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| knitterati Beatification Candidate  |
This was an excellent book.
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
I just finished it and I agree with everything Nina said, including the urge to throw my Kindle across the room. Think "Glass Castle" meets "Hillbilly Elegy".
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Just finished this:  It’s a recent book, covering the disaster and the entire aftermath, including the eventual exoneration of the Captain and Paul Allen’s discovery of the wreckage. Very well written, engaging throughout. Those of you who ever read books like this - put it on your list. You won’t be disappointed.
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
Now reading this. 6th London edition, the final one edited by Darwin himself. Free from Project Gutenberg. 
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| czarina Has Achieved Nirvana  |
I'm reading "Spirit Blending Foals: An old way continued" A loan from my riding instructor. The author is a Cherokee, and he learned horsemanship from his grandfather, who taught him how to blend his spirit with the horse's, starting from before birth. At first I could not figure out why my instructor wanted me to read this, but it has turned out to be a transformational book.
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Minor Deity |
My latest is dense but I am enjoying it... After seeing all she did that I saw on my trip to Spain last fall, I needed to know more.. 
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Foregoing Vacation to Post |
Happy Doomsday by David Sosnowski It was a Kindle free book. I'm about 2/3rds through it and it is very very good. Check it out. | |||
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| Pinta & the Santa Maria Has Achieved Nirvana  |
I've had that Isabella book on my list, BeeLady. You might be interested in "Sister Queens," the story of Ferdinand and Isabella's daughters Catherine of Aragon (King Henry VIII's 1st wife) and her sister, Juana. Full of intrigue and politics, I had never heard the story of Juana at all. It was fascinating. | |||
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Beatification Candidate |
Just finishing "Now It Can Be Told", General Leslie Groves' history of the Manhattan Engineering District from the inception through the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the postwar transition to the Atomic Energy Commission. I've read a good bit of WWII history including Richard Rhodes' books about the atomic and hydrogen bombs as well as a biography of Robert Oppenheimer, but Groves, who was in charge of the entire effort during the war, contributes some insights that I hadn't encountered before. The most impressive aspect is how he was able to lead a project that proceeded at express speed, not knowing which, if any, solutions to the immense technical problems might succeed and to accomplish all that under wartime constraints and while maintaining security over the developments as they occurred. Just compartmentalizing the scientists, engineers, major companies, and military components along with the Canadian and British interaction is a feat nearly beyond comprehension. I was left with great admiration for General Groves accomplishment, even as I continue to fear whether mankind can continue to succeed in avoiding nuclear destruction. Our current flirtation with climate disaster doesn't fill me with optimism, although that could be a slow and painful death rather than the immediacy of nuclear annihilation. Big Al
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| "One half of me is a hopeless romantic, the other half is so damn realistic." Beatification Candidate  |
Just finished N. K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season and am now starting the next book in the Broken Earth trilogy, The Obelisk Gate.  Fantasy, Sci-fi, dystopia, themes of racism, climate disaster, strengths v. disabilities... You have to see the author's Hugo Award acceptance speech. That was my introduction to her.
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| "One half of me is a hopeless romantic, the other half is so damn realistic." Beatification Candidate |
I haven't read this one but I love his writing.
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
My daughter gave me this book. I swapped her for “Educated”. It’s next after I finish “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”, which has turned in to something of a slog.
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| Serial origamist Has Achieved Nirvana  |
I finished a few more chapters in Relics on a flight from SEA to DUB and DUB to CDG. On the return flights, I slept from CDG to DUB and binge-watched Peaky Blinders from DUB to SEA. It's not the sort of thing I would normally watch, but something got me hooked. So, I'm still working on Relics -- I'm just past the part about Jimmie and the cell tower. Seriously, I don't get enough time to just read.
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| Minor Deity |
I just tuned in to PBS's series The Great American Read Dang! Now I have so many more books I have yet to read! My current read is  Next up on deck is 
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
About a third of the way through it. Interesting in ways I wasn't expecting. 
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