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Post by High Sierra Fan on Dec 11, 2021 11:59:05 GMT -8
Being an optimist on how next summer will go I’m heading into the new Yosemite Complete hiking guide that just came out after a delay. things a beast.
Though, to be honest, they’ve never been small eh? Interview with Wenks:
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Post by rebeccad on Dec 12, 2021 7:32:53 GMT -8
I took advantage of our “trekking library” and read Tigers of the Snow. There’s some good stuff about Sherpa culture and history (in the big picture), as well as of course a detailed account of several climbs and how the Sherpas went from porters to climbers. I thought it was a good read, though it made me squirm, as we were being coddled by a crew of Sherpas.
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Post by darthmusturd on Dec 13, 2021 11:04:24 GMT -8
As mentioned to Lamebeaver I'm reading Centennial. Thick book, but good. It's a sort of collection like Narnia, if that makes any sense. Also trying to read all of the Richard Grant books (which I think most everyone here would enjoy.) and Stories from the Forgotten Life of Henry Turner. Read the last book a few times already, but I always like to flip through it.
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Post by autumnmist on Dec 14, 2021 10:41:42 GMT -8
I'm on a women's history kick and just finished reading the Radar Girls, about women recruited for and who served in the WARD (Women's Air Raid Defense system) created shortly after Pearl Harbor was attacked. There are some good passages about creating radar stations, calculating positions and the codes used to communicate with pilots, landing, or being chased by the Japanese. I'm going to read it again before branching out into learning more about air navigation. I'm familiar with the WASPs, but this is the first I've learned of the WARDs. darthmusturd, there are a lot of "life lessons" in the Narnia series, despite the fact that they seem to be children's books.
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Post by desert dweller on Dec 14, 2021 11:05:15 GMT -8
I'm on a women's history kick Here's one to consider, "Fighting for Space". It's about a few pioneering women at the beginning of the space age. Fighting for Space
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Post by darthmusturd on Dec 14, 2021 16:58:50 GMT -8
I'm on a women's history kick and just finished reading the Radar Girls, about women recruited for and who served in the WARD (Women's Air Raid Defense system) created shortly after Pearl Harbor was attacked. There are some good passages about creating radar stations, calculating positions and the codes used to communicate with pilots, landing, or being chased by the Japanese. I'm going to read it again before branching out into learning more about air navigation. I'm familiar with the WASPs, but this is the first I've learned of the WARDs. darthmusturd , there are a lot of "life lessons" in the Narnia series, despite the fact that they seem to be children's books. I've read the Narnia books. It's a good series. Whole new meaning when you are a Christian. I merely meant that the book is structured like Narnia with a lot of books packed into one book, if that makes any sense. Not a series per se, but a giant book with different parts.
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Post by bluefish on Dec 20, 2021 13:06:18 GMT -8
I'm on a women's history kick and just finished reading the Radar Girls, about women recruited for and who served in the WARD (Women's Air Raid Defense system) created shortly after Pearl Harbor was attacked. There are some good passages about creating radar stations, calculating positions and the codes used to communicate with pilots, landing, or being chased by the Japanese. I'm going to read it again before branching out into learning more about air navigation. I'm familiar with the WASPs, but this is the first I've learned of the WARDs. darthmusturd , there are a lot of "life lessons" in the Narnia series, despite the fact that they seem to be children's books. I've read the Narnia books. It's a good series. Whole new meaning when you are a Christian. I merely meant that the book is structured like Narnia with a lot of books packed into one book, if that makes any sense. Not a series per se, but a giant book with different parts. C.S.Lewis' books on Christianity are very deep and enlightening. I haven't read all, but they remind me that the unexamined faith, just as in life, is not worth having.
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Post by FamilySherpa on Jan 10, 2022 7:10:10 GMT -8
This book is one of those that I just can't put down. But its extremely sad, grim, and tells about a part of the holocaust that I never knew about.
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Post by Coolkat on Jan 10, 2022 11:27:28 GMT -8
This book is one of those that I just can't put down Over the years I've read similar books. These are good reminders of something we hope never happens again. The last one I read was told from a young Russian girl's experience. These people saw some of the worst of man kind's nature. My current book is the one below and a lot more interesting than I thought it would be.
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Post by starwalker on Jan 10, 2022 20:51:11 GMT -8
Baseball's best short stories right now.
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Post by FamilySherpa on Feb 21, 2022 13:58:58 GMT -8
Good Fictional story, especially for those of you who love Scotland. Scottish highlands. Hiking. Wildlife. Mystery. Traumatic upbringings. Lots going on.
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Post by starwalker on Feb 21, 2022 22:41:14 GMT -8
I am finishing up a 19th century, Canadian poet named Archibald Lampkin. Loreena McKennitt has a song name "Snow" which is based on one of his poems.
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Post by desert dweller on Apr 4, 2022 12:30:47 GMT -8
Just started Termination Shock. A new novel by Neal Stephenson. It's set in the near future where climate change has started to affect society.
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Post by nickhowes on Apr 4, 2022 13:14:38 GMT -8
Read this last year. It was entertaining and thought-provoking, like most of Stephenson's novels (except for the Baroque Cycle, which I slogged through but didn't much enjoy).
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Post by desert dweller on Apr 4, 2022 13:33:05 GMT -8
except for the Baroque Cycle I really enjoyed the Baroque Cycle. It was more like a historical novel. His research team must be fantastic. A couple of highlights from the trilogy were the underlying theme of the Newton and Leibniz calculus feud and also how Stephenson presented the idea that the concept of 0 and 1 (used in all computer languages) was first demonstrated by how large pipe organs used stopcocks to direct or stop air flow. The Off/On, Yes/No for programming changed the world. In fact, I think the entire Baroque Cycle series was to illustrate how the events of that period of time and place changed society.
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