What have you been reading?
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I've been working through the Meredith Gentry series by Laurell K Hamilton... or am I allowed to admit to liking that kind of silliness here? ;D
1491 and 1493
These books cast a lot of light on the fate of the last primary inhabitants of North and South America in teeming millions. The second 1493 deals with the Columbian exchange and the resultant massive changes wrought to the rest of the world by silver gold and plants! The plants being the most disruptive actually. Good reads! I don't buy all of it but most of it makes a lot of sense.
These books cast a lot of light on the fate of the last primary inhabitants of North and South America in teeming millions. The second 1493 deals with the Columbian exchange and the resultant massive changes wrought to the rest of the world by silver gold and plants! The plants being the most disruptive actually. Good reads! I don't buy all of it but most of it makes a lot of sense.
Just finished Jean Auel's
Shelters of Stone
Being a Scot, like the esteemed Rev Maclean, I'm tempted to say "Again. Half as long."
I've read her work before as a tree-based book, with my eyes, and never found it as tedious as listening to the audiobook.
Still, there's reasonably well researched info about shamanic journey work and medicinal uses of herbs.
Shelters of Stone
Being a Scot, like the esteemed Rev Maclean, I'm tempted to say "Again. Half as long."
I've read her work before as a tree-based book, with my eyes, and never found it as tedious as listening to the audiobook.
Still, there's reasonably well researched info about shamanic journey work and medicinal uses of herbs.
Ugh! The writing! Might have been good for a High School Creative Writing Student...
I certainly won't be listening to any more of their work...but now I understand the xenophobia of evangelical Christendom, their resistance to "charismatic" leaders and to the UN...
Darkness Visible by Ross Heaven and Simon Buxton
Essential Paradox:
This is not an audiobook.
Consequently I can not simultaneously both READ and DO this book.
If obligated to make a choice, I would certainly pick the doing of it.
No written word can substitute for the gentleness of the human voice.
Thank you, Simon. Thank you, Naomi. Thank you, Spirit of the Horse.
Thank you, Mother of Darkness.
Essential Paradox:
This is not an audiobook.
Consequently I can not simultaneously both READ and DO this book.
If obligated to make a choice, I would certainly pick the doing of it.
No written word can substitute for the gentleness of the human voice.
Thank you, Simon. Thank you, Naomi. Thank you, Spirit of the Horse.
Thank you, Mother of Darkness.
I really oughtta finish reading a Tale of Two Cities, my poor e-book has been sitting in a corner since my summer vacation...
Cloud atlas
"Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell. An amazing piece! Five intertwined stories through time, space, and genre. I am ready to pick it up and read it again.
I also enjoy anything by Cormac McCarthy. And Michael Connely for light reading.
"Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell. An amazing piece! Five intertwined stories through time, space, and genre. I am ready to pick it up and read it again.
I also enjoy anything by Cormac McCarthy. And Michael Connely for light reading.
To sleep with the angels.
An account of the "our lady of the angels" school fire in 1958 that claimed the lives of 92 kids between the ages of 9 and 12.
An account of the "our lady of the angels" school fire in 1958 that claimed the lives of 92 kids between the ages of 9 and 12.
Finished to sleep with angels. Despite being a fire fighter I don't usually care for fire books but that one was fantastic very well written. I was so inspired I'm reading 3000 Degrees: The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It. Its not as good from the start but time will tell. And there is always the chance I learn something.
Revolution: A manifesto, Ron Paul
and
What has Government done to our money, Murray Rothbard
I'd highly recommend reading these books if you are in the faintest way concerned about how the world is going (economic crises, constant war etc)
and
What has Government done to our money, Murray Rothbard
I'd highly recommend reading these books if you are in the faintest way concerned about how the world is going (economic crises, constant war etc)
Quarelling they met the Dragon
It's...weird. I was not expecting the amount of bondage, boy-boy love, and D/s...not in my sci-fi at least. It's not harlequin-esque, describing thrusts and moistness...but it's more than understood.
(Apparently there's three of these things and you can get them online for less than a buck...)
It's...weird. I was not expecting the amount of bondage, boy-boy love, and D/s...not in my sci-fi at least. It's not harlequin-esque, describing thrusts and moistness...but it's more than understood.
(Apparently there's three of these things and you can get them online for less than a buck...)
A Sailor of King George: The Journals of Capt.Frederick Hoffman, RN, 1793-1814
Amazing book. If you are a fan of C.S. Forester, Patrick O'Brian, etc, this is a great book. It is available at Project Gutenberg.
Amazing book. If you are a fan of C.S. Forester, Patrick O'Brian, etc, this is a great book. It is available at Project Gutenberg.
The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss
Great how-to manual, kinda like Hatchet, but a lot more long winded...
Johann David Wyss
Great how-to manual, kinda like Hatchet, but a lot more long winded...
