Nearly 3/4 through The Passage of Power. LBJ just gave his first speech to Congress as President. If this speech was all I knew—or maybe if it were the first thing I learned— about him, I would probably like him a lot better.
I’m pretty idealistic. I want the right thing to be done for the right reason, dang it!
When I finish this book (not RIGHT after, but hopefully in 2022) I’m going down to Austin to LBJ’s Presidential Library and mini Oval Office. Ironically, this is the one Presidential library I’ve visited, but it was more than 30 years ago and I knew nothing about LBJ at the time.
I bought it through the publisher, and it has a neat interactive e-book version. I also bought a paperback version, which should be coming in a couple weeks after its official publication date. The publisher has a neat way you can get pre-publication access to books.
I’ve never read an Agatha Christie book before, so I borrowed The Mysterious Affair at Styles a couple days ago, but my library only has it as an epub version, not a kindle version, and the epub version (or maybe the overdrive reader) doesn’t show the illustrations, which is obnoxious.
It was somewhat interesting. Basically how evangelicalism became a culture of masculinity being defined as the white militant patriarch protector and femininity as submissive purity. It was interesting to see how that culture impacted the 2016 election. I tend to be more along for the ride with audiobooks, which was the case with this book. I’m sure I’d have absorbed more and had a stronger opinion if I’d read it. I think I’d gotten more out of it if I had a stronger church background.
While my wife, kids and I were at the park over the weekend there were a bunch of other kids/parents, including one nice lady who asked about my wife being pregnant etc etc. Was waiting for them to be Jehovah’s Witness but she didn’t bring up church so I was surprised. Then we were walking to our car and she ran over and invited my wife to join their Mom’s group at their church and discovered they’re pentecostal, which spurred me to learn all about the different things (women) pentecostal people aren’t allowed to wear/do.
Yes, that seems to be what is missing. Oh, google confirmed, yes. Also a scrap of paper from a burned will, to this point in the book. Unknown if there are other points missing illustrations, just know it’s annoying when it says, I’ve included a sketch here, and nothing.
The earliest Christie novels & stories are in the public domain now, as dtnf points out… but it’s just Styles & Murder on the Links + some Poirot short stories, so far
After reading the most recent book from The Expanse series I decided to read another sci fi book and went with Infinite by Jeremy Robinson. I kinda felt like I knew where it was going. But it wasn’t a terrible read.
My favorite Christie novel is The Moving Finger which is purportedly a Miss Marple novel, but she doesn’t figure much in it. It’s difficult to explain why I like this one the most, but I do.
I read the American edit of it (they SO dumbed down Christie books for the American market) when I was a kid, but finally got to see the UK version in the e-book era, and some aspects don’t seem so wacky.
Still reading “The Agenda”, by Woodward, about Clinton’s first two years.
Typical president who thought whatever he says will go.
Haven’t gotten to health care reform, but “the heroes” picked their evil foe.
