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Sunday Morning Book Thread 11-07-2021
Good morning to all you 'rons, 'ettes, lurkers, and lurkettes, wine moms, frat bros, and crétins sans pantalon (who are technically breaking the rules). Welcome once again to the stately, prestigious, internationally acclaimed and high-class Sunday Morning Book Thread, a weekly compendium of reviews, observations, snark, witty repartee, hilarious bon mots, and a continuing conversation on books, reading, spending way too much money on books, writing books, and publishing books by escaped oafs and oafettes who follow words with their fingers and whose lips move as they read. Unlike other AoSHQ comment threads, the Sunday Morning Book Thread is so hoity-toity, pants are required. Even if it's these pants, and this guy looks too old to be carrying a skateboard around. If other skateboarders caught this guy out in public wearing that get-up, they'd beat him to death -- with their skateboards, of course.
The Peralada Castle Museum is located in an old 14th-century Carmelite convent: The Museum holds nearly 100,000 books, 800 Patents of Nobility, 140 manuscripts, 200 incunabula, 40 Letter Books from Damiá Mateu and 5000 pieces of the Cervantes Collections.
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Here's the pitch for Off Kilter: A clean action adventure book: Do you enjoy a good, clean action adventure story without all the profanity, vulgarity, and salaciousness? If so, the “Off” series is for you. Amazon categorizes it as a "Teen and Young Adult" novel, so I'm thinking this would be a great read for teen-aged boys. None of that boring, yucky social interaction and romance stuff and people standing around talking at parties. No, sir. Just manly men doing dangerous things in tough situations: First, tragedy strikes. The Kindle edition is $2.99. There are two other installments in this series, Off Guard and Off Course.
Been bingeing "The Crown" and was reminded of an alternate history mystery novel that I loved, "King and Joker" by Peter Dickinson. The pranks increasingly focus on the teenaged Princess Louise. The joker obviously wants her to divulge some secret to the Greater British Public, but which one?. King and Joker is available on Kindle for $7.99. In addition to his other novels, Dickenson has written a King and Joker sequel, Skeleton-In-Waiting, also availble for $7.99, or you can get a "boxed set" on Kindle for $10.99. ___________ "The Grandma Dowdel" books by Richard Peck are absolutely hilarious, laugh out loud funny, even at my old age. Richard Peck is has written a number of well-regarded YA novels. The first Grandma Dowdel novel is A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories: What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice—two city slickers from Chicago—make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town?...Joey and Mary Alice make seven summer trips to Grandma's—each one funnier than the year before—in self-contained chapters that readers can enjoy as short stories or take together for a rip-roaringly good novel. In the tradition of American humorists from Mark Twain to Flannery O'Connor, popular author Richard Peck has created a memorable world filled with characters who, like Grandma herself, are larger than life and twice as entertaining. Amazon labels this as a "Teacher's Pick". The Kindle edition is $8.99. Also available are sequels, A Year Down Yonder and also a Christmas-themed collection of stories, A Season of Gifts. ___________ In the afterglow of the Columbus Day suppressions, I've started reading "Conquistadores" by Fernando Cervantes. For a 2021 book, in the depths of the Progressive Era, it's a surprisingly good read. (Rather steady blood pressure readings through the first 150 pages.) The full title of the book is Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest. I am intrigued: In Conquistadores, acclaimed Mexican historian Fernando Cervantes—himself a descendent of one of the conquistadors—cuts through the layers of myth and fiction to help us better understand the context that gave rise to the conquistadors' actions. Drawing upon previously untapped primary sources that include diaries, letters, chronicles, and polemical treatises, Cervantes immerses us in the late-medieval, imperialist, religious world of 16th-century Spain, a world as unfamiliar to us as the Indigenous peoples of the New World were to the conquistadors themselves. His thought-provoking, illuminating account reframes the story of the Spanish conquest of the New World and the half-century that irrevocably altered the course of history. This sounds like the perfect book to bring up during your Thanksgiving dinner with all of your relatives. The ensuing conversation should be lively, especially if your family members are America-hating, foaming-at-the-mouth lefties. And Conquistadores is also available in paperback. Cervantes is also the author of an earlier history of the same time period, The Devil in the New World: The Impact of Diabolism in New Spain Until the end of the eighteenth century, missionaries to the New World agreed that diabolism lay at the heart of the Native American belief system and at the root of their own failure to establish a church purged of Satan and pagan superstition. The Devil mattered, and he occupied a central place in discussions of all non-Christian religious systems and in the bitter disputes over how to combat them. Considering the violent, murderous Aztec culture and their mountains of skulls and human sacrifices, using the word "diabolic" to describe it is not hyperbole. ___________ 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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