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

Wontactmyage said:
Yes and no but after a few innuendos about AI, no jobs, automation and the a few rich will own everything and our poor government being yanked around by their … needs to step up and tax the Richie riches so all the millionaires will pay everyone a flat pay check via the government. So… yes that’s basically what he said.
I was so interested in the beginning because he was going through our generation and the changes that happened. Sad the way he ended it.
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Yeah, it's easy to describe the problem, which is what the first 3/4 of the book consisted of. But then he tried to forecast how the economy will change and what the world will look like in 20 or 30 years... I think that's what he was doing. I've since read another book so my memory is a bit hazy on what Evil Geniuses predicted. Oh, I think it was that robots will take all the jobs and people won't have to work, so they can just sit around and write novels and think up great inventions.

I lost interest when the author started fantasizing about the utopian society to be. I'm a realist. That might be how things are going to be in 100 years, but it won't be any time in the near future. I think things are going to get much worse before they get better.
 
The book I'm reading is 'The Last Mona Lisa' by Jonathan Santlofer historical fiction based on a true story
In 1911,a museum worker,Vincent Peruggia steals the Mona Lisa from the Louvre for 2yrs
The main character in the book, Luke Perrione,is great grandson of Vincent,an artist/ art history prof. He goes to Italy to do research/ find Vincent's journal
 
The Oceanography of the Moon by Glendy Vanderah was a free Amazon July book so I downloaded it to my Kindle. I didn't start reading until a couple nights ago and I can't put it down. Excellent!
 
moviequeen1 said:
In my previous post I mentioned the book I was reading' The Last Mona Lisa' I finished it last night.
A historic fiction book based on true story. It was really good, fast paced
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I'm slogging through Natalie Jenner's Bloomsbury Girls because it's on my book club list (I'm new to this club). After a time it became obvious that this is largely a sequel to The Jane Austin Society. If I'd realized that earlier I'd have read that one first.
 
“ The Dearly Beloved” by Cara Wall

Thoughtful and thought-provoking story of two very different couples and how they came together first as co-workers then as friends. Well done
 
Dark Horse by Gregg Hurwitz ,, an Orphan X novel.
This is the first time I've read anything by this author.

The main person has OCD, tries to keep it under control.
He is called out to get a drug dealers daughter back from another drug dealer.

It does have some blood & guts in it.
 
Last night I finished 'Four Winds' by Kristin Hannah,story is set in 1934 during the Great Depression. The main character, Elsa is disowned by her family because she gets pregnant goes&lives with her husband's family in Texas, problems/ struggles they go through. Elsa& her 2 young kids, Leorda,Anthony decide to head to Calif for a better way of life, find jobs
This was a terrific book just a bit too long 450 pgs Sue
 
The book I started last night is ""Up All Night,Ted Turner,CNN&The Birth of 24-Hour News' by Lisa Napoli. The book is about how CNN was started{1980} changed the way we watched news from 3 networks to now 24/7,constant breaking news. The author started her career as a unpaid teenage intern during the 2nd yr of CNN's at the NYC bureau
 
Just finished What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher; it's a slightly alternative-history, retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher; really good, I'll be looking for more by this author.
 

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