[Mike Collins]

This book has a copyright of 1950 and brings the reader into the mindset during that era. It has entertainment value now. You can just “dust yourself off” if it happens to you.

[lookout bob]

wow Mike...colorful eye catching cover.

I'm reading The Arbornaut by Meg Lowman....a good read about tree top environments and how they are being explored and studied.   

[Kim Brown]

And now for something completely different.

Just finished Brian Jones: The Making of the Rolling Stones, by Paul Trynka. Between the book, diving into Wikipedia about the various characters that appear in the book (good Lord, there were a lot of women in his life - he fathered two kids while still a teen in school), YouTubing the various stuff mentioned by the early days of the Stones and the black American artists that inspired Jones - I spent over 2 weeks on the book.

What a whirlwind. That poor guy never had a chance at life; his parents didn't seem very excited to have Brian in their lives, so his problems started early.

YouTube their earliest charted recordings:  “Come On,” (barely made the chart) and later, much farther up the chart,  “Little Red Rooster,” (popular for bands to cover; though Sam Cooke’s version is better (teenager Billy Preston on the keyboard). In the Little Red Rooster video of a performance for the Brit show, "Ready Steady Go," it's clear that Jagger had already learned to perform that “come hither” look at the camera that drove the girls wild.

Now I'm reading about the mod scene in Britain - I picked up a book from the library that I saw listed in a footnote in the Jones book  about the Small Faces being mod leaders (Small Faces are among my favorite of those days - Jesus, that voice; and poor Ronnie Lane [RIP]). "Face" was a word used for people of influence - early mods; the cool kids. And the members of the Small Faces being short (I think the tallest was under 5'8"), they called themselves the Small Faces.

[Chief Joseph]

Read Joe Simpson’s book, into the void a while
back and now reading his book, the beckoning silence. Very good books, I really like his writing style, flows nicely and keeps your attention and with a bit of humor mixed in as well.

north face of the eiger

Also picked up at the library, 2015 accidents in North American mountaineering and while scanning through it, found an entry by Josh Lewis detailing his accident in Canada on Mt Cory.

[lookout bob]

Just finished "Made In America" by Bill Bryson.  I've not yet found a book of his that I don't like.  This one was extraordinary for its depth and coverage of words, trends, culture and is humorous in just the right places.  It starts a bit slow but then I couldn't put it down.  Please read.

[Malachai Constant]

Cadillac Desert, story of how LA built the LA aqueduct  to the Owens Valley creating a new desert and draining Owens Lake. The true story behind the film “Chinatown”. “Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown”.

[Chief Joseph]

Reading the climbing classic "The White Spider" by Harrer, one of the first party to climb the north face of the Eiger.

Seems the Eiger is known for really bad rock fall, yet it looks like none of the first climbers into the mid 50's were wearing helmets. When did climbing helmets become widely used?

[olderthanIusedtobe]

Been on a long streak of struggling to get into a book.  Finally got one I'm into.  Lee Child's later works are getting really lackluster.  I decided to check out an earlier Jack Reacher book.  "The Enemy" was written in 2004 but set in in the early 90s, when he's still in the military.  Enjoyable so far.  He hadn't become nearly a Superman yet it seems.

[grannyhiker]

Definitely not backpacking related. but the latest Outlander novel, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone, was released yesterday and my copy landed on my front doorstep.  It's extremely thick so I will probably be reading all weekend!

[Malachai Constant]

Peril by Bob Woodward and Bob Costa