I read this based on your recommendation and enjoyed it thanks.Originally Posted by Half Moon
I read this based on your recommendation and enjoyed it thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it! She writes under both Ursula Vernon and T. Kingfisher. Some more of her story stories here:
http://www.redwombatstudio.com/portf...short-stories/
Jackalope Wives got a ton of awards a few years back and The Tomato Thief and Pocosin were huge standouts to me as well. Really need to read some of her novels but until recently those were Kindle / e-reader only and I have stuck with dead trees for books.
That was excellent!
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
Any idea why the bad guy was constantly referred to as "they"? Was that some type of gender neutral thing?
No idea. Do machines have a gender?
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
In romance languages they do.
" La rose est sans pourquoi, elle fleurit parce qu’elle fleurit ; Elle n’a souci d’elle-même, ne demande pas si on la voit. » Angelus Silesius
"There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers." Paul Muad'dib
Interesting.
I'm about half way through "Multiple Attackers: Your Guide to Recognition, Avoidance, and Survival" by Marc MacYoung.
It's been a real eye opener for me. It's available on ebook only and has extensive links to videos that illustrate points he is making. I'd seen it recommended either here, or on another forum.
Having spent 30 years in IT, I really had a different mindset from what I needed as a Correction's Officer, and now as a Security Officer. Some of the things I was told in the ridiculously short "training" I had at the jail, and by other COs makes a lot more sense now. It's a wonder I didn't get my head bashed in during my short tenure as a CO. I think I knew instinctively that I was in danger, I just couldn't articulate it. Reading this book is like have a light turned on in a room. I'm now seeing those things I was stumbling into in the dark.
Wife grew up in Oregon and still has most of her family there. She's following the fires pretty closely. She just mentioned firefighters are getting ready to make a stand at Butte Falls with 500 firefighters being dispatched and Air Attack on its way. All of which reminded me of this:
Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire by Murry A Taylor
https://www.amazon.com/Jumping-Fire-.../dp/0156013975
Taylor was the oldest smokejumper active or ever when he retired after 35 years fighting fire. It's been 20 years since I read it but remember it being excellent. May need to add it to the stack for a reread.
Last edited by Half Moon; 09-13-2020 at 03:39 PM.
That sounds dire.
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