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Phil Member
Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 2025 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline, WA |
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Thu Jun 09, 2016 7:57 pm
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Snowbrushy Member
Joined: 23 Jul 2003 Posts: 6670 | TRs | Pics Location: South Sound |
Tribe. I watched this book discussion on Book TV last weekend. It's been about 6 months since I read any book. Bad me. I'm going to enjoy this book because I like para-sociology. http://www.c-span.org/video/?410275-5/sebastian-junger-discusses-tribe
Oh Pilot of the storm who leaves no trace Like thoughts inside a dream Heed the path that led me to that place Yellow desert stream.
Oh Pilot of the storm who leaves no trace Like thoughts inside a dream Heed the path that led me to that place Yellow desert stream.
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WillClimber Member
Joined: 14 Jun 2016 Posts: 5 | TRs | Pics Location: United States of 'Murica |
I'm currently reading "Cold War: An Illustrated History".
The Cold War is a topic that greatly fascinates me, and although I can easily look it up on Google, I prefer to read all about it on an actual book.
My eyes need to rest a bit from the computer anyway.
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Toni Member
Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 829 | TRs | Pics Location: Issaquah |
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Fri Jun 17, 2016 7:26 pm
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One day I Googled "Books to Movies, 2016" and got a list of 100! So!>>I'm reading "The Nightingale" by Kristin Hannah, lovin' it! It's been on my bookshelf of 'unread books' for a long time, along with "Boys in the Boat" which I loaned out but have not read...
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7709 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
I've bogged down with "Stranger in a Strange Land." Interesting concept, but it veered off too much into the Fosterite cult, and then Valentine Michael Smith basically started his own cult or something? I've only got about 100 pages out of 500+ left, so I'll push thru, but kinda disappointing. I found Jubal Harshaw to be a more interesting character than Smith, and he all but disappeared about halfway thru the book.
In the meantime I just got "Before the Wind" by Jim Lynch from the library and got a brief start on it. Thoroughly enjoyable so far, even though I'm a landlubber and not a sailor. I really liked his "Highest Tide" but found "Border Songs" very odd and hard to get into. I didn't read his third book. "Before the Wind" was released earlier this year.
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7709 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
Toni wrote: | "Boys in the Boat" which I loaned out but have not read... |
You should read it when it comes back from loan, it's fantastic.
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Toni Member
Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 829 | TRs | Pics Location: Issaquah |
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Sun Jun 19, 2016 10:25 am
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olderthanIusedtobe wrote: | You should read it when it comes back from loan, it's fantastic. |
I plan to since they are making a movie of it, everyone I know that's read it, loves it!!
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LizzyRN Member
Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Posts: 204 | TRs | Pics Location: Mount Vernon |
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Sun Jun 19, 2016 12:37 pm
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Magic Islands: A Treasure Trove of San Juan Islands Lore by David Richardson
First published in 1964, and I'm reading the 1995 edition. Interesting history about the SJIs.
LizzyRN
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mike Member
Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 6398 | TRs | Pics Location: SJIsl |
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Sun Jun 19, 2016 2:22 pm
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LizzyRN wrote: | by David Richardson |
best known for this book
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Ski ><((((°>
Joined: 28 May 2005 Posts: 12832 | TRs | Pics Location: tacoma |
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English and American Tool Builders © 1916 Joseph Wickham Roe
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7709 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
Enjoyed Jim Lynch's "Before the Wind." Breezed thru another Jack Reacher novel. Just picked up "As Good as Gone" by Larry Watson from the library. Read one of his quite a few years ago. I think most of his books are set in Montana. Him, Doig...seems to be fertile literary ground. Anyway taking a little break from sci fi for now.
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7709 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
I'm probably forgetting one or two in the last month or so. Currently working on two books. "On Trails: An Exploration" by Robert Moor is an interesting premise, about how and why trails develop. I'm more interested in human travel, but the early chapters are delving mostly into ants and caterpillars. I'm trying to plow on, but I'm bogging down.
The other is "Dark Matter" by Blake Crouch. Just started that today, I like it so far. Mind bending sci fi about alternate realities.
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UGH Member
Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 154 | TRs | Pics
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Fri Aug 12, 2016 11:16 am
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets, by Svetlana Alexievich. Talk about a depressing read. It makes the Russian people seem like the most barbaric and unhappy people in the history of the earth. Even after Stalin and the fall of communism.
Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean someone isn't out to get you.
Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean someone isn't out to get you.
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LizzyRN Member
Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Posts: 204 | TRs | Pics Location: Mount Vernon |
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Fri Aug 19, 2016 9:27 pm
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"Beyond the Bear" by Dan Bigley and Debra McKinney, Dans story about being attacked by a grizzly and his subsequent recovery. I am not far into the book but As a healthcare professional, I have found the book interesting and his CT alone image quite fascinating. "Upper nose, eyes, forehead anatomy unrecognizable" according to Medevac.
LizzyRN
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Mike Collins Member
Joined: 18 Dec 2001 Posts: 3097 | TRs | Pics
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Last Thursday I visited Tatoosh Peak which was the site of a lookout. All that remains of the lookout today are four cement corner posts and broken glass on the ground. Tatoosh by Martha Hardy provides the imagery of the active lookout where she spent the summer of 1943. Women were new to lookout service having been employed while able bodied men were in the armed forces. Reading about her use of the Osborne fire finder with its horsehair cross site provides a connection to the workaday world of a lookout.
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