Ralphie ★ Posted November 19, 2017 Share #1 Posted November 19, 2017 I am doing the parallel book thing again. Slow Medicine and Regis Philbin's How I Got This Way. I feel a little guilty aboot the Hollywood thing, but I have always enjoyed reading bios and ottobios of tv stars. Regis starts off with how he loved bing Crosby and the great story of how he finally met him while he was second banana on joey bishops show, which I never knew he was. I loved joey bishop! Slow medicine is pretty cool too. A female doctor describing her experiences. I look forward to reading it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tybeegb Posted November 19, 2017 Share #2 Posted November 19, 2017 Vince Flynn's 'Mitch Rapp' series. I'm on book 9 - 'Protect and Defend'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UglyBob Posted November 19, 2017 Share #3 Posted November 19, 2017 I'm reading the "Force of Habit" pulp series by James Scott Bell. They're just short, fun stories about a vigilante nun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted November 19, 2017 Author Share #4 Posted November 19, 2017 2 minutes ago, UglyBob said: I'm reading the "Force of Habit" pulp series by James Scott Bell. They're just short, fun stories about a vigilante nun. Excellent title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UglyBob Posted November 19, 2017 Share #5 Posted November 19, 2017 1 minute ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said: Excellent title. They're all pretty clever. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted November 19, 2017 Share #6 Posted November 19, 2017 The Accidental President Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted November 19, 2017 Share #7 Posted November 19, 2017 I just finished this: Follows the standard formula of focusing on the main characters of a particular mission, starting with their childhoods and following up through their times in the service. I found it read easily and it was interesting. What nearly spoiled the book for me was the one sentence that called American servicemen 'racist' for the way they fought the Japanese. This is how the plane returned from the mission I'm still plowing through the first book (of two) of Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. I find it a difficult read due to the style of writing and, to some extent, being unfamiliar with current events, places, and people of the 1770's to which Smith refers. On the whole I find it worth continuing because I'm seeing applications of economics that still remain true today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petitepedal ★ Posted November 19, 2017 Share #8 Posted November 19, 2017 I need to pick up something new...I have a couple of inspirational books at my bedside..for a few minutes before bed...lately it has been one on meditation..but I need to change that up. I may have to start another Jack Reacher 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted November 19, 2017 Share #9 Posted November 19, 2017 Airplane type specific airplane shit. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital_photog ★ Posted November 19, 2017 Share #10 Posted November 19, 2017 Complete Guide to Winter Camping by Kevin Callan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted November 19, 2017 Author Share #11 Posted November 19, 2017 44 minutes ago, Digital_photog said: Complete Guide to Winter Camping by Kevin Callan Brrr! Your sick! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted November 19, 2017 Share #12 Posted November 19, 2017 I have Elizabeth Warren's A Fighting Chance unopened on my shelf and I'm halfway through Ben Bernanke's The Courage to Act. I also have all five of Douglas Adams' A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books on my Kindle Fire: I saw the movie, but never read the books. When I need so light, twisted comedy, I'll begin them. But right now I'm stuck in the 1700's to 1800's range in my chess rating and want to get to 2000. I don't expect to get to chessmaster (2200) level, but 2000 is doable, I think. Using my Advanced Teaching Certificate training, I assessed my weaknesses and realize I need to see tactics patterns better and make better attacking and calculation decisions. So I'm working Tactics Trainers (Chess Puzzles tailored to what you need to do to improve) and reading/studying Simple Attacking Plans by Master Fred Wilson, The Chess Attacker's Handbook by International Master Michael Song, and Grandmaster Preparation: Calculation by Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard. Anyone who says age 67 is too old to improve on complicated mental tasks, check out my 2017 progress in Standard Tactics Ratings at chesstempo.com, where you are confronted with ever-more-difficult problems the higher your rating gets. I began the year floating around 1500 and hit 1766.4 today: 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital_photog ★ Posted November 19, 2017 Share #13 Posted November 19, 2017 16 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said: Brrr! Your sick! Do you want to go to the Winter Camping Rendezvous Feb 1 - 5, 2018 in Northern Wisconsin with me? Will be taking the heated tent, snowshoes, toboggans, fat bikes. Prepare for temperatures between -30 and +35 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted November 19, 2017 Author Share #14 Posted November 19, 2017 Oh hell no! Winter camping Northern Wisconsin? Totally insane. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital_photog ★ Posted November 19, 2017 Share #15 Posted November 19, 2017 10 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said: Oh hell no! Winter camping Northern Wisconsin? Totally insane. Not that bad. less than an hour from Duluth, MN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted November 20, 2017 Share #16 Posted November 20, 2017 3 hours ago, Digital_photog said: Do you want to go to the Winter Camping Rendezvous Feb 1 - 5, 2018 in Northern Wisconsin with me? Will be taking the heated tent, snowshoes, toboggans, fat bikes. Prepare for temperatures between -30 and +35 When my boy was in scouts, we were doing a winter camping trip, temps were expected in 20's and dove down below zero. Somebody from the scout administration drove out to open the headquarters building for us. We were the only troop there, and just doing an unsupported tent trip. Nobody used the building. I was glad to have it open though, some of the boys didn't have the best gear, and I was a bit nervous. The boys handled the cold by building a big fire and sitting around it all night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted November 20, 2017 Share #17 Posted November 20, 2017 Black Book by John Grisham and someone else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voodoo Child Posted November 20, 2017 Share #18 Posted November 20, 2017 Hillbilly Elegy, by J. D. Vance. About growing up in Kentucky and Ohio, and how life is for many poor and struggling folks. Just finished White Trash; the 400-year Untold Story of Class In America, which pointed out how much revisionist history we're taught in the U S. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinneR ★ Posted November 20, 2017 Share #19 Posted November 20, 2017 March V.3 by John Lewis. The first two volumes were excellent. V. 3 won the National Book Award. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
az_cyclist Posted November 20, 2017 Share #20 Posted November 20, 2017 The Bourne Supremacy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinneR ★ Posted November 20, 2017 Share #21 Posted November 20, 2017 16 hours ago, Digital_photog said: Not that bad. less than an hour from Duluth, MN I love that part of the country. Chequamegon NF is beautiful. You might enjoy this one too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted November 20, 2017 Share #22 Posted November 20, 2017 I've got two books in rotation on the Kindle: I also have an assortment of periodicals that provide much of my nighttime reading. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital_photog ★ Posted November 20, 2017 Share #23 Posted November 20, 2017 50 minutes ago, dennis said: I love that part of the country. Chequamegon NF is beautiful. You might enjoy this one too. Already read that one. Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest Home of the Bear 100 and Hibernator 100. A good place to ride bike. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted November 20, 2017 Share #24 Posted November 20, 2017 18 hours ago, Digital_photog said: Do you want to go to the Winter Camping Rendezvous Feb 1 - 5, 2018 in Northern Wisconsin with me? Will be taking the heated tent, snowshoes, toboggans, fat bikes. Prepare for temperatures between -30 and +35 I love the idea of bringing "the heated tent". Man, that is sooo awesome. Tom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted November 20, 2017 Share #25 Posted November 20, 2017 @Bubonic Plague sent me some of his vintage magazines. Spoiler 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted November 20, 2017 Share #26 Posted November 20, 2017 I am re-reading John Douglas' "Mindhunter" on the development of FBI Criminal Profiling. Read it years ago and picked it off the shelf again after watching the Netflix series that is loosely based on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Karen_Cooper_Incident Posted November 20, 2017 Share #27 Posted November 20, 2017 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted November 20, 2017 Share #28 Posted November 20, 2017 2 hours ago, Zephyr said: I am re-reading John Douglas' "Mindhunter" on the development of FBI Criminal Profiling. Read it years ago and picked it off the shelf again after watching the Netflix series that is loosely based on it Are the results of the criminal profiling better or equivalent to the results from remote viewing? Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted November 20, 2017 Share #29 Posted November 20, 2017 A prequel series to the Honor Harrington SF series about her ancestors and the discovery of Tree Cats on Sphinx. "A beautiful friendship" David Weber Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted November 21, 2017 Share #30 Posted November 21, 2017 5 hours ago, Dunning Kruger said: The Project Gutenberg 'book' here, for anyone else that may want to read it: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34901/34901-h/34901-h.htm Welcome to 1859: "In the modern world, the greater size of political communities, and above all, the separation between spiritual and temporal authority (which placed the direction of men's consciences in other hands than those which controlled their worldly affairs), prevented so great an interference by law in the details of private life; but the engines of moral repression have been wielded more strenuously against divergence from the reigning opinion in self-regarding, than even in social matters; religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either by the ambition of a hierarchy, seeking control over every department of human conduct, or by the spirit of Puritanism." A tip of my hat to DK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted November 21, 2017 Share #31 Posted November 21, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted November 21, 2017 Share #32 Posted November 21, 2017 22 minutes ago, Thaddeus Kosciuszko said: The Project Gutenberg 'book' here, for anyone else that may want to read it: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34901/34901-h/34901-h.htm Welcome to 1859: "In the modern world, the greater size of political communities, and above all, the separation between spiritual and temporal authority (which placed the direction of men's consciences in other hands than those which controlled their worldly affairs), prevented so great an interference by law in the details of private life; but the engines of moral repression have been wielded more strenuously against divergence from the reigning opinion in self-regarding, than even in social matters; religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either by the ambition of a hierarchy, seeking control over every department of human conduct, or by the spirit of Puritanism." A tip of my hat to DK! Was that the longest sentence ever written? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted November 21, 2017 Share #33 Posted November 21, 2017 1 hour ago, maddmaxx said: Was that the longest sentence ever written? Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted November 23, 2017 Share #34 Posted November 23, 2017 An amazing lady sent me this book. I just started reading it today because it was delivered yesterday after my wife got home from work and we didn’t remember to go out and get the mail. So far I find the book fascinating. I’ll be starting back up with my Autism boy the beginning of December. I had to take a break while my shoulder heals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slow_Guy_On_Bike Posted November 24, 2017 Share #35 Posted November 24, 2017 Quote So, whatcha reading? Too much..... The Dragonlance Chronicles, by Weis and Hickman. God Alone, by John MacArthur Heft on Wheels, by Mike Magnuson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted December 21, 2017 Share #36 Posted December 21, 2017 After finishing Volume 1 of The Wealth of Nations, I decided to take a bit of a break from the 18th century. So I picked this up: OK, OK, I admit to skipping over some of the derivations and formulas because the book was originally intended as a textbook for a class. But so far it's been a good overall treatise on the subject, and I've learned a good deal. Two things I liked in particular: The book contains several references to and pictures from hydropower plants within easy cycling and driving distance from my home; places I've seen a number of times. The book itself is 90 years old, which may not seem all that remarkable. But for being 90 years old, the book has held up extremely well, exhibiting no signs of such age. Also I found it interesting that while the equipment itself has advance technologically, the concepts and application of engineering principles remain essentially the same. Reading about state-of-the-art electrical equipment from 90 years ago was fun. Some of the stuff I'd never heard of, and some of the the stuff I've seen similar equipment still in use. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted December 21, 2017 Author Share #37 Posted December 21, 2017 3 minutes ago, Thaddeus Kosciuszko said: But for being 90 years old, the book has held up extremely well, exhibiting no signs of such age. I submit that it is not exactly a page turner, so there are few oils from the hands of readers on it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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