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I just started reading UBIK by Phillip K Dick. Can't say I completely understand what it's about but I've been getting back into his stuff after a long departure. I recently read The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and it was great.
The diaries of Samuel Pepys and James Woodforde.
John Evelyn is next. One day too long, a life too short; sigh.
John Evelyn is next. One day too long, a life too short; sigh.
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Old Gowrie in a Pete SH Professor
Went from the Carl Hiaasen I just finished to another Florida crime writer. Now reading Darker than Amber by John D. MacDonald.
Was delighted by this passage on page 65. This Travis McGee fellow seems like my kind of guy.
Was delighted by this passage on page 65. This Travis McGee fellow seems like my kind of guy.
Wow, thats written by a true pipe enthusiast!
How is that book? I have had it in my amazon shopping cart for a while but haven't pulled the trigger. I've been through the entire Holmes canon twice in the past year (both times as audiobooks) as well as several audio versions of staged readings. I can't get enough of that strange and brilliant man.
"Maria Mitchell" by her daughter, Phoebe Mitchell Kendall, 1896.
I tend to read quite a bit about the history of astronomy, especially since my night skies have been blighted with ignorant, ugly, blinding, light pollution over the last few years. Maria Mitchell was an astronomer, and head of the department at Vassar, at a time when female astronomers were a rarity.
The most interesting aspect of this book wasn't particularly the story of her life, but her perceptions and opinions about places she visited, the American pre Civil War South, a tour of Europe, and ESPECIALLY the people she met... Many of the prominent men and women of astronomy and science of the day. Maria Mitchell was a strong, opinionated, woman, and her impressions are often surprising and enlightening. I love this stuff...
I'd searched for this book for a long time. There are a lot of reprints, I'd suppose due to "women's study" courses, but I like to read off of OLD pages. This book came at a good price, and aside from the guilded top, the pages were still uncut. I was the first one to read it in 129 years.
I tend to read quite a bit about the history of astronomy, especially since my night skies have been blighted with ignorant, ugly, blinding, light pollution over the last few years. Maria Mitchell was an astronomer, and head of the department at Vassar, at a time when female astronomers were a rarity.
The most interesting aspect of this book wasn't particularly the story of her life, but her perceptions and opinions about places she visited, the American pre Civil War South, a tour of Europe, and ESPECIALLY the people she met... Many of the prominent men and women of astronomy and science of the day. Maria Mitchell was a strong, opinionated, woman, and her impressions are often surprising and enlightening. I love this stuff...
I'd searched for this book for a long time. There are a lot of reprints, I'd suppose due to "women's study" courses, but I like to read off of OLD pages. This book came at a good price, and aside from the guilded top, the pages were still uncut. I was the first one to read it in 129 years.