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The Happiness Project by Shawn Achor.
Research done by Harvard professor. Saw him speak. Fascinating and reason for optimism if you have negative people in your life that you’d like to help.
Research done by Harvard professor. Saw him speak. Fascinating and reason for optimism if you have negative people in your life that you’d like to help.
Just started With the Old Breed. I’ll let you know what I think about it.
I ,too, had a hard time getting into this book. But I stuck with it, and ended up loving it! It’s like 4 separate but related novels that all come together. Very different read.
Cormac McCarthy has two new novels coming out, his first in sixteen years. It’s a big deal for me.
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This has my dad written all over it.Haven’t read it, but judging simply by the topic and the author, I’m sure it’s a good one.
I’m currently reading this for a class:
Don't worry about the math. Good people in that book, fascinating people.
The back cover says Erdoes didn’t like sex. I’m already lost, and I haven’t even opened the book yet.
In honor of Saint Patrick’s Day, a day early. The dead airman was Major Robert Gregory, the son of Yeats's great friend and colleague Augusta Gregory, killed in action January 23, 1918.
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love;
My country is Kiltartan Cross,
My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor,
No likely end could bring them loss
Or leave them happier than before.
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,
Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,
A lonely impulse of delight
Drove to this tumult in the clouds;
I balanced all, brought all to mind,
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death.
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An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love;
My country is Kiltartan Cross,
My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor,
No likely end could bring them loss
Or leave them happier than before.
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,
Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,
A lonely impulse of delight
Drove to this tumult in the clouds;
I balanced all, brought all to mind,
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death.
An Irish Airman foresees his Death
I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love; My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me…
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Finally got this one; about halfway through. Definitely think about you and @LionJim when I'm reading it
Every time I see this thread, I think how much I relate to Jerry…
Elaine: These are good people, Jerry. They read!
Jerry: I read, I read!
Elaine: Books, Jerry.
Jerry: Oh.
Elaine: These are good people, Jerry. They read!
Jerry: I read, I read!
Elaine: Books, Jerry.
Jerry: Oh.
Saw this list in the thread that I think maybe Midnighter posted about horror novels.
Finished it the other day. I liked it.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Hunger/JYonDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover
So, he had time for other things...like learning Portugese or teaching the New York Yankees how to hit a baseball,
This book came out in Feb. 2021, but I didn't get to it until a week or so ago, and completed it on Monday.
It's been some time since there was a new analysis of the the British campaign that ended at Saratoga, and the Patriot responses to that campaign. The author, Kevin Weddle, is a West Point grad, as well as having attained a history Ph.D from Princeton, and currently is a professor of Military Theory and Strategy at the US Army War College, in Carlisle, PA. While most of his previous writing focus has been on the Civil War, his background is perfectly suited for a fresh examination of the the major players, and the not-so-major players, on both sides of the conflict.
Lord Germain, King George III, and Gen. Burgoyne of the British side do not look good in this analysis. On the Patriot side, Major Gen. Arthur St. Clair does not fair too well in this analysis. None of these conclusions are all that different from prior examinations, though both Burgoyne and St. Clair take more criticism than they had in many prior analyses.
The book identifies an under appreciated hero for the Patriots -- Colonel Peter Gansevoort. It also does a great deal to dispose of the common misperception, that has been repeated for decades/centuries in history texts, that Benedict Arnold and Patriot commander Gen. Gates were not speaking near the end of the campaign, and that Arnold, acting as a rogue agent, was responsible for much of the success in the final two battles of the campaign.
It's a pretty long book (390 pages before the Appendixes and Notes). However, I didn't find any sections where the author was being repetitive or wished that the editor had chopped out a section or chapter.
On a 5-pointt scale, I'd rate the book as somewhere between a 4 and a 4.5, and would highly recommend it to anyone interested in what was one of the pivotal victories for the Patriots in the American Revolution.
Only 60 pages to go! Out of 711...... Piper is amazing in his understanding of scripture.
Providence
New from Best-Selling Author John Piper From Genesis to Revelation, the providence of God directs the entire course of redemptive history. Providence is "God's purposeful sovereignty." Its extent reaches down to the flight of electrons, up to the movements of galaxies, and into the heart of...
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Son 1 gave this to me last week. We’re all big fans CANT wait to dig in
he told me to listen to the album and read a review first
Not sure if this is the review but we both enjoy Ringer
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he told me to listen to the album and read a review first
Not sure if this is the review but we both enjoy Ringer
Van Morrison’s ‘Astral Weeks’ Is 50, but It Never Ages
What is it about ‘Astral Weeks’ that inspires this kind of hallowed tone? And even more puzzlingly, why does it keep regenerating its own fan base?
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For sci-fi and multi-generational plots you can't beat the Dune series (the original 6 by Frank Herbert)
Oh yeah, I love Dune, read it the first time a long time ago after they came out with the awesome Dune II PC game back in the 90s.
The sequels got a bit too much for me, but I tried. I might not have been sophisticated enough to understand some of the more esoteric concepts back then.
Thank you for the thoughtful recommendation.
The first 3 I really liked. I stopped after God Emperor of Dune.
Didn't his son continue them?
I adore this book.
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Don't you mean his first and second in sixteen years. Just kidding
I just started reading The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built and Empire, and Lost it All by Mary Childs.
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