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A Quiet American
Finished “Brother and Sister”. By Joanne Trollope. One of her better ones. Realistic, well-handled conflict and resolution
Oh, a book on union-management meetingsFinished “Brother and Sister”. By Joanne Trollope. One of her better ones. Realistic, well-handled conflict and resolution
StarSong,I've been going down the rabbit hole of learning about the possibility of a nuclear detonated EMP (eltromagnetic pulse). First read "Lights Out" by Ted Koppel (non fiction explanation), as recommended by @AnnieA on another SF thread. Based on a mention in that book, I next read "One Second After" by John Matherson (an EMP post apocalyptic novel). He eventually turned it into part one of a trilogy, and I'm now into the second book, "One Year After".
Lots of food for thought in these books, particularly in the context of life over the past 18 months in the highly industrialized world, i.e., supply chain interruptions, hoarding, empty shelves, shortages in parts for repairs, crowded hospitals, ratcheting fuel prices, and so forth. Between those conditions and the extraordinary political divides, tempers are flaring and centuries-old rules of civility are being ignored.
These are a worthwhile read...
Terry, is this the book by Washington Post reporters,Bob Woodward,&Robert Costa? SueReading "Peril" right now. Will not say more as it gets into politics. Very interesting!!!
Yes it is!Terry, is this the book by Washington Post reporters,Bob Woodward,&Robert Costa? Sue
There are two sequels to The Story of Arthur Truluv. The first is Night of Miracles, and second is The Confession Club. I loved all three of them. Elizabeth Berg is one of my favorite authors.Just discovered the author Elizabeth Berg and her lovely, gentle stories I’ve read “Open House” and then when I found our library had quite a few of her titles, I went back and started with the original, “The Story of Arthur Truluv”. Looking forward to reading more![]()
Thanks for the recommendations. After reading the group I referred to in post #549 (some of which I mistakenly said were written by John Matherson. The author is William R. Forstchen and the protagonist is John Matherson), I read one more book by Forstchen, 48 hours. It's about a gigantic solar flare that would cause massive extinctions across the globe.StarSong,
Those are all good books for sure.
You might consider the following 2 X books - as they are similar :
1) Going Home by Angry American
2) Unintended Consequences by John Ross
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Ooh! I liked that one, too!The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51791252-the-vanishing-half
I’m in the middle of “Night of Miracles” right nowThere are two sequels to The Story of Arthur Truluv. The first is Night of Miracles, and second is The Confession Club. I loved all three of them. Elizabeth Berg is one of my favorite authors.
I have made note of this author. Thanks, Jerry.If you like just plain old pulp that is very good: Stuart M. Kaminsky is my very, very favorite.
17 novels about A Russian Detective-he has to find the bad guys while hampered by the KGB and not offend any high ranking communist
The cast of his fellow detectives is very good-great writer in his genre
I've read all twice, the good ones three, maybe 4 times in the last thirty years.
Thank you kindly. I like detective stories, too.I'm reading the last of Ian Rankin's "Rebus" books .. now moving onto author Peter James. I love detective series.
All interesting books, David777! I also read technical books and use the Youtube videos a lot for learning. I've also used Coursera.org which is a learning platform.I regularly read a broad range of non-fiction science especially natural sciences and technology both from books and from web sources. As an adult, never make time to read fiction much like over decades have allowed little time watching TV shows though understand why both can be entertaining. Just so little time. My career required reading ridiculous amounts of technology however am glad as a retired senior that I no longer have to do so thus recently tossed several dozen heavy books into the trash.
Have bought fair numbers of used books cheaply on amazon but the below is a new book I recently bought and read in about 4 days. I will highly recommend it for seniors as our often failing memories are on many of our minds. It covers summaries of current brain memory science research at a level anyone can comprehend with a fair amount of forgetful humor:
Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting by Lisa Genova
A bit off topic but will briefly mention in this Internet era if one is into educating oneself, there are often better ways than taking classes or reading books by using online E-learning, especially videos on Youtube. For complex science and technology subjects there is a significant advantage because complementary video graphics can often better represent concepts than mere words. And then there are free online lectures by world class university lecturers. The following example is a listing of 25 lectures on Human Behavioral Biology by Stanford professor Robert Saploski all free online.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D
As an introduction, anyone will be entertained by lecture #14 on the Limbic System about human emotions:
The below is an example of a highly recommended used college introductory astronomy textbook that was over $100 new in 2006 that I bought used on amazon a decade ago for about $10 and read most at that time that I have currently been re-reading many chapters of this week. Of course that is the nature absorbing science by repeatedly re-reading. Many mid level science textbooks quickly drop in price as colleges tend to replace them with current newest books. As a textbook, its large pages 590 pages long, are full of awesome color explanatory photos of the universe including many from the Hubbel Space Telescope with many charts and diagrams and though now a wee dated, newer updates to theory can readily be found online.
Voyages to the Stars and Galaxies (third edition) by Andrew Fraknoi
Tomorrow will be a non-reading day, my birthday, as I drive up to San Francisco's touristy north shore for a day of fun.