NTP2
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Walking with destiny by Andrew Robert.
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Morning Star by Pierce Brown.
Surviving to Drive, by Guenther Steiner.
I have several books in progress including:
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The first will help with my giant sport scale entry at NARAM, the second is a nice look at the airline business, and the third is just fascinating. @Antares JS you might find it interesting, too.
I have "The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke" currently open in the Audible app on my phone....
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The first will help with my giant sport scale entry at NARAM, the second is a nice look at the airline business, and the third is just fascinating. @Antares JS you might find it interesting, too.
I have "The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke" currently open in the Audible app on my phone....
Yep, Tolkien was a devout Catholic. He was just more subtle about it in his writing than his friend, CS Lewis. I've been wanting to read a book like that about Tolkien himself, and there are many, but as I've said before, my read pile is way more shameful than my build pile.
I have a print copy of the Collected Story of Arthur C. Clarke. There are some great ones in it. The very first one, Loophole, would make a great Outer Limits episode.
I am learning much about my own faith reading that book. I'm about 2/3 of the way through it now...up to just before The Hobbit was published. Already quite an interesting story and a very engaging-to-read book.Yep, Tolkien was a devout Catholic. He was just more subtle about it in his writing than his friend, CS Lewis. I've been wanting to read a book like that about Tolkien himself, and there are many, but as I've said before, my read pile is way more shameful than my build pile.
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Orphans of the Sky -- R.A. Heinlein
The Tactful Saboteur -- Frank Herbert (One of the first, if not THE first, Jorj X. McKie stories.)
The Tactful Saboteur -- Frank Herbert (One of the first, if not THE first, Jorj X. McKie stories.)
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I loved that one!
The first Saint book, "Meet the Tiger!" by Leslie Charteris, is now available as an e-text! It was written several years before the rest of the series and Charteris thought it was quite a bit weaker, so it has been impossible to find.
Anyway, find out last night and I'm about 50 pages in. Great fun so far.
Anyway, find out last night and I'm about 50 pages in. Great fun so far.
For my ancestry research: Poets' corner : a History of Lampman and District and the RM of Browning.
and Arcola-Kisbey Golden Heritage : Mountain Hills to Prairie Flats.
A Bridge Too Far by Ryan Cornelius. The book the movie was based off of that contains a lot more detail.
Self Made Man : One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back Again by Norah Vincent. A very thought provoking research biography of a woman who disguised herself as a man to learn more about "the other side".
Just finished: The Great Gold & Silver Rush of the 21st Century by Mike Maloney. 2 chapters are available only online.
At the plate: Sport Rocketry by NAR and Outdoor Canada by Canadian Wildlife Federations
One deck: Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson. I just read the first couple of pages and noticed immediately some errors about his immigration to Canada.
In the hole: I Will Fear No Evil by Robert A. Heinlein.
The future reading list includes various books on WW1 and WW2; Saskatchewan History; Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All by Michael Shellenberger; books on plants, foraging and mushrooms of the prairies; The Neglected Carolina Bays: Ubiquitous Geological Evidence of a Cataclysm by Antonio Zamora; This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: How the Pill Changes Everything by Dr. Sarah Hill. I am very eclectic in my reading habits so just about anything that catches my eye I will read.
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That's unusual. Isaacson usually writes accurately from what I have seen.
The Words That Made Us by Reed Akhil Amar
The Second Most Powerful Man in the World by Phillips O'Brien
William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles by Catherine Mulholland
The Second Most Powerful Man in the World by Phillips O'Brien
William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles by Catherine Mulholland
I've been reading the "Space Cat" series... waiting for the last one from eBay.
A bit below my age level (maybe), but I'm finding it a pleasant escape from the current reality we seem to be stuck with.
A bit below my age level (maybe), but I'm finding it a pleasant escape from the current reality we seem to be stuck with.
I think he was going directly off Elon as a single source and didn't bother to check anything else. For example, he referenced the city of Moose Jaw irrelevantly several times. His great grandmother was trained as a chiropractor to treat her husband and they moved from Pequot, Minn. to Canada and settled in Herbert (my home town). She was Canada's first chiropractor. She was also the leader of the Women's Temperance Movement in town whereas my Chinese grandfather sold beer and liquor at his hotel - I don't think they were friends. https://www.palmer.edu/palmer-blog/chiropractic-advocates/
Her son Joshua (Elon's grandfather) would be considered far right and supported the Social Credit Party and the Technocracy Party and even ran for election. He too was trained at the same chiropractic school as his mother. He had a high disdain for the socialist government at the time, led by Tommy Douglas (Keifer Sutherland's grandfather). His grandmother was born in Moose Jaw but she married Joshua Haldeman and lived in Regina not Moose Jaw as claimed by the author. His mother Maye and her siblings were born in Regina. Joshua rejected the socialist politics and moved his family to South Africa.
Elon immigrated to Canada because his mother was Canadian and it was a lot easier to get into Canada than the US because of that. His 2nd cousin (Mark Tuelon) lives and farmed in Waldeck, a tiny hamlet 2 1/2 hrs drive west of Regina. Mark was the only one of his relatives that bothered to reply to his inquiries from South Africa. He went to live with him for a couple of months around harvest time and was put to work. The writer talks about Elon and his 2nd cousin eating at a Sizzler steakhouse in Moose Jaw, yet there are no Sizzlers in Canada, it was quite likely the Bonanza Steakhouse; I ate there a lot. My brother who farms nearby says that Mark is probably retired and not farming any more. Maye and his sister Tosca followed Elon to Regina (the author skips this part) and then they later moved together to Toronto where his younger brother Kimbal later joined them. https://leaderpost.com/feature/elon-musk-inherited-a-lifetime-of-adventure-from-his-sask-family
That's some great detail you have there
. Maybe Elon's memory is playing tricks on him, or the stories told to him had details lost/changed along the way. I know I would have trouble reciting some of my family history accurately.
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I know there are some David Weber fans here... Toll of Honor came out last week. This is part of the new "Extended Honor Harrington Series". Apparently, Weber is going back to events in the early series and writing them again from the viewpoint of other characters, expanding those events and introducing new characters. It's a good book, but it has a lot of Weber's long-winded discourse.
I also recently picked up Weber's Multiverse series. Hell's Gate, Hell Hath No Fury, and The Road to Hell. Finished the first two, and midway into the third. Interesting take on highly unusual asymmetric warfare and a study in logistics. These came out quite a while ago, with a long interval between the books. I suspect that the third book is not going to come anywhere near a conclusion, so I'm dreading a years-long wait for the next volume.
Also, read One Way Back by Christine Blasey Ford, and Know My Name by Chanel Miller. Both are memoirs by women who have been victims of sexual assault.
And, about halfway through Bill Nye's Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation.
I also recently picked up Weber's Multiverse series. Hell's Gate, Hell Hath No Fury, and The Road to Hell. Finished the first two, and midway into the third. Interesting take on highly unusual asymmetric warfare and a study in logistics. These came out quite a while ago, with a long interval between the books. I suspect that the third book is not going to come anywhere near a conclusion, so I'm dreading a years-long wait for the next volume.
Also, read One Way Back by Christine Blasey Ford, and Know My Name by Chanel Miller. Both are memoirs by women who have been victims of sexual assault.
And, about halfway through Bill Nye's Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation.
NTP2
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I finished space propulsion analysis and design, it was very informative and interesting and I even managed to follow some of the math in it. And I’m starting a book called the American moon shot.
vcp
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Also, for Honor Harrington fans, I thought I'd mention The Royal Mantacoran Navy - the official fan association. Free to join, interesting organization.
https://trmn.org/
Just finished In the Heat of the Night. A little disappointing; one of the rare cases where IMHO the movie is much better than the book. Sidney Portier was the star of the movie; Rod Steiger won the Oscar because racism; it was the 60s aafter all. Portier brought life and character to Tibbs, and did it extremely well. But in the book the focus is on someone else(s?) which certainly changes things. Perhaps that's why Tibbs seems rather flat and colorless. He does demonstrate abilities but the character could have been developed more. He doesn't often have the sort of inner monologue that characters have, that gives them breadth and depth. Though I expect that for its time the book was considered progressive, possibly even "shocking."
A minor change; in the book Tibbs is from California because, as he says "people don't care what color you are." It was actually rather brave for the movie to place him in Philadelphia, as there was still a lot of racism apparent there in the 60s. But I guess the purpose was to create a north-and-south kind of plot device; much better than a south - west plot.
A minor change; in the book Tibbs is from California because, as he says "people don't care what color you are." It was actually rather brave for the movie to place him in Philadelphia, as there was still a lot of racism apparent there in the 60s. But I guess the purpose was to create a north-and-south kind of plot device; much better than a south - west plot.
Just finished "Sabbath as Resistance, Saying No to the Culture of Now" by Walter Brueggemann.
Recently also finished "Abuelita Faith: What Women on the Margins Teach Us about Wisdom, Persistence, and Strength" by Kat Armas.
Recently also finished "Abuelita Faith: What Women on the Margins Teach Us about Wisdom, Persistence, and Strength" by Kat Armas.
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