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I usually get about 30 pages read per day - of course depending on font and page size. I've been reading "The Fiery Cross" in the Outlander Series. I've only got 60 pages to go of a book of 1443 pages. A whopper of a book and it's almost non-stop action everything from despicable pirates, quelling an insurrection in the American colonies (ca 1770), snake bites, and community. Diana Gabaldon sure writes a good tale. I've been on this one book for over 2 months now. The series is really good - the tv show tends to alter the story for no real apparent reason, and, of course, skips a great deal of the content of the books.
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Just got another of the Commisario Brunetti murder mysteries yesterday via Amazon. I'm hooked.
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Shorty Barlow wrote: Sun Sep 11, 2022 4:27 pm Image
Helpful?
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GCoyote wrote: Sun Sep 11, 2022 6:55 pm
Shorty Barlow wrote: Sun Sep 11, 2022 4:27 pm Image
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Hopefully. I'll probably do a write-up in a few weeks.
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Looks interesting!
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pakarinen wrote: Mon Sep 12, 2022 12:47 pm Looks interesting!
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The Klamath Mountains: A Natural History is a compendium with 2 primary and 34 contributing authors. It's dense with facts yet fascinating to read. Just 32 pages in is a plot of fire management that is especially interesting in the midst of the 2022 chapter of the American West's annual fire season.

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Reading through copies of "The Gentleman's Magazine" from the mid 1700s. I'm looking up articles on the Venus transit of 1769. I like reading contemporary accounts of historic astronomical events, even if there are a lot of long s's and the wording can appear a little odd at time.
I used to read quite a bit more but my close vision is suffering so I guess a trip to the optomotrist in in order. Maybe I can rock a pair of pince-nez specs :P
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This is the only contemporary novel I've read more than seven times. It has one of the best ending reveals I've ever known. I originally read it only a couple of years after it was first published. As all of my hard copies have been lent out over the years, and consequently now disappeared, I downloaded it to Kindle.
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The news, and I probably need to stop because all it does is get me wound up.
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Don Alvarez wrote: Thu Sep 15, 2022 4:53 pm The news, and I probably need to stop because all it does is get me wound up.
I've limited myself to 5 to 15 minutes of news per day. NO cable news at all. This since summer of 2016 and I'm a happier camper.
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Don Alvarez wrote: Thu Sep 15, 2022 4:53 pm The news, and I probably need to stop because all it does is get me wound up.
I've weened myself off local news (Murder, mayhem, and corruption. Hey, this is Sheh-cahhhh-gahhhh ) and I watch very little network. However, I do use Smart News on my phone, which is at least somewhat configurable as is newsnow.com on the web. At least with those I can actively chose what I want to read as opposed to being barraged by talking heads.
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pakarinen wrote: Thu Sep 15, 2022 6:58 pm
Don Alvarez wrote: Thu Sep 15, 2022 4:53 pm The news, and I probably need to stop because all it does is get me wound up.
I've weened myself off local news (Murder, mayhem, and corruption. Hey, this is Sheh-cahhhh-gahhhh ) and I watch very little network. However, I do use Smart News on my phone, which is at least somewhat configurable as is newsnow.com on the web. At least with those I can actively chose what I want to read as opposed to being barraged by talking heads.
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Agreed. A controllable news feed like that is about the only way get relevant news without the wasted time of generic broadcast or cable operations.
Listening to a recitation of random crimes, fires, or accidents does not make one well informed.
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I have been resting in my big leather recliner today. The bay windows are wide open this morning and the sounds of the forest are delightful. I think I have heard a dozen different bird calls. When the breeze freshens the sound in the trees is hypnotic. This afternoon and listened to my classical music and read a few chapters from Dumas, "The Three Musketeers".
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John Donne wrote: Fri Sep 16, 2022 12:02 am I have been resting in my big leather recliner today. The bay windows are wide open this morning and the sounds of the forest are delightful. I think I have heard a dozen different bird calls. When the breeze freshens the sound in the trees is hypnotic. This afternoon and listened to my classical music and read a few chapters from Dumas, "The Three Musketeers".
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That combo: nature sounds, classical music and a book would put me to sleep in no time. :lol:
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John Donne wrote: Fri Sep 16, 2022 12:02 am The bay windows are wide open this morning and the sounds of the forest are delightful. I think I have heard a dozen different bird calls. When the breeze freshens the sound in the trees is hypnotic.
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Aside from darker skies, there's much to be said for being in the woods.

I'm lucky in that, although I live a large suburb, I'm next to a pond that's fed by a creek and attracts a good deal of wildlife - songbirds, geese, ducks, frogs, toads, crickets, racoons, coyotes, squirrels, chipmunks, a weasel (I think), etc. and fish in the pond. I thought perhaps Sasquatch too, but that's just an unkempt neighbor. :grin:

I'm also on a deadend street so there's virtually no traffic. Nothing like cranking open the windows and letting the breeze blow through while listenting to the crickets at night.
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pakarinen wrote: Fri Sep 16, 2022 12:54 pm ...
Aside from darker skies, there's much to be said for being in the woods.

I'm lucky in that, although I live a large suburb, I'm next to a pond that's fed by a creek and attracts a good deal of wildlife - songbirds, geese, ducks, frogs, toads, crickets, racoons, coyotes, squirrels, chipmunks, a weasel (I think), etc. and fish in the pond. I thought perhaps Sasquatch too, but that's just an unkempt neighbor. :grin:

I'm also on a deadend street so there's virtually no traffic. Nothing like cranking open the windows and letting the breeze blow through while listenting to the crickets at night.
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Bigzmey wrote: Fri Sep 16, 2022 1:03 am
John Donne wrote: Fri Sep 16, 2022 12:02 am I have been resting in my big leather recliner today. The bay windows are wide open this morning and the sounds of the forest are delightful. I think I have heard a dozen different bird calls. When the breeze freshens the sound in the trees is hypnotic. This afternoon and listened to my classical music and read a few chapters from Dumas, "The Three Musketeers".
Peace to you all.
That combo: nature sounds, classical music and a book would put me to sleep in no time. :lol:
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Just completed: "The Price Of Principle, Why Integrity Is Worth The Consequences" by Alan Dershowitz, 2022, 159 pages.

His 50th book, and the first of his I've read, he explores his stance on a variety of issues and how his life has been affected by those positions.


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