What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
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Serial detective...Svedish style
Roseanna (1965)
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (1966)
The Man on the Balcony (1967)
The Laughing Policeman / Investigation of Murder (1968)
The Fire Engine that Disappeared (1969)
Murder at the Savoy (1970)
The Abominable Man (1971)
The Locked Room (1972)
Cop Killer (1974 )
The Terrorists(1975)
Very engaging quick reads
Roseanna (1965)
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (1966)
The Man on the Balcony (1967)
The Laughing Policeman / Investigation of Murder (1968)
The Fire Engine that Disappeared (1969)
Murder at the Savoy (1970)
The Abominable Man (1971)
The Locked Room (1972)
Cop Killer (1974 )
The Terrorists(1975)
Very engaging quick reads
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About Scott's Antartic expedition. Title seems correct. They were insane given their gear.
Mostly directly from the journals which makes the dire experiences very vivid yet spirits stayed high. Amundsen did much better with his gear and reliance on dogs instead of "motors", ponies and dogs plus man hauling. Beat Scott to the pole and lived to tell the tale.
I had not realized how much longer and tougher a journey than the race to North Pole. I do now.
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Rereading this. It was thought provoking when I first read it and I wanted to revisit. After 10 years, it is no less thought provoking, although his riff on Smedley Butler made me LOL this time around.
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"Wisdom requires a flexible mind." - Dan Carlin
"If you vote for idiots, idiots will run the country." - Dr. Kori Schake
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Very short book for teens on dinosaurs. His famous book I read a few years back.
https://www.amazon.com/Age-Dinosaurs-Wo ... 0176&psc=1
He has another good book coming out in June
https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Reign-Mamma ... e+Brusatte
https://www.amazon.com/Age-Dinosaurs-Wo ... 0176&psc=1
He has another good book coming out in June
https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Reign-Mamma ... e+Brusatte
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Turn stone to bread right away...
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Last in the series
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Satisfying arc that Beck series
onward to something off the wall...
talk about mixed genres - Up for the Nebula this year. deserved too.
https://www.denofgeek.com/books/donuts- ... mon-stars/
fascinating ...learned a bunch, laughed a bunch and a few tears. What more can you ask.
onward to something off the wall...
talk about mixed genres - Up for the Nebula this year. deserved too.
https://www.denofgeek.com/books/donuts- ... mon-stars/
fascinating ...learned a bunch, laughed a bunch and a few tears. What more can you ask.
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Fast paced and intensely interesting ( to me at least ).
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Looking forward to this
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It's an old children's book, but a fun read.
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Wisdom requires a flexible mind." - Dan Carlin
"If you vote for idiots, idiots will run the country." - Dr. Kori Schake
"Wisdom requires a flexible mind." - Dan Carlin
"If you vote for idiots, idiots will run the country." - Dr. Kori Schake
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Enjoying it
55 hours of listening for about $11.40 US ( we buy a years worth at a time ) ....good narrator and similar to the four Bobiverse novels which are brillant and hilarious.
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It's a great read. Even Malcolm's bullshitting is outstanding. It's obvious he lived a great deal of his life in his head, both in the moment as a youth, and later in what must have been a life of near constant reflection..
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"Your Inner Fish", by Neil Shubin.
Our whole fucking heads are basically embryo shark gill slits. Who knew?
Our whole fucking heads are basically embryo shark gill slits. Who knew?
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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