What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
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O'Brian is considered the grand master - "The greatest historical novelist of all time" according to the Times.
21 books in the series.
There is even a statue
Jack Aubrey & Stephen Maturin
The two very different characters bonded by a love of music.
If you want blood thirsty The Revenant is based on a true story.
I tend to read true stories or based on historical events ....for instance O'Brian is a real scholar and his battles are based on actual engagements even if the narrative and names are changed.
The David Birkenhead series by Phil Geusz was another I enjoyed
https://www.goodreads.com/series/92806- ... ead-series
Tho not up to O'Brian.
If you want a long diet of mayhem...truly fictional- totally epic and memorable.
I will be very impressed if you read the cycle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malazan_B ... the_Fallen
21 books in the series.
There is even a statue
Jack Aubrey & Stephen Maturin
The two very different characters bonded by a love of music.
If you want blood thirsty The Revenant is based on a true story.
I tend to read true stories or based on historical events ....for instance O'Brian is a real scholar and his battles are based on actual engagements even if the narrative and names are changed.
The David Birkenhead series by Phil Geusz was another I enjoyed
https://www.goodreads.com/series/92806- ... ead-series
Tho not up to O'Brian.
If you want a long diet of mayhem...truly fictional- totally epic and memorable.
I will be very impressed if you read the cycle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malazan_B ... the_Fallen
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
@Macdoc, you start with Master and Commander? because I assume that this series is better read in order?
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
I decided to start with Master & Commander. I'll start with reading it and dip into the audiobook as time and interest permit.
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Yes read in order as the story is sequential over a couple decades
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
An introductory botany text. If I could go back in time, that’s what I’d study.
Imagine that. I guess it's only coincidental that you'd already be the perfect citizen in the ideal world you're selling.
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I went through all my physical video media and dead tree books last night. There was some interesting stuff in there. But I've got too high a virtual stack atm. Most of the paper books I've kept have to do with religion, including a 5-volume set on the history of western philosophy of religion. Maybe in the New Year I'll pick one thing and start reading.
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I'm re-reading an 80's SF series by Alexis A. Gilliland, which starts with "The Revolution from Rosinante", involving well imagined space habitats. At the same time, on Kindle, I'm working my way through the Spellmonger fantasy books by Terry Mancour - a good example of the genre...
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My review. I won't read this completely till spring, as I have two other history classes to give. But this will be part of something for fall.
https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Short-Int ... 2232&psc=1This is the only title in the Oxford series that addresses colonialism. Pages 62-103 cover this topic. Too much of history in school covers North America and the Caribbean and stops there. This covers the rest of the world.
Other books in the series cover the post-colonial history.
Luckily we don't get too many right wingers reviewing these Oxford introductions. They would label it all as "woke" history. This is what actually happened. As far as the Americas go, the book on slavery adds a bit to this same topic. The book American Slavery by Heather Andrea Williams covers the Caribbean as well as the continent (US).
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Atomic man, embossed on hues of
Money greens that swell and ooze, will
Scratch his chin as if to muse that
All this winning meant to lose
Though he slaved and hate his dues
Here he was, no time to choose...Grass for Blades by Wigwam
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Atomic man, embossed on hues of
Money greens that swell and ooze, will
Scratch his chin as if to muse that
All this winning meant to lose
Though he slaved and hate his dues
Here he was, no time to choose...Grass for Blades by Wigwam
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Sensational, purient and gruesome but fascinating.
Audrey Hepburn had suffered badly during the war. Despite his earlier Fascist leanings, her interned father had never been a traitor to Britain. Her mother’s family were no friends of the Germans, either. The van Heemstras had Jewish blood, several generations back, and had been obliged to accommodate the Kaiser in their castle at Doorn when he sought asylum after the Great War. They had later had to sell the castle to him against their wishes.
Audrey had seen enough of the Germans during the war to last her forever. The same age as Anne Frank in Amsterdam, she had watched Jews being rounded up, many of them refugees from Germany, and transported to the holding camp at Westerbork for onward transition to Auschwitz. She had been a helpless witness as her own neighbors were herded into trucks and taken away:
I’d go to the station with my mother to take a train and I’d see cattle trucks filled with Jews … families with little children, with babies, herded into meat wagons—trains of big wooden vans with just a little slat open at the top and all those faces peering out. On the platform, soldiers herding more Jewish families with their poor little bundles and small children. They would separate them, saying “The men go there and the women go there.” Then they would take the babies and put them in another van. We did not yet know that they were going to their death. We’d been told they were going to be taken to special camps.9
Audrey’s own uncle had been executed by the Germans, shot in reprisal for a sabotage attack by the Resistance. She herself had lived in fear of being kidnapped and taken to a military brothel, as so many other girls had been. She had indeed been picked up once by the Wehrmacht, who were looking for women to work in their kitchens, but had escaped immediately, running away and remaining hidden indoors for the next few weeks.
She had also worked for the Resistance, tripping past German sentries with messages concealed in her shoe. During Operation Market Garden, the Allies’ attempt to force a passage across the Rhine at Arnhem, she had made contact with a British paratrooper stranded in the woods and put him in touch with Resistance members in the town. With so many friendly troops around, the Dutch had assumed that liberation was at hand, only to be bitterly disappointed when the Allies withdrew and the Germans evicted them from their homes in retaliation. Audrey and her mother had gone to her grandfather’s large house at Velp, three miles from Arnhem, but others had had nowhere to go at such short notice. Audrey had watched them with horror:
I still feel sick when I remember the scenes. It was human misery at its starkest: masses of refugees on the move, some carrying their dead babies, born on the roadside, hundreds collapsing of hunger … 90,000 people looking for a place to live. We took in forty for a while, but there was literally nothing to eat, so they had to move on.10
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Well I have to say that book kicked off another pair.
This one with a very odd history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Painted_Bird
plus just starting this...there are some parallels
Pouring rain and great to have books to read and a nice new sound system in the background plus Spotify is a treat.
This one with a very odd history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Painted_Bird
plus just starting this...there are some parallels
Pouring rain and great to have books to read and a nice new sound system in the background plus Spotify is a treat.
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Bit of an odd age of exploration book. A reprint. The original sells for 45 dollars of those few copies still floating around.
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Age-Discov ... 6868&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Age-Discov ... 6868&psc=1
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Atomic man, embossed on hues of
Money greens that swell and ooze, will
Scratch his chin as if to muse that
All this winning meant to lose
Though he slaved and hate his dues
Here he was, no time to choose...Grass for Blades by Wigwam
http://esabirdsne.blogspot.com/
Atomic man, embossed on hues of
Money greens that swell and ooze, will
Scratch his chin as if to muse that
All this winning meant to lose
Though he slaved and hate his dues
Here he was, no time to choose...Grass for Blades by Wigwam
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I'm on a WWII kick.
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Back to back motorcycle adventures. Since I'm not getting much of my own for the moment.
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