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Sunday Morning Book Thread 12-23-2018Home Library of Lurker 'Roc Scssrs'
I like the comfy cozy look of this library. Roc Scssrs writes: I recently retired and have been organizing (somewhat) the basement library. I think I've set myself up pretty well with a wintertime reading nook. The wood stove is in the room beyond, which is my wife's floral design studio, so I put the electric by Rocker #1 for added warmth. Rocker #2 was salvaged from the trash. I'm looking forward to utilizing both. There's too much froofy stuff to call this a full-on mancave, but I wouldn't mind hanging out there. Click on it to see a larger version.
DOWNDRINS is an old English dialect word for an afternoon drinking session. Usage: After getting schlonged by Donald Trump for the second time in 2020, Hillary retired to Downdrins Abbey (on the outskirts of Whiskey-On-Rye) where she spent the rest of her days.
Here is the book he is talking about, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt: Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly...How did this happen? Lukianoff and Haidt are generally pretty good, but I'm not completely sold on the "good intentions" bit. I think that somewhere, and you may have to peel off a number of layers to see it, there are some bad intentions from evil people who are deliberately trying to f things up.
I finished Bad Blood by John Carreyrou this week. It chronicles the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and her house of cards regarding the Silicon Valley darling Theranos. Wow! What a read. The book is Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carryrou, the reporter who first blew the whistle on Theranos, So how did Elizabeth Holmes pull off this scam? Elizabeth Holmes leveraged her family's high profile connections to draw in early investors and supporters, who were not very inquisitive on details, nor very skeptical in nature. Drawing on the good name and reputation of these early supporters, she was able to build an impressive roster of other supporters with stellar reputations in tech and venture capital circles. From there, it was just a matter of stage managing the house of cards she was building. according to the Theranos wikipedia page, the company was (finally) shut down in September 2018. Holmes and some other top executives are under indictment for fraud.
70 I came across a book published last summer: "A Hobbit A Wardrobe and a Great War" by Joseph Loconte. At first I thought it would be another 'Tolkien and Lewis were in WW I and it influenced their writing'. In fact, Loconte provides the background of cultural and social changes that contributed to WW I and the disillusionment in religion and faith and established norms afterward. This was the world Tolkien and Lewis experienced growing up and as young men and their reaction to it as they wrote. I'm reprinting this comment first published in a book thread from 3 years ago(!) because this book, A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-1918, was recommended to me by a friend of mine at church last week. He said he liked the book because he learned about all sorts of stuff, not just specifically about Lewis and Tolkien. He specifically mentioned eugenics as an example and how the overwhelming majority of the cognoscenti class were all in favor of it. The Kindle edition is a reasonable $6.99. So onto my stack it goes.
77 Ordered Zone 23. Was very impressed by an article on Paris Riots by this author. Zone 23 by C.J. Hopkins is ...a darkly comic dystopian satire about being human, all-too-human, featuring two of the most endearing Anti-Social anti-heroes that ever rebelled against the forces of Normality. Set in the post-catastrophic future, in a peaceful, prosperous, corporate-controlled society where all dissent and non-conformity has been pathologized, and the human race is being genetically corrected in order to establish everlasting peace on Earth, Zone 23 is a hilarious, heartbreaking affirmation of the anarchic human spirit, and a defiant departure from the norms of both the genre sci-fi and literary novel. The Kindle version is only $2.99. ___________ 69 Just started "Saps, Blackjacks and Slungshots: A History of Forgotten Weapons" When I read 'Slungshot', I thought it was a typo, but no, that's the actual title: Saps, Blackjacks and Slungshots: A History of Forgotten Weapons by Robert Escobar. These unique fighting tools were feared for centuries and embraced equally by the law and the lawless like nothing else had been or would be until firearms became commonly available. They are best remembered, when at all, for being favored by real life muggers and fictional private detectives. They were however also used by police, soldiers, sailors, spies, cowboys and duelists in various times and countries. Following their trail takes the reader from New York City’s infamous Bowery to the San Francisco Gold Rush, Paris’s Moulin Rouge to Georgian era London and beyond. Encountered along the way is a cast of characters from the noble (Abraham Lincoln) to the ignoble (Al Capone), the literary (Shakespeare) to the musical (Frank Sinatra). For centuries they were an essential part of any tough guy’s arsenal, the last vestige of this portrayed in classic noir films and books. Sinatra, huh? It doesn't take much to imagine the Chairman smacking some punk around with a sap. Or maybe brass knuckles. $7.99 on Kindle. ___________
The first three Luna City books are all .99 cents in December only, so if you want some gentle escapism into the doings of a perfect little South Texas town - you are welcome. And if you have read and enjoyed the series, can I plead for some reviews? Amazon grants greater visibility to authors with more reviews, and at this point I need all that I can get. The foibles of the eccentric folk of Luna City is a continuing series. This small Texas town is characterized by wacky goings-on such as: ...the high school football team is called the Mighty Fighting Moths … and their yearly Homecoming game is under some strange and irregular curse. Here is the link to the first three 1. The Chronicles of Luna City 99 cents each until the end of the month.
Don't forget the AoSHQ reading group on Goodreads. It's meant to support horde writers and to talk about the great books that come up on the book thread. It's called AoSHQ Moron Horde and the link to it is here: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/175335-aoshq-moron-horde. ___________ So that's all for this week. As always, book thread tips, suggestions, bribes, insults, threats, ugly pants pics and moron library submissions may be sent to OregonMuse, Proprietor, AoSHQ Book Thread, at the book thread e-mail address: aoshqbookthread, followed by the 'at' sign, and then 'G' mail, and then dot cee oh emm. What have you all been reading this week? Hopefully something good, because, as you all know, life is too short to be reading lousy books.
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