Currently reading Words of Radiance (stormlight archive series).
Got a lot of tins open. but i was smoking royal yacht last night while reading
Got a lot of tins open. but i was smoking royal yacht last night while reading
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Great books on the MIddle East, and not the downer I expected for the raw energy of the reporting and research, "Then All Hell Broke Loose" by Richard Engel, NBC correspondent who moved to Egypt and an array of other places in the Middle East over twenty years and learned Arabic and is beyond an area expert, and a superb journalist; and "Black Flags," by Jobey Warrick with the Washington Post, an extensively researched incredibly well-written history of Isis. Both these are in-depth critiques of U.S. policy that go far beyond polarized party politics and deliver the culture and politics of the Middle East, its history and its present. Challenging, tough, and uncompromising. No one will come away patting himself on the back.
While it's technically not reading, I have found myself sitting on the patio at night with a pipe of whatever I select to smoke and listening to old time radio programs. One of my favorite podcasts for this is Great Detectives of Old Time Radio. I have also listened to all the episodes available for Sherlock Holmes on Old Time Radio. Most of the episodes are 30 - 35 minutes in length and star some of the great actors/actresses of the Golden Age of Movies and TV. The ones I've listened to so far date from the 1930s to 50s.
Rereading the "Day to Day Armageddon" trilogy preparing to revive book 4 this month, enjoying H&H White Knight in a Mr. Brog briar pickax.
This evening it's been Sutliff's Heavy English in a recently acquired and refurbished estate Doodler while reading Northrup Frye's "The Educated Imagination".
"Ray Bradbury - Stories Volume 2" and Frog Morton's Cellar in my "gardening pipe," a rusticated Savinelli Punto Oro 316. As I read through this thread it appears that FMC is a popular accompaniment to the written word.
Reading a biography of General James Longstreet and smoking Dunhill Nightcap the last few nights
Not reading, grilling steaks and fresh garden squash and tried a new tin I got, East India Trading Company Royal Challenge in a Patriot Cob Pipe, enjoyed it enuff to pen a review
Beezer-good man. Today I read Roberth Letham's book, "The Holy Trinity", the book of James (current sermon series that we're preaching through), and Mark Jones' "Knowing Christ" while smoking "Autumn Evening", as today was the first real Fall feeling day here.
In a few days I'll be sittin' up at my cabin, smoking who knows what and reading (for the 1000x time) "A River Runs Through It".
In a few days I'll be sittin' up at my cabin, smoking who knows what and reading (for the 1000x time) "A River Runs Through It".
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. Diamond lucidly offers a brilliantly reasoned answer to a short but very complicated question. Whether one buys his answer or not, he's an excellent writer.
I also just reread A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman. Another excellent writer whose prose is always a pleasure to read. If you think the 20th century was eventful, give the 14th a look.
Both are excellent complements to your favorite pipe tobacco.
I also just reread A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman. Another excellent writer whose prose is always a pleasure to read. If you think the 20th century was eventful, give the 14th a look.
Both are excellent complements to your favorite pipe tobacco.
Jazz: I second Graves' Goodbye to All That. Last year I read that along with Ernst Juenger's Storm of Steel and Siegfried's Sassoon's autobiography (and his autobiographical fiction The George Therston trilogy). After the memoirs I read Remarque's All Quiet On The Western Front and Edward March's Company K. In retrospect, that was perhaps too much WWI misery all in a row
Currently studying for the GRE. It wasn't required for my first masters in seminary but it is required for my masters in counseling. The pipe provides a great studying atmosphere.
Received our new plainer/joiner at work, gota go over the tech manual and develop a preventive maintenance (PM) checklist for the boss, well now I have a reason to sit and smoke, I mean read, not a total loss :
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