What Are You Reading?
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What Are You Reading?
Haven't seen or done one of these for awhile.
EBook
1) "Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction is Hurting our Kids and how to Break the Trance"
2) "The Rediscovered Country" -A hunting safari in northern Tanzania circa 1900
Real Book
1) "AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order"
2) "Operation Solo: The FBi's Man in the Kremlin"
Next up
"The Black Book of Communism and something on the Crusades and/or something by Wendell Berry
EBook
1) "Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction is Hurting our Kids and how to Break the Trance"
2) "The Rediscovered Country" -A hunting safari in northern Tanzania circa 1900
Real Book
1) "AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order"
2) "Operation Solo: The FBi's Man in the Kremlin"
Next up
"The Black Book of Communism and something on the Crusades and/or something by Wendell Berry
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Re: What Are You Reading?
A rare venture into non-fiction:
Just finished:
Just finished:
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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
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?
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made The Modern World, Steven Johnson
The first thing is the printing press, which made people realize they needed glasses, which got people thinking about lenses, which got us to the telescope and microscope, which helped us realize things are very big and very small.
His premise is the hummingbird effect, how a thing leads to another thing that you probably didn't expect.
He tries to avoid value judgments - a question in the intro: air-conditioning made it possible for us to live in deserts, but at what cost to the water sources? - but I'm glad he at least raises some of them.
The first thing is the printing press, which made people realize they needed glasses, which got people thinking about lenses, which got us to the telescope and microscope, which helped us realize things are very big and very small.
His premise is the hummingbird effect, how a thing leads to another thing that you probably didn't expect.
He tries to avoid value judgments - a question in the intro: air-conditioning made it possible for us to live in deserts, but at what cost to the water sources? - but I'm glad he at least raises some of them.
If you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked. - Tom Robbins
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At the moment of commitment, the universe conspires to assist you. - attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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At the moment of commitment, the universe conspires to assist you. - attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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I won a preview copy of this in Goodreads giveaway and have just gotten to it.
You live and learn. Or at least you live. - Douglas Adams
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Re: What Are You Reading?
Altered Carbon By Richard Morgan. interesting sci-fi book lots of thing to think about. Having a harder time getting into the Netflix 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.
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It's my day to host the blog tour on February 16.
Check out our website: http://www.silverscreenvideos.com
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Re: What Are You Reading?
I read the first chunk of the Doris Kearns Goodwin, but then had the trip to London, and couldn't renew it at the library because it was on the wish list for other people. I heard her on a podcast interview, and thought she was petty smart.
If you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked. - Tom Robbins
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At the moment of commitment, the universe conspires to assist you. - attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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At the moment of commitment, the universe conspires to assist you. - attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.