CinnamonSugar
A Quiet American
Hey, @MountainRa, just be forewarned, the Hamish Macbeth of the tv series is *quite* a bit different than the one in the book lol.
Books! How do you read and what do you read?
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Recently read library books:
the book of essie - Meghan MacLean Weir
Homestead Secrets - Noelen Jenkinson
Requiem for Idols - Norah Lofts
Over the Rainbow - Katie Flynn
The Archers: Home Fire at Ambridge - Catherine Miller
The Blitz Detective - Mike Hollow
The Last Woman in the World - Inga Simpson
the book of essie - Meghan MacLean Weir
Homestead Secrets - Noelen Jenkinson
Requiem for Idols - Norah Lofts
Over the Rainbow - Katie Flynn
The Archers: Home Fire at Ambridge - Catherine Miller
The Blitz Detective - Mike Hollow
The Last Woman in the World - Inga Simpson
I must be out of touch on books. I remember the movie, Over the Rainbow but don't recognize any of those book titles.. I'm sorry I can't comment on any of those books.
Time for me to get away from cozy mysteries!
My book selections are chosen at random, online from my library branch. They are all Large Print. I will read anything and everything put in front of me.
I can now start in on the 3 books my brother sent me for my birthday. My sister keeps bags of paper-backs for me as well.
I love people who love to read books and honestly, I feel sad when I meet someone who is not a book reader.. Gee, I thought I was the only one reaching for the large print books!
MarkD
Keeper of the Hounds & Garden
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- San Francisco Bay Area
I enjoyed his Midnight Library so much I decided to read Matt Haig's The Life Impossible. I wonder if @feywon and others intrigued by NDE’s will find it interesting based on this excerpt from page 50 in which a former math teacher aged 72 receives a surprise letter from a former student who is now going to college to study math too.
“I am telling you this for what will follow, so you will really know where I am coming from. I’m not prone to far-fetched nonsense. I think the moon landings were real and the earth is, roughly speaking, a sphere. I am not a crystal person and nor do I have a desire to attribute every mood to one of Jupiter’s moons or Mercury being retrograde. I don’t even own a candle.
And yet, I am also a person who now realizes that our human understanding of the world is incredibly limited, and that there is a bias not to believe things that don’t fit our worldview. What I am saying is that sometimes we can’t accept the truth that is right in front of our eyes. And that sometimes the mad people of one era become the sages of the next.
I tell you all this because, over the course of the following pages, you may end up thinking I have lost my mind. So please consider the case of Georg Cantor…. The guy who came up with Set Theory at the end of the nineteenth century.
Anyway, when he proved there were technically, different sizes of infinity he was branded a heretic. He was criticised and ostracized and made a laughing stock. He couldn’t take it. He fell apart because of what he had discovered. He had his own belief system questioned. To stop believing in a single infinity was to believe the possible. He had nervous breakdown after nervous breakdown and ended his days in an asylum. But he was right. Mathematically, at least. But it t took a long time for everyone else to see what he was seeing.”
“I am telling you this for what will follow, so you will really know where I am coming from. I’m not prone to far-fetched nonsense. I think the moon landings were real and the earth is, roughly speaking, a sphere. I am not a crystal person and nor do I have a desire to attribute every mood to one of Jupiter’s moons or Mercury being retrograde. I don’t even own a candle.
And yet, I am also a person who now realizes that our human understanding of the world is incredibly limited, and that there is a bias not to believe things that don’t fit our worldview. What I am saying is that sometimes we can’t accept the truth that is right in front of our eyes. And that sometimes the mad people of one era become the sages of the next.
I tell you all this because, over the course of the following pages, you may end up thinking I have lost my mind. So please consider the case of Georg Cantor…. The guy who came up with Set Theory at the end of the nineteenth century.
Anyway, when he proved there were technically, different sizes of infinity he was branded a heretic. He was criticised and ostracized and made a laughing stock. He couldn’t take it. He fell apart because of what he had discovered. He had his own belief system questioned. To stop believing in a single infinity was to believe the possible. He had nervous breakdown after nervous breakdown and ended his days in an asylum. But he was right. Mathematically, at least. But it t took a long time for everyone else to see what he was seeing.”
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moviequeen1
SF VIP
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- Buffalo,NY
HI Fritz,I've read most of James Patterson's series' Women's Murder Club',though I didn't read this one
I really like these books well written,fast paced. Sue
Fritz
Senior Member
I believe there's like 25 of them.