title- The Thief Taker. Fortunately, only one is set in 1660 London. One other is set in 1750 London and a third around the end of their civil war. So, I ordered all three. Used books are cheap. The books I'm reading are by C. S. Quinn. The first one was set in 64 or 65. This one, Fire Catcher, is set in 1666 I think. |
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Post by bigwoolie on Sept 21, 2020 22:24:27 GMT -5
Longfellow's "Tales From a Wayside Inn". I love Longfellow, and my kids often bring me treasures they find while scouring old, antique bookstores.
Usually it's something written by Longfellow, Rudyard Kipling, Teddy Roosevelt, or P.H. Capstick.
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 22, 2020 11:21:03 GMT -5
Longfellow's "Tales From a Wayside Inn". I love Longfellow, and my kids often bring me treasures they find while scouring old, antique bookstores. Usually it's something written by Longfellow, Rudyard Kipling, Teddy Roosevelt, or P.H. Capstick. I love Longfellow too. In elementary school I could quote the entire Hiawatha,and a couple of others. Also Kiplings Gunga Din. I wonder what they teach kids these days besides the Communist Manifesto. |
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Post by Darin on Sept 22, 2020 11:42:07 GMT -5
Longfellow's "Tales From a Wayside Inn". I love Longfellow, and my kids often bring me treasures they find while scouring old, antique bookstores. Usually it's something written by Longfellow, Rudyard Kipling, Teddy Roosevelt, or P.H. Capstick. I love Longfellow too. In elementary school I could quote the entire Hiawatha,and a couple of others. Also Kiplings Gunga Din. I wonder what they teach kids these days besides the Communist Manifesto. Where the Heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah, feeds among the reeds and rushes ... |
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Post by jeffd on Sept 23, 2020 20:08:34 GMT -5
Just started reading Gone Girl. I hope it gets better soon.
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 23, 2020 21:05:13 GMT -5
Just started reading Gone Girl. I hope it gets better soon. Judging by the movie, it doesn't. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2020 11:11:44 GMT -5
Wednesday's Child by Peter Robinson. My 5th or 6th Alan Banks novel from him and I'm enjoying them more and more.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Sept 27, 2020 12:07:30 GMT -5
James Lee Burke's "Light of the World" set in Montana....one of his better books.
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Post by ironclad on Sept 27, 2020 13:33:12 GMT -5
I just finished Next to Last Stand by Johnson.
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Post by lizardonarock on Sept 29, 2020 0:32:22 GMT -5
St. Francis Dam Disaster by John Nichols The story of the dam failure 1928 that killed 600 people and ruined William Mulholland who brought water to Los Angeles.
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Post by bishop on Oct 12, 2020 18:29:47 GMT -5
The other day I was reading Amy Barrett's law review publications.
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 12, 2020 18:30:31 GMT -5
The other day I was reading Amy Barrett's law review publications. How was it? |
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Post by bishop on Oct 12, 2020 18:33:16 GMT -5
The other day I was reading Amy Barrett's law review publications. How was it? Her publication on Constitutional originalism was informative; I haven't got to the others yet. |
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Post by mrlunting on Oct 13, 2020 16:43:46 GMT -5
The diary of Anne Frank... Because of the frankness in her diaries.
Seriously though! I am reading it because I like to read about important historical moments in time. Specifically first person books.
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 13, 2020 17:08:19 GMT -5
The diary of Anne Frank... Because of the frankness in her diaries. Seriously though! I am reading it because I like to read about important historical moments in time. Specifically first person books. I read it many, many years ago, at the same time as I read Mein Kamph. I thought it was interesting and sad. I thought Mein Kamph was interesting and misguided. I know too much now about that period to read anything about it now. It upsets me too much. I have made up my mind about the events and I am too old to read upsetting stuff. I don't watch police procedurals or read books about mass murderers. This is strictly a blood pressure and age related decision. I can say that I better not ever see a person in a Nazi uniform that isn't in a historical reinactment. May Anne rest in peace along with the millions of other innocent victims of governments that get out of control. |
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Something very different for me, The Red Address Book, a Swedish woman chronicles her life, as she gets older I empathize that I am getting older, you think about people you know, lot of What If pauses, it resonated with me, very sad in the end.
