One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Marquez.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Marquez.
Oaxaca, by Oliver Sacks
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers: Idiots Abroad Part I by Gilbert Shelton and Paul Mavrides
Re-reading "Ender's Shadow" by Orson Scott Card.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer (A slow read as it is full of history and long footnotes, but worth it).
to be followed by Up the Line, Robert SilverbergQuote:
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is a non-fiction book by William L. Shirer chronicling the general history of Nazi Germany from 1932 to 1945. It was first published in 1960, by Simon & Schuster in the United States, where it won a National Book Award.[1] It was a bestseller in both the U.S. and Europe, and a critical success outside Germany, where harsh criticism stimulated sales. Academic historians were generally critical.
Rise and Fall is based upon captured Third Reich documents, the available diaries of propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, General Franz Halder, and of the Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano, evidence and testimony from the Nuremberg trials, British Foreign Office reports, and the author's recollection of six years reporting on the Third Reich for newspapers, the United Press International (UPI), and CBS Radio —terminated by Nazi Party censorship in 1940.
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The story's protagonist is Jud Elliott III, a failed Harvard history masters student in 2059. Bored with his job as a law clerk, he takes up a position with the Time Service as a Time Courier.After an introductory course, Jud shunts up and down the time line ("up the line" is travel into the past; "down the line" is forward time travel, but only to "now-time," Jud's present of 2059) as a guide for tourists visiting ancient and medieval Byzantium/Constantinople.
Jud's problems include not only stupid tourists, but also greedy and mentally unstable colleagues who attempt to cause various types of havoc with the past. He is forced to break the rules in order to patch things up without drawing the attention of the Time Patrol.
atm nothing ... but that will change on monday when i start assisting in the operation of a mooc. i have a blog post to write, another blog post to edit, a travel award application to complete and a newsletter to write ... and on monday i also start reworking a literature review for a class in which i have an incomplete.
and all this ignores all the books i brought back from librarians gone wild!
Now, Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy.
Uncle Johns 25th Edition Bathroom Reader
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I'm reading this: https://forums.hamisland.net/showthr...Reading-Thread
On edit, keep clicking on the link each time it pops up. (;->)
i'm not reading schoolwork (for which i'll pay dearly in a few weeks, but i need a break). i was supposed to read chris kluwe's sparkleponies book but i can't find it. it's here somewhere...
I finished The Valley of Creation by Edmond Hamilton a couple of nights ago, have started Up The Line, am dabbling in Thomas Merton (A Year With) and New York Noir. NY Noir is a 5 books-in-one compilation of short stories. Starting with Brooklyn Noir, each of the 5 boroughs of the city makes one book apiece and it was written over the period of a decade or so. A free sample in EPUB or MOBI is available here.
Lady Windemere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
"Fenway 1912" by Glenn Stout
followed by "The Yankee Years" by Joe Torre
Now on "The Screwtape Letters" by C. S. Lewis (of Chronicles of Narnia fame).
Adapted recently into a play too.
Putting Joe Torre on hold.
Syndrome by Thomas Hoover.
Finished "Revelations" by Elaine Pagels and "Brooklyn Noir 2" (various authors) - highly recommend both.
Presently listening to an audiobook of "The Problem of Pain" by C. S. Lewis. 2/3rds thru and excellent so far. To any who are of an open mind, may I suggest this to be read or listened to.
Anthony Bourdain, "A Cook's Tour."
After Tolstoy, I also read "Ham Radio's Technical Culture," by Krysten Haring and Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential," the latter of which I had to stop reading in bed because I laughed so hard that it disturbed my wife.
Reading/listening to WB6NOA Extra Class test prep. Not reading much else.
MSDS sheets. Trying to determine why my eyes still burn ater I leave work. It's not the refries.
Neil Gaiman, American Gods.
Fun romp into fantasy with social commentary that will make you laugh out loud. Read it.
Cambridge exam course preparation papers. It would seem that work isn't done, even at 6:30 AM. Funny, one would think that is when it should start rather than end.
Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalists by John Shelby Spong. A good starting point on realistic 21st Century Theology. The Vatican Diaries - a journalists view of the Vatican. Beginning Murder on the Rue Dumas and Haunted Catskills.
I'm on a Neil Gaiman binge. Read American Gods, then a couple of books of his short stories, now I'm reading Anansi Boys.
Serpent by Clive Cussler. Fiction with some real events based on the collision of the MS Stockholm and the SS Andrea Doria, which sank.
Finished LA Noir (pretty good), finally got Haunted Catskills which looks great.
Nothing like good timing.
Finished Anansi Boys, read Bourdain's Nasty Bits, read two more Gaiman novels (Neverwhere and Stardust, the latter of which I realized I'd read before but can't remember when), now about to begin Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl on the XYL's recommendation.
RR
We have stacks of books all over this house. I am currently reading The Natural Navigator and Haunted Inns and Hotels. Just finished North To The Night...which was awesome!
E readers rock. Back in the 70s, I had stacks of books around my apartment. Now I have more books to read and whenever I want a library book, I can download one from a 80+ association of libraries online. Comes in great when a blizzrd snows you in. Free books and newspapers - and no stacks - can't beat that
I dunno...i guess i have a romantic notion of oddly shaped booked stacked all over the place. Kind of an old wizards shop kind of thing.
The XYL is a librarian by trade, so we agree, but they're evrn opening E-libraries with no books. They have computers instead. Thank the Internet and G. W. Bush. The internet for technology, Bush for cutting library budgets thus speeding this changeover.
Still, e-readers make it so you can travel with your whole library on a 7" flatscreen on no more than a Micro High Capacity SD Card. About the size of a small postage stamp. I'm posting from mine right now using the touchscreen.
I will always have room for technology, and i will embrace it as long as its not designed to kill people. So that brings us back to books...we will be the weird, old collectors, i guess.
Besides, where would all of our cats sleep? :lol: