What are you Reading? - 2021

I do that every few months. I need to find my book by Epictetus too.

     Cool ....... I was simply going by the earliest published date on those two books... No doubt, the earliest book in the Stainless Steel Rat series was published much earlier.

     Obviously your history stretches back further, which is really interesting.  There were a number of great Science Fiction magazine stories that were expanded upon, by their authors, to later turn into good or even great books. Back in the day, this was fairly common practice. However, by the time I was reading Science Fiction, this did not appear to be the standard model anymore. Many books, especially by established authors, were written for direct publication bypassing the magazine story and/or serial stage.
     Science Fiction magazines did exist and still do. However, they are not nearly as popular nor the preferred medium for conveying stories that they once were. Given the time the Stainless Steel Rat For President (1982) and Gets Drafted (1987) books were first published, I assumed that they were written just before their publication dates, though I could certainly be wrong.

I used to read Analog back in the late 1950s early 1960s. We had a college student rooming with us and he left copies about which I picked up an read as a squirt.

 Dying to be Ill,  Marc Feldman and Gary Yates, 2018.  Case studies of Factitious Disorder (Munchausen's) and FD by proxy and by Internet.  

That gets a little heavy,  so I'm frequently switching off to A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century by Heather Heying.  When that gets a little heavy, I go back to the other.  I should read some Peanuts instead to cleanse the palate! 

Sooo ... is she yeast or plant? 🙂

Touche! 😀

Laboring through 214 pages of well produced but not encouraging news: "Climate Change in New Mexico Over the Next 50 Years: Impacts on Water Resources."

Contributing authors are from all the right places:

1.New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New NM 87801

2.Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA

3.Department of Earth and Environmental Science, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico 87801

4.Geography and Environmental Studies, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA

5.New Mexico Climate Center, Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003

6.Civil Engineering Department, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003

7.Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA

8.Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA

9.USGS New Mexico Water Science Center, 6700 Edith Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87113

For more information, see: geoinfo.nmt.edu/ClimatePanel

last revised: 9/16/2021 (see change log via link above)

 

Just about anything Cormac McCarthy generates.

That deserves a Rim Shot.

Campbell Morgan Bible teacher
By Harold Murray

Quite a good read.

FKG3

Life and Adventures of "Billy" Dixon, of Adobe Walls, Texas Panhandle; a Narrative in Which is Described Many Things Relating to the Early Southwest, ... at Adobe Walls and the Desperate Engage.

Ordered several books as Christmas gifts and treated myself to William Trevor's Last Stories.  Just started it this morning, but it looks promising....