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What Are You Reading ? - Ruby - 18-06-2016

Jerome Wrote:An excellent summary Ruby. I have a couple of books on the subject as well. There is also a new book written by one of the Andes survivors - can't think of the title at the moment - that is worth a read as well. And on a different, but slightly related subject - I see that a 70 year-old Japanese man has climbed Everest. He did it again at 75 and then at 80 as well!!!! People are really quite mad.

Thank you Jerome.

Crazy indeed! I wouldn’t even make it to base camp, lol! Have you seen those horrible swaying rope bridges?! Just looking at them makes me feel ill.
Incidentally, George Mallory’s birthday would have been today – my favourite mountaineering madman.

Still need to muster the courage to read about the Andes survivors.


What Are You Reading ? - Music Head - 28-06-2016

Hillary Clinton - Hard Choices - 2014

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only covers her years as Secretary Of State
very well written
broken down into parts of the world where she traveled
meetings with world leaders and diplomats
I love reading diplomacy stuff and that's what the job is
Kissinger's books are the best ever
oh, sorry Hillary
if you love big government, Hillary's your man
a department for anything you want
committee's to study anything you think might be a problem
then the new rules come out
everybody signs a piece of paper and it's all hunky dory
problem solved
new committee

Grade - A

next up - The Age Of Innocence by Edith Wharton


What Are You Reading ? - Ndowar75 - 29-06-2016

A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue


What Are You Reading ? - Music Head - 10-07-2016

Edith Wharton - The Age Of Innocence - 1920

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Pulitzer Prize winner
New York high society set in post civil war era
boy meets girl
boy meets another girl
which one will he choose to wed?
oops, wrong one
oh well

Grade - B

next up - Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow


What Are You Reading ? - oldies65 - 11-07-2016

Mickey Rooney-Life And Times, easy to read and very revealing.


What Are You Reading ? - Whipsy48 - 14-07-2016

Leo Africanus-Amin Maalouf


What Are You Reading ? - Miriam Jordan - 26-07-2016

The Girl with All The Gifts. Only a couple pages in and I'm already hooked.


What Are You Reading ? - Music Head - 03-08-2016

Ron Chernow - Alexander Hamilton - 2005

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excellent read on this founding father
so much history to be absorbed
no doubt Alex would have run for president
if not for that silly duel thing
and Burr had no regrets

Grade - A

next up - Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin


What Are You Reading ? - Music Head - 22-08-2016

Julia Peterkin - Scarlett Sister Mary - 1920

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Pulitzer Prize winner
set in the late 1800's on a South Carolina cotton plantation
after the war this black family chooses to stay and continue doing the work they have always done
nowhere to go anyway
had to revert to my southern black dialect to read some of this
strange that the writer is white
nice read

Grade - B

next up - The Trumps by Gwenda Blair


What Are You Reading ? - CRAZY-HORSE - 22-08-2016

see....you are multi-lingual....

you speak American, Redneck and now I find you can speak "southern black".

you should apply for the position of Secretary Of State under Trump and/or Clinton,
hey,
lets face it, Bengazi/private emails wouldn't be a problem for you...
and you could share a joint with Willie on the roof of White House twice daily.