What are you reading? - Snowpocalypse Edition
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What are you reading? - Snowpocalypse Edition
I'm finishing up:
It's a very complicated (for me) techno-thriller that want to see through to the end.
Still reading:
Recently finished:
and
Coming up:
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Available now:
The Secret At Haney Field: A Baseball Mystery
The Right Hand Rule
Center Point
Dizzy Miss Lizzie
Running On Empty
The Tick Tock Man
The Dragon's Song by Binh Pham and R. M. Clark
Devin Drake and The Family Secret
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Available now:
The Secret At Haney Field: A Baseball Mystery
The Right Hand Rule
Center Point
Dizzy Miss Lizzie
Running On Empty
The Tick Tock Man
The Dragon's Song by Binh Pham and R. M. Clark
Devin Drake and The Family Secret
Visit my website: http://www.rmclarkauthor.com
Ready: Devin Drake and The RollerGhoster
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Re: What are you reading? - Snowpocalypse Edition
Reading some guy named Clark, The Ticktock Man. Very cool and weird.
Also, don't judge, Susan Wiggs, Lakeshore Chronicles. Qualify as romance novels but if you slough off the heart throbbing the storylines are engaging.
Finished Heartbreak Hotel, Johnathan Kellerman. It's okay.
Been awhile but recommend Swamplandia! (exclamation point in title) by Karen Russell, finalist for Pulitzer in 2012. Brilliant.
Also, don't judge, Susan Wiggs, Lakeshore Chronicles. Qualify as romance novels but if you slough off the heart throbbing the storylines are engaging.
Finished Heartbreak Hotel, Johnathan Kellerman. It's okay.
Been awhile but recommend Swamplandia! (exclamation point in title) by Karen Russell, finalist for Pulitzer in 2012. Brilliant.
Well, then
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Re: What are you reading? - Snowpocalypse Edition
Among the more mainstream books I've read lately are a couple of older mysteries, Blood on the Moon by James Ellroy, and To Die in California by Newton Thornburg. This is early Ellroy, not his best but still good, albeit with some very dated views on homosexuality (a major plot point in the book). Thornburg is largely forgotten today, but the man could write and this book about a political cover-up reads more like classic tragedy than a typical whodunit.
Also a non-fiction book that's highly interesting, Everything Is Obvious by Duncan Watts. It exposes a lot of fallacies about using "common sense" to solve large scale world problems.
Also a non-fiction book that's highly interesting, Everything Is Obvious by Duncan Watts. It exposes a lot of fallacies about using "common sense" to solve large scale world problems.
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Re: What are you reading? - Snowpocalypse Edition
Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right
Jennifer Burns, 2009
Re-reading
To Sail Beyond the Sunset
Robert Heinlein, 1987
Sampling as a treat here and there (I don't want it to be over so I am reading only a little bit each day)
Becoming Wise: An inquiry into the mystery and art of living
Krista Tiplett, 2016
Jennifer Burns, 2009
Re-reading
To Sail Beyond the Sunset
Robert Heinlein, 1987
Sampling as a treat here and there (I don't want it to be over so I am reading only a little bit each day)
Becoming Wise: An inquiry into the mystery and art of living
Krista Tiplett, 2016
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Re: What are you reading? - Snowpocalypse Edition
For fiction-Reading the first of the "Inspector Pekkala" books.
Also "The Devil's Oasis"-The 3rd of 3 Anton Rider books by Bartle Bull.
Non-fiction-"A Man For All Markets"-mentioned in another thread-I am disappointed and won't recommend it.
And "The Conquering Tide"-2nd of a planned WW2 Pacific Naval trilogy.
Also "The Devil's Oasis"-The 3rd of 3 Anton Rider books by Bartle Bull.
Non-fiction-"A Man For All Markets"-mentioned in another thread-I am disappointed and won't recommend it.
And "The Conquering Tide"-2nd of a planned WW2 Pacific Naval trilogy.
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Re: What are you reading? - Snowpocalypse Edition
I just finished Charles Bukowski's Post Office and just started re-reading Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls (I last read it in 1988).
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Re: What are you reading? - Snowpocalypse Edition
"Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow
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Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
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Re: What are you reading? - Snowpocalypse Edition
I like these threads a lot better since I joined two book clubs.
Just finished The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. I'm still struggling with the most telling question of the afternoon -- How do I apply this to my life? Next up -- Lab Girl by Hope Jahren.
Other book club's book from last month, Dreamland by Sam Quinones. I know I mentioned it somewhere on the Bored. Next up -- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. Before this book, I never traveled with a hardback in my life, but I took this one to Alaska. I'm re-reading it now because I get to lead the discussion.
Just finished The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. I'm still struggling with the most telling question of the afternoon -- How do I apply this to my life? Next up -- Lab Girl by Hope Jahren.
Other book club's book from last month, Dreamland by Sam Quinones. I know I mentioned it somewhere on the Bored. Next up -- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. Before this book, I never traveled with a hardback in my life, but I took this one to Alaska. I'm re-reading it now because I get to lead the discussion.
-- In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
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Re: What are you reading? - Snowpocalypse Edition
But how's the book?Beebs52 wrote:Reading some guy named Clark, The Ticktock Man. Very cool and weird.
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
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Re: What are you reading? - Snowpocalypse Edition
Ba da bing! Thank you, you'll be here all night.Estonut wrote:But how's the book?Beebs52 wrote:Reading some guy named Clark, The Ticktock Man. Very cool and weird.
Well, then
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Re: What are you reading? - Snowpocalypse Edition
I'm reading an anthology in Eric Flint's 1632 series:
New volumes are being published in this series faster than I can keep up with them!
New volumes are being published in this series faster than I can keep up with them!
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Re: What are you reading? - Snowpocalypse Edition
Kindle: Hillbilly Elegy
Audible relisten: The Handmaid's Tale
Dailylit e-mail: Middlemarch
Audible relisten: The Handmaid's Tale
Dailylit e-mail: Middlemarch
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Re: What are you reading? - Snowpocalypse Edition
Heatwave wrapping up here, but I'll play anyway.
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Re: What are you reading? - Snowpocalypse Edition
Reading: Blogging for Dummies (yeah, yeah, that Quality blog never got off the ground last year. Maybe now that I'm semi-retired, it'll happen.)
Listening to: How Great Science Fiction Works from The Great Courses collection. Interesting stuff and a great reminder of some authors I'd nearly forgotten.
Listening to: How Great Science Fiction Works from The Great Courses collection. Interesting stuff and a great reminder of some authors I'd nearly forgotten.
I just ordered chicken and an egg from Amazon. I'll let you know.
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Re: What are you reading? - Snowpocalypse Edition
gsabc: I dunno how that course is structured, but back in the 60s & seventies I read several really good essays about several authors, probably in the intros to anthologies &/or as sections in the anthologies themselves.
And there's one priceless essay taking apart one of the A.E. Van Vogt books, probably The World of Null-A or another in that series, where they showed where events occurred out-of-order; someone refers to something on page 38 as having happened when the actual event doesn't occur 'til page 106, that sort of thing. I loved the books anyway. Not the economical philosophies; sheesh. And I've got Slan-like silver tendrils all the heck over my head these days, but no telepathic abilities to speak of. Oh well.
And there's one priceless essay taking apart one of the A.E. Van Vogt books, probably The World of Null-A or another in that series, where they showed where events occurred out-of-order; someone refers to something on page 38 as having happened when the actual event doesn't occur 'til page 106, that sort of thing. I loved the books anyway. Not the economical philosophies; sheesh. And I've got Slan-like silver tendrils all the heck over my head these days, but no telepathic abilities to speak of. Oh well.
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Re: What are you reading? - Snowpocalypse Edition
GhostJMF>>>And I've got Slan-like silver tendrils all the heck over my head these days, but no telepathic abilities to speak of. Oh well.<<<
Don't sell yourself too short. I knew that you were going to say "Slan-like silver tendrils" before you posted this.
Don't sell yourself too short. I knew that you were going to say "Slan-like silver tendrils" before you posted this.
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Re: What are you reading? - Snowpocalypse Edition
Just finishing Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash. The audio version was available for a reduced price on Amazon. I liked it.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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It's funny how it's dated already.themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Just finishing Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash. The audio version was available for a reduced price on Amazon. I liked it.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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Re: What are you reading? - Snowpocalypse Edition
I almost forgot to recommend Michael Connolly's THE WRONG SIDE OF GOODBYE, one of the best in the Harry Bosch series
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.