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Post by trekkerman on Oct 31, 2019 12:55:26 GMT -8
Just finished "Edith Cavell" by Diana Souhami. Yes, she's the person that the Canadian Mountain is named after.
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desert dweller
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Post by desert dweller on Nov 1, 2019 7:27:33 GMT -8
I just started two 800 page books that are completely different.
One is Fall, or Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson. Science Fiction in a current world.
The other is America Before by Graham Hancock. It's about the likelihood that humans came to the new world as early as 250,000 years ago. He is basically reinterpreting past archaeological finds and updating us with the newest evidence.
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Post by graywolf on Nov 5, 2019 9:11:53 GMT -8
Just finished reading "The Water Dancer" by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Very good book dealing with slavery and child separation in the 1850's.
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Post by TrailElder on Jan 1, 2021 18:26:06 GMT -8
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard. Stunning. Not a practical writing guide, but a series of reflections, many of them based in the natural world, on what the life of a writer is like. Her writing inhabits that grey area between prose and poetry that I love so much. She is one of my favorite writers ever. I'm going to check it out. Where would you start reading her, if you hadn't?
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Post by trinity on Jan 1, 2021 19:00:52 GMT -8
Where would you start reading her, if you hadn't? A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, a modern-day classic.
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Post by TrailElder on Jan 1, 2021 19:26:15 GMT -8
A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, a modern-day classic. That's what I thought you'd say!
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Post by starwalker on Jan 1, 2021 19:31:53 GMT -8
The Five Civilized Tribes by Grant Foreman is what I'm reading now. It came into my collection 50 years ago when it was already 20 years old and covers the time from 1830-1860 in the tribes history.
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Post by burntfoot on Jan 2, 2021 8:04:58 GMT -8
For light reading, I've been reading the Fishing Hall of Shame. Almost done, and then I'll start Grisham's latest book, which I got for Christmas.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Feb 24, 2021 8:18:33 GMT -8
I just finished My Side of the Mountain. It's normally a book read in elementary/middle school, but I was not fortunate enough to have read this book then. In retrospect, that might have been a good thing. I was out exploring/building forts nearly every day, I could have easily been swayed to hole up in a tree and capture a falcon.
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Post by Coolkat on Feb 25, 2021 5:00:07 GMT -8
I was out exploring/building forts nearly every day, Now that sounds like my childhood. Not sure how many I(we) built. Even in trees and one underground which is a story in itself.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Feb 25, 2021 6:05:07 GMT -8
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Post by Coolkat on Feb 25, 2021 7:31:40 GMT -8
Almost. Only ours went down into the ground instead into the side of a hill. Ours wasn't a "mine" either. The top was plywood and pine bows. We didn't want a dirt floor so covered with tall grass. That year snow covered it up and I forgot all about it. Then one day after school I wanted to go explore the woods and as I crossed the small field where it was located I suddenly found myself falling down into a hole (entrance to the fort) and snow followed me and blocked the entrance. I panicked until I realized what happened. Disoriented I started to methodically feel alone the walls until I found the "door" and crawled my way out through the snow. Thanks for coaxing the story out of me and the good memory. Now that is what I'd call "thread drift"!!
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Post by crawford on Mar 12, 2021 8:48:22 GMT -8
A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier... by Joseph Plumb Martin It is a reread, but something I wanted to return to.
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Post by hikerjer on Mar 22, 2021 19:43:57 GMT -8
A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier. A real classc. Should be reqired reading for all Americans espcially those who view the American Revoluton as some romantic escapade or adventure. Goes way beyond the typical romance of Washington, Jefferson, Lafayeete and the like. That war was won by the likes of Jossph Plumer who showed incredible fortitude and dedication.
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Post by desert dweller on Mar 25, 2021 8:05:22 GMT -8
I'm finishing up a short (200 pages) of what some would call a science fiction novel by the late Manly Wade Wellman. It's called After Dark. It's part of his Silver John series. Where Silver John is a traveling silver-stringed guitar playing troubadour in the South, mostly Appalachia, who battles evil doers. This time he's going against an ancient race of non-humans who are found in the deep woods. I haven't finished it yet, so I can't tell you how it ends.
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