Books! How do you read and what do you read?

"Leaving Eastern Parkway" by Matthew Daub. It's about a Hasidic Brooklyn teenager who loves playing handball. I found it compelling and interesting - much of the Yiddish I knew, but was nevertheless grateful that the author provided a translating glossary at the end of the book.
 

My friend dropped off a book for me to read.
It wasn't a very thick book in size,but the story inside kept me reading non-stop.

MOONSHINE by Justin Benton
Man & his son make moonshine to make enough money to put food on the table.
Bootleggers want to take over their still & business.

The son realizes its not for them,, figures out away to take down the bootleggers .
Which will take he & his father out of the moonshine business.
 
The book I'm about to start is James Patterson's autobiography
I've read some of his'Alex Cross',Women's Murder Club, Michael Bennett books,enjoyed them all.
He's a terrific writer, always been interested in how my favorite authors got their start
 

I’m trying to tackle “ Brideshead Revisited”. Not sure *what* to make of it. I don’t get a lot of the characters and much of the dialogue (to my pre WW II Oxford-naive ears) sounds like John Cleese got ahold of the scripts for A Room with a View and Chariots of Fire Did such people actually exist?
 
By the way, I get 99.97% of my books from my local public library. I only buy books that I use frequently for reference, like cookbooks. I am already paying for the library books through the local property tax which includes an assessment to support the local libraries in my area. No point in paying twice.
 
Brookswood said:
By the way, I get 99.97% of my books from my local public library. I only buy books that I use frequently for reference, like cookbooks. I am already paying for the library books through the local property tax which includes an assessment to support the local libraries in my area. No point in paying twice.
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I also make very good use of my library, as do my daughter and her family. Not sure about my sons, but will ask them when I think of it.

I stopped buying books a long time ago.
 
SISTERS UNDER THE RISING SUN. by Heather Morris

Here other books, were The Toattooist of Auschwitz,,Cilka's Joureney,,Three Sisters.

1942 , the Japanese Army is conquering the islands in the Pacific , Malaya ,Singapore.

This story is about the many survivors of merchant carrying desperate evacuees away from Singapore.
Which had been bombarded by the Japanese Air Force.

With in hours the ship was bombarded by the Japanese.
Many survivors make it to a remote island in Sumatra, Indonesia.

Enjoyed this book as it reviles something I had never heard about.
 
Finished reading the newly published 200 page, The Little Book of Aliens by astrobiologist astronomer Adam Frank and can well recommend it. The book focuses more on the possibility of intelligent technological extraterrestrial aliens than more primitive life. For the later will recommend Rare Earth by Ward and Brownlee that is much more astrobiology technical.

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https://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Aliens-Adam-Frank/dp/0063279738/ref=asc_df_0063279738/

...In this small book with big stakes, Frank gives us a rundown of everything we need to know, from the scientific origins of the search for intelligent life, the Fermi Paradox, the Kardashev Scale, the James Webb Telescope, as well as UFOs and their conspiracy theories. Drawing from his own work and that of other scientists studying the possibility of alien life, he brings together the latest scientific thinking, data, ideas, and discoveries to equip us with the critical facts as we stand at what may be the last moment in human history where we still believe we are all alone.

This book is about everything we do—and do not—know about life, intelligent or otherwise beyond Earth. In language that is engaging, entertaining and fun, The Little Book of Aliens provides a comprehensive first look at how close we are to finding out if others actually exist—and if they do, what they might be like.

The book greatly helped this science person come up to speed with latest developments and methods in the search for extraterrestrial life. Note for UFO enthusiasts, Frank is more an open minded skeptic, leaning away with excellent arguments from popular narratives of enthusiasts. Particularly interesting was latest ways to assess possible aliens worlds with intelligent entities using biosignatures and technosignature processes our latest telescope with electromagnetic spectrum spectral analysis tools allow.

Like this person, he does now lean toward any intelligent entities being at least mostly AI versus organic. And like him, I do agree that within my remaining lifetime we are now likely to be able to answer that question as to is their not only life beyond planet Earth but also intelligent life nearby in our Milky Way Galaxy. And when either occurs even without making contact with actual entities, that impact of simply knowing such to our human world will be much greater than dominant media has expected.
 
Been wanting to read THE BOOK WOMAN of TROUBLESOME CREEK by Kim Michele Richardson

Was a nice surprise to get the BOOK WOMAN'S DAUGHTER.

Both books are based on factual in formation about the women who delivered books to Kentucky mountain homes from 1936 till when public library's came into being.

Life was hard in those mountains & hard to reach hollers.
Much harder if you were one of the blue skinned persons.

A rare blood blood disorder was finally discovered that caused the blue skin color.
 
PurplePansies said:
I love his books! Have you read any of the Myron Bolitar series? I suggest you read them in order.
I’ll stick my nose in here. I started with the first book of his Myron Bolitar series, read those through, and then his stand alone novels.
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Myron Bolitar #12, Think Twice, is coming out on May 14. I can hardly wait!
 
Just finished “The Secert of Snow” by Viola Shipman (pen name). 50 yo female meteorologist has to return to her hometown in Michigan when she is replaced by an anime at her current tv station in the Southwest. Memories she doesn’t want to face…. Usual Hallmark plot. I’d give it 5-6 out of 10
 
My last post back in Feb I mentioned I was reading mystery writer, James Patterson's memoir':Stories of My Life'. One summer when he was 18, his job was at a psych hospital in Belmont, Mass, two famous patients while he was there, singer/songwriter James Taylor,,poet Robert Lowell
Patterson worked for an ad agency in NYC created the "I'm A Toys R Us' kid commerical
Another book I recently finished was' Horse' by Geraldine Brooks ,true story of Civil War Era thoroughbred horse named' Lexington'. The author moves from the past in the 1880's to the present day.
I highly recommend both books they were fascinating throughly enjoyed both Sue
 

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