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Just finished The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves (looking forward to the new season of Vera). Been on a jag where I've been reading the Star Trek: The Original Series books I have missed over the years. So I re-read My Enemy, My Ally by Diane Duane, and new to me books Mind Meld by John Vornholt, and The Latter Fires by James Swallow. Tried to read The New Earth series and just couldn't get into it. Will try again sometime.
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Jon Szanto (October 28th, 2023), Yazeh (November 20th, 2023)
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Finished reading The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté.
Fascinating/ enlightening read, Highly recommended
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Currently reading the Sword of Honor trilogy. Actually rereading, although this is the first time I've read Waugh 's recension; originally I read the individual novels -- Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, and Unconditional Surrender, which had been released over the course of the '50s and into the '60s as separate, stand-alone novels, and which contained repetitions and discrepancies that had been excised in the final version. It's been years, possibly decades, since I read the trilogy and it's like reading it for the first time in many ways, although some scenes do jog my memory. When I read it before, I was primarily entertained by Waugh's acerbic wit; this time I'm getting a better sense of the underlying substance. Waugh's writing works on so many different levels; rereading him always exposes new layers of the onion. He is unquestionably my favorite writer.
Quid rides? Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur. — Horace
(What are you laughing at? Just change the name and the joke’s on you.)
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Christendom. A Triumph of a Religion. By Peter Heather.
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I have some "Complete" Mark Twain compendium or some such that I go through continuously. Letters, speeches, sketches, etc... and now I've come back round to the travel book section.
Roughing It
"A truth does not mind being questioned. A lie does not like being challenged."
Yazeh (November 20th, 2023)
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Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Stories
Yazeh (November 20th, 2023)
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The Crucible by Miller. It never becomes stale or cudgelous. And it seems so familiar somehow!
Yazeh (November 20th, 2023)
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A Private Spy: The Letters of John Le Carrè
Beyond Band of Brothers - Major Dick Winters with Colonel Cole E. Kingseed
Hippie - Paul Coelho
Street Photography Assignments - Valerie Jardin
Bob
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Indiana Jones used a notebook in the map room, not an app.
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Yazeh (November 20th, 2023)
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Atomic Habits by James Clear.
It's helpful that he gives a bulleted list at the end of each chapter. Makes it easy to determine which chapters to read vs skim
Yazeh (November 20th, 2023)
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"Grand Hotel Europa" by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer .
Yazeh (November 20th, 2023)
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The Bullet Garden by Stephen Hunter
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