I have really enjoyed a few of his other books... good story teller. So, I am looking forward to this one.
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the wifey is coming home late tonight with my new Kindle Oasis. I much prefer a real paper book but in its absence I will use it. The first book I read will either be a Connie Willis or the last 2 books of Tad Williams' Series "To Green Angel Tower".
I prefer actual books also, but as I get older, it is nicer to have the ability to make the text larger.
I agree. Changing the text sizing and line spacing is great for my aging eyes. And the backlighting means I can sit anywhere and read, regardless of lighting.
I completely agree with this. I will always choose a real book if I can but when I am in a country where English is not the primary language, I will go with the electronic version.
Back home I will always default to my old collection. Some Aasimov, Zelazney, Asprin, Pratchett, Brian Jacques, Kipling, etc.
That one looks quite interesting. Let us know if it lives up to expectations please.
I'm in a Great Books Group that has been going for 2 years or so now, this month we are reading Plato's Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman. For lighter reading when Plato makes my head hurt, I'm reading I, Robot by Asimov.
Reading aloud the first Harry Potter (The Sorcerers Stone) to my 11 yr old autistic daughter. A Sand County Almanac by Leopold (an annual visit). Seamus Heaney Poems 1965-1975. And at least 2 science papers an evening: tonight, "A reduction in spring mixing due to road salt runoff entering Mirror Lake" and "Why climate change makes riparian restoration more important than ever: recommendations for practice and research".
Kids, Sex & Screens: Raising Strong, Resilient Children in the Sexualized Digital Age
An eye opening read and a good book to hand out to anyone with kids. I picked it up because I have a 9 year old son and it was suggested that I was already a couple of years too late.
With the internet, it sure as hell isn't anything like finding an old stash of playboy magazines in the basement, and I think that most people are just completely oblivious.
Good luck.
An eye opening read and a good book to hand out to anyone with kids. I picked it up because I have a 9 year old son and it was suggested that I was already a couple of years too late.
With the internet, it sure as hell isn't anything like finding an old stash of playboy magazines in the basement, and I think that most people are just completely oblivious.
Good luck.
The Orientalist. A biography about an author previously unknown to me, Lev Nussimbaum aka Essad Bey aka several other aliases. Born in Baku, Azerbadjan 1905 he seemed always to be where things got bad. The russian revolution, the fall of the Osmannic Empire, various acts of revolution and violence in the Weimar rebublic etc until his death in Italy during WW2. Very fascinating.
I'm about to finish David Foster Wallace's "The Broom of the System". Next up will be "The Pale King" by the same author.
I'm starting the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment.
Finally getting to "On The Road" by Jack Kerouac. After that hope to tackle "Pale Fire" by Nabokov of "Lolita" fame.
I just read “Make Your Bed“ by retired Admiral William McRaven. This is a quick read and each of my four grown children will receive it at Christmas. Since they could read they have received a book at Christmas even my grandchildren get a book each year From the time they were born. A tradition I will continue until I am gone.
Well since they finall announced the date for the new Dresden files book by Jim Butcher I am re-reading the series to get amped for its release.
Moving on to a western, "Appaloosa" by Robert B. Parker, of "Spenser: For Hire" fame.
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