Just finished the woman in the woods
Reading a book of bones
Listening to the Great Gatsby narrated by jake gyllenhall
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3001: The Final Odyssey is a 1997 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It is the fourth and final book in Clarke’s Space Odyssey series
Finished up “Educated”. Memoir of a girl who grew up in an abusive and mentally unstable fundamentalist family in Idaho but managed to get through college and a doctorate.
Very strange but interesting.
People question how if she was never really home schooled and kept out of public schools how she managed to get through college. I don’t. Desperation to get out of a situation you’ll teach yourself anything you need to get out.
I’m currently reading Mike Reilly’s book about Ironman.
So far this month I’ve finished:
Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting That Revolutionized Wine by George M. Taber - Interesting and a lot of Napa Valley history.
What Makes a Wine Worth Drinking: In Praise of the Sublime by Terry Theise - Way too tortured. Not at all what I thought it would be.
Why We Fight: One Man’s Search for Meaning Inside the Ring by Josh Rosenblatt - Good read. Former couch potato pacifist becomes a boxer.
Bad blood by John Carreyrou - the Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes story.
The stories in the book were worse than I had read previously
Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 by Mitchell Zuckoff. Excellent account of the day.
Just finished the Broken Earth series of Hugo/Nebula winning novels. Pretty decent.
New Neal Stephenson novel coming out next week, so that will probably chew up some of my bandwidth next month (almost 900 pages).
“For the sake of example. Capital Courts Martial 194-18” … Anthony Babington
Picked this up used in Ypers, Flanders recently.
The British executed over 350 men for various offences during WW1, mostly for “desertion” with no recognition of the medicopsychologic effects of the new form of warfare.
Replying to you because I’ve also recently read Judgment of Paris but really didn’t like it. I’m not averse to the subject matter but it didn’t read well to me.
Anyway, just finished “Tribe” by Sebastian Junger and am currently working my way through “Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society” by Nicholas A. Christakis and “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” by David W. Blight. They’re…going to take me a while.
I think there is a good movie about the wine tasting. Called bottle shock or something similar.
Just finished the woman in the woods
Reading a book of bones
Listening to the Great Gatsby narrated by jake gyllenhall
“Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City†by K.J. Parker. Quirky little fantasy novel that was really fun.
Re-read “The Martian†because I love that book.
Just finished “Fall and Rise: The Story of 9-11.†Really good, some parts are tearjerkers.
Embarking on “American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race.â€
Embarking on “American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race.â€
I found out recently that the term “Moonshot” was around before JFK or the Space Race to describe home runs hit by Wally Moon, a left-handed hitter with the Dodgers who managed to blast 400-foot-plus homers out of the LA Coliseum, when the team first moved to LA
https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-wally-moon-20180210-htmlstory.html
working my way thru Sophie Hannah’s books
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Embarking on “American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race.â€
I found out recently that the term “Moonshot” was around before JFK or the Space Race to describe home runs hit by Wally Moon, a left-handed hitter with the Dodgers who managed to blast 400-foot-plus homers out of the LA Coliseum, when the team first moved to LA
https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-wally-moon-20180210-htmlstory.html
The author mentions that in the prologue to the book. Pretty cool, I had no idea. I think they said it was Vin Scully who came up with it.
Ottoman Secret looks pretty good in your sprawling thriller category
am halfway through Where the Crawdads Sing, exceptional book club fiction
Presuasion by Robert Cialdini, about getting people to yes well before the pitch begins
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Lords of Finance - The bankers who broke the world. (winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
How is that. I keep looking at it
I just picked up 1mdb and how a decade of financial crises changed the world
**How is that. I keep looking at it **
I’m only in the Introduction so hard to say…
The book focuses on 4 central bankers at the Bank of England, Banquette’s de France, Reichsbank and the Federal Reserve of New York and how they controlled/manipulated the world’s economy. It’s a look at the decisions they made that contributed to the Great Depression and set the stage for WW2.
Looking forward to it.
Besides the mountains of children’s books I read every night (I think I can recite Green Eggs and Ham by heart now)
How Cycling Can Save the World
https://www.amazon.com/How-Cycling-Can-Save-World/dp/0143111779
Some arguments were a bit of a stretch but the amount of research and interviews of city engineers/planners helped stress several points and pointed out some thought provoking questions on urban development. Really made me want to go to Denmark and see how well it works there.
Just read Outpost by Michael Gear (SYFY) while on the beach. Pretty good book.