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Sunday Morning Book Thread 08-04-2019
— Kimberly Phillips (@LibertarianKim) July 25, 2019I guess fictional books are intended here, but I'm reading Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde, so I guess I'm a Texas lawman who gets into lots of gunfights.
Coined in 1858, a TYPOCRAT is someone whose power relies on their control of or influence on the press. Usage: Today's typocrats are helped greatly by the press being staffed mainly by catchfarts.
Surprisingly, some of it is vanilla: Smell is chemistry, and the chemistry of old books gives your cherished tomes their scent. As a book ages, the chemical compounds used—the glue, the paper, the ink–begin to break down. And, as they do, they release volatile compounds—the source of the smell. A common smell of old books, says the International League for Antiquarian Booksellers, is a hint of vanilla: “Lignin, which is present in all wood-based paper, is closely related to vanillin. As it breaks down, the lignin grants old books that faint vanilla scent.” More here.
E-mail: Is there a way to transfer my kindle stuff to my kids? I'm thinking that he could just include his Kindle device in his will as well as his Amazon username and password info, and that should be sufficient. If the heirs already have their own Kindles, then this article should help: How to share books on a Kindle with family and friends. Did I miss anything? Let me know in the comments. Thanks. ![]()
I read Anonymous Rex by Eric Garcia this week and quite enjoyed it. It's about the seamy underbelly of our world in which surviving dinosaurs, evolved to a smaller size but still very much dinosaurs, are forced to wear uncomfortable latex "guises" to appear human and mix with the human population. Our hero is disgraced private eye with a drug problem trying to investigate the "accidental" death of his partner. The title is somewhat misleading in that he's not a Tyrannosaur but rather a Velociraptor. Although there is some funny stuff here, this is not a comedy but rather a hard boiled noir detective story in the Bogie and Bacall fashion. I shouldn't think a novel such as Anonymous Rex: A Detective Story (The Dinosaur Mafia Mysteries Book 1) would sell for $11.99 on Kindle, but there you are. By the way, the idea that there are actually "lizard people" among us is an actual conspiracy theory believed by too many people. I blame the internet. And weed. ___________ 10 Reading the third book in a sci fi trilogy by Alastair Reynolds, a Brit Astrophysicist, called Absolution Gap. Let's start with the first in the series, Revelation Space: Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him. Because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason—and if that reason is uncovered, the universe—and reality itself—could be irrevocably altered... The sequels are Redemption Ark and the aforementioned Absolution Gap. And there are others. ___________ 17 I am still trying to kick my way through "Ignition" by John Clark. 19 Ignition's a hoot, even for this non-chemist. A pdf version is available for download all over the internet. I wondered why. And then found that, according to this tweet, Rutgers University Press placed Ignition! in the public domain. Its general availability seems to confirm this. Clark is an engaging writer and, for what you would think would be a dry subject, the history of the development of liquid rocket fuel, the book is quite lively. Archive.org is one of the sites from where you can download it. Sometimes we make fun of modern foods by looking at their long list of ingredients and saying "ugh, it looks like rocket fuel", but Ignition! taught me that rocket fuel is actually quite simple: It has basically two ingredients, a propellant (perhaps liquid hydrogen, or kerosene or alchol) and an oxidizer(such as liquid oxygen or nitrogen tetroxide) so it'll burn. And that's pretty much all you need. ___________ A book that has been mentioned here several times, "The Great Upheaval," by Jay Winik, covers much of this same subject matter, but it also extends and expands around the world to include not just France, but Russia, the U.S., Britain, and elsewhere. He's talking about this book here, The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800: It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional histories tell it, none of these remarkable events occurred in isolation. Yes, the Kindle version is $14.49, but, at 720 pages, you'll be getting a lot of bang for your buck. ___________
![]() ___________ 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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