Sunday Morning Book Thread 11-14-2021

Thrifty Peanut Bookstore, Shreveport, LA

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 this mopey meat sack would be welcome, even though he looks like he's got his assless chaps on backwards.

Pic Note:

Thanks to moron commenter Stephen Price Blair for this week's bookstore pic:

Here’s a less woke bookstore that I like to stop at when I’m driving past Shreveport. The Thrifty Peanut. I’ve managed to pick up some nice Robert Aickman books there and a few unique cookbooks, among other things. It’s a nice relaxing place to break up a long drive, at least if you’re the kind of person for whom a good bookstore is a relaxing place.

I know nothing about them and have no connection with them, other than that I enjoy shopping there.

Sounds like a fun place to hang out:

Inside the Thrifty Peanut Book and Media Warehouse, there are books, books, books and more books ... as far as the eye can see. Every nook and cranny of the twostory building in south Shreveport is filled to overflowing with books of every size and shape, old and new, from every imaginable genre. If there’s a book that you’re looking for, odds are you’ll find it...

Book-signings are cozy and personal, with overstuffed easy chairs ready for visitors to sink into. Upstairs and downstairs literary treasures are shelved in nearly every available space. Her staff does their best to keep the new arrivals coming out to be shelved and picked up by new owners.

Their web site: https://www.thethriftypeanut.com/

It Pays To Increase Your Word Power®

"As I wrote yesterday, the lefty media is attacking the white mothers of Virginia who voted against CRT, pornography, and shielding a transgender rapist. Continued attacks by jackpuddings like Joy Reid only insure a new large, powerful, angry, crop of parents who will be increasingly less likely to pull a blue lever again."

Thrifty Peanut Bookstore

A Tumultuous Year

Peter Navarro is a Harvard Ph.D. economist and professor of public policy at the University of California, Irvine. He has written a number of books on China as well as business topics. In addition, he was one of only three senior White House officials by President Trump’s side from the 2016 campaign to the end of the president’s first term in office.

Just released is his latest book, In Trump Time: A Journal of America's Plague Year. Navarro names names and brings the receipts. From one reader review:

In this book, Navarro uses his personal journal to punctuate the conversations, meetings, documents, etc. that support this book. It’s very well written and a riveting read. He begins the book with a bang and calls out Fauci and his lies. They are prominent throughout this book. Of personal interest to me is the information on Hydroxychloroquine. I’ve been taking this medication for 25+ years to treat Lupus and RA but for 6 months of 2020, I could not get it due to “HydroxyHysteria”. Navarro unveils the debacle, at long last. Not that it makes my, and countless others, experiences any better, but hopefully, a situation like this won’t ever jeopardize the lives and health of people again. Somebody needs to put Fauci in jail.

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And if you're looking for something on the lighter side, there's always The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness

To show the world you're a good person—and also to avoid getting canceled and having your life ruined by a Twitter mob—you need to get WOKE. In The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness, the writers of satirical sensation The Babylon Bee tell you how to choose your pronouns, blame everyone else for your problems, and show the world how virtuous you are with virtue-signaling profile pictures and stunning and brave hashtags. A tongue-in-cheek guide to the far Left’s obsession with intersectional insanity, The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness will help you laugh at the state of our culture so you don’t cry.

'Woke' is what you might call a target-rich environment.

Who Dis:

Moron Recommendations

Need more pulp in your diet? Then this might interest you:

If you like ultra violent, far right, highly readable pulp, check out Bernard De Leo on Amazon kindle. He has several long ongoing series and I've read and enjoyed most of them. If wish fulfillment for you consists of torturing and executing any number of the current leftist mob, including government officials, these books are for you. Warning, if you have any SJW in you, reading one of these books could cause a fatal seizure. These books are priced reasonably, with the early downright cheap.

The author's name is Bernard Lee DeLeo and he indeed has a ton of books published. I picked one at random, Hard Case #15: Hard Choices, and holy crap:

In a whirlwind of traitorous politicians, Antifa/BLM looters and pillagers, the Monsters and Unholies unravel more of the New World Order cult. The Chicago cabal hiring killers to assassinate John and Nick’s crews, make a fatal error, as the number one assassin in the world treads the dark streets of Chicago once again. The kids go back to school, with Sharknado and Captain Hook continuing to bond during the Dark Lord’s training sessions. John takes a final last gasp challenge from the Oakland Antifa/BLM contingent, going up against a monster they call Jaws in Alexi Fiialkov’s warehouse, where the Dark Lord’s career started.

Even if I understood all of the references, which I don't, this still sounds completely insane. This sounds The Destroyer, squared. And then put on steroids.

Probably not recommended for the squeamish. And I think I might be squeamish about something like this.

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History: lurking 'ette Lisl Madeleine recommends The Black Prince by Michael Jones, a biography of Edward, son of Edward III, Duke of Cornwall (1330-1376), who died before he could become king, but was quite an amazing military commander nontheless. As a child he was given his own suit of armor; at the age of sixteen, he helped defeat the French at Crécy. At Poitiers, in 1356, his victory over King John II of France forced the French into a humiliating surrender that marked the zenith of England’s dominance in the Hundred Years War.

Lisl tells me:

I found it fascinating and very accessible, told in a narrative form (a style I often loathe in journalism but find can be very helpful and engaging in writing about history, particularly when the author utilizes primary sources) that draws you into the history, rather than keeping you stuck on the sidelines trying to process what I call institutionalized information. Here, instead, readers can grow into understanding, or at least appreciating, the events, passions, dangers, concerns, and circumstances of past people's lives. We get a feel for what they cared about, and in Edward's case, he is grievously torn between his father's demands and his own hard-won knowledge and experience. He ends up dying an extremely protracted and painful death, and, to Jones's credit, we learn the details of this period in a somber but not sentimental fashion.

$15 for the Kindle edition.

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Second novel FALLEN is getting a mass-market paperback re-release soon. Reviewer called it “Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones, with dinosaurs.” Accurate. Anybody want to talk about it?@DougTenNapel @The_Kyle_Mann @AXECOP @HollywoodInToto @BillyHallowell @OdinsMovieBlog pic.twitter.com/j2zMVLjH6x

— Huff (@Huff4Congress) November 14, 2021

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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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