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Old 03-29-2019, 05:32 PM
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Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time ...

Maybe the fourth time I've read it. Never gets old.
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Old 03-29-2019, 06:02 PM
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The instructions and spelling errors on the label of a can of Vittoria Mastik One

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Old 03-29-2019, 06:25 PM
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Old 03-29-2019, 08:32 PM
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Last week or so I finished 'Being Mortal' by Atul Gawande. He's the medical checklist guy (and MacCarthur Fellow)--and it is a meditation on the end game, medical care, death, nursing homes and lots more..Harrowing, but a good read:

https://www.amazon.com/Being-Mortal-...gateway&sr=8-2
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Old 03-29-2019, 08:40 PM
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Man in the more by Patrick Morley. Great read
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Old 03-29-2019, 08:41 PM
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"Before Amen" by Max Lucado
Sounds great, Max is a favorite of mine
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Old 03-29-2019, 09:26 PM
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I’ve been revisiting some my favorites:
Just finished Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury, and now I’m on to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey. Thinking Brave New World by Huxley, but will most likely go to the Earthsea series by Le Guin next so I don’t go too far down the dystopian rabbit hole...though Tolstoy’s War and Peace has crossed my mind a few times lately which always leads me to Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment without fail.
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Old 03-30-2019, 01:17 AM
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I’ve been revisiting some my favorites:
Just finished Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury, and now I’m on to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey. Thinking Brave New World by Huxley, but will most likely go to the Earthsea series by Le Guin next so I don’t go too far down the dystopian rabbit hole...though Tolstoy’s War and Peace has crossed my mind a few times lately which always leads me to Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment without fail.
I have most of those on the re-read list. Problem is they keep printing new books.

I'm reading "A Man Called Destruction", a biography of Alex Chilton. Several more in the same general vein in the queue.
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Old 03-30-2019, 04:40 AM
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Tom Robbins' Still Life With Woodpecker
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Old 03-30-2019, 05:54 AM
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain is a 2007 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks about music and the human brain




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Old 12-18-2019, 09:04 AM
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Thought I would revive this one a bit. A friend of mine said that this book was the closest thing he's ever read to his real life experience being in the 101st in Vietnam. Pretty intense stuff.

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Old 12-18-2019, 10:25 AM
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I'll suggest "To Calais, In Ordinary Time." It's historical fiction set in medieval England. I picked it up based on this review:

https://www.economist.com/books-and-...he-black-death


Fortunately, I started reading it on the plane headed for a visit with one of our kids over Thanksgiving. I'm glad I had the time because I couldn't put it down.

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Old 12-18-2019, 10:41 AM
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I'm about 1/3 of the way into The Three Body Problem. It is science fiction from China. Super fascinating and I have no darn idea what is going to happen at all.
If I can pry myself away from that, going to start The Death and Life of the Great Lakes soon too.
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Old 12-18-2019, 12:16 PM
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Very readable and informative.
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Old 12-18-2019, 12:45 PM
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Very readable and informative.
great companion to Guns, Germs and Steel
by Jared Diamond
Fantastic history of the” New World”
both highly recomended
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