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  • riotgrl
    riotgrl LOUISVILLE Posts: 1,895
    EdsonNascimento said:

    Bully Pulpit

    Theodore Roosevelt rules. This country needs another of him to lead us pronto.

    This is on my to-read list - how is it? I really loved Theodore Rex, have you read it? If so, how does it compare to Bully Pulpit?

    And yes, we definitely need another TR!
    Are we getting something out of this all-encompassing trip?

    Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned...

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  • afroannnie
    afroannnie Posts: 12,995
    Reading this right now....kind of dry, but interesting!
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    Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    I read a long article about Rosalind Franklin a few years ago. I'd never heard of her. She was certainly cheated out of any credit for identifying DNA. Too bad she didn't get any recognition until after her death.
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • afroannnie
    afroannnie Posts: 12,995
    Who Princess said:

    I read a long article about Rosalind Franklin a few years ago. I'd never heard of her. She was certainly cheated out of any credit for identifying DNA. Too bad she didn't get any recognition until after her death.

    The only reason I had really heard of her before is because I'm in the science field...but yes it's a shame. I'm learning even more about the gender inequalities within the science field especially during her time. Apparently in the physics field was even worse...at...I believe it was Princeton, they wouldn't even let women in the physics building!!

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    Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
  • kw18
    kw18 Posts: 3,909
    gunter1976 said:

    The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

    Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. In a perfectly crafted story, which won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature, is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements in which he lives.

    Great book. I remember reading it in High School and loving it.
    "Where's KW?"
    "Let's check Idaho."
  • kw18
    kw18 Posts: 3,909
    kw18 said:



    Now I'm going to dive into this:

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    Finished this up. Disappointed it had more physics than superheroes, but what can you do?

    I'm going to keep the comic book-theme trend alive with this:

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    "Where's KW?"
    "Let's check Idaho."
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,381
    Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
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  • gunter1976
    gunter1976 Posts: 587
    New work by Haruki Murakami, his latest: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. The Dutch version since the English translation will not hit the market till this summer.. .
    "...bring it back someway bring it back, back, back... to the clean form, to the pure form..."

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  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    I'm reading An Officer and a Spy (sounds too much like Officer and a Gentleman) by Robert Harris. It's the Dreyfus Affair told as a novel. One review said it was great, one said it was slow. I can't put it down.

    And I finally started posting about books/reading in a blog. Check it out if you'd like. And let me know if you have any suggestions for the blog or for books. Thanks!

    http://mybookclubforone.blogspot.com/
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    Enkidu said:

    And I finally started posting about books/reading in a blog. Check it out if you'd like. And let me know if you have any suggestions for the blog or for books. Thanks!

    http://mybookclubforone.blogspot.com/

    Wow. Reading your blog has given me more titles to put on my "to read" list! :))
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • Frankie79
    Frankie79 Cornwall, UK Posts: 203
    Brilliant Positive Thinking by Sue Hadfield. My brother thought I should read it after I bought it for him.
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  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    The Late Shift by Bill Carter

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    I'm a sucker for these books.
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  • kw18
    kw18 Posts: 3,909
    kw18 said:



    I'm going to keep the comic book-theme trend alive with this:

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    Finished this up over the weekend. For those TLDRers out there, the end result is, yes, one can become Batman. But you need money, a decent build to start with, have to start before you're in your 30s (Dang!) and you won't be able to do it for very long.

    I just wish Zehr went into some of the other aspects, training and knowledge it would take to become Batman -- like detective, mechanic, flight and invention skills. Maybe that will be his next book?

    Sticking with science, I'm currently reading this:

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    Gotta love some NDT.
    "Where's KW?"
    "Let's check Idaho."
  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    Who Princess said:

    Enkidu said:

    And I finally started posting about books/reading in a blog. Check it out if you'd like. And let me know if you have any suggestions for the blog or for books. Thanks!

    http://mybookclubforone.blogspot.com/

    Wow. Reading your blog has given me more titles to put on my "to read" list! :))
    A bunch of books in the blog will come from this thread. I want to write about King Leopold's Ghost, for example. Oh, and the Dreyfus Affair book is amazing. Amazing! (An Officer and a Spy.)
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Currently reading Ryszard Kapuscinski's Imperium. Fascinating! I'm going to want to read every that man wrote, for sure!

    Also recently read Max Frisch's incredible Man in the Holocene. Thank you, Henry Rollins, for turning me on to the tow great writers!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • afroannnie
    afroannnie Posts: 12,995
    Finished the Rosalind Franklin book over the weekend...definitely gives insight to the struggles that she faced as a female scientist in the 1950's. And yes she was totally robbed...and it's unfortunate that she died so young...she was such an asset to the scientific community. Even in the end, she was literally dragging herself up the stairs to work while suffering from ovarian cancer to continue her research.

    Currently reading:
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    Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,835
    ^^^ I remember reading that loooong ago when I was 14 or 15 and thinking what a crazy, wild, great little book it was. Had no idea it would become somewhat of a reality all of these years later.
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  • kw18
    kw18 Posts: 3,909
    F Me In The Brain said:

    ^^^ I remember reading that loooong ago when I was 14 or 15 and thinking what a crazy, wild, great little book it was. Had no idea it would become somewhat of a reality all of these years later.

    Ditto. Except most of the little $hits who hit up schools (or theaters, or ...) these day aren't doing it for the same reasons the main character in Rage did it. Nowhere close, even.
    "Where's KW?"
    "Let's check Idaho."
  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,913
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    I'm not very into politics, but all this behind the scenes stuff is very interesting...
  • SD48277
    SD48277 Posts: 12,243
    The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton. I don't know what I was thinking taking on another long book (800+ pages) right after The Goldfinch. I blame the winter.
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