What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

[macdoc]

Last one sounds good.
This got me hooked from the get go....and it's up on Apple TV later in the year and a true tale.
Info I never knew. There is a great deal of irony involved ...


Scorsese and company got a 7 minute standing ovation at the Cannes festival.

Nice to see Tantoo Cardinal there as well.

[rasetsu]

Primarily because it's an easy listen. I don't have to pay close attention because I'm going to forget 99% of it anyway.

[macdoc]

Flower Moon was jaw dropping in the scope of evil....this was part of it...

A journalist provides a provocative look at the systematic reign of terror against the Osage Indians that took place during the 1920s, revealing a campaign of swindles, murder, and cover-up designed to seize the tribe's wealth.

A true story of greed and murder of Native Americans by their countrymen

Journalist Dennis McAuliffe Jr. grew up believing that his Osage Indian grandmother, Sybil Bolton, had died an early death in 1925 from kidney disease. It was only by chance that he learned the real cause was a gunshot wound, and that her murder may well have been engineered by his own grandfather.

As McAuliffe peeled away layers of suppressed history, he learned that Sybil was a victim of the “Osage Reign of Terror”—a systematic killing spree in the 1920s when white men descended upon the oil-rich Osage reservation to court, marry, and murder Native women to gain control of their money.

The Deaths of Sybil Bolton is part murder mystery, part family memoir, and part spiritual journey.

on and on and on despicable bigotry....

[macdoc]

Was hunting NZ books and came across this which is only loosely on point but what a great tale and true.

Shows how self sufficient people of the time were .....some of the stuff they did to survive and Austral winter 200 miles s of New Zealand was astonishing. Highly recommended.

[rasetsu]

[macdoc]

The book Jane Campion based The Piano on


The Story of a New Zealand River​
by Mander, Jane​

[rasetsu]

Audible offered me 3 months at $6.95 a month, so I rejoined. I was just going to get the basic no-credit subscription for access to the free titles, but this will give me that and three premium titles. I'm looking for good Taoist titles at the moment, and they're so cheap that it doesn't pay to use credits for them.

[Tero]

Estonian writer. Some volumes are in English. All in Finnish, so I will read all in one or the other.
https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indrek_Hargla
https://kirja.elisa.fi/ekirja/apteekkar ... -kuristaja

[Tero]

The series also has a film
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_the_Apothecary

[rasetsu]

Oh no. Audible is having a great sale. There goes my budget.

I used my monthly credit on Gibbons' Decline and Fall.

And I'm waiting on a refund from Amazon before buying the following:

The Two Towers

The Return of the King

The Six Wives of Henry VIII
By: Alison Weir

The Way of Chuang Tzu (Second Edition)
By: Thomas Merton

Chuang Tsu
By: Gia Fu Feng, Jane English - translators

Good Morning, I Love You
By: Shauna Shapiro PhD

The Science of Mindfulness
By: Ronald Siegel, The Great Courses

F*cking Meditate
By: Better Mindfulness Meditation

The Bhagavad Gita
By: Eknath Easwaran

The Upanishads
By: Eknath Easwaran

The Dhammapada
By: Eknath Easwaran

The History of the Renaissance World
By: Susan Wise Bauer

The Arms of Krupp
By: William Manchester

Tao Te Ching
By: John Minford - translator

[Tero]

My medieval fiction has new terms every few pages. Such as.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victual_Brothers

[JimC]

I am re-reading "Unknown Quantity - A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra" by John Derbyshire. Very well written, but also very challenging in so far as the mathematical complexity he describes, particularly in the later parts of the book. Reading it has certainly broadened my knowledge of many aspects of algebra, particularly those involving complex numbers and solutions to polynomial equations. When he comes to Group Theory and similar highly abstract areas of algebra, I can still appreciate the broad brush strokes without truly understanding the details...

[Sean Hayden]

Biophilia, E.O. Wilson

[rasetsu]

I had about $100 of Audible books picked out, and then I discovered that all but the first volume of the Durants' 11-volume series The Story of Civilization are 70% off. I'll end up paying interest charges on some of the $170 I spend on books this week, but I'll have quite a lot to choose from as the days go forward.

In the now, I'm focusing on books on mindfulness and Taoism.

[macdoc]

Good sale on The Hobbit on Audible. $3.43 so cheaper than buying credits.

Rest of LOTR also on sale.