I subscribe to The New Atlantis and The Point, quarterly journals of essays. Newest version of Atlantis arrived yesterday, I really like the tangibility of something like a book of thinking. I like these when traveling more than a longer-thread book (like a novel).
next genre up: Detective and Mystery
choice: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nghttime - Haddon
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Long Island Compromise
I enjoyed Persuasion by Jane Austen, so started on Pride and Prejudice.
next genre - Romance
Choice: The Thorn Birds - McCullough
I really enjoyed this and feel it is a good match for this crowd
Just listened to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn during a road trip with my high-schoolerā¦such good storytelling!
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Dungeon Crawler Crawl on ebook, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow on audiobook.
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This book was my first introduction to the Monte Hall problem. I read it when it came out and really enjoyed it. Was a pretty quick one iirc.
I was skimming the Odyssey lately and it kind of sucks. Itāll be interesting if/when I get around to watching the movie to see how they made it good.
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir : The movie was wild, so Iām curious about the book.
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You will not regret reading the book.
Although it is not as gripping as The Expanse series.
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Itās great. The audiobook version was narrated well if thatās of any interest.
Just read two books that my older brother has published about our grandparents.
One is about our maternal grandmother who was a Barnardo girl (Nellie Ross): the other is about our Cooke grandparents.
Writing the books required many hours of research and interviews. It is challenging to do this after they are long gone but he was helped by having older cousins in their 90s who still have good memories!
For anyone interested in preserving their grandparentsā story I suggest you do your research while your parents and aunts or uncles are still alive!
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I interview my dad whenever we get together.
not writing a book. Just want to know
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Good for you.
I wish I had talked more to my dad but I didnāt. When he died in 1988 I didnāt know much about his younger years, other than he was a skilled hockey player. He could have told me much about his father.
Didnāt make the same mistake with my mother who lived until 2018.
when my Father In law passed, the clergy asked a lot of questions his Sister could answer.
I realized I needed to know more about when dad was young, especially his army days
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My grandfather would often start stories about my dad (stuff like about the time he drove the car through the garage), but my dad always cut him off. Based on that, I suspect my dad had a lot of interesting stories, but he never told them.
My dad also never talked about his mom, who died when he was a teenager. His dad got remarried and she was who I knew as my grandmother. I think because of that, it never occurred to me to ask him about her. Itās only in applying for Irish citizen ship through her that I realized I really know nothing at all about her.
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this was my dad. getting stories of his childhood were difficult. they were very poor. his father died of pneumonia in 1936 - w 5 kids. my dad was 3. the depression and the state of the world in how women were treated combined to make for a lot of shitty years in there.
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My Grandma Ross (a Barnardo girl) would never talk to me about her early years in London as interested as I was in them. She was ashamed that she was illegitimate and abandoned by her parents.
On her death bed she gathered her children together to tearfully tell them she was a bastard child and they all told her it didnāt matter to them. (They had long known this from other sources).
It was sad that she lived her whole life with this shame as it was something only she saw as being shameful. She was widowed at age 54 and lived with us for over 30 years but went quiet about her early life when we asked. We pieced it together through Barnardoās via an information request.
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