Yep, I’ve read that one but it’s been a while since I read it. Good pick! Ambrose is great. If you want a really good history book, check out his book about the Panama Canal, it’s called The Path Between the Seas. It sounds random, but it’s one of my favorite history books of all time.
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Yep, I’ve read that one but it’s been a while since I read it. Good pick! Ambrose is great. If you want a really good history book, check out his book about the Panama Canal, it’s called The Path Between the Seas. It sounds random, but it’s one of my favorite history books of all time.
New Castle, as it is home of the first Warner Brothers Theater. Stone throw from the closed Coney Island.
"On the Rocks", is an account of Joe Costanza, owner of the Primadonna restaurant in the Rocks, his meteoric rise and stunning crash. No one will confuse this book as great literature, but I know the guy and it is a fun read. I also know some of the characters within.
"A World Lit Only By Fire" by William Manchester. Written in 1992 and its about the years of the dark ages. absolutely nothing advanced in what we call Europe. Not easy to read but really depicts how dark it really was for 600 years or so.
I'll always stan for 1491, which is a history of the pre-Columbian Americas. The native Americans are so fascinating in how they tailored the land to meet their needs. And these efforts were remarkably successful, with the earliest settlers to Massachusetts Bay all remarking about how physically fit and, frankly, sexually attractive the natives were due to their varied diet of fish, fruit, game, and corn, as well as lack of smallpox scars (which would become a double-edged sword). The selective breeding of vines and grasses across centuries to create modern tomatoes and corn is also one of the gifts that they bestowed upon the modern world.
If you're looking for Civil War stuff I like Master of War, which is about George Henry Thomas, "the Rock of Chicamauga," and the only Southern Colonel to remain loyal to the US after secession.
If you're looking for Civil War stuff I like Master of War, which is about George Henry Thomas, "the Rock of Chicamauga," and the only Southern Colonel to remain loyal to the US after secession.
I am reading The Cloudbuster Nine . It describes the training and baseball playing of WW2 pilots like Ted Williams, Johnny Peske, Johnny Sain and others. A great combination of American history and sports.
I listened to it via Audible since my work commute can be lengthy at times. I liked it.
Picked up Game of Thrones for 3rd read. Finished first book and realized how good it was and why it started the whole sensation and then the series. Decided to watch a few key episodes of the series from the first book. Although I enjoyed them the first time I watched it, I simply found some of it just ludicrous on this watch. If D&D followed the book the scenes were very good, but when they went on their own they were horrid. Ironically the scenes also lasted tens of minutes. Frankly the two show runners probably have done more to ruin the view of the series than anyone else. Well, it hasn’t hurt that George just cannot finish the next book after a decade.
Demon Copperhead is excellent. Crushed it in some time off during the holidays. I'd describe it as a spiritual cousin of Dopesick, the Hulu show, which I'd also recommend.
Finshed The Pioneers in November. Good book of local relevance. Finished Irena‘s Children in December if you like a true story about the Warsaw Ghetto.
Empire of the Summer Moon.
Centers around the Comanches and Quanah Parker. Lots of history of how Texas was settled. Fascinating book.
Centers around the Comanches and Quanah Parker. Lots of history of how Texas was settled. Fascinating book.
Here's another non fiction, I thought was interesting.
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters.
Some great examples in history.
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters.
Some great examples in history.
Down and Out in Paradise. Charles Leehrsen. About Anthony Bourdain's demise and death.
Just downloaded this book. Thanks for the referral.
Just finished Autobiography of Malcolm X. Learned a ton. Read Invisible Man a great book by Ralph Ellison on racism. Listening to It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis now. Starting Catch 22 tomorrow. Started it a bunch of times but never finished it.
I've read all but It Can't Happen Here and I would recommend them all. Invisible Man is one of the best books I've ever read.
Eclectic. Here's a list of article in the most recent edition:
The Hemingway Lecture
Nabokov's Butterflies
Keturah Lamb Doesn't Exist
Lithium
Giants in the Earth
Metamorphosis
The Cracker Smacker
The Last Cigarette
Cribbage is a Family Game
The Cleopatra of the Racetrack
America's Founding Document Debunked
The Fugitive Road
Pickers
A Paiute Meeting in Big Pine
The Long Song
Death of a Ladies' Man
These are generally long and complex articles/essays that can't easily be summarized. The publication is print only in the form of a newspaper. None of the content is available on-line. They do have a website where they describe themselves as:
County Highway is a 20-page broadsheet produced by actual human beings, containing the best new writing you will encounter about America. It features reports on the political and spiritual crises that are gripping our country and their deeper cultural and historical sources; regular columns about agriculture, civil liberties, animals, herbal medicine, and living off the grid, mentally and physically; essays about literature and art, and an entire section devoted to music.
County Highway
I submitted an essay a couple of weeks. My expectations are low about acceptance, though.
Just read the book Hidden Figures. Saw movie again recently on Disney+.
Man oh live did the they dumb down the movie to make it seem more of an uphill climb for these women. These women had been rock stars at Langley well before NASA took over.
Man oh live did the they dumb down the movie to make it seem more of an uphill climb for these women. These women had been rock stars at Langley well before NASA took over.
