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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 11-27-2022 ["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 (every dark satire of violent reality shows needs its own coloring book for kids!). 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 latest issue of these pants... So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, get your significant other to make you a leftover turkey sammich, and crack open a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning? PIC NOTE Today's pic is all about the hat...I bought it a couple of weeks ago based on someone's suggestion that I should have an actual purple pimp hat. Well, now I do! And so I wanted to save it for a special occasion, such as the 500th Recommendation Spectacular! 500th RECOMMENDATION SPECTACULAR! Ever since I took over the Sunday Morning Book Thread, I've been collecting your recommendations and adding them to our Libib website. As of this past weekend, we now have 500 recommendations collected, courtesy of y'all! Congratulations to everyone who has contributed recommendations to the Sunday Morning Book Thread. I know many of you have expanded your reading horizons based on recommendations from other Morons. It seems strangely appropriate to reach a signifcant milestone over Thanksgiving weekend. I'm very thankful for the opportunity to compile material for the Sunday Morning Book Thread. I am very grateful for all of the encouragement I've received from the Moron Horde. It truly is an exceptional honor to be a part of the COB community... If you are interested in seeing your own recommendations featured here, I am looking for the following in a recommendation:
For an excellent example of a recommendation, take a look at Kindltot's recommendation of The Lightning Conductor down below. (I'm using this same image for my class this week) BOOKS BY MORONS Perfessor, thank you for carrying the torch for the book thread. We appreciate your efforts and look forward to reading about reading on lazy Sundays after church. Many of the books on my office shelf are book thread purchases! Hi Perfessor, I have finally gotten the 11th in the Luna City series up for order on Kindle - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLPXLGS7?ref_=pe_3052080_276849420 FROM THE MAILBAG... From time to time I get random requests in my inbox... Hi Perfessor, Hey Perfessor, MORON RECOMMENDATIONS Peter Benchley's The Girl of the Sea of Cortez is a delightful book, totally appropriate for any young girl. And Beryl Markham's West with the Night is also excellent, for anyone, especially young women. Not series, but nice additions to bookshelves. Comment: Someone was asking about good books for young women last week (I'm too lazy to go see who). But goatexchange has a few suggestions that may be worth checking out...As always, the Moron Horde is a fount of wisdom and experience. Currently reading Into the Rockies: St. Louis to Leadville by Samuel Plunkett. This is the story of the Plunkett family's journey via covered wagon into the West in the 1870's. Written in the form of Plunkett's diary, it details the daily adventures juxtaposed against the tedium and monotonous sameness of each day after day after day crossing the plains. Comment: How many early pioneers simply headed west and then stopped when they found a good place to set up a homestead? The lure of gold and silver was powerful, but there's a lot to be said for finding a good spot where you can set up a good farm, with plenty of land and water for crops and raising cattle or pigs. How many of us today are willing to make those sacrifices? To just pack up and head out into the great unknown? (Not me. I'm too attached to my comforts...and my cats!) I caught the 'flu so I holed up on the couch with Patrick O'Brien's Post Captain, and finally almost finished The Lightning Conductor by Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson, which is the Edwardian motor car story (published in 1903) of a young American heiress, Molly Randolph, taking a tour of Southern France with her Aunt Mary, who decided to buy one of the brand new motor cars for the tour and not be stuck taking trains from point to point. Comment: Not sure I have anything to add here. Sounds like a slice-of-life story centered around a particular technical innovation at the time that expanded the horizons of the characters. It was a good week for hobby reading. The new issue of Fly Tyer magazine arrived with an article about the history of the Royal Wulff fly and its variations. Pleasant reading. Comment: I had no idea that there was a magazine devoted to tying flies, though I do know that fly fishing can be something of an obsessive hobby for some. Of course, as a gamer, I'm somewhat familiar with niche gaming magazines catering to the weird obsessions of gamers. One of the neat things about the Sunday Morning Book Thread is we can bleed over into the other threads (hobbies, art, guns, food, etc.)...Any other fly fishermen among the Moron Horde want to dump some knowledge on us ignorant novices? More Moron-recommended reading material can be found HERE! (500 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 - 11-20-22 (NOTE: Do NOT comment on old threads!) | Recent Comments
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