mahsdad's (Jeff) 2022 Thread - Q3
This is a continuation of the topic mahsdad's (Jeff) 2022 Thread - Q2.
This topic was continued by mahsdad's (Jeff) 2022 Thread - Q4.
Talk 75 Books Challenge for 2022
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1mahsdad
Velkommen til det tredje kvartalet og mitt lille hjørne av verden
If you're new, my name is Jeff. I live in Southern California. I'm an avid reader. My wife might say I'm bordering on the obsessive. But then, I think that could apply to a lot of us in this group. I also enjoy photography, movies, hiking and playing games and hanging out with my family. Book-wise, I have a pretty eclectic taste in what I read and I hope to give you not so much reviews but my impressions about what I read.
What you will find here is mostly my rambling, way too many (according to some :) ) Wishlist and TBR pile temptations and a smattering of my photography. I don't really make a plan for what I'm going to read thru out the year. Its mostly what strikes my fancy from the TBR piles.
Past 75 Threads : 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Come on in and sit a spell. For my topper image, I'm going to subject you to something I rarely share.... Me! A selfie from a walk the other day. If it scares you too much let me know and I'll change it to a nice flower. :)
Come on in and sit a spell. Last quarter, I subjected you to a picture of me. This quarter, I'll share with you some nice sunflowers. Welcome
ETA:
Dammit - updated the picture on the wrong post. Oh well, over to Q4's post.
ETA2 : put the selfie back. :)
If you're new, my name is Jeff. I live in Southern California. I'm an avid reader. My wife might say I'm bordering on the obsessive. But then, I think that could apply to a lot of us in this group. I also enjoy photography, movies, hiking and playing games and hanging out with my family. Book-wise, I have a pretty eclectic taste in what I read and I hope to give you not so much reviews but my impressions about what I read.
What you will find here is mostly my rambling, way too many (according to some :) ) Wishlist and TBR pile temptations and a smattering of my photography. I don't really make a plan for what I'm going to read thru out the year. Its mostly what strikes my fancy from the TBR piles.
Past 75 Threads : 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Come on in and sit a spell. For my topper image, I'm going to subject you to something I rarely share.... Me! A selfie from a walk the other day. If it scares you too much let me know and I'll change it to a nice flower. :)
Come on in and sit a spell. Last quarter, I subjected you to a picture of me. This quarter, I'll share with you some nice sunflowers. Welcome
ETA:
Dammit - updated the picture on the wrong post. Oh well, over to Q4's post.
ETA2 : put the selfie back. :)
2mahsdad
2022 Statistics - Q3
A - Audio
ER - Early Review
GN - Graphic Novel
K - Kindle
LL - Life's Library
September
62. Cheech is Not My Real Name:...But Don't Call Me Chong by Cheech Marin :
61. The Loudest Duck: Moving Beyond Diversity While Embracing Differences to Achieve Success at Work by Laura Liswood :
60. Foundation by Isaac Asimov (A) :
59. Death Masks by Jim Butcher :
58. Glory Lane by Alan Dean Foster :
57. The President's Brain is Missing by John Scalzi (A) :
Favorite : Cheech is Not My Real Name
August
56. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (A) :
55. The Drowned World by JG Ballard :
54. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer (A) :
53. Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay (K) :
52. A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage :
51. Slaughterhouse Five: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Ryan North (and Kurt Vonnegut, obviously) (GN) :
50. Summer Knight by Jim Butcher (A) :
49. Tenth of December by George Saunders :
48. Ocean State by Stewart O'Nan (A) :
Favorite : Slaughterhouse Five : A Graphic Novel Adaptation
July
47. Plainsong by Kent Haruf :
46. The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (A) :
45. The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas (K) :
44. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (A) :
43. The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays by Mark Twain :
42. The Overstory by Richard Powers (A) :
41. All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (K) :
40. The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (LL) :
Favorite : The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared
A - Audio
ER - Early Review
GN - Graphic Novel
K - Kindle
LL - Life's Library
September
62. Cheech is Not My Real Name:...But Don't Call Me Chong by Cheech Marin :
61. The Loudest Duck: Moving Beyond Diversity While Embracing Differences to Achieve Success at Work by Laura Liswood :
60. Foundation by Isaac Asimov (A) :
59. Death Masks by Jim Butcher :
58. Glory Lane by Alan Dean Foster :
57. The President's Brain is Missing by John Scalzi (A) :
Favorite : Cheech is Not My Real Name
August
56. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (A) :
55. The Drowned World by JG Ballard :
54. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer (A) :
53. Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay (K) :
52. A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage :
51. Slaughterhouse Five: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Ryan North (and Kurt Vonnegut, obviously) (GN) :
50. Summer Knight by Jim Butcher (A) :
49. Tenth of December by George Saunders :
48. Ocean State by Stewart O'Nan (A) :
Favorite : Slaughterhouse Five : A Graphic Novel Adaptation
July
47. Plainsong by Kent Haruf :
46. The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (A) :
45. The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas (K) :
44. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (A) :
43. The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays by Mark Twain :
42. The Overstory by Richard Powers (A) :
41. All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (K) :
40. The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (LL) :
Favorite : The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared
3mahsdad
2022 Statistics - Q2
A - Audio
ER - Early Review
GN - Graphic Novel
K - Kindle
LL - Life's Library
June
39. All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business by Mel Brooks (A) :
38. Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert (A) :
37. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby :
36. A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark (K) :
35. Intercourse : Stories by Robert Olen Butler :
34. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert (A) :
Favorite : The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
May
33. The Stranger by Albert Camus :
32. A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat : the Joys of Ugly Nature by Charles Hood :
31. Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (A) :
30. The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami :
29. Master of the Revels: A Return to Neal Stephenson's D.O.D.O. by Nicole Galland (A) :
28. Less by Andrew Sean Greer :
27. Grave Peril by Jim Butcher (A) :
Favorite : A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat
April
26. Music is History by Questlove (K) :
25. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt (A) :
24. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka :
23. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (A) :
22. The Plague by Albert Camus (A) :
21. Severance by Robert Olen Butler :
Favorite : A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
A - Audio
ER - Early Review
GN - Graphic Novel
K - Kindle
LL - Life's Library
June
39. All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business by Mel Brooks (A) :
38. Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert (A) :
37. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby :
36. A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark (K) :
35. Intercourse : Stories by Robert Olen Butler :
34. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert (A) :
Favorite : The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
May
33. The Stranger by Albert Camus :
32. A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat : the Joys of Ugly Nature by Charles Hood :
31. Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (A) :
30. The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami :
29. Master of the Revels: A Return to Neal Stephenson's D.O.D.O. by Nicole Galland (A) :
28. Less by Andrew Sean Greer :
27. Grave Peril by Jim Butcher (A) :
Favorite : A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat
April
26. Music is History by Questlove (K) :
25. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt (A) :
24. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka :
23. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (A) :
22. The Plague by Albert Camus (A) :
21. Severance by Robert Olen Butler :
Favorite : A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
4mahsdad
2022 Statistics - Q1
A - Audio
ER - Early Review
GN - Graphic Novel
K - Kindle
LL - Life's Library
March
20. Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Dana :
19. Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison (A) :
18. Children of Dune by Frank Herbert (A) :
17. City of Secrets by Stewart O'Nan (A) :
16. Blindsight by Peter Watts (A) :
15. The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade (K) :
Favorite : City of Secrets
February
14. The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O by Neal Stephenson (A) :
13. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess :
12. The Princess Game by Soman Chainani (K) :
11. Speak by Louisa Hall :
10. Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut (A) :
Favorite : A Clockwork Orange
January
9. The Cold Millions by Jess Walter :
8. The Big Trip Up Yonder by Kurt Vonnegut (A) :
7. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (A) :
6. Fool Moon by Jim Butcher (A) :
5. Rosewater by Tade Thompson (LL) :
4. Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches by John Hodgman (A):
3. Gods without Men by Hari Kunzru :
2. Hazel & Gray by Nic Stone :
1. Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing by Neal Stephenson (A) :
Favorite : The Cold Millions
A - Audio
ER - Early Review
GN - Graphic Novel
K - Kindle
LL - Life's Library
March
20. Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Dana :
19. Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison (A) :
18. Children of Dune by Frank Herbert (A) :
17. City of Secrets by Stewart O'Nan (A) :
16. Blindsight by Peter Watts (A) :
15. The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade (K) :
Favorite : City of Secrets
February
14. The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O by Neal Stephenson (A) :
13. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess :
12. The Princess Game by Soman Chainani (K) :
11. Speak by Louisa Hall :
10. Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut (A) :
Favorite : A Clockwork Orange
January
9. The Cold Millions by Jess Walter :
8. The Big Trip Up Yonder by Kurt Vonnegut (A) :
7. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (A) :
6. Fool Moon by Jim Butcher (A) :
5. Rosewater by Tade Thompson (LL) :
4. Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches by John Hodgman (A):
3. Gods without Men by Hari Kunzru :
2. Hazel & Gray by Nic Stone :
1. Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing by Neal Stephenson (A) :
Favorite : The Cold Millions
5mahsdad
Audiobook Narrators
Jeff Cummings - Some Remarks
John Hodgman - Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
James Marsters - Fool Moon, Grave Peril, Summer Knight
Simon Vance - Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune
Phil Chenevert - The Big Trip Up Yonder
David Strathairn
Maria Tucci
Bill Irwin
Tony Roberts
Dylan Baker - Welcome to the Monkey House
T. Ryder Smith - Blindsight
Edoardo Ballerini - City of Secrets
Joe Morgan - Juneteenth
James Jenner - The Plague
Tom Stechschulte - No Country For Old Men
Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind:Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Too Many to Name - Master of the Revels
Ron Butler - Notes of a Native Son
Mel Brooks - All About Me!
Suzanne Toren - The Overstory
Dan Butler - Giovanni's Room
Steven Crossley - The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Sara Young - Ocean State
Scott Brick - Under the Banner of Heaven, Foundation
JD Jackson - The Nickel Boys
PJ Oakland - The President's Brain is Missing
Cheech Marin - Cheech is Not My Real Name
Jeff Cummings - Some Remarks
John Hodgman - Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
James Marsters - Fool Moon, Grave Peril, Summer Knight
Simon Vance - Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune
Phil Chenevert - The Big Trip Up Yonder
David Strathairn
Maria Tucci
Bill Irwin
Tony Roberts
Dylan Baker - Welcome to the Monkey House
T. Ryder Smith - Blindsight
Edoardo Ballerini - City of Secrets
Joe Morgan - Juneteenth
James Jenner - The Plague
Tom Stechschulte - No Country For Old Men
Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind:Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Too Many to Name - Master of the Revels
Ron Butler - Notes of a Native Son
Mel Brooks - All About Me!
Suzanne Toren - The Overstory
Dan Butler - Giovanni's Room
Steven Crossley - The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Sara Young - Ocean State
Scott Brick - Under the Banner of Heaven, Foundation
JD Jackson - The Nickel Boys
PJ Oakland - The President's Brain is Missing
Cheech Marin - Cheech is Not My Real Name
6mahsdad
Pulitzer's Read
Ongoing bucket list to read all the Pulitzer winning novels. Santa was very good to me this year on this front, so I got plenty to work with
Bold : On the Shelf
Strikeout : Completed
Total Read - 35
2022 - The Netanyahus
2021 - The Night Watchman
2020 - The Nickel Boys
2019 -The Overstory
2018 -Less
2017 -Underground Railroad
2016 - The Sympathizer
2015 -All the Light We Cannot See
2014 -The Goldfinch
2013 -The Orphan Master's Son
2012 - NO AWARD
-Swamplandia - Nominee
2011 -A Visit from the Goon Squad
2010 -Tinkers
2009 -Olive Kitterridge
2008 -The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2007 -The Road
2006 -March
2005 -Gilead
2004 - The Known World
2003 -Middlesex
2002 - Empire Falls
2001 -The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
2000 -The Interpreter of Maladies
1999 -The Hours
1998 - American Pastoral
1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
1996 - Independence Day
1995 - The Stone Diaries
1994 - The Shipping News
1993 -A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
1992 -A Thousand Acres
-My Father Bleeds History (Maus) (Special Awards & Citations - Letters)
1991 - Rabbit at Rest
1990 - The Mambo Kings
1989 - Breathing Lessons
1988 - Beloved DNF
1987 - A Summons to Memphis
1986 -Lonesome Dove
1985 - Foreign Affairs
1984 -Ironweed
1983 -The Color Purple
1982 - Rabbit is Rich
1981 -A Confederacy of Dunces
1980 -The Executioner's Song
1979 -The Stories of John Cheever
1978 - Elbow Room
1977 - NO AWARD
1976 - Humboldt's Gift
1975 -The Killer Angels
1974 - NO AWARD
1973 - The Optimist's Daughter
1972 -Angle of Repose
1971 - NO AWARD
1970 - The collected Stories of Jean Stafford
1969 - House Made of Dawn : DNF
1968 -The Confessions of Nat Turner
1967 - The Fixer
1966 - The Collected Stories of katherine Anne Porter
1965 - The Keepers of the House
1964 - NO AWARD
1963 - The Reivers
1962 - The Edge of Sadness
1961 -To Kill a Mockingbird
1960 - Advise and Consent
1959 - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
1958 - A Death in the Family
1957 - NO AWARD
1956 - Andersonville
1955 - A Fable
1954 - NO AWARD
1953 - The Old Man and the Sea
1952 -The Caine Mutiny
1951 - The Town
1950 - The Way West
1949 -Guard of Honor
1948 - Tales of the South Pacific
1947 - All the King's Men
1946 - NO AWARD
1945 - A Bell
1944 - Journey in the Dark
1943 - Dragon's Teeth
1942 - In This Our Life
1941 - NO AWARD
1940 -The Grapes of Wrath
1928 -The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Ongoing bucket list to read all the Pulitzer winning novels. Santa was very good to me this year on this front, so I got plenty to work with
Bold : On the Shelf
Total Read - 35
2022 - The Netanyahus
2021 - The Night Watchman
2020 - The Nickel Boys
2019 -
2018 -
2017 -
2016 - The Sympathizer
2015 -
2014 -
2013 -
2012 - NO AWARD
-
2011 -
2010 -
2009 -
2008 -
2007 -
2006 -
2005 -
2004 - The Known World
2003 -
2002 - Empire Falls
2001 -
2000 -
1999 -
1998 - American Pastoral
1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
1996 - Independence Day
1995 - The Stone Diaries
1994 - The Shipping News
1993 -
1992 -
-
1991 - Rabbit at Rest
1990 - The Mambo Kings
1989 - Breathing Lessons
1988 - Beloved DNF
1987 - A Summons to Memphis
1986 -
1985 - Foreign Affairs
1984 -
1983 -
1982 - Rabbit is Rich
1981 -
1980 -
1979 -
1978 - Elbow Room
1977 - NO AWARD
1976 - Humboldt's Gift
1975 -
1974 - NO AWARD
1973 - The Optimist's Daughter
1972 -
1971 - NO AWARD
1970 - The collected Stories of Jean Stafford
1969 - House Made of Dawn : DNF
1968 -
1967 - The Fixer
1966 - The Collected Stories of katherine Anne Porter
1965 - The Keepers of the House
1964 - NO AWARD
1963 - The Reivers
1962 - The Edge of Sadness
1961 -
1960 - Advise and Consent
1959 - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
1958 - A Death in the Family
1957 - NO AWARD
1956 - Andersonville
1955 - A Fable
1954 - NO AWARD
1953 - The Old Man and the Sea
1952 -
1951 - The Town
1950 - The Way West
1949 -
1948 - Tales of the South Pacific
1947 - All the King's Men
1946 - NO AWARD
1945 - A Bell
1944 - Journey in the Dark
1943 - Dragon's Teeth
1942 - In This Our Life
1941 - NO AWARD
1940 -
1928 -
7mahsdad
Hugos Read
Ongoing bucket list to read all the Hugo winning novels.
Bold : On the Shelf
Strikeout : Completed
Total Read - 38
2021 -Network Effect
2020 - A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
2019 -The Calculating Stars
2018 - The Stone Sky
2018 -All Systems Red - Novella
2017 - The Obelisk Gate
2016 - The Fifth Season
2015 - The Three-Body Problem
2014 -Ancillary Justice (DNF)
2013 -Redshirts
2012 -Among Others
2011 - Blackout/All Clear
2010 -The Windup Girl
The City & the City
2009 -The Graveyard Book
2008 -The Yiddish Policemen's Union
2007 - Rainbows End
2006 -Spin
2005 - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2004 - Paladin of Souls
2003 - Hominids
2003 -Coraline (novella)
2002 -American Gods
2001 -Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2000 - A Deepness in the Sky
1999 -To Say Nothing of the Dog
1998 -Forever Peace
1997 - Blue Mars
1996 -The Diamond Age
1995 - Mirror Dance
1994 - Green Mars
1993 - A Fire Upon the Deep
Doomsday Book
1992 - Barrayar
1991 - The Vor Game
1990 - Hyperion
1989 - Cyteen
1988 -The Uplift War
1988 -Watchmen - category : Other forms
1987 -Speaker for the Dead
1986 -Ender's Game
1985 -Neuromancer
1985 -The Crystal Spheres - David Brin - Short Story
1984 -Startide Rising
1983 - Foundation's Edge
1982 - Downbelow Station
1981 - The Snow Queen
1980 - The Fountains of Paradise
1979 - Dreamsnake
1978 - Gateway
1977 - Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
1976 -The Forever War
1975 - The Dispossessed
1974 -Rendezvous with Rama
1973 -The Gods Themselves
1972 - To Your Scattered Bodies Go
1971 -Ringworld
1970 -Left Hand of Darkness
1969 -Stand on Zanzibar
1968 - Lord of Light
1967 -The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
1966 -Dune
This Immortal
1965 - The Wanderer
1964 -Way Station
1963 -The Man in the High Castle
1962 -Stranger in a Strange Land
1961 -A Canticle for Leibowitz
1960 -Starship Troopers
1959 - A Case of Conscience
1958 - The Big Time
1956 - Double Star
1955 - The Forever Machine
1953 -The Demolished Man
Retro Hugos - this are given for years when no award was given (more than 50 years ago). Of those...
1939 - The Sword in the Stone
1951 -Farmer in the Sky
1954 -Fahrenheit 451
Ongoing bucket list to read all the Hugo winning novels.
Bold : On the Shelf
Total Read - 38
2021 -
2020 - A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
2019 -
2018 - The Stone Sky
2018 -
2017 - The Obelisk Gate
2016 - The Fifth Season
2015 - The Three-Body Problem
2014 -
2013 -
2012 -
2011 - Blackout/All Clear
2010 -
The City & the City
2009 -
2008 -
2007 - Rainbows End
2006 -
2005 - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2004 - Paladin of Souls
2003 - Hominids
2003 -
2002 -
2001 -
2000 - A Deepness in the Sky
1999 -
1998 -
1997 - Blue Mars
1996 -
1995 - Mirror Dance
1994 - Green Mars
1993 - A Fire Upon the Deep
Doomsday Book
1992 - Barrayar
1991 - The Vor Game
1990 - Hyperion
1989 - Cyteen
1988 -
1988 -
1987 -
1986 -
1985 -
1985 -
1984 -
1983 - Foundation's Edge
1982 - Downbelow Station
1981 - The Snow Queen
1980 - The Fountains of Paradise
1979 - Dreamsnake
1978 - Gateway
1977 - Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
1976 -
1975 - The Dispossessed
1974 -
1973 -
1972 - To Your Scattered Bodies Go
1971 -
1970 -
1969 -
1968 - Lord of Light
1967 -
1966 -
This Immortal
1965 - The Wanderer
1964 -
1963 -
1962 -
1961 -
1960 -
1959 - A Case of Conscience
1958 - The Big Time
1956 - Double Star
1955 - The Forever Machine
1953 -
Retro Hugos - this are given for years when no award was given (more than 50 years ago). Of those...
1939 - The Sword in the Stone
1951 -
1954 -
8mahsdad
Nebulas Read
Bold - On the Shelf
Strike - Finished
2022 - A Master of Djinn
2021 - Network Effect
2020 - A Song for a New Day
2019 - The Calculating Stars
2018 - The Stone Sky
2017 - All the Birds in the Sky
2016 - Uprooted
2015 - Annihilation
2014 - Ancillary Justice DNF
2013 - 2312
2012 - Among Others
2011 - Blackout/All Clear
2010 - The Windup Girl
2009 - Powers
2008 - The Yiddish Policemen's Union
2007 - Seeker
2006 - Camouflage
2005 - Paladin of Souls
2004 - The Speed of Dark
2003 - American Gods
2002 - The Quantum Rose
2001 - Darwin's Radio
2000 - Parable of the Talents
1999 - Forever Peace
1998 - The Moon and the Sun
1997 - Slow River
1996 - The Terminal Experiment
1995 - Moving Mars
1994 - Red Mars
1993 - Doomsday Book
1992 - Stations of the Tide
1991 - Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea
1990 - The Healer's War
1989 - Falling Free
1988 - The Falling Woman
1987 - Speaker for the Dead
1986 - Ender's Game
1985 - Neuromancer
1984 - Startide Rising
1983 - No Enemy But Time
1982 - The Claw of the Conciliator
1981 - Timescape
1980 - The Fountains of Paradise
1979 - Dreamsnake
1978 - Gateway
1977 - Man Plus
1976 - The Forever War
1975 - The Dispossessed
1974 - Rendezvous with Rama
1973 - The Gods Themselves
1972 - A Time of Changes
1971 - Ringworld
1970 - The Left Hand of Darkness
1969 - Rite of Passage
1968 - The Einstein Intersection
1967 - Babel-17
1966 - Dune
Bold - On the Shelf
2020 - A Song for a New Day
2018 - The Stone Sky
2016 - Uprooted
2013 - 2312
2012 - Among Others
2011 - Blackout/All Clear
2009 - Powers
2007 - Seeker
2006 - Camouflage
2005 - Paladin of Souls
2004 - The Speed of Dark
2002 - The Quantum Rose
2001 - Darwin's Radio
2000 - Parable of the Talents
1998 - The Moon and the Sun
1997 - Slow River
1996 - The Terminal Experiment
1995 - Moving Mars
1994 - Red Mars
1993 - Doomsday Book
1992 - Stations of the Tide
1991 - Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea
1990 - The Healer's War
1989 - Falling Free
1988 - The Falling Woman
1983 - No Enemy But Time
1982 - The Claw of the Conciliator
1981 - Timescape
1980 - The Fountains of Paradise
1979 - Dreamsnake
1978 - Gateway
1977 - Man Plus
1975 - The Dispossessed
1973 - The Gods Themselves
1972 - A Time of Changes
1969 - Rite of Passage
1968 - The Einstein Intersection
1967 - Babel-17
9mahsdad
National Book Award Winners
2015 - Fortune Smiles
2014 - Redeployment
2001 - The Corrections
1988 - Paris Trout
1985 - White Noise
1983 - The Color Purple - hardback award
1981 - The Stories of John Cheever - paperback award
1980 - The World According to Garp - paperback award
1953 - Invisible Man
Man Booker Books
2002 - Life of Pi
2009 - Wolf Hall - sadly I never finished this, never hooked me.
2015 - A Brief History of Seven Killings
2016 - The Sellout
2017 - Lincoln in the Bardo
2015 - Fortune Smiles
2014 - Redeployment
2001 - The Corrections
1988 - Paris Trout
1985 - White Noise
1983 - The Color Purple - hardback award
1981 - The Stories of John Cheever - paperback award
1980 - The World According to Garp - paperback award
1953 - Invisible Man
Man Booker Books
2002 - Life of Pi
2009 - Wolf Hall - sadly I never finished this, never hooked me.
2015 - A Brief History of Seven Killings
2016 - The Sellout
2017 - Lincoln in the Bardo
10mahsdad
The 75'r Chunkster List
1. The Overstory by Richard Powers READ
2. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
3. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco READ
4. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
5. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell READ
6. The Witch Elm by Tana French
7. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
8. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr READ
9. Little, Big by John Crowley
10. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides READ
11. The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
12. Possession by A.S. Byatt
13. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel DNF
14. The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee
15. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
16. The Parisian : A Novel
17. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
18. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
19. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami READ
20. Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
21. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie OWNED
22. American Gods by Neil Gaiman READ
23. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay by Michael Chabon READ
24. The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
25. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen READ
26. Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
27. A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava
28. An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
29. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James READ
30. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson READ
31. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
32. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
33. Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin READ
34. JR by William Gaddis
35. Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
36. Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
37. Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
38. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett READ
39. The Stand by Stephen King READ
40. Underworld by Don DeLillo
41. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
42. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
43. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry READ
44. 2666 by Roberto Bolano
45. Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
46. Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
47. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
48. Parallel Stories by Peter Nadas
49. Women and Men by Joseph McElroy
50. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Paul's Alternative 20
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Far Pavilions by MM Kaye
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
Saville by David Storey
To Serve Them All My Days by RF Delderfield
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving READ
The Singapore Grip by JG Farrell
Magician by Raymond E Feist
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
A Chain of Voices by Andre Brink
Bill's Alternative Weird Dozen
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis READ
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger READ
Cider House Rules by John Irving
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak READ
August 1914 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
Lethal White by Robert Galbraith
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams READ
11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King READ
His Dark Materials Omnibus (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass) by Philip Pullman
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling READ
Jeff's how the heck did this not get on the other lists list
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Alaska by James Michener Read
1. The Overstory by Richard Powers READ
2. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
3. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco READ
4. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
5. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell READ
6. The Witch Elm by Tana French
7. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
8. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr READ
9. Little, Big by John Crowley
10. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides READ
11. The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
12. Possession by A.S. Byatt
13. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel DNF
14. The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee
15. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
16. The Parisian : A Novel
17. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
18. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
19. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami READ
20. Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
21. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie OWNED
22. American Gods by Neil Gaiman READ
23. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay by Michael Chabon READ
24. The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
25. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen READ
26. Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
27. A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava
28. An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
29. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James READ
30. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson READ
31. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
32. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
33. Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin READ
34. JR by William Gaddis
35. Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
36. Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
37. Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
38. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett READ
39. The Stand by Stephen King READ
40. Underworld by Don DeLillo
41. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
42. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
43. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry READ
44. 2666 by Roberto Bolano
45. Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
46. Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
47. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
48. Parallel Stories by Peter Nadas
49. Women and Men by Joseph McElroy
50. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Paul's Alternative 20
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Far Pavilions by MM Kaye
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
Saville by David Storey
To Serve Them All My Days by RF Delderfield
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving READ
The Singapore Grip by JG Farrell
Magician by Raymond E Feist
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
A Chain of Voices by Andre Brink
Bill's Alternative Weird Dozen
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis READ
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger READ
Cider House Rules by John Irving
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak READ
August 1914 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
Lethal White by Robert Galbraith
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams READ
11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King READ
His Dark Materials Omnibus (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass) by Philip Pullman
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling READ
Jeff's how the heck did this not get on the other lists list
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Alaska by James Michener Read
11mahsdad
2022 So Far Reading Results
Books Read : 39
Number of Authors : 31
Authors of Color : 7
Lady Authors : 5
Books Read : 39
Number of Authors : 31
Authors of Color : 7
Lady Authors : 5
12mahsdad
Scatter Plot
The books I've read so far scattered by when they were published. Its only missing one book, which was published in 1840, and I didn't want to expand the dates that far. :)
The books I've read so far scattered by when they were published. Its only missing one book, which was published in 1840, and I didn't want to expand the dates that far. :)
13mahsdad
2022 Books of the Month
January : The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
February : A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
March : City of Secrets by Stewart O'Nan
April : A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka
May: A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat by Charles Hood
June: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby
#botm
January : The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
February : A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
March : City of Secrets by Stewart O'Nan
April : A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka
May: A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat by Charles Hood
June: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby
#botm
14mahsdad
Here's another image for your Friday. From our Father's day adventures. I just like the one piece being out of place.
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>5 mahsdad: Audiobook Narrators
Reading - The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Reading - The Loudest Duck by Laura Liswood
eBook - All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
Listening - The Overstory by Richard Powers
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>5 mahsdad: Audiobook Narrators
Reading - The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Reading - The Loudest Duck by Laura Liswood
eBook - All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
Listening - The Overstory by Richard Powers
16FAMeulstee
Happy new thread, Jeff.
>1 mahsdad: I am in favor of the selfie, love to see the face behind the name :-)
>1 mahsdad: I am in favor of the selfie, love to see the face behind the name :-)
18PaulCranswick
Happy new thread, Jeff.
As you can guess, I love the fun stats.
>10 mahsdad: I had almost forgotten the chunkster list! On the original list of 50 you are ahead of me as I have read only 9 compared to your 14. I do however own 41 of the 50!
As you can guess, I love the fun stats.
>10 mahsdad: I had almost forgotten the chunkster list! On the original list of 50 you are ahead of me as I have read only 9 compared to your 14. I do however own 41 of the 50!
19WhiteRaven.17
Happy new thread Jeff
22mahsdad
New Book
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Mark Twain
One of Twain's most celebrated novellas, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, is a satirical retelling of the Garden of Eden story in the Bible, in which the author; mocking the supposed honesty and incorruptibility of the inhabitants of an imaginary American town, shows how man is fundamentally bad and cannot resist the temptations of gold.
#newbook
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Mark Twain
One of Twain's most celebrated novellas, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, is a satirical retelling of the Garden of Eden story in the Bible, in which the author; mocking the supposed honesty and incorruptibility of the inhabitants of an imaginary American town, shows how man is fundamentally bad and cannot resist the temptations of gold.
It was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation unsmirched during three generations, and was prouder of it than any other of its possessions.
#newbook
23laytonwoman3rd
>1 mahsdad: Nothing scary about that image...and love the nifty tiny shadow of your selfie-taking self!
24mahsdad
>18 PaulCranswick: OMG - My humble apologies, how did I forgot replying to you Paul! I think I got my stat ideas from you and others, and then I stumbled across the spreadsheet I'm using now, which has some fun built in charts.
As far as the lists are concerned, you will always win with the which books you actually have on the shelf, vs me. LOL.
>23 laytonwoman3rd: Thanks Linda! Yeah, that shadow was somewhat intentional. :)
As far as the lists are concerned, you will always win with the which books you actually have on the shelf, vs me. LOL.
>23 laytonwoman3rd: Thanks Linda! Yeah, that shadow was somewhat intentional. :)
25mahsdad
My first LTER win in almost 3 years has already arrived. I got the message that I won Nein, Nein, Nein! on June 28th, and it arrived yesterday.
Akashic Books is on the ball.
Its by Jerry Stahl, who you might know from Permanent Midnight. The subtitle of this one is One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust.
I was nonetheless, intrigued. I'll be sure to let you all know what its like, when I get to it.... eventually.
Akashic Books is on the ball.
Its by Jerry Stahl, who you might know from Permanent Midnight. The subtitle of this one is One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust.
I was nonetheless, intrigued. I'll be sure to let you all know what its like, when I get to it.... eventually.
26drneutron
I’ve been impressed with the Akashic books I’ve read, especially their noir short story books. They’ve done well building a catalog.
27msf59
Sweet Thursday, Jeff. Happy New Thread. Ooh, I loved The Overstory. I hope you will feel the same. That one seems like it could be tough on audio. If you are looking for another audio pick, I highly recommend The Immortal Irishman which I am currently listening to and totally enjoying.
28scaifea
Happy new thread, Jeff! I love the latest Friday photo, and I agree that having just the one a little out of place makes it ever better.
29mahsdad
>26 drneutron: Yeah, I've read several of their Noir books. They were hit or miss for me. I think it depends on the city they were focusing on
>27 msf59: Thanks Mark. Yeah Overstory has been a little rough on audio. There hasn't been a good deliniation when characters are changing. This would have been a good one for multiple narrators. But over all, it is an excellent read. Ooo another Egan, he's always a must read. Thanks!
>28 scaifea: Thanks Amber!
>27 msf59: Thanks Mark. Yeah Overstory has been a little rough on audio. There hasn't been a good deliniation when characters are changing. This would have been a good one for multiple narrators. But over all, it is an excellent read. Ooo another Egan, he's always a must read. Thanks!
>28 scaifea: Thanks Amber!
30mahsdad
Frábær mynd föstudagur
Hey there everybody, we made it through another week. Yippee. Even though it was a short one, it was a hectic one for me and I'm glad its almost over. My work partner has been taking some well deserved time off, but that means I'm covering the support desk by myself and that can get a little crazy at times. Oh well, at least they're still paying me. Today's image is just a nice bunch of morning glories I saw on a recent walk. Enjoy...
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>5 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays by Mark Twain. ~40% done
Work Reading - The Loudest Duck by Laura Liswood. Reading this a chapter at a time, so I'll be reading this all summer. 32% done
Listening - The Overstory by Richard Powers. A serious chunkster even on audio. A little confusing at times to remember who the character is (there are a lot), but I blame the audio production on that, not the story. I'm enjoying it quite a bit. 70% done.
Hey there everybody, we made it through another week. Yippee. Even though it was a short one, it was a hectic one for me and I'm glad its almost over. My work partner has been taking some well deserved time off, but that means I'm covering the support desk by myself and that can get a little crazy at times. Oh well, at least they're still paying me. Today's image is just a nice bunch of morning glories I saw on a recent walk. Enjoy...
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>5 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays by Mark Twain. ~40% done
Work Reading - The Loudest Duck by Laura Liswood. Reading this a chapter at a time, so I'll be reading this all summer. 32% done
Listening - The Overstory by Richard Powers. A serious chunkster even on audio. A little confusing at times to remember who the character is (there are a lot), but I blame the audio production on that, not the story. I'm enjoying it quite a bit. 70% done.
31quondame
>30 mahsdad: Have a good, if hectic Friday. You might want to check the link for today's picture, I'm seeing nothing.
32mahsdad
Thanks Susan.
I had the permissions set wrong on the folder where that picture came from. I think its working now.
I had the permissions set wrong on the folder where that picture came from. I think its working now.
33quondame
>32 mahsdad: Oh, pretty. I love the way the centers glow with light we can't see as color but still does something to our vision.
34mahsdad
>33 quondame: Very interesting observation, never noticed them like that, but I agree
35mahsdad
So I'm reading Mark Twain, The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg. It was first published in 1910, and as I'm reading these stories, I'm reminded that there's nothing new under the umbrella of plots and literary devices. :)
In the title story, its about a completely honest town and the irked man who decides to bring them ruin. He give a letter and a sack of money to the poorest of the citizens asking them to find the benefactor that helped him to give him the money. See if this snipet of the letter doesn't sound like the template for every Nigerian Prince scam you've ever read...
An in another story we see a trope that has been used many times in sitcom to comedic effect. An Emperor is sick and a young boy knows how to cure him, but has no way to contact him. His friend knows how... (paraphrased slightly)
What's old is new again. LOL
In the title story, its about a completely honest town and the irked man who decides to bring them ruin. He give a letter and a sack of money to the poorest of the citizens asking them to find the benefactor that helped him to give him the money. See if this snipet of the letter doesn't sound like the template for every Nigerian Prince scam you've ever read...
I am a foreigner, and am presently going back to my own country, to remain there permanently. I am grateful to America for what I have received at her hands during my long stay under her flag; and to one of her citizens, a citizen of Hadleyburg, I am especially grateful for the great kindness done me a year or two ago.... Now I have no idea who this man was, but I want him found, and I want him to have this money, to give away, to throw away or to keep, as he pleases...If I could stay, I'd find him myself, but no matter he will be found. This is an honest town, an incorruptable town, and I know I can trust it without fear.
An in another story we see a trope that has been used many times in sitcom to comedic effect. An Emperor is sick and a young boy knows how to cure him, but has no way to contact him. His friend knows how... (paraphrased slightly)
I know the butcher. That half-breed butcher will tell the old woman that sells chestnuts at the corner of the lane, she'll tell her rich aunt, who will tell the owner of the game shop, and he will tell his friend the Sergeant of the Police; and the sergeant will tell his Captain; who will tell the magistrate, who will tell his brother-in-law the county judge, who will tell the Sheriff... and so on and so on until the young page that has the ear of the Emperor
What's old is new again. LOL
36mahsdad
New Book
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
I forget where I got this, either at a kindle sale at the recommendation of one of you fine folks or from Tor's Ebook Club.
In 1967, four female scientists worked together to build the world’s first time machine. But just as they are about to debut their creation, one of them suffers a breakdown, putting the whole project—and future of time travel—in jeopardy. To protect their invention, one member is exiled from the team—erasing her contributions from history.
Fifty years later, time travel is a big business. Twenty-something Ruby Rebello knows her beloved grandmother, Granny Bee, was one of the pioneers, though no one will tell her more. But when Bee receives a mysterious newspaper clipping from the future reporting the murder of an unidentified woman, Ruby becomes obsessed: could it be Bee? Who would want her dead? And most importantly of all: can her murder be stopped?
Traversing the decades and told from alternating perspectives, The Psychology of Time Travel introduces a fabulous new voice in fiction and a new must-read for fans of speculative fiction and women’s fiction alike.
#newbook
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
I forget where I got this, either at a kindle sale at the recommendation of one of you fine folks or from Tor's Ebook Club.
In 1967, four female scientists worked together to build the world’s first time machine. But just as they are about to debut their creation, one of them suffers a breakdown, putting the whole project—and future of time travel—in jeopardy. To protect their invention, one member is exiled from the team—erasing her contributions from history.
Fifty years later, time travel is a big business. Twenty-something Ruby Rebello knows her beloved grandmother, Granny Bee, was one of the pioneers, though no one will tell her more. But when Bee receives a mysterious newspaper clipping from the future reporting the murder of an unidentified woman, Ruby becomes obsessed: could it be Bee? Who would want her dead? And most importantly of all: can her murder be stopped?
Traversing the decades and told from alternating perspectives, The Psychology of Time Travel introduces a fabulous new voice in fiction and a new must-read for fans of speculative fiction and women’s fiction alike.
The laboratory, in Cumbria, was home to four young scientists. Margaret was a baroness turned cosmologist. Lucille had come from the Toxteth slums to make radio waves travel faster than light. Grace, who never gave the same account of her history twice, was an expert in the behavior of matter.
And the last was Barbara; the baby of the group, hair so fair it was nearly white, ruddy cheeked and naively wholesome. She specialized in nuclear fission.
#newbook
37mahsdad
42. The Overstory by Richard Powers 8/10 : Listened on audio, quite a story. Very interesting take on life and the life behind our life. Lots of characters that slowly (almost tree-like) find there way together in different ways. Made me think of the movie Magnolia where you're not sure how things connect and then all of a sudden you do. Listening on audio, it is sometimes hard to capture and remember quotes when you hear them, as if you don't "save" them immediately, its too hard to scrub back to find them. This quote was the exception, as it came near the end and I found it very profound...
Eminent at the speed of people is too late. The law must judge eminent at the speed of trees
38msf59
Happy Friday, Jeff. Hooray for The Overstory. As a reminder- We will be starting Plainsong sometime next week. I hope you can still join us. Oh yeah, I will also get your book out next week.
39richardderus
>36 mahsdad: ...that would be me...
40mahsdad
>39 richardderus: And I thank you for it (I'll add the appropriate tag to the book, I've been trying to indicate thru tags who recommend a book for me). Its pretty good so far.
41mahsdad
शानदार फोटो शुक्रबार
Hey, look at me getting the FF post out early. I only wish it was later, cause that means the day's almost done, instead of just starting. LOL. Not much on the agenda for the weekend, so I'll just leave you with a nice flower
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>5 mahsdad: Audiobooks
eBook - The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas. 23%
Work Book - The Loudest Duck by Laura Liswood. If I ever say I'm thinking about joining a book club read of a business book, please give me a dope slap. Its out of my comfort zone, yes, but I'm finding its a zone I don't care to be in. Oh well, I committed to it... We're reading chapter 3 this week, "Tell Your Grandmother to go home". 36%
Listening - Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin. Started it this week, after finishing The Overstory. 30%
Hey, look at me getting the FF post out early. I only wish it was later, cause that means the day's almost done, instead of just starting. LOL. Not much on the agenda for the weekend, so I'll just leave you with a nice flower
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>5 mahsdad: Audiobooks
eBook - The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas. 23%
Work Book - The Loudest Duck by Laura Liswood. If I ever say I'm thinking about joining a book club read of a business book, please give me a dope slap. Its out of my comfort zone, yes, but I'm finding its a zone I don't care to be in. Oh well, I committed to it... We're reading chapter 3 this week, "Tell Your Grandmother to go home". 36%
Listening - Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin. Started it this week, after finishing The Overstory. 30%
42richardderus
>41 mahsdad: Sunflowers! So very interesting, useful, and (when in the field) SCARY.
43weird_O
>1 mahsdad: Ah! Norwegian. Having spent a couple of days in Copenhagen and seeing signs and notices and the like in Danish, I wondered if... Close. So third day back, and already a bb. (The Psychology of Time Travel.) Thanks a lot, pal.
Wonderful trip, even considering the lost baggage sub-plot. The weather in Copenhagen and Amsterdam was lovely, Dublin quite a bit warmer, and then Newark and 90°F. Home
and covid!!
Wonderful trip, even considering the lost baggage sub-plot. The weather in Copenhagen and Amsterdam was lovely, Dublin quite a bit warmer, and then Newark and 90°F. Home
and covid!!
44mahsdad
>42 richardderus: Yeah they are a very interesting flower. Seems tho, like they went a little overboard on the reproductive organs in their evolution. LOL.
>43 weird_O: Hey Bill. So fun when people actually get my FF language tags. And yes the topper was Norwegian. Glad to pass along the BBs whenever possible. :)
Fun trip, YEA! Lost bags, boo, Summer heat and COVID? VERY BOO! Hope you get better fast and avoid the long haul!
>43 weird_O: Hey Bill. So fun when people actually get my FF language tags. And yes the topper was Norwegian. Glad to pass along the BBs whenever possible. :)
Fun trip, YEA! Lost bags, boo, Summer heat and COVID? VERY BOO! Hope you get better fast and avoid the long haul!
45richardderus
>44 mahsdad: Further evidence of my contention that flowers are the porn stars of the plant world. They wave their colorful, attractively scented genitalia at the big, awkward apes that infest their world here lately and thus get us to do their colonization for them.
47Berly
Loved catching up on all your reads up above. I actually stole your Pulitzer Prize list for my thread (Thank you!) and I think we are just about tied for books read. Thank you for the beautiful flower shots, particularly appreciated since I am quarantining in my room and can't see my own garden right now. Sigh. But nearing the end and eager for freedom. The Psychology of Time Travel sounds interesting...
48mahsdad
Hey Kim, hope you're feeling better. Glad to bring a little beauty to your day.
And as far as anything on my thread is concerned.... Steal away. :)
And as far as anything on my thread is concerned.... Steal away. :)
49quondame
>41 mahsdad: Another remarkable image in a week of remarkable images.
51mahsdad
New Book
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Just picked this up a couple months ago at a used book store, will start reading this today thanks to the suggestion of a joint read by Mark.
Ambitious, but never seeming so, Kent Haruf reveals a whole community as he interweaves the stories of a pregnant high school girl, a lonely teacher, a pair of boys abandoned by their mother, and a couple of crusty bachelor farmers.
#newbook
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Just picked this up a couple months ago at a used book store, will start reading this today thanks to the suggestion of a joint read by Mark.
Ambitious, but never seeming so, Kent Haruf reveals a whole community as he interweaves the stories of a pregnant high school girl, a lonely teacher, a pair of boys abandoned by their mother, and a couple of crusty bachelor farmers.
Here was this man Tom Gurthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up.
#newbook
52mahsdad
Napintas nga Litrato Biernes
Hello my friends, today's post is a tribute post to one of my girls. Early this week we had to help Luna, our 12-13yr old (we're not sure exactly) calico, shuffle off the mortal coil. She was a fiesty street-wise, opinionated soul who picked me as her person. She lived twice as long as she was expected to, the last year or so with some sort of cancer that it was pointless to try to diagnose as there wasn't much that could be done if we knew exactly what it was. I'm not posting this to elicit sympathy (I didn't posted to IG, or FB cause that what I think those posts are secretly for), but this is my page and you are my friends, and I just wanted to share a few pictures
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>5 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Plainsong by Kent Haruf. Haven't started it yet, but I finished Psychology of Time Travel last night and this is next on the list.
Work - The Loudest Duck by Laura Liswood. Have to read chapter 4 next week. I continue to realize that I am not a business/self-help books person. Oh well, I committed to the task
Listening - The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. Had this on my list for years. My impression is a mix of Fredrik Backman, Douglas Adams (for tone, not scifi), and the Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Really good so far. 32%
Hello my friends, today's post is a tribute post to one of my girls. Early this week we had to help Luna, our 12-13yr old (we're not sure exactly) calico, shuffle off the mortal coil. She was a fiesty street-wise, opinionated soul who picked me as her person. She lived twice as long as she was expected to, the last year or so with some sort of cancer that it was pointless to try to diagnose as there wasn't much that could be done if we knew exactly what it was. I'm not posting this to elicit sympathy (I didn't posted to IG, or FB cause that what I think those posts are secretly for), but this is my page and you are my friends, and I just wanted to share a few pictures
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>5 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Plainsong by Kent Haruf. Haven't started it yet, but I finished Psychology of Time Travel last night and this is next on the list.
Work - The Loudest Duck by Laura Liswood. Have to read chapter 4 next week. I continue to realize that I am not a business/self-help books person. Oh well, I committed to the task
Listening - The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. Had this on my list for years. My impression is a mix of Fredrik Backman, Douglas Adams (for tone, not scifi), and the Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Really good so far. 32%
53jessibud2
{{Jeff}} and {{Luna}}. Your Luna has always reminded me of my late great Lexi, same colouring. It's never easy. Thank you for the beautiful photos. I also have a secret love of *paw* photos and take several, myself.
55mahsdad
Boosted round 2. Its amazing that at the beginning of this, you had to go to a secret location to get the covid vaccine, but now 3 years in, you just walk up to your Von's pharmacy and get the shot while you shop.
56quondame
>52 mahsdad: I'm sorry for your loss. Luna looks to have had full cat attitude.
57mahsdad
>56 quondame: Thanks Susan!
58mahsdad
Mini-book haul.
Laura was shopping at Joann's at the mall, so me and the kid went to Book-Off to see what we could find. I got...
Waiting by Ha Jin. How ironic that we are reading Plainsong and I just saw Mark post about this being the National Book Award winner, the same year as Plainsong
Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. I love me some Murakami. It was about time to get this opus. 1000+ pages. Yikes. :)
Also got a couple from the generosity of msf59. Thanks Mark!
Understories by Tim Horvath
River Teeth by David James Duncan
Laura was shopping at Joann's at the mall, so me and the kid went to Book-Off to see what we could find. I got...
Waiting by Ha Jin. How ironic that we are reading Plainsong and I just saw Mark post about this being the National Book Award winner, the same year as Plainsong
Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. I love me some Murakami. It was about time to get this opus. 1000+ pages. Yikes. :)
Also got a couple from the generosity of msf59. Thanks Mark!
Understories by Tim Horvath
River Teeth by David James Duncan
59laytonwoman3rd
>52 mahsdad: RIP, Luna. Looks like she was a wise old soul.
61mahsdad
Thanks Linda.
Sorry for the headshot Bill. So far is is a really fun read, I do recommend it.
Sorry for the headshot Bill. So far is is a really fun read, I do recommend it.
62richardderus
Oh good, Understories and Waiting! I know Birddude loves him some Haruf but Ha really did earn that NBA win.
63mahsdad
Yeah, I'm getting real Larry Brown vibes with Haruf (not quite as gritty), and Mark and I are quite the fan's of Brown, so I'm not surprised of his love for Haruf.
I'm glad to get your extra endorsements for Understories and Waiting. Looking forward to them, eventually. My TBR is getting taller recently. ;)
I'm glad to get your extra endorsements for Understories and Waiting. Looking forward to them, eventually. My TBR is getting taller recently. ;)
64richardderus
>63 mahsdad: *I* like Larry Brown, too! Can't be bothered with Haruf, though.
65mahsdad
My apologies, I can't keep everyone's favorites straight. LOL.
I did really enjoy Psychology of Time Travel so thank you for that recommendation. A little bit black-boxy on the mechanics of time travel in her world, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes its just the macguffin that you have to dive in and go with it. It served the plot well.
I did really enjoy Psychology of Time Travel so thank you for that recommendation. A little bit black-boxy on the mechanics of time travel in her world, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes its just the macguffin that you have to dive in and go with it. It served the plot well.
66mahsdad
အံ့သြဖွယ်ဓာတ်ပုံ သောကြာနေ့
Hey everybody, boy am I glad this week is over. Nothing like getting phone calls from your customers for support before 7 in the morning. Ugh. Oh well, its not like its my job or anything. Should be a nice pleasant weekend, not sure what's on tap. If nothing else, will be finishing some books, which will take me to 8 for the month. 3rd best month this year. Here's a Blue Heron for ya...
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 books
>3 mahsdad: Q2 books
>4 mahsdad: Q1 books
>5 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Plainsong by Kent Haruf. Probably could have finished it last night. Will today. Not sure what I'll start on next
Listening - The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. Almost done here too. Really enjoyed this book. It made me laugh out loud a couple times, which is really weird when you're walking around in public with earbuds in, totally out of context for the casual observer. Definitely going to read more of his stuff
eBook - Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. Haven't started this yet, but it is queued up on the kindle.
Hey everybody, boy am I glad this week is over. Nothing like getting phone calls from your customers for support before 7 in the morning. Ugh. Oh well, its not like its my job or anything. Should be a nice pleasant weekend, not sure what's on tap. If nothing else, will be finishing some books, which will take me to 8 for the month. 3rd best month this year. Here's a Blue Heron for ya...
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 books
>3 mahsdad: Q2 books
>4 mahsdad: Q1 books
>5 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Plainsong by Kent Haruf. Probably could have finished it last night. Will today. Not sure what I'll start on next
Listening - The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. Almost done here too. Really enjoyed this book. It made me laugh out loud a couple times, which is really weird when you're walking around in public with earbuds in, totally out of context for the casual observer. Definitely going to read more of his stuff
eBook - Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. Haven't started this yet, but it is queued up on the kindle.
67richardderus
Beautiful heron! What an animal.
68quondame
>66 mahsdad: Cool heron! The 100 Old Man does sound worth checking out.
69mahsdad
>67 richardderus: >68 quondame: Thanks RD, Susan
70Whisper1
>Hi Jeff. Because you gave The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared four and 1/2 stars, I will move this up on the TBR pile. I have a copy of this book, and actually looked at it the other day in anticipation of reading it. Now, I am twice motivated.
Happy weekend. What a lovely photo of a Blue Heron!!!
Happy weekend. What a lovely photo of a Blue Heron!!!
71msf59
>58 mahsdad: Enjoy the books, my friend. 2 solid story collections. I cannot believe you haven't read 1Q84. You are in for a treat.
>66 mahsdad: Fantastic shot of the Great Blue Heron. Impressive composition.
>66 mahsdad: Fantastic shot of the Great Blue Heron. Impressive composition.
72msf59
Happy Saturday, Jeff. I am so glad you loved Plainsong. You will have to read the next 2 books. Eventide features the McPheron brothers, among some new characters. If the Detective Sean Duffy series is not on your radar, it should be. I am really enjoying the first entry, The Cold Cold Ground.
73mahsdad
>70 Whisper1: Thanks Linda. When you get to it, I hope my rating isn't unwarranted. It was a close call with Plainsong and The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet for BOTM. All three were excellent, but I picked Old Man.
>71 msf59: >72 msf59: Yeah, I'm surprised too by IQ84, maybe I was intimidated by the heft. I'll definitely be adding the others in the Holt Cycle to my WL. I'll also check out the Duffy stuff,
Thank you both for the photo love. I realized, after looking at it again, how the "scummy" pond water gave the image an interesting backdrop.
>71 msf59: >72 msf59: Yeah, I'm surprised too by IQ84, maybe I was intimidated by the heft. I'll definitely be adding the others in the Holt Cycle to my WL. I'll also check out the Duffy stuff,
Thank you both for the photo love. I realized, after looking at it again, how the "scummy" pond water gave the image an interesting backdrop.
74mahsdad
2022 Books of the Month
January : The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
February : A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
March : City of Secrets by Stewart O'Nan
April : A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka
May: A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat by Charles Hood
June: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby
July: The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
#botm
January : The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
February : A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
March : City of Secrets by Stewart O'Nan
April : A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka
May: A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat by Charles Hood
June: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby
July: The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
#botm
75mahsdad
New Book
Tenth of December by George Saunders
One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story, and Tenth of December is his most honest, accessible and moving collection yet.
#newbook
Tenth of December by George Saunders
One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story, and Tenth of December is his most honest, accessible and moving collection yet.
(From Victory Lap) three days shy of her fifteenth birthday, Alison Pope paused at the top of the stairs. Say the staircase was marble. Say she descended and all heads turned. Where was {special one}? Approaching now, bowing slightly, ,he exclaimed, How can so much grace be contained in one small package?
#newbook
76mahsdad
New Book (audio)
Ocean State by Stewart O'Nan
Set in a working-class town on the Rhode Island coast, O'Nan's latest is a crushing, beautifully written, and profoundly compelling novel about sisters, mothers and daughters, and the terrible things love makes us do.
#newbook
Ocean State by Stewart O'Nan
Set in a working-class town on the Rhode Island coast, O'Nan's latest is a crushing, beautifully written, and profoundly compelling novel about sisters, mothers and daughters, and the terrible things love makes us do.
When I was in eighth grade my sister helped kill another girl. She was in love, my mother said, like it was an excuse. She didn't know what she was doing. I had never been in love then, not really, so I didn't know what my mother meant, but I do now.
#newbook
77weird_O
>66 mahsdad: It made me laugh out loud a couple times, which is really weird when you're walking around in public with earbuds in, totally out of context for the casual observer. I observed a number of fellow travelers in animated conversations with...uh...umm...well who? Ohhh! Cell phone, but without the phone at the ear.
78mahsdad
>77 weird_O: Yeah we pretty much all talk to ourselves now with our buds. LOL
79mahsdad
New Book (audio)
Summer Knight by Jim Butcher
Boy this is a popular series. Been on the waiting list for this since April.
Despondent over the loss of his vampire girlfriend, private detective and wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden undertakes a mission for the Winter Queen of Faerie to find out who murdered the Summer Queen's right-hand man, the Summer Knight, and clear the Winter Queen of the crime.
#newbook
Summer Knight by Jim Butcher
Boy this is a popular series. Been on the waiting list for this since April.
Despondent over the loss of his vampire girlfriend, private detective and wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden undertakes a mission for the Winter Queen of Faerie to find out who murdered the Summer Queen's right-hand man, the Summer Knight, and clear the Winter Queen of the crime.
It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.
#newbook
80klobrien2
>79 mahsdad: The Harry Dresden books are great! I got several books into the series, and then stopped (I don't know exactly why). Time to get back to them!
There was a little TV series, The Dresden Files, and I remember that it was pretty good. It might be on Prime; but it is on DVD at libraries.
Have a great weekend!
Karen O
There was a little TV series, The Dresden Files, and I remember that it was pretty good. It might be on Prime; but it is on DVD at libraries.
Have a great weekend!
Karen O
81mahsdad
>80 klobrien2: Hi Karen, Yeah, they're good pulp fiction, and a fun take on the police procedural. I'll have to look for the show. Thanks!
82mahsdad
Foto Fantastis Jumat
Hey there everybody, its Friday again, and oh my goodness, how did we get to August already. Yikes. Nothing official planned for the weekend. Forecasted for the mid-70's all weekend, which really means upper 70's, but that's okay. Compared to everyone else, I'll take it for as long as we can. I know hot days are coming. Still have September to get thru. Here's some flowers for your Friday. Happy Weekend All!
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>5 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Tenth of December by George Saunders. A good collection of stories. Only one so far that I was "meh" with and skipped over half way. Others really excellent. 68%
Work - The Loudest Duck by Laura Liswood. Slow slog continues. Last week we discussed Chapter 4. 3 more to go. 65%
Listening - Summer Knight by Jim Butcher. Just started book 4 of the Dresden files. 11%
eBook - Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. My occassional read when I don't want to lug a DTE around. 18%
Hey there everybody, its Friday again, and oh my goodness, how did we get to August already. Yikes. Nothing official planned for the weekend. Forecasted for the mid-70's all weekend, which really means upper 70's, but that's okay. Compared to everyone else, I'll take it for as long as we can. I know hot days are coming. Still have September to get thru. Here's some flowers for your Friday. Happy Weekend All!
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>5 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Tenth of December by George Saunders. A good collection of stories. Only one so far that I was "meh" with and skipped over half way. Others really excellent. 68%
Work - The Loudest Duck by Laura Liswood. Slow slog continues. Last week we discussed Chapter 4. 3 more to go. 65%
Listening - Summer Knight by Jim Butcher. Just started book 4 of the Dresden files. 11%
eBook - Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. My occassional read when I don't want to lug a DTE around. 18%
83richardderus
>82 mahsdad: I love that! The concrete, the plaster, the metal mesh...then, in a tiny crack, a flower says "**ck you out I come" and there he is!
85mahsdad
Very interesting (at least to me) coincidence. I decided to start tracking the audiobook narrators I listen to in my tracking spreadsheets. As I was doing it, just noticed, this year I've read 2 books by James Baldwin. One was read by Ron Butler and the other was read by Dan Butler. I had to look them up to make sure I didn't write the names down wrong.
86quondame
>82 mahsdad: The magic of corners. Good catch.
87mahsdad
New Book
A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
Beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and Coca-Cola: in Tom Standage's deft, innovative account of world history, these six beverages turn out to be much more than just ways to quench thirst. They also represent six eras that span the course of civilization...
#newbook
A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
Beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and Coca-Cola: in Tom Standage's deft, innovative account of world history, these six beverages turn out to be much more than just ways to quench thirst. They also represent six eras that span the course of civilization...
Thirst is deadlier than hunger. Deprived of food, you might survive for a few weeks, but deprived of liquid refreshment, you would be lucky to last more than a few days. Only breathing matters more.
#newbook
88mahsdad
>86 quondame: Thanks Susan!
89mahsdad
49. Tenth of December by George Saunders 8/10 : A pretty good mix of stories, only a couple that didn't work for me. My favorites were Escape from Spiderhead, about a facility where prisoners were being used to test the effects of some pretty wild mood altering drugs. Its been made into a movie called Spiderhead on Netflix. And My Chivalric Fiasco. At a renaissance faire fair place, were employees were playing characters in a medieval place for their paying guests. An SA inicident with some of the employees gets mixed with yet another drug that made you more chivalrous comes to a head. A good collection.
#review
#review
90mahsdad
BREAKING NEWS
Its been reported that Donald Trump's personal library was destroyed in the FBI raid at Mar-a-lago. Both books were beyond repair and he hadn't even finished coloring one of them in yet.
LOL! ;)
Its been reported that Donald Trump's personal library was destroyed in the FBI raid at Mar-a-lago. Both books were beyond repair and he hadn't even finished coloring one of them in yet.
LOL! ;)
91quondame
>90 mahsdad: Well, no entries into the Legacy Libraries I guess...
92jessibud2
>90 mahsdad: - LOL! I actually heard that one ages ago, but with Bush's name instead of trump. By comparison, though, Bush is beginning to look more and more like a genius and upstanding citizen...;-p
94scaifea
Hi, Jeff!
>82 mahsdad: Oooh, I just requested Picnic at Hanging Rock the other day! I've been wanting to read it for years. How are you liking it?
>82 mahsdad: Oooh, I just requested Picnic at Hanging Rock the other day! I've been wanting to read it for years. How are you liking it?
95mahsdad
Hi Amber. Picnic, I'm a little over a third thru and its pretty good. I'm not usually into the gothic/victorian stuff, but that's kinda what it is and I'm enjoying it. Set in 1900. Very interesting to get a different take on the world at that time since its in the Australian outback, but the same prime and proper girls school that you'd expect from England or something. Neat that the "thing" happens very early on and now its got me wondering where its going to go and how are we going to resolve the "thing", or are we.
96mahsdad
Баасан гарагийн гайхалтай гэрэл зураг
Not much to report today, other than summer arrived and the heats been cranked up a little bit. Not as much as the blast furnaces that some of you experience. Just getting to the time of the year when I regret not having A/C, and its all about directional fans. Hope you all have a good weekend! On Wednesday, we pretended to be adults and went out to the Hollywood Bowl for some New Orleans style jazz/funk/blues/a bit of rap music by a guy named Trombone Shorty and a bunch of supporting bands that were really excellent. Here's a couple images for your Friday...
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q3
>5 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - The History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage. See the world thru the development of Beer, Wine, Spirits, Coffee, Tea and Coke. Pretty good so far. 35%
eBook - Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. Gothic intrigue in the outback of Australia. 40%
Listening - Summer Knight by Jim Butcher. 76%
Not much to report today, other than summer arrived and the heats been cranked up a little bit. Not as much as the blast furnaces that some of you experience. Just getting to the time of the year when I regret not having A/C, and its all about directional fans. Hope you all have a good weekend! On Wednesday, we pretended to be adults and went out to the Hollywood Bowl for some New Orleans style jazz/funk/blues/a bit of rap music by a guy named Trombone Shorty and a bunch of supporting bands that were really excellent. Here's a couple images for your Friday...
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q3
>5 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - The History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage. See the world thru the development of Beer, Wine, Spirits, Coffee, Tea and Coke. Pretty good so far. 35%
eBook - Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. Gothic intrigue in the outback of Australia. 40%
Listening - Summer Knight by Jim Butcher. 76%
97weird_O
Ho! Trombone Shorty. Good stuff, I say. Heard a piece several years ago on NPR about Shorty's family in New Orleans. He was the youngest and his elders had dibs on the instruments better suited to someone of his stature. Initially, he worked the slide with his foot.
This Just In. Sadly. Salman Rushdie was attacked a few hours ago in Chautauqua, New York. Stabbed in the neck. Helicoptered to a hospital. Attacker in custody.
This Just In. Sadly. Salman Rushdie was attacked a few hours ago in Chautauqua, New York. Stabbed in the neck. Helicoptered to a hospital. Attacker in custody.
98mahsdad
>97 weird_O: Oh my goodness, Rushdie, that's insane
99richardderus
>98 mahsdad: I am very curious about the attacker's motivations. The man's rising 80 years old! Leave him be.
100msf59
>90 mahsdad: LOL.
Happy Friday, Jeff. I remember loving Tenth of December. I would like to revisit that one. I have seen Trombone Shorty a couple of times and enjoyed him. I hope you had a good time.
Happy Friday, Jeff. I remember loving Tenth of December. I would like to revisit that one. I have seen Trombone Shorty a couple of times and enjoyed him. I hope you had a good time.
101mahsdad
>99 richardderus: Absolutely, and to go along with all these book banning crusades, its just stories. Don't like 'em don't read 'em. Geesh.
>100 msf59: Tenth... if you want it, I'll send it to you, otherwise, I'll put it in the give away pile I have to load into some of the neighborhood Little Libraries
>100 msf59: Tenth... if you want it, I'll send it to you, otherwise, I'll put it in the give away pile I have to load into some of the neighborhood Little Libraries
102msf59
>101 mahsdad: Thanks, Jeff. I have my own copy.
103mahsdad
>102 msf59: No worries. But you can't fault me for the assumption that there's at least an even chance that a book you read came from the library or on audio. And if so, you might like a new copy.
I'll give it a home in one of our local places. Have a great weekend!
I'll give it a home in one of our local places. Have a great weekend!
106mahsdad
>105 drneutron: Very cool. I had heard of him, but never HEARD him before. Very fun night.
107mahsdad
New Book (audio)
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God; some 40,000 people still practice polygamy in these communities.
#newbook
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God; some 40,000 people still practice polygamy in these communities.
Almost everyone in Utah Couunty has heard of the Lafferty boys. That's mostly a function of the lurid murders, of course, but the Lafferty surname had a certain prominence in the county even before Brenda and Erica Lafferty were killed.
#newbook
108mahsdad
Reading The History of the World in 6 Glasses, in the 1730's New England was making a lot of rum to be used as currency to buy slaves from West Africa. They were using molasses from France because they banned the manufacture of rum (in France), to protect their brandy business. They sold it cheap, which pissed off the British, who in order to punish their colonies, wrote a new law... The Molasses Act and imposed a sixpence per gallon duty on all molasses imported into North America. Hmmm, what do you think that started and lead to in about 40 years. A very interesting read and perspective on history.
109mahsdad
51. Slaughterhouse Five: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Ryan North 10/10 : Just blasted thru this adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five written by Ryan North and drawn by Albert Monteys. Its is really excellent. A great adaptation. The subject and disjointed nature of the story lends itself very well to a comic form. Loved the drawing style, reminded me a lot of old Mad magazine. They even interpreted some of the Kilgore Trout stories that are within the book. Highly recommend.
110mahsdad
Another excellent excerpt from The History of the World in 6 Glasses. This time he's talking about coffee, and intellectual centers that coffeehouses became in London and the businesses that grew out of them.
But among the successful examples, the best known began in the Lloyd. It became a meeting place for ship captains, shipowners, and merchants, who went to hear the latest maritime news and to attend auctions of ships and their cargoes. Lloyd began to collect and summarized this information, supplemented with reports from a network of foreign correspondents, in the form of a regular newsletter, initially handwritten and later printed and sent to subscribers. Lloyd's became the natural meeting place for shipowners and the underwriters who insured their ships. Some underwriters began to rent regular booths at Lloyd's, and in 1771 a group of 79 of them collectively established the Society of Lloyds, which survives to this day as Lloyd's of London, the world's leading insurance market
111mahsdad
I'm sharing this elsewhere so might as well share here as well. This is a video of a guy driving across Death Valley last week after it got a years worth of rain in 3 hours. (Note, none of that rain made it to me :) )
https://youtu.be/Vn4IJFERCRM
https://youtu.be/Vn4IJFERCRM
112richardderus
>111 mahsdad: WOW
>110 mahsdad: I'm sure there's something good about the insurance business, but connecting it to coffee makes me despise 'em a bit less.
>109 mahsdad: So cool!
***
HBD, Jeff!
>110 mahsdad: I'm sure there's something good about the insurance business, but connecting it to coffee makes me despise 'em a bit less.
>109 mahsdad: So cool!
***
HBD, Jeff!
113weird_O
You are reading some really interesting stuff, Jeff. Adding the Slaughterhouse-Five GN and History of the World in Six Glasses to The WANT! List™. I'd add the Krakauer but I've read it. Your reference to the Mormon polygamists as Taliban is spot on.
Oh, ye gawds!
Oh, ye gawds!
114msf59
Happy Friday, Jeff. That Death Valley video is crazy. Glad they made it to the other side. Thanks for sharing. I hope you are enjoying Under the Banner of Heaven. I remember loving that one. Big fan of Krakauer.
115mahsdad
>112 richardderus: Thanks for the B-day wishes, RD.
>113 weird_O: I won't claim credit on the Taliban quote. That was the blurb on the Amazon. On my new book posts, I usually put something of the blurb on the back of the book (or what Amazon says), and then the opening lines. Glad I can contribute to the delinquency of your WL. :)
>114 msf59:. Hey Mark, thanks for stopping by. Me too... fan of Krakauer. This one is making me, even more glad that I put organized religion on the shelf long ago. :/
>113 weird_O: I won't claim credit on the Taliban quote. That was the blurb on the Amazon. On my new book posts, I usually put something of the blurb on the back of the book (or what Amazon says), and then the opening lines. Glad I can contribute to the delinquency of your WL. :)
>114 msf59:. Hey Mark, thanks for stopping by. Me too... fan of Krakauer. This one is making me, even more glad that I put organized religion on the shelf long ago. :/
116mahsdad
New Book
The Drowned World by JG Ballard
In the novel that catapulted him to international acclaim upon its publication in 1962, Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient The Drowned World imagines a terrifying future in which solar radiation and global warming have melted the ice caps, and Triassic-era jungles have overrun a submerged and tropical London.
#newbook
The Drowned World by JG Ballard
In the novel that catapulted him to international acclaim upon its publication in 1962, Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient The Drowned World imagines a terrifying future in which solar radiation and global warming have melted the ice caps, and Triassic-era jungles have overrun a submerged and tropical London.
Soon it would be too hot. Looking out from the hotel balcony shortly after 8 o'clock, Kerans watched the sun rise behind the dense groves of giant gymnosperms crowding over the roofs of the abandoned department stores four hundred yards away on the east side of the lagoon.
#newbook
117mahsdad
Grianghraf Iontach Dé hAoine
Happy late Friday. Forgive me, I took the day off, to celebrate my entry into the world 56 years ago. Laura and I got some sandwiches and went to the beach. Just sitting around watching the world go by and getting some reading in. Will be going out to the local brewery for dinner here in a little bit. It doesn't get much better than that.
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>5 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - The History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage. 76%
Reading - The Drowned World by JG Ballard. Needed a new beach read. This seemed to do the trick. Very good so far
Listening - Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer. 58%
eBook - Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. 70%
Happy late Friday. Forgive me, I took the day off, to celebrate my entry into the world 56 years ago. Laura and I got some sandwiches and went to the beach. Just sitting around watching the world go by and getting some reading in. Will be going out to the local brewery for dinner here in a little bit. It doesn't get much better than that.
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>5 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - The History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage. 76%
Reading - The Drowned World by JG Ballard. Needed a new beach read. This seemed to do the trick. Very good so far
Listening - Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer. 58%
eBook - Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. 70%
120msf59
>115 mahsdad: Damn, I forgot- Happy Birthday, my friend. 🍺
121weird_O
>111 mahsdad: Startling and dire. From the video, the Death Valley event was like the Yellowstone event of earlier this year. Earlier this week, the New York Times posted a graphic story about horrendous storms that scientists expect to ravage California in this century. Here's a "gift link" to the article:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/12/climate/california-rain-storm.htm...
It should get you past the paywall.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/12/climate/california-rain-storm.htm...
It should get you past the paywall.
122laytonwoman3rd
>121 weird_O: It should, but it don't. For me, anyway---I've been told I reached my limit of free articles. Subscribe or begone, chintzy woman.
123weird_O
>121 weird_O: >122 laytonwoman3rd: Try this link. It's way longer than the one in >121 weird_O:.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/12/climate/california-rain-storm.htm...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/12/climate/california-rain-storm.htm...
124richardderus
>117 mahsdad: How glorious to be able to enjoy that kind of day! I'm glad it worked for this one to be your natal anniversary, though honestly any day spent like that is a good day.
125jessibud2
>123 weird_O: - Eek. I want to say get out now, while you can. But really, climate change is already hot on our heels and will find us all, no matter where we are so, where to go? I was really hoping the world wouldn't self-destruct in my lifetime but it looks like we may not get so lucky... Eek. :-(
126PaulCranswick
Slightly late, Jeff, but happy birthday, buddy.
127mahsdad
>123 weird_O: Superstorms? Yikes, yeah I think that's the way climate change is going. Be careful what you wish for.
Thanks to all for the birthday wishes. They are most appreciated.
Thanks to all for the birthday wishes. They are most appreciated.
128mahsdad
52. A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage 8/10 : A very interesting take on the history of us humans thru the beverages we drink. Starting in neolithic times and the creation of beer as civilization started being created. Then to the wine the Greeks and Romans created. Then to the coffee that came, originally out of the Arabian peninsula, and tea from China and finally the sugary tonic that came out of patent medicine world in Georgia in the mid-19th century.
#review
Beer was not invented but discovered. Its discovery was inevitable once the gathering of wild grains became widespread after the end of the last ice age.
The abstemious Arab scholars who first distilled wine regarded the result as alchemical ingredients or a medicine, rather than an everyday drink. Only when knowledge of distillation spread into Christian Europe did distilled spirits become more widely consumed.
Tea was the drink that fueled the workers in the first factories, places where both men and machines were, in their own ways, steam powered.
#review
129Whisper1
>82 mahsdad: What a beautiful image -- flowers tenaciously pushing the way through the surroundings. Glad you got a snapshot of this one!
130mahsdad
Thanks Linda. If I recall, it was one of those cases where I saw it out of the corner of my eye and stopped and went back to grab a shot.
131mahsdad
John Green's video today is the story of the survival of a book
The Sunless City by JE Preston Muddock, was written in 1905 and has survived mostly because its the basis of the name of Flin Flon, Manitoba.
Fascinating...
https://youtu.be/X5bkge-w2og
The Sunless City by JE Preston Muddock, was written in 1905 and has survived mostly because its the basis of the name of Flin Flon, Manitoba.
Fascinating...
https://youtu.be/X5bkge-w2og
132quondame
>131 mahsdad: I don't think I'll go there, but that's interesting. Arrowsmith was on that list of "forgotten" books he waved, but it's true Sinclair Lewis doesn't come up quite as often in LT discussions as F. Scott Fitzgerald.
133mahsdad
>132 quondame: I actually just got a copy of Arrowsmith. Sinclair Lewis was one of the first "real" authors I can remember reading in my youth, The Jungle, of course. Looking forward to reading it, eventually.
134quondame
I remember reading Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald from my parents' bookshelves and that the two authors were equally well regarded by them. As they went to college in the 30s, that makes sense. I don't know if I'd like Arrowsmith as much now as I did then, I remember thinking the ending a bit overblown.
135mahsdad
Well I'll be sure to share my opinion when I manage to get to it. LOL.
Interesting, I've never actually read Fitzgerald. I suppose I should. My other "real" author that I read without being told to was W. Somerset Maugham, I read The Razer's Edge, I think before I went to college.
Interesting, I've never actually read Fitzgerald. I suppose I should. My other "real" author that I read without being told to was W. Somerset Maugham, I read The Razer's Edge, I think before I went to college.
136quondame
>135 mahsdad: Yep, he was shelved right there with the other two!
137ursula
>116 mahsdad: Ooh! I love Ballard, and really like this one.
138mahsdad
Okay this might be a reason to get Paramount+, at least temporarily...
Hollywood Reporter is saying that Ewan McGregor is set to start in A Gentleman in Moscow. Not sure if he's who I would have picked, but I'm intrigued.
Hollywood Reporter is saying that Ewan McGregor is set to start in A Gentleman in Moscow. Not sure if he's who I would have picked, but I'm intrigued.
139laytonwoman3rd
>138 mahsdad: Iiiiiinteresting...and for once, we already subscribe to the service that's offering something new I want to see. I was SO keen to see the adaptation of The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, with Samuel L. Jackson, but it's on Apple Tv, so no joy for this household.
140mahsdad
>139 laytonwoman3rd:. I got Apple TV+ for free for a couple months when I got a new phone. Got hooked on Ted Lasso, and then Severance. But they're done for a while so we cancelled. Have to check out what we're missing on Paramount or Hulu to see if another short term signup is warranted.
141mahsdad
New Book (audio)
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this Pulitzer Prize-winning follow-up to The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
#newbook
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this Pulitzer Prize-winning follow-up to The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
Even in death the boys were trouble. The secret graveyard lay on the north side of the Nickel campus, in a patchy acre of wild grass between the old work barn and the school dump.
#newbook
142mahsdad
Thlalak ropui tak Friday
Amazing how long a week will be when you have a 3 day weekend the week before. But its almost over. :) Laura's going out to Palm Springs tomorrow to bring the MIL over here for a bit. Get her out of the heat for a while. Its good to visit with here, but its too dang hot over there for us to go. Hopefully I can finish a couple more books. Your image today comes from the South Coast Botanic Gardens, which is relatively close to me. Its some sort of bottle brush plant that I just loved the colors. Enjoy...
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>5 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - The Drowned World by JG Ballard. A weird (in a good way) book that is truly hitting a little too close to home. The reasons for the climate disaster are different than what we're currently experiencing, but the results feel all too real. 66%
Work - The Loudest Duck by Laura Liswood. I'm behind a chapter, due to work things. I'm going to try to finish this up ASAP. 71%
Listing - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. After finishing Under the Banner of Heaven, this was the most interesting book that came up in the "what's available now" list on Libby. 27%
Amazing how long a week will be when you have a 3 day weekend the week before. But its almost over. :) Laura's going out to Palm Springs tomorrow to bring the MIL over here for a bit. Get her out of the heat for a while. Its good to visit with here, but its too dang hot over there for us to go. Hopefully I can finish a couple more books. Your image today comes from the South Coast Botanic Gardens, which is relatively close to me. Its some sort of bottle brush plant that I just loved the colors. Enjoy...
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>5 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - The Drowned World by JG Ballard. A weird (in a good way) book that is truly hitting a little too close to home. The reasons for the climate disaster are different than what we're currently experiencing, but the results feel all too real. 66%
Work - The Loudest Duck by Laura Liswood. I'm behind a chapter, due to work things. I'm going to try to finish this up ASAP. 71%
Listing - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. After finishing Under the Banner of Heaven, this was the most interesting book that came up in the "what's available now" list on Libby. 27%
143richardderus
>142 mahsdad: Australian flora are all off of a sci-fi show, I swear. Nothing is just, like, a daisy...it's a daisy emerging from the scaly, tentacled digits of a dragon.
145quondame
>142 mahsdad: Wow, I thought those were fireworks at first glance!
146mahsdad
>145 quondame: Too funny Susan. Yeah they are quite "sparkily" :)
147mahsdad
New Book
Glory Lane by Alan Dean Foster
I got this one used recently, and its the first mass-market paperback book I've read in quite a while. Not sure my old man eyes like it. :)
The fate of the Universe is in their hands. Seeth, a bored punk rocker looking for excitement. Miranda, an air-head beauty who lives to shop. And Kerwin, a nerd who just wants to fit in. They're not friends, and they don't even particularly like each other. But now this unlikely trio is the key to saving the universe.
#newbook
Glory Lane by Alan Dean Foster
I got this one used recently, and its the first mass-market paperback book I've read in quite a while. Not sure my old man eyes like it. :)
The fate of the Universe is in their hands. Seeth, a bored punk rocker looking for excitement. Miranda, an air-head beauty who lives to shop. And Kerwin, a nerd who just wants to fit in. They're not friends, and they don't even particularly like each other. But now this unlikely trio is the key to saving the universe.
It was always slow in Albuquerque on Tuesday nights, but tonight was worse than usual. Man, it was dead, Seeth Ransom fumed. He couldn't even find a stray cat to kick around.
#newbook
148mahsdad
New Book (audio)
Death Masks by Jim Butcher
The Dresden Files have taken the genre of paranormal mystery to a new level of action, excitement, and hard-hitting magical muscle. Now, in Death Masks, Jim Butcher’s smart-guy private eye may have taken on more than he can handle...
Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only practicing professional wizard, should be happy that business is pretty good for a change. But he also knows that whenever things are going good, the only way left for them to go is bad. Way bad. Such as:
• A duel with the lethal champion of the Red Court, who must kill Harry to end the war between vampires and wizards...
• Professional hit men using Harry for target practice...
• The missing Shroud of Turin—and the possible involvement of Chicago's most feared mob boss...
• A handless and headless corpse the Chicago police need identified...
#newbook
Death Masks by Jim Butcher
The Dresden Files have taken the genre of paranormal mystery to a new level of action, excitement, and hard-hitting magical muscle. Now, in Death Masks, Jim Butcher’s smart-guy private eye may have taken on more than he can handle...
Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only practicing professional wizard, should be happy that business is pretty good for a change. But he also knows that whenever things are going good, the only way left for them to go is bad. Way bad. Such as:
• A duel with the lethal champion of the Red Court, who must kill Harry to end the war between vampires and wizards...
• Professional hit men using Harry for target practice...
• The missing Shroud of Turin—and the possible involvement of Chicago's most feared mob boss...
• A handless and headless corpse the Chicago police need identified...
Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste. Wizards and television.
#newbook
149ocgreg34
>2 mahsdad: I like your book selections! Happy reading!
150mahsdad
Thanks Greg! I read whatever on TBR strikes my fancy, I never have a plan. Audio, it depends on what's available. :)
151mahsdad
I've added another stat to start tracking. I've been keeping track in my threads of the audiobook narrators, and I finally put them into my BASS to see over the years which are my most listened to talent.
This year so far, I've read 26 audiobooks from 21 different narrators. The winner's so far are James Marster (3) (He reads all the Dresden books) and Simon Vance (4) (he reads most of the Dune books)
In the last 3 years (as far back as I go), I've read 95 audiobooks. The winner overall is Michael Fenton Stevens (5) He read all the Terry Pratchett Long Earth books. I read those in 2020
This year so far, I've read 26 audiobooks from 21 different narrators. The winner's so far are James Marster (3) (He reads all the Dresden books) and Simon Vance (4) (he reads most of the Dune books)
In the last 3 years (as far back as I go), I've read 95 audiobooks. The winner overall is Michael Fenton Stevens (5) He read all the Terry Pratchett Long Earth books. I read those in 2020
152mahsdad
2022 Books of the Month
January : The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
February : A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
March : City of Secrets by Stewart O'Nan
April : A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka
May: A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat by Charles Hood
June: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby
July: The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
August : Slaughterhouse Five : A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Ryan North
#botm
January : The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
February : A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
March : City of Secrets by Stewart O'Nan
April : A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka
May: A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat by Charles Hood
June: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby
July: The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
August : Slaughterhouse Five : A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Ryan North
#botm
153mahsdad
New Book
Nein, Nein, Nein: One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust by Jerry Stahl
I got this as an ER book from Librarything
Nein, Nein, Nein! is the unbelievable true story of a guided bus tour to Nazi concentration camps, told as only Jerry Stahl can tell it, with an acid wit as deadly serious as it is hilarious, insane and weirdly life-affirming... Stahl is fearless, gripping and most unsparing about his own damned soul. I read everything he writes. - Eric Bogosian
Nein, Nein, Nein: One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust by Jerry Stahl
I got this as an ER book from Librarything
Nein, Nein, Nein! is the unbelievable true story of a guided bus tour to Nazi concentration camps, told as only Jerry Stahl can tell it, with an acid wit as deadly serious as it is hilarious, insane and weirdly life-affirming... Stahl is fearless, gripping and most unsparing about his own damned soul. I read everything he writes. - Eric Bogosian
Naked Death Camp Tag. Who knew that was a thing? I didn't, until the breakthrough morning I opened my computer to find a must-see attachment in my Google Holocaust alert. The video shows a group of Polish citizens playing tag. Naked. In a death camp gas chamber. Again./blockquote>
#newbook
154mahsdad
Fantastica foto venerdì
Hey friendly folks. We've made it to the weekend again. For those in the states, its the weekend where we celebrate laboring by not laboring on Monday. Unless of course, you work in the service industry, retail, etc, then its another day, except with big sales (especially on mattresses for some reason), and everyone else is off so they'll go shopping and it will just be a more laboring day. LOL. For me, I'm going to do my annual Labor Day 5m run across the Vincent Thomas bridge in San Pedro. And since its September in CA, the heat decided to finally arrive and it will probably be 80+ by 8am when I'm just getting to the top of the bridge. Oh well, at least it gets me out of the house. Today's image is from my usual habit when we go to a garden center, Laura looks for plants to buy and I look for plants to take pictures of.
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>5 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Glory Lane by Alan Dean Foster. Couple Teens run into an alien on Earth and get taken on an adventure, right into the middle of a galactic war. A bit dated, but typical 80's sci-fi. 52%
Reading - Nein, Nein, Nein! by Jerry Stahl. Got this from ER. From the prolog, this is going to be either really good or really bad. Stahl is pretty funny, but kind of a frenetic writer, jumps around a bit. 10%
Listening - Death Masks by Jim Butcher. Book 5, more wizards and vampires and ghouls. This time Harry has to find the Shroud of Turin. 27%
Hey friendly folks. We've made it to the weekend again. For those in the states, its the weekend where we celebrate laboring by not laboring on Monday. Unless of course, you work in the service industry, retail, etc, then its another day, except with big sales (especially on mattresses for some reason), and everyone else is off so they'll go shopping and it will just be a more laboring day. LOL. For me, I'm going to do my annual Labor Day 5m run across the Vincent Thomas bridge in San Pedro. And since its September in CA, the heat decided to finally arrive and it will probably be 80+ by 8am when I'm just getting to the top of the bridge. Oh well, at least it gets me out of the house. Today's image is from my usual habit when we go to a garden center, Laura looks for plants to buy and I look for plants to take pictures of.
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>5 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Glory Lane by Alan Dean Foster. Couple Teens run into an alien on Earth and get taken on an adventure, right into the middle of a galactic war. A bit dated, but typical 80's sci-fi. 52%
Reading - Nein, Nein, Nein! by Jerry Stahl. Got this from ER. From the prolog, this is going to be either really good or really bad. Stahl is pretty funny, but kind of a frenetic writer, jumps around a bit. 10%
Listening - Death Masks by Jim Butcher. Book 5, more wizards and vampires and ghouls. This time Harry has to find the Shroud of Turin. 27%
155richardderus
>154 mahsdad: That color...!! Wow. Sixty different shades, veins and ribs of texture and pigment, the Fibonacci spirals of the stamens just pollenizing, the pistils still so green...I do love a good long look at botanical images. Lovely, thank Jeff!
Nein, Nein, Nein! gets a no, no, no! from me.
Nein, Nein, Nein! gets a no, no, no! from me.
157jessibud2
Very pretty! I have that third one (the pink coneflower) in my garden, as we speak. Good luck with the run.
159mahsdad
विलक्षण फोटो शुक्रवार
Happy Friday folks. I'm coming to you today from Sunday Pittsburgh. I have a work event next week in Lancaster PA (middle of the state), so I took the opportunity to come to the 'Burgh and visit the family. Not doing to much, except hanging out. We did go on a bit of an adventure to visit the oldest independent book store in Pgh - City Books, on the North Side. Run by a lovely woman who I found and started following on TikTok and Instagram. While there, I, of course, picked up a couple; Attention Please Now by Matthew Pitt (no idea who he is, but its a collection of stories that looked interesting and I love me some story collections). And Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan. O'Nan is one of my favorites, and I couldn't pass this up. Today's image is of a local church in the area where the store was. I might want nothing to do with organized religion, but I love the architecture.
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 books
>3 mahsdad: Q2 books
>4 mahsdad: Q1 books
>5 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Midnight's Children by Salmon Rushdie. Started this on the plane the other day
Reading - Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust. Still on the fence on this one. He's a bit frenetic.
Listening - Foundation by Issac Asimov. After I finished the latest (to me) Dresden Files book, I went searching and found this was available. Strangely with as much sci-fi I read growing up, I never read this.
Happy Friday folks. I'm coming to you today from Sunday Pittsburgh. I have a work event next week in Lancaster PA (middle of the state), so I took the opportunity to come to the 'Burgh and visit the family. Not doing to much, except hanging out. We did go on a bit of an adventure to visit the oldest independent book store in Pgh - City Books, on the North Side. Run by a lovely woman who I found and started following on TikTok and Instagram. While there, I, of course, picked up a couple; Attention Please Now by Matthew Pitt (no idea who he is, but its a collection of stories that looked interesting and I love me some story collections). And Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan. O'Nan is one of my favorites, and I couldn't pass this up. Today's image is of a local church in the area where the store was. I might want nothing to do with organized religion, but I love the architecture.
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 books
>3 mahsdad: Q2 books
>4 mahsdad: Q1 books
>5 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Midnight's Children by Salmon Rushdie. Started this on the plane the other day
Reading - Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust. Still on the fence on this one. He's a bit frenetic.
Listening - Foundation by Issac Asimov. After I finished the latest (to me) Dresden Files book, I went searching and found this was available. Strangely with as much sci-fi I read growing up, I never read this.
160richardderus
>159 mahsdad: I'm glad you got to be here for the lovely early-fall weather, Jeff. I think the church looks suitably freaky-deaky and daaarrrk, so kudos for that. Midnight's Children working any magic on you yet?
Enjoy your time in the motherland.
Enjoy your time in the motherland.
161klobrien2
>159 mahsdad: Foundation! Some of my favorite books when I was a teenager. It's a trilogy, I believe--Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation. I'm pretty sure you'll like them!
Karen O.
Karen O.
162quondame
>159 mahsdad: I've spent a lot of time looking at maps of Pittsburgh this month as Wen Spencer's characters hunt down the monsters and destroy bit's and pieces of this and that.
163msf59
Happy Friday, Jeff. I loved Pittsburgh, the first and only time I visited. Are you hitting any breweries? I especially loved the one that is set ina church. Churchworks? I loved Emily, Alone.
164mahsdad
>160 richardderus: Early Fall weather? Its still upper-70s/low 80's over here. But that's nothing compared to the 90's that we've been dealing with at home. Midnight's Children - Magic. Its starting to, it was a little bit of a slow burn so far for me.
>161 klobrien2:, Hi Karen. So far, so good.
>162 quondame: Hey Susan, I am definitely going to have to look into reading the Spencers.
>163 msf59: Hey Mark, haven't gotten to any breweries this time. Mostly spent hanging with Mom, and she's not a big brewery gal. I have been to Churchworks, many years ago, very good, if my memory serves.
Glad to hear I wasn't wrong picking up the O'Nan, even though he's pretty much an instant pickup for me, Like Jess Walter, Michael Chabon, and several others, if I think about it a little more.
>161 klobrien2:, Hi Karen. So far, so good.
>162 quondame: Hey Susan, I am definitely going to have to look into reading the Spencers.
>163 msf59: Hey Mark, haven't gotten to any breweries this time. Mostly spent hanging with Mom, and she's not a big brewery gal. I have been to Churchworks, many years ago, very good, if my memory serves.
Glad to hear I wasn't wrong picking up the O'Nan, even though he's pretty much an instant pickup for me, Like Jess Walter, Michael Chabon, and several others, if I think about it a little more.
165quondame
>164 mahsdad: The Elfhome series is the one set in Pittsburgh, Boston in others.
166weird_O
Emily, Alone is set in Pittsburgh. And isn't O'Nan a Pittsburgh native. It's pretty good of you to buy a book in Pittsburgh that is set in Pittsburgh.
167mahsdad
>166 weird_O:. Didn't know about the setting for Emily, but I definitely knew that O'Nan was from Pittsburgh. I think Mark got be introduced to him back in 2017; In the Walled City and Last Night at the Lobster, that pretty much sealed my feelings for him. Then in 2018, one of his stories was in Pittsburgh Noir
168Berly
Popping in to say Hi! Love the cone flower pics. Hope you enjoy Pittsburgh -- I have never been there, so kinda jealous. : )
169mahsdad
Hey Kim. Thanks for popping in. Had a lovely time in Pittsburgh, hanging out with the Fam. Then drove to Lancaster PA (near Harrisburg) for a work event. First time our whole (well mostly whole) company have been together for 4 years. Little bit of work, lots of fun and too much drinking. LOL. Flew home out of Baltimore, and needless to say, given the current state of flying nowadays, I got delayed and had to stay over night and fly out this morning.
All good. Glad to be back
All good. Glad to be back
170mahsdad
Recent Book purchases. Got a couple when in Pgh, and came home to a couple I purchased from one of my indy used book sources...
Attention Please Now by Matthew Pitt
Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
Attention Please Now by Matthew Pitt
Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
171Berly
>169 mahsdad: >170 mahsdad: Excellent!! and Excellent!!
172mahsdad
ファンタスティックフォトフライデー
Hey everybody, nothing new to report that I haven't already said. Jetlag's not too bad. Was able to make it til about 6:15 before I couldn't go back to sleep, not too bad. One of the activities we did was to do some kayaking on the Susquehanna river. It was in a protected area, so no real current speak off, so it was a nice relaxing afternoon. Here's some shots of some giant water lilies I took on the water.
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>5 mahsdad: Audiobook Narrators
Reading - Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. 31%. I'll admit, this one's a bit of a slow burn. Took me most of the way thru section 1 to really get into it. But I'm glad I pushed thru, starting to enjoy it quite a bit.
Reading - Nein, Nein, Nein! by Jerry Stahl. 32%. My opinion from last week hasn't changed. A bit frenetic, but when he actually starts talking about the history, it is interesting
Listening - Cheech Is Not My Real Name by Cheech Marin. 6%. Finished Foundation. Found this on the availability list. Its a fun read so far.
Hey everybody, nothing new to report that I haven't already said. Jetlag's not too bad. Was able to make it til about 6:15 before I couldn't go back to sleep, not too bad. One of the activities we did was to do some kayaking on the Susquehanna river. It was in a protected area, so no real current speak off, so it was a nice relaxing afternoon. Here's some shots of some giant water lilies I took on the water.
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>5 mahsdad: Audiobook Narrators
Reading - Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. 31%. I'll admit, this one's a bit of a slow burn. Took me most of the way thru section 1 to really get into it. But I'm glad I pushed thru, starting to enjoy it quite a bit.
Reading - Nein, Nein, Nein! by Jerry Stahl. 32%. My opinion from last week hasn't changed. A bit frenetic, but when he actually starts talking about the history, it is interesting
Listening - Cheech Is Not My Real Name by Cheech Marin. 6%. Finished Foundation. Found this on the availability list. Its a fun read so far.
174quondame
>172 mahsdad: So structural. Great image.
175mahsdad
Thanks RD, Susan.
To humble-brag, it was a total blind shot. You can see the boat to the right, that's where I was. I was just holding my phone upside down pointed up taking a bunch of shots. This one is the most interesting.
To humble-brag, it was a total blind shot. You can see the boat to the right, that's where I was. I was just holding my phone upside down pointed up taking a bunch of shots. This one is the most interesting.
176mahsdad
Ataahua Whakaahua Paraire
Hey everyone, hope all is well in your neck of the world. Been a busy week at work, trying to catch up after being away for a week. Oh well,, them's the breaks, it keeps a paycheck coming in. Going to be doing a lizard survey with the Natural History museum tomorrow. There's a population of invasive Italian Wall lizards in Pedro, and the head Herpetologist at NHMLA is keeping track of them and mapping their spread. We're going to walk around the neighborhood and record how many we see and where. Should be a fun morning walk. Then we're going to go out to Palm Springs to visit the MIL, hopefully it won't be too hot. :) Today's image comes from my annual Labor Day "run" cross the Vincent Thomas bridge. Enjoy
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 Books - Only 1 more week of Q3, incredible
>3 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>5 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Book Update
Reading - Midnight's Children by Salman Rusdie 48%
Reading - Nein Nein Nein! by Jerry Stahl 43%
Listening - Native Son by Richard White 14%. After finishing the Cheech Marin book, I looked thru the available book list and this came up. Never read it before
Graphic Novel - Parenthesis by Elodie Durand. A graphic memoir of the author's experience with tumor-related epilepsy. Sure its not "light" fare, but the story and drawing style are compelling. It was an impulse Hoopla selection, when just looking for a GN to read.
Hey everyone, hope all is well in your neck of the world. Been a busy week at work, trying to catch up after being away for a week. Oh well,, them's the breaks, it keeps a paycheck coming in. Going to be doing a lizard survey with the Natural History museum tomorrow. There's a population of invasive Italian Wall lizards in Pedro, and the head Herpetologist at NHMLA is keeping track of them and mapping their spread. We're going to walk around the neighborhood and record how many we see and where. Should be a fun morning walk. Then we're going to go out to Palm Springs to visit the MIL, hopefully it won't be too hot. :) Today's image comes from my annual Labor Day "run" cross the Vincent Thomas bridge. Enjoy
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q3 Books - Only 1 more week of Q3, incredible
>3 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>5 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Book Update
Reading - Midnight's Children by Salman Rusdie 48%
Reading - Nein Nein Nein! by Jerry Stahl 43%
Listening - Native Son by Richard White 14%. After finishing the Cheech Marin book, I looked thru the available book list and this came up. Never read it before
Graphic Novel - Parenthesis by Elodie Durand. A graphic memoir of the author's experience with tumor-related epilepsy. Sure its not "light" fare, but the story and drawing style are compelling. It was an impulse Hoopla selection, when just looking for a GN to read.
177richardderus
Purty bridge shot, Jeff!
When's the MiL moving away from that reactor-fire of a climate?
When's the MiL moving away from that reactor-fire of a climate?
178mahsdad
>177 richardderus: Thanks RD.
That is indeed the connundrum we are having in the Helm household. She's getting to the point of no return. She's 86, and in the beginning stages of mental decline. So the question is continue to live there independantly until she can't, or move her back here with us, or try and find some assisted living facility that won't take all of the money she doesn't have to live there. All of the options are fraught with issues. Preachin to the choir, but it sucks getting old.
Me, I want to go out peacefully in my sleep at the wheel of my car as I go off a cliff. LOL.
That is indeed the connundrum we are having in the Helm household. She's getting to the point of no return. She's 86, and in the beginning stages of mental decline. So the question is continue to live there independantly until she can't, or move her back here with us, or try and find some assisted living facility that won't take all of the money she doesn't have to live there. All of the options are fraught with issues. Preachin to the choir, but it sucks getting old.
Me, I want to go out peacefully in my sleep at the wheel of my car as I go off a cliff. LOL.
179mahsdad
Made it back from a quick trip to PS to help the MIL with some stuff around her house. It was a good visit.
As is usually the case we always come back with a bunch of stuff to donate/sell. Including a couple books that will be added to my never ending TBR stack.
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
As is usually the case we always come back with a bunch of stuff to donate/sell. Including a couple books that will be added to my never ending TBR stack.
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
180mahsdad
You're regularly schedule post will be delayed until tomorrow when I can get a new thread up, since its a new Quarter.
to tied you over, here's a Mantis Shrimp for your enjoyment...
to tied you over, here's a Mantis Shrimp for your enjoyment...
181richardderus
Mantis shrimps have 12 different color receptors, as opposed to our three. I am SO DAMN JEALOUS of them!
See you tomorrow.
See you tomorrow.
182mahsdad
And they have hammer claws than break the sound barrier. They kill with cavitation.
We love mantis shrimp. :)
We love mantis shrimp. :)
183msf59
Happy Friday, Jeff. Glad you had a good trip to PA. Love the bridge photo. How did the lizard survey go? What did you have to do?
184mahsdad
Hey Mark, thanks for stopping by.
The lizard survey was fun. We were hunting Italian Wall lizards. They were introduced in Pedro by a guy who smuggled in 7 of them from Sicily in 1994. He built an open habitat in his back yard and hand fed them and protected them from local predators. Surprise, surprise, they thrived and got out of his backyard. The NMLA has been studying their range for the last 10 years or so, as they expand. They've been pushing out the native Western Fence and Alligator lizards. What we did was walk along the streets at the edges of the known range in the neighborhoods to see where they've expanded into. We walk along and do a count of how many we see and in front of which address they were. In about 3.5 miles that we walked we saw about 30-40 of them. Here's a picture of one.
The lizard survey was fun. We were hunting Italian Wall lizards. They were introduced in Pedro by a guy who smuggled in 7 of them from Sicily in 1994. He built an open habitat in his back yard and hand fed them and protected them from local predators. Surprise, surprise, they thrived and got out of his backyard. The NMLA has been studying their range for the last 10 years or so, as they expand. They've been pushing out the native Western Fence and Alligator lizards. What we did was walk along the streets at the edges of the known range in the neighborhoods to see where they've expanded into. We walk along and do a count of how many we see and in front of which address they were. In about 3.5 miles that we walked we saw about 30-40 of them. Here's a picture of one.
185richardderus
>184 mahsdad: ...invasive lizards...what we won't worry about nowadays!
186benitastrnad
>184 mahsdad:
I congratulate you. This kind of survey is really important scientific work. We need to understand more about how these things work and what kind of impacts they have on our environment - both long and short term.
Even though I am not a bird watcher, this is the same reason why the annual backyard bird count done by Cornell University is important. I love to see this kind of scientific work done by the public.
I congratulate you. This kind of survey is really important scientific work. We need to understand more about how these things work and what kind of impacts they have on our environment - both long and short term.
Even though I am not a bird watcher, this is the same reason why the annual backyard bird count done by Cornell University is important. I love to see this kind of scientific work done by the public.
187richardderus
...So! um...
188mahsdad
>186 benitastrnad: Thanks Benita. I agree totally
>187 richardderus: Yeah, I know. Working on it now. We introverts actually managed to leave the house today, to go spend our kid's inheritance at Target, Bed, Bath and Beyond and Trader Joe's. I'll post here again when its fit for human consumption. :)
>187 richardderus: Yeah, I know. Working on it now. We introverts actually managed to leave the house today, to go spend our kid's inheritance at Target, Bed, Bath and Beyond and Trader Joe's. I'll post here again when its fit for human consumption. :)
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