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I read the novella "Edgedancer" by Brandon Sanderson. It takes place in the "Stormlight" universe, essentially a world in which an ever present series of storms continually circles the globe and makes the evolution of the world significantly different. Grass can retract into it's roots. Trees are lay down in the wind then spring back up. Many animals have shells and/or burrow. Since the storms always approach from the same direction, buildings don't have windows on those sides, etc. Magic exists and can be accomplished by drawing stored light from special gemstones, which are used as money.
It's a decent standalone book, but a pretty quick read.
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just finished this book about the Battle off Samar in the Leyte Gulf in October, 1944; the author calls it the greatest naval upset in history. It focuses on the men of Taffy 3 in destroyers, destroyer escorts, and escort carriers. It is simply outstanding and I can not recommend it highly enough. I bet your local library has it as did mine. If you enjoy military history, you’ll find this a great tale, well told, and all true.
“This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.”
just finished this book about the Battle off Samar in the Leyte Gulf in October, 1944; the author calls it the greatest naval upset in history. It focuses on the men of Taffy 3 in destroyers, destroyer escorts, and escort carriers. It is simply outstanding and I can not recommend it highly enough. I bet your local library has it as did mine. If you enjoy military history, you’ll find this a great tale, well told, and all true.
Lt. Commander Robert W. Copeland, USS Samual B. Roberts
I read this several years ago and it left a deep impression on me. Highly recommended!
just finished this book about the Battle off Samar in the Leyte Gulf in October, 1944; the author calls it the greatest naval upset in history. It focuses on the men of Taffy 3 in destroyers, destroyer escorts, and escort carriers. It is simply outstanding and I can not recommend it highly enough. I bet your local library has it as did mine. If you enjoy military history, you’ll find this a great tale, well told, and all true.
I kept meaning to read this. Now it’s on my Kindle.
just finished this book about the Battle off Samar in the Leyte Gulf in October, 1944; the author calls it the greatest naval upset in history. It focuses on the men of Taffy 3 in destroyers, destroyer escorts, and escort carriers. It is simply outstanding and I can not recommend it highly enough. I bet your local library has it as did mine. If you enjoy military history, you’ll find this a great tale, well told, and all true.
Just a dog chauffeur that used to hold the dumb end of the leash.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07P7HBZ3P/
24 Hours in Ancient Athens: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There (24 Hours in Ancient History Book 3)
This was a quick and easy read that was pretty well done. It's probably a high school level book, tops, but it was an interesting peek into mundane lives vs the famous folks you routinely hear about. It is historical fiction, but based largely on original writings and artifacts from the period. For example, based on a series of curses on lead scrolls it's a given that a tavern keeper paid a witch to have a curse placed on several of his rivals. The author fleshes that out with conversation and a bit of back story that's speculation but a realistic portrayal of how things likely went. The author routinely documents were conversations have been lifted whole cloth from writings of the time and is equally clear when he's changed things up a bit for continuity (this guy was a drunken ass at the party and I didn't want to include his drunken ramblings so in my version I had him pass out early on but the rest is as recounted by the host... sort of things)
I'll probably check out some of the others in the series, but I just picked up the rather lengthy titled: "Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1501135953/
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Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow - got it from the library. The level of corruption in the media world and protection of monsters is astounding but not surprising. Note it is independent of the political orientation of the media outlet. The operative principle is men in power without scruples and the silence, enforced or complicit, by those in the business.
Surprising note - when Farrow was told to fear for his life (he was trailed by 'operatives') he turned in part to a Glock 19. Not a Cuomo self-defense memory rock.
As a side note, 'get a gun' is springs up surprisingly in 'liberal' channels when push comes to shove. Way back when, the APA was considering removing homosexuality from the DSM as a disorder. The main proponent of the proposal received death threats. He was told to get a gun. In the Chronicle of Higher Ed, one of their columnists (the Chronicle is on the PC side of the world) had a deranged student threaten him, he got a pump gun, IIRC. I saw a debate between an abortion advocate and opponent on PBS years, ago - the pro choice guy was asked what precautions he took and he went off on a classic I love 1911s rift. The pro life guy called him a gun nut.
Anyway, the book is a good mindless read for the retired. Now reading a history of the Russian Civil Wars after the revolution started in WWI. Interesting that the conquest of the Muslim bordering states was in part driven by our Civil War as when cotton supplies were short, the Russians wanted to take over those area to grow cotton. The Muslim areas rebelled, now independent states and still some insurgencies and terrorism.
Mine too.
There's nothing civil about this war.
Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman, by Phyllis Chesler.
A fascinating exploration and analysis of female-on-female aggression written by a prominent second wave feminist psychologist. She posits that most female aggression (e.g., gossip, ostracism, betrayal, emotional manipulation, etc.) can be boiled down to jealousy and envy issues arising from frustrated desires for intimacy and bonding with other women that are far more important to women than male bonding is to men.
One of the main takeaways for me were that women are much harder on other women than they are even on bad men, and even that this tendency is so ingrained (whether by nature, personal neurosis, or institutional sexism internalized even by professed feminists), it would take extraordinary discipline of introspection and reformative effort to overcome.
The book gets a little maudlin and anecdotal at times, such as when the author reflects on her own past relational traumas, but overall it was an excellent read providing many thoughtful insights into what makes women uniquely women, both for good as well as for evil.
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