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Now I'm reading Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, who is an academic sleep researcher. https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/matthew-walker Fascinating. I had no idea that so much was known about what our brains and body do during sleep. One sentence summary: Getting eight hours sleep a night is essential for physical and mental health. |
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I finished Code Name Sapphire by Pam Jenoff’s Ok book, if at times a bit unbelievable. She writes WWII historical fiction usually centered around some true event. In some cases her books are great, in others they feel a bit contrived. This one was a bit contrived.
Next up is ‘the Andromeda Evolution’, a sequel to ‘the Andromeda Strain’. After that, I’m going to return to Amor Towles and ‘Rules of Civility’. Last edited by drofgnal; 04-28-2024 at 06:29 AM. |
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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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Next I read: A Girl Called Justice by Elly Griffiths. A fun YA detective mystery. Currently reading: A Cat's Guide to Bonding with Dragons by Chris Behrsin. Looking good so far. |
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Finished ‘The Andromeda Evolution’. It was ok, I didn’t really like the story all that much, and it nearly became a candidate for the ‘did not finish’ thread. But I pushed through. It was well written but I just didn’t get into it all that much. I was going to start the Amor Towles book, ‘Rules of Civility’, but instead I’m starting Kristin Hannah’s ‘The Four Winds’. Towles will be next.
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The Four Winds was fantastic. I think I liked it better than the Nightingale. I couldn’t put it down. Fortunately, I had a work trip and between sitting in airports and flight time I was able to finish it. I decided to purchase her recent book The Women. Towles will have to wait till after that.
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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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Next up was Sharpe's Command by Bernard Cornwell. A recent novel, backfilling a time period in the peninsular war. Good fun. Then there was A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes. Brilliant. The Trojan War and the Odyssey from the perspective of all the women involved. And now I'm reading The Loving Cup by Winston Graham. The tenth novel in his Cornish Saga about the Poldark family. |
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I finally started The Women by Hannah. I can tell it will be a good one. I slipped one in before it, a hard case crime book by Don Westlake called ‘Call me a Cab’. It was horrible and would have made the DNF thread had I not skimmed quite a bit to get to the predictable ending. I need to be more careful when i buy a 1.99 amazon deal of the day.
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Just finished a beautifully written and lovingly told literary Novella-in-Flash. (It's only about 50 pages long.) It's by Debbi Voisey, titled The 10:25. Only $2.99 from Amazon.
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#31828 |
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I got a new Boox Palma on a whim and have been playing around with it some. This is what I'm reading now over my paper shelves and various devices:
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The Story of English in 100 Words by David Crystal
In his excellent introduction,David Crystal describes the unusual methodology of this book. He states that there are two common ways of approaching a history of the English language. One can use a straight forward historical method by analysing the sequential development and trends through Old, Middle, and Modern English. Discussions of specific words are limited by demands of space. This gives a good overall picture. He compares it to seeing a forest as a whole but few individual trees. A contrasting method is seen in books of word lists which examine interesting words and phrases. This lets us see the individual trees but gives little idea of the total bounds of the forest. David Crystal has used both methods. In this book he is combing the two approaches. He has a word list which follows a chronological scheme beginning with the oldest word (roe) and ends with the modern “twittersphere”. Each choice in between has a specific historical relevance to the growth of the language. The method works perfectly. The word list includes useful cross references which keep the historical spectrum before us. But one can also dip into the book at random simply for the enjoyable discussions of a specific word. Anyone interested in both the growth of English and in the history of words in their own right will enjoy this book. |
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Just finished reading The 5th Wave trilogy -
The 5th Wave The Infinite Sea The Last Star There is also a movie based on the first book. The books were post-apocalyptic / dystopian in genre and an enjoyable read. Well thought out, likeable characters, and an interesting twist in the events that made you wonder... I have seen the movie and I always wondered what happened next in the story. The movie followed the first book closely, and it is satisfying to finally learn why the events occurred, how it ended and what the future holds for the very empty Earth. |
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