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January 27, 2019
Sunday Morning Book Thread 01-27-2019
Customer, who has just walked in: "Good morning. Do you sell silly books here?" Clerk: "No sir, we have only sensible books." Customer: "Are you sure?" Clerk: "Quite sure." Customer: "Not even books that are only a little bit silly?" Clerk: "Sorry, our books are sensible through and through." Customer: "OK, then." Clerk: "Yes, sensible books are TIGHT." Customer (after an uncomfortable pause): "Er, wrong meme." Clerk: "Oh. Sorry."
In 17th century English, a STOPPING-OYSTER was a clever or witty comeback that silenced your opponent in an argument. That's because they didn't obliterate, devastate, wrekt, or have sick burns or mic drops back in those days.
Coming In From the Cold Reading books about Cold War espionage can be depressing because it always seems that we're a bunch of hapless boobs and the Soviets always seem to win every time. But Operation Solo was different: Operation Solo is America's greatest spy story. For 27 years, Morris Childs, code name "Agent 58", provided the United States with the Kremlin's innermost secrets. All of this is detailed in the 1996 book Operation Solo: The FBI's Man in the Kremlin, now available on Kindle. For example, in 1970, the FBI caught rat bastard commie fugitive Angela Davis (she supplied the shotgun used to kill a judge in an act of "revolutionary violence") because a rat bastard Communist Party official told Morris Childs where her rat bastard comrades were hiding her. The FBI gave him a $10,000 reward, which he gave entirely to Catholic Charities of Chicago. (h/t to Robert Stacy McCain for the info about Childs.)
Mike Hammer passes along this link to Abebook's Weird Book Room. He sheepishly admits: FWIW, I actually have at least one of them, 'Manifold Destiny'. For better or worse, some of the titles might actually appeal to AoSHQ posters, say, '1001 Sandwiches'. I've picked out a few more potential moron favorites from the list: How To Avoid Matrimony. That last one is written by a guy, so presumably he's using his total mind power to enlarge someone else's bust. So you morons want to check out the Weird Book Room and then report back with any of the books that you actually own, or want to own.
79 Oh, I forgot the best book of the week, Walter Mosley's "Devil In A Blue Dress". That one was outstanding. The Amazon blurb for Devil in a Blue Dress: An Easy Rawlins Novel is a bit spare, but it sounds like it could be the plot of any number of noir detective novels: Set in the late 1940s, in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles, Devil in a Blue Dress follows Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Monet, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs. Another moron mentioned that the film adaptation starring Denzel Washington was kind of mediocre, which is disappointing as it was on my watch list. I think I'll read the book instead.
I also mentioned in a thread earlier this week, but I just finished, and highly recommend, Radium Girls by Kate Moore. I checked it out from my library and could hardly put it down. It's about the early 19-teens to 1930s female dial-painters who painted luminous clock dials and military gauges with the radioactive material, Radium, which was all the rage as the latest health and beauty treatments during that time. The girls that then became highly radioactive (they put their paint brushes in their mouths to make for more precise painting) and suffered unimaginable deaths, or lifelong debilitations. Their story through the court systems to get justice (love that word!) from the radium companies who were aware of the dangers, but didn't do anything to protect the girls, is heartbreaking. It's gonna haunt me for a while. Shocking book. It's difficult to believe that the events of The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women are as described. The Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War. These women were literally *glowing* in the dark. Didn't anybody think there might be something, you know, *wrong* with that? It sounds like the plot of a horror novel. And for the contaminated women, no doubt it was.
174 Currently reading: Read Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage and you will learn things such as: -FDR wanted to bomb Tokyo before Pearl Harbor That 4th item, about protecting Ultra, is one of the reasons I'm glad I'm not a world leader. Because once you've broken an enemy's military codes, the last thing you want to do is to use the new knowledge in every circumstance you can and thus reveal that you've broken the code. Because they will then invent new ones. So you've got to let some troops go to their deaths so greater numbers won't have to later on. And I can't imagine how difficult it would be to figure out when and where to best use knowledge gained from enemy decrypts. Ugh. Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War also sounds interesting. It points out that many of the one million Russian casualities in the defense of Moscow were not soldiers but rather ...ordinary people who took up arms to defend their city. Students dropped their books for guns; released prisoners exchanged their freedom for battle; and women fought alongside men on the bloody, mud-covered frozen road to Moscow. By the time the United States entered the war the Germans were already retreating and a decisive victory had been won for the Allies.
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. | Recent Comments
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