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Kim Brown Member
Joined: 13 Jul 2009 Posts: 6900 | TRs | Pics
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New book out this year; The River that Made Seattle - a Human and Natural History of the Duwamish, by BJ Cummings (the link is to the UW Bookstore's interview with the author).
I just started it, but a friend of mine who has finished it said it will be tough to read some parts, as white settlers move in (no surprise there)
"..living on the east side of the Sierra world be ideal - except for harsher winters and the chance of apocalyptic fires burning the whole area."
Bosterson, NWHiker's marketing expert
"..living on the east side of the Sierra world be ideal - except for harsher winters and the chance of apocalyptic fires burning the whole area."
Bosterson, NWHiker's marketing expert
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7689 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
olderthanIusedtobe wrote: | FINALLY I think I've got my hands on something I'll enjoy. Robert Jackson Bennett's "Foundryside" was fantastic I thought, read it I guess close to 2 years ago. Book 2 of the trilogy came out in March or so |
Man, this was disappointing. Didn't enjoy it nearly as much as the first book. It was a chore getting thru it. I dinked around, reading 10 or 20 pages at a time. I finally plowed thru the last 100 pages today (out of 500).
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Kascadia Member
Joined: 03 Feb 2014 Posts: 648 | TRs | Pics
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Sun Aug 23, 2020 5:16 pm
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Black Money by Jane Meyers (NYer) - history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right - Extremely well written and information dense, it's. . . . ummm. . .timely.
It is as though I had read a divine text, written into the world itself, not with letters but rather with essential objects, saying:
Man, stretch thy reason hither, so thou mayest comprehend these things. Johannes Kepler
It is as though I had read a divine text, written into the world itself, not with letters but rather with essential objects, saying:
Man, stretch thy reason hither, so thou mayest comprehend these things. Johannes Kepler
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Toni Member
Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 829 | TRs | Pics Location: Issaquah |
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Sun Aug 23, 2020 8:41 pm
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My Pandemic era of reads:
"My Old Man and The Mountain" by Leif Whittaker
"Beneath A Scarlet Sky" by Mark Sullivan
"Long Range" by C.J. Box *Love all his books!
"Eager Beavers Matter" by Ben Galdfarb (Winner of the 2019 Wilson Literary Science Writing Award) currently reading, very educational, didn't know much about beavers.....
"Too Much-Never Enough" by Mary L. Trump (currently reading)
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graywolf Member
Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 808 | TRs | Pics Location: Sequim |
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Sun Aug 23, 2020 9:14 pm
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Every day I read "The Daily Stoic". Appropriately named.
Currently reading "The Push" by Tommy Caldwell - well written, and he readily admits that he had help with it.
Recently finished: "Coyote America", "The Powell Expedition" (by Don Lago who reveals quite a bit of previously unknown info), "One Tribe at a Time" (white paper about how to fight in Afghanistan - this is a reread because I find it fascinating).
Up next: "Alaska Ascents", "The Brothers K", "In Search of the Warrior Spirit", "Restless Giant", "The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last".
The only easy day was yesterday...
The only easy day was yesterday...
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graywolf Member
Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 808 | TRs | Pics Location: Sequim |
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Sun Aug 23, 2020 9:20 pm
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cdestroyer wrote: | just picked up a copy of this one...very interesting
barepaw wrote
"The Coming Plague" by Laurie Garrett is pretty good. Parts may seem dry, especially if you have no medical interest. However, she does a good job of explaining how we're all screwed. |
Yup. Have you read "Deadliest Enemy"?
The only easy day was yesterday...
The only easy day was yesterday...
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Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16088 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson
Pachinko
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Underground Railroad
The Islamic Enlightenment, scholarly treatment of political thought in Iran, Turkey, and Egypt 1790’s to present
The Summer of 69
The Room where it Happened, John Boulton
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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lookout bob WTA proponent.....
Joined: 12 Apr 2005 Posts: 3043 | TRs | Pics Location: wta work while in between lookouts |
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lookout bob
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Mon Aug 24, 2020 3:31 pm
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"Altitude is its own reward"
John Jerome ( from "On Mountains")
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Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16088 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
Finished Crawdads and really liked it. Still reading Boulton but getting bored.
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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neek Member
Joined: 12 Sep 2011 Posts: 2329 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle, WA |
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Mon Sep 14, 2020 7:56 pm
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Breath, by James Nestor. There are some questionable bits, but overall, an eye-opening (or nostril-opening, if you will) book about the lost art of breathing for health and performance. Summing up, Pollan-style: Breathe air. Through your nose. Not too much.
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Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16088 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
Finished Boulton and Pachinko really liked Pachinko as it describes a world I visited in Japan in the early 70’s involving Koreans Yakusa and an underground society.
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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Waterman Member
Joined: 21 Mar 2015 Posts: 583 | TRs | Pics Location: Big Snow Quadrangle |
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Wed Sep 16, 2020 4:09 pm
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Just started Rage, Woodwards newest.
Have been hitting thrift stores for books, currently have 50+ waiting on the shelf.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
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Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16088 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
The Color of Law, By Richard Rothstein • 2017, a history of how local laws and agreements effectively removed the distinction between defacto and dejure discrimination evading the 13 and 14th amendments of the bill of rights.
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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Kim Brown Member
Joined: 13 Jul 2009 Posts: 6900 | TRs | Pics
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A Man Called White, an autobiography of Walter White.
First published in 1948, A Man Called White is the autobiography of the famous civil rights activist Walter White during his first thirty years of service to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
This is what intrigued me:
Although an African American, White was fair-skinned, blond-haired, and blue-eyed. His ability to pass as a white man allowed him―at great personal risk―to gather important information regarding lynchings, disfranchisement, and discrimination.
He chose his black heritage, embracing the discomforts of life in order to help his brothers and sisters, when he could have passed, and have enjoyed the social benefits of being white.
What an awesome guy.
"..living on the east side of the Sierra world be ideal - except for harsher winters and the chance of apocalyptic fires burning the whole area."
Bosterson, NWHiker's marketing expert
"..living on the east side of the Sierra world be ideal - except for harsher winters and the chance of apocalyptic fires burning the whole area."
Bosterson, NWHiker's marketing expert
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GaliWalker Have camera will use
Joined: 10 Dec 2007 Posts: 4916 | TRs | Pics Location: Pittsburgh |
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GaliWalker
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Tue Sep 22, 2020 9:57 am
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Kim Brown wrote: | A Man Called White, an autobiography of Walter White. ... |
I'm glad you explained who Walter White was, because I initially thought this would be a fictional autobiography about the lead character of Breaking Bad.
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