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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 10-23-2022 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading (ht: CBD's ONT). Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material, even if it's nothing more than "The Masque of the Red Death." As always, pants are required, especially if you are wearing these pants... So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, reheat some leftover bacon from the TXMOME (spoiler: There isn't any!), and crack open a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning? PIC NOTE This image is a behind-the-scenes pic from one of the Harry Potter movies, depicting Hermione doing something in the Hogwarts Library. The green hands, of course, are edited out in post-production to make it look like the books are levitating or moving on their own or via telekinesis. GUEST CONTENT FROM "SNAPROLL" A Moron who occasionally comments under the nic "Snaproll" sent me the following, based on the "humor" thread suggested by creeper a couple of weeks ago. Since I'll be traveling today, on the road from what I assume to be a fabulous TXMOME, I prepared this ahead of time. Enjoy! "He was killed last year by some bad clams" "Bad clams?" "Yeah. They had axes." Comment: I've read the Agatha H series of books based on the webcomics and found them hilarious and fun to read. I even wrote a paper in graduate school about teaching YA to students and used this series as a prime example of how I would teach that genre. These books are just enjoyable in all the right ways. Highly recommended! Next up, for the graphic novel entries, Dreamkeepers. Comment: I've not read this comic, so I have no idea what it's about, though it looks like involves anthropomorphic cats. As a Certified Crazy Cat Person(TM), I approve of this comic already. Finally, for the Moron readers who insist on reading books without little pictures in them, I must insist that you drop whatever it is you're doing and read The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, unless you already have (In which case, I need hardly tell you, Polka will Never Die). Comment: I'm a big fan of these urban fantasy novels. Yes, they can be a bit formulaic at times, as most long-running series are, but they are fun reads, nonetheless. The first two books, Storm Front and Fool Moon are a bit rough around the edges, as Butcher was still trying to figure out the whole novel writing thing. Things get much better in the later books, leading up to a pivotal transition moment in Changes. Highly recommended if you enjoy a wisecracking wizard who gets his ass kicked on a regular basis, but can throw down with the best of them when the stakes are high enough. (An entire episode of Doctor Who is based around this story.) BOOKS BY MORONS Snaproll even has his own book out! Finally, if you'd be so kind, I have an entry in your "Books By Morons" category: My first novel, The Astral Raiders: Book One of The Wildest Dreams. MORON RECOMMENDATIONS Favorite tragedy... Frankenstein. Comment: Frankenstein's monster shows up in literature quite a bit. There are some profound moral questions implied in his story. Does he have a soul? Could he ever join society as a productive citizen? Would he ever be able to reproduce naturally? Should mankind be dabbling in the creation of life? And so on...I have a number of books that involve Frankenstein's monster in some way, including Larry Correia's Monster Hunter Nemesis where we find out that Agent Franks (who is, in fact, Frankenstein's monster) is inhabited by a spirit that rebelled against God. He's on a never-ending quest for atonement for his sin. John J. Robinson's book Born In Blood\ attempts to link the destruction of the Knights Templar with the Peasants' Revolt and subsequent status of the Masons as a secret society. He focuses on the genesis of the Masons being that period that passed between the Philip IV's seizure of the Templar leadership, Pope Clement's dissolution of the order and demands that their assets be seized, and the compliance by the English and Irish, by which time the Templar fleet, treasure and arms were gone. He also points out that the Peasant's rebellion was well organized with three groups, and that Wat's arm was wearing white tabards with red crosses, and that in London the rebels focused on attacking the establishments of the Knights Hospitallers who had taken over the Templar's banking and assets. Comment: There's always been a bit of mystique to the Freemasons...Are they really running the world? Is the United States of America founded on occult Masonic practices? And who can forget this classic Monty Python sketch? A hard science "time travel" book that actually works is Thrice Upon a Time by James Hogan. The main characters do not travel back through time, but they can send messages. The act of sending a message to a particular part of the time line makes that section unavailable to future parts of the time line. It's an intriguing book that is a fun read. Comment: This idea of sending messages to the past crops up in science fiction from time to time. Of course, this also leads to interesting paradoxes because if you have knowledge of the future, do you change your path and therefore alter the possibility that you might receive a message from the future? Or is a stable time loop created, "locking" the events in place so that no matter what you do, you will inevitably end up in the same point in time? More Moron-recommended reading material can be found HERE! (466 Moron-recommended books so far!) WHAT I'VE BEEN READING THIS PAST WEEK:
That's about all I have for this week. Thank you for all of your kind words regarding my Sunday Morning Book Thread. This is a very special place. You are very special people (in all the best ways!). The kindness, generosity, and wisdom of the Moron Horde knows no bounds. Let's keep reading! If you have any suggestions for improvement, reading recommendations, or writing projects that you'd like to see on the Sunday Morning Book Thread, you can send them to perfessor dot squirrel at-sign gmail dot com. Your feedback is always appreciated! You can also take a virtual tour of OUR library at libib.com/u/perfessorsquirrel. Since I added sections for AoSHQ, I now consider it OUR library, rather than my own personal fiefdom... PREVIOUS SUNDAY MORNING BOOK THREAD - 10-16-22 (hat tip: vmom stabby stabby stabamillion) (NOTE: Do NOT comment on old threads!) | Recent Comments
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