Ralphie ★ Posted January 18, 2020 Share #1 Posted January 18, 2020 I am reading a few at once so it is slow going. Not really the best way to read but there it is. Everything at Once by Bill Nye right now. He is an optimistic guy so it is an enjoyable read so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffJim Posted January 18, 2020 Share #2 Posted January 18, 2020 Still reading Pokémon for Dummies. Just can’t seem to get past Chapter 4. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen ★ Posted January 18, 2020 Share #3 Posted January 18, 2020 Tony Robinson, No Cunning Plan because I love Time Team 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 18, 2020 Share #4 Posted January 18, 2020 The Screwtape letters and Wilderness the gateway to the soul. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 18, 2020 Author Share #5 Posted January 18, 2020 5 minutes ago, Allen said: Tony Robinson, No Cunning Plan because I love Time Team First I ever heared of him. I like autobiographies. How other people live their lives is always fascinating to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
late Posted January 18, 2020 Share #6 Posted January 18, 2020 Book 1 of The Expanse Blowout by Rachel Maddow (very timely) Working, a short book by the historian, Caro, on his career Outpost, a diplomat reminiscing about his career What Hath God Wrought, brilliant Pulitzer winning history of the period 1815 to 1848 Factfulness, goofy book by an economist. He reminds me of the breathless optimism you saw a few years before WW1 ripped the Continent apart and ended 3 empires and deeply wounded a 4th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 18, 2020 Author Share #7 Posted January 18, 2020 4 minutes ago, Zackny said: The Screwtape letters and Wilderness the gateway to the soul. The Screwtape Letters looks interesting. “For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.“ Hard to argue with that! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen ★ Posted January 18, 2020 Share #8 Posted January 18, 2020 5 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said: First I ever heared of him. I like autobiographies. How other people live their lives is always fascinating to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Robinson https://www.youtube.com/user/rszaaijer That’s the wiki page for Tony, and a YouTube channel full of Time Team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petitepedal ★ Posted January 18, 2020 Share #9 Posted January 18, 2020 I was just wondering if this would pop up.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tizeye Posted January 18, 2020 Share #10 Posted January 18, 2020 Wife is reading State Park brochure listing all the State Parks. Plotting some outing. Last thing she said to me was “How far away is Hardy County” followed by “oh, and Paines prairie, while we saw the wild horses at a distance, never found the free range buffalo” ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 18, 2020 Author Share #11 Posted January 18, 2020 7 minutes ago, Tizeye said: Wife is reading State Park brochure listing all the State Parks. Plotting some outing. Last thing she said to me was “How far away is Hardy County” followed by “oh, and Paines prairie, while we saw the wild horses at a distance, never found the free range buffalo” ? I wanted to see the mermaids. Just sounds like such a piece of classic Americana. I was glad we saw cypress gardens back in the day too. Not a state park, but a piece of Florida history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinneR ★ Posted January 18, 2020 Share #12 Posted January 18, 2020 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
late Posted January 18, 2020 Share #13 Posted January 18, 2020 1 minute ago, dennis said: Sounds a little like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 18, 2020 Author Share #14 Posted January 18, 2020 Did you start that before or after he died, Dennis? Looks good! So many books, so little free time. I blame SW. And the rest of you bastards for being so engaging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinneR ★ Posted January 18, 2020 Share #15 Posted January 18, 2020 10 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said: Did you start that before or after he died, Dennis? Looks good! So many books, so little free time. I blame SW. And the rest of you bastards for being so engaging. Before. Last year. I set it aside to read another book in between, Endure by Alex Hutchinson. Now I've set that one aside and gone back to Neil. I think Neil wrote four or five books. Ghost Rider is very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tizeye Posted January 18, 2020 Share #16 Posted January 18, 2020 29 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said: I wanted to see the mermaids. Just sounds like such a piece of classic Americana. I was glad we saw cypress gardens back in the day too. Not a state park, but a piece of Florida history. It is now a State Park as Disney destroyed it’s business. On the to do list when granddaughter visits in a year or two. Going through some renovations this year plus she is only 3. Did see where they were hiring mermaids and apparently now can swim with mermaids. Cypress Gardens is now Legoland, but they apparently did retain a small portion of the gardens and I believe still have the water ski show. That is also my home town and I was forced to date those “southern belles” as they were my classmates in high school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 18, 2020 Author Share #17 Posted January 18, 2020 Just now, Tizeye said: forced That must have been tough. We're sorry. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UglyBob Posted January 18, 2020 Share #18 Posted January 18, 2020 Story Engineering by Larry Brooks. FYI: The next James McCarthy book should be out in a couple of months. The book is completely edited and formatted. Working on the cover and book blurb right now. Re-edited second editions of the first two books are also scheduled to be released around the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted January 18, 2020 Share #19 Posted January 18, 2020 Operation Drumbeat. German submarines off the east coast of the US. A remarkably exciting account of German's little-known U-boat campaign against merchant shipping along the North American Atlantic coast during 1942, which along with simultaneous attacks in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico caused greater losses in ships and lives than those suffered at Pearl Harbor. Illustrated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted January 18, 2020 Share #20 Posted January 18, 2020 I have a few memory improvement ebooks I'm checking out. I'm reading this one first because it doesn't just teach you memory retention tricks. It looks at normal and see-a-doctor memory lapses, normal aging effects, and more. It also looks at the effects on memory of getting the right amount of sleep, exercise, nutrition, interaction with others, stress, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted January 18, 2020 Share #21 Posted January 18, 2020 1 hour ago, maddmaxx said: Operation Drumbeat. German submarines off the east coast of the US. A remarkably exciting account of German's little-known U-boat campaign against merchant shipping along the North American Atlantic coast during 1942, which along with simultaneous attacks in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico caused greater losses in ships and lives than those suffered at Pearl Harbor. Illustrated I remember reading, maybe in Churchill's History of WW2, that the U-boats had a field day off the East Coast while American coastal cities left their lights on at night in 1942, despite the British warning the American government to shut them off! The lights allowed the Germans to see the freighters silhouetted against the lights. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 18, 2020 Author Share #22 Posted January 18, 2020 2 minutes ago, MickinMD said: I remember reading, Well then, you don’t need the memory book! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted January 18, 2020 Share #23 Posted January 18, 2020 This just showed up from Amazon yesterday so it’s next on the paper version list. And I’ve been listening to this series the last several weeks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted January 18, 2020 Share #24 Posted January 18, 2020 I only buy it for the articles. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted January 18, 2020 Share #25 Posted January 18, 2020 A major Vancouver bridge collapsed during construction in 1957, killing 18. My son's boss was one of the divers who attended so he gave my son a copy of the book. It is an interesting read about what happened 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted January 18, 2020 Share #26 Posted January 18, 2020 Just finished (about an hour ago) Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot) by Agatha Christie. Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to ‘get rid of’ her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead. And yet the great Belgian detective couldn’t help feeling that he was being taken for a ride. After all, how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? And what could be her motive now that the aristocrat had finally granted her a divorce? Next up is Tor freebie - Truthwitch by Susan Dennard. Should be a quick read. In the Witchlands, there are almost as many types of magic as there are ways to get in trouble―as two desperate young women know all too well. Safiya is a Truthwitch, able to discern truth from lie. It’s a powerful magic that many would kill to have on their side, especially amongst the nobility to which Safi was born. So Safi must keep her gift hidden, lest she be used as a pawn in the struggle between empires. Iseult, a Threadwitch, can see the invisible ties that bind and entangle the lives around her―but she cannot see the bonds that touch her own heart. Her unlikely friendship with Safi has taken her from life as an outcast into one of reckless adventure, where she is a cool, wary balance to Safiya’s hotheaded impulsiveness. Safiya and Iseult just want to be free to live their own lives, but war is coming to the Witchlands. With the help of the cunning Prince Merik (a Windwitch and privateer) and the hindrance of a Bloodwitch bent on revenge, the friends must fight emperors, princes, and mercenaries alike, who will stop at nothing to get their hands on a Truthwitch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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