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smartrock, I sometimes have to fight a tendency to speed read over his ruminations about ‘Nam. I do like how he characterizes the scumbags that populate his books. Maybe because I’m reminded of the...

Listening to a wren singing one yard over, a cardinal caroling in the distance, and a gentle breeze rustling the Manitoba Maples' leaves.

smartrock,I someties listen to podcasts by Strong Towns, a...

A Christmas Eve restart.

Listening to Gene Autry sing 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'.

Reading Louise Penny's 'The Cruellest Month' which is one of the Inspector Gamache series. Also very...

smartrock I hadn't heard of him either until my brother tipped me. While I don't generally read science fiction the first book really grabbed me as is 'The Dark Forest'.

Maybe we can restart this thread.
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Listening to the wall furnace which is supplying a blast of heat to the living room.

Reading Cixin Liu's 'The Dark Forest', the middle book...

Listening to crickets outside and the mantel clocks' tick-tock.

Reading Stephen Kings' 'Bag of Bones', have on hold at the library 'Crash Course' by Chris Martensen.

It is! Have you seen the movie? The flying stunts are remarkable.

I've enjoyed reading Michener. Two of my favourite works are Centennial and The Drifters, set in the late 60s and about five young people who leave the mainstream.

Just started The Three-Body...

It's very endearing isn't it?
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Not really reading a book at the moment. Right now, listening to the CBC program Saturday Night Blues, hosted by Holger Petersen. Driving to and...

Was listening just now to Achilles dreaming, squeaking and gently boofing.

Listening to 'Family Style' by The Vaughan Brothers (Stevie Ray and Jimmie).

Just started reading 'Second Wind' by Dick Francis.

Reading 'Why Your World Is About to Get A Whole Lot Smaller' (a clumsy title) by Jeff Rubin and 'The End of Normal' by James Schlesinger. Each approaches from different directions the interesting...

Just discovered Dick Francis, read Shattered and liked it so I'll continue. Have always liked Tony Hillerman (ya ta hey!) and am now curious to learn about his daughter's efforts.

Maybe we can revive this thread.

I'm reading 'Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Can Make Us Safe'. Bbedtime reading is 'Blue at The Mizzen' which is one of Patrick O'Brians'...

Reading: 'The Black Swan' by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. From a review: "A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact;...

Just finished 'Being Mortal' by Dr. Atul Gawande. It's an uplifting book about US medicine/health care and different strategies for handling the end of life. Timely for me and a good read for anyone...

I recently started Ken Follett's 'Winter of the World', the middle book of his historical novel trilogy.

How did you enjoy the book?

I'm reading The War That Ended Peace by Margaret MacMillan. It's a history of the decades prior to the Great War (what we now call World War I). She describes how...

Listening to Vinyl Tap, a CBC program hosted every Saturday evening by Randy Bachman. He does a themed program and tonight's theme was 'Big or Little' in either the group or song name.

Reading:...

Finally finished, hooray! Now, on to the next book.

Listening to the Ozark Mountain Daredevils' debut album. It's toe-tapping music. :)

Still plowing through this. It's not a hard read at all, reading a few pages a day.

That sounds interesting.

I'm on the deck listening to cicadas, the crickets starting to sing, and a gospel band down at the park a couple hundred meters away.

Now I'm reading Lawrence in Arabia. It's quite good.

I love our library system. :)

Unfortunately neither Hitch book is in the library catalogue. :( I'll have to request they acquire them. In the meantime I requested The War That Ended Peace my Margaret Macmillan, a view of World...

I didn't know he wrote a book on Jefferson, what's the title? I'll look for it in our library's catalog.