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I just downloaded a sample of this on my Kindle.
If you're a fan of ST:TOS, I highly recommend this book. Word to the wise: never volunteer for away missions with the Captain and senior staff.🖖
There's only two things I didn't like about the book: 1) it was too short and 2) one character has a name I absolutely hate. I'm sure folks can figure out what that character's name is easily.
I love the shout out to Chekov in the book. There is a character who's the spitting image of Pavel Chekov. A ship's navigator of Slavic descent who goes on away missions? What use would a navigator be on an away mission?🤨
I've read the I Ching. I don't know if it was a bad translation or what, but it was full of nonsense without any application in today's society. Sun-Tzu's Art of War can be applied to dealings with others today, since its mostly psychological stratagems.
I recommend reading Musashi's The Book of Five Rings. Like the Art of War, you can apply a lot of his teaching in dealing with the people around you. Using what I learned in Five Rings, I beat up 10 people the same way I would beat up one person--with a big stick.😁
I also just finished it. I found it to be a very entertaining novel, which I highly recommend.
I read the I Ching as a kid and didn’t think much of it either, or The Art of War.
I put them in the vastly overrated category along with The Prophet, Khalil Gibran and The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho.
I Ching is a bit in-accessible, and poetic. The Art of War is a bit more concrete, many things even transferrable to today.
My recommendation as an introduction to taoism, instead of trying to read I Ching, is to read The Tao of Pooh. That's one of my all-time favourite books.
My recommendation as an introduction to taoism, instead of trying to read I Ching, is to read The Tao of Pooh. That's one of my all-time favourite books.
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Somewhat stilted writing style....but author's personal connection to the topic makes up for it (plus English is her second language)
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Often disturbing but consistently interesting
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Possible late November re-read
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Somewhat stilted writing style....but author's personal connection to the topic makes up for it (plus English is her second language)
Beyond the Wall
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, “an expansive and generous history” of East German...
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Often disturbing but consistently interesting
I Love Russia by Elena Kostyuchenko: 9780593655269 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
* Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and TIME * Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * “A haunting book of rare courage.” —Clarissa...
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Salazar | Hurst Publishers
A nuanced and thoughtful biography of the elusive, much debated Portuguese dictator.
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Possible late November re-read
Animal Farm by George Orwell: 9780452284241 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
75th Anniversary Edition—Includes a New Introduction by Téa Obreht George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march...
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It’s rather peculiar to hear a Ukrainian, working for Novaya Gazeta, express a fondness for Russia. How did you find her writing?Finished recently
Often disturbing but consistently interesting
I Love Russia by Elena Kostyuchenko: 9780593655269 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
* Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and TIME * Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * “A haunting book of rare courage.” —Clarissa...
Yes, it looks a bit odd at first glance but her surname comes from her Russian mother's first husband. Kostyuchenko was actually born and educated in rural Russia. Plus, as becomes apparent as one progresses through the text, the title can be interpreted both literally and ironically.
I picked up the book after reading a review in either a newspaper or magazine (I don't recall exactly where because I didn't start reading the book until some time after seeing the review).
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German language. I’ve been on the hunt for that book for a while and got a copy ok the way finally.
Mercedes-Benz C111: Fackelträger, Traumsportwagen und Rekordjäger
Mercedes-Benz C111: Fackelträger, Traumsportwagen und Rekordjäger
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German language. I’ve been on the hunt for that book for a while and got a copy ok the way finally.
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Just finished "Mutiny on the Bounty" by John Boyne and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Been a while since I have posted anything... but have been reading none the less. I am currently reading:
Book 20 of the Horus Heresy: The Primarchs... this series is something else!!!
Book 20 of the Horus Heresy: The Primarchs... this series is something else!!!
Banned Books in Knoxville, TN Public Schools:
- Me, Earl & The Dying Girl by Jessee Andrews
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
- Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
- Chopsticks by Jessica Anthony
- 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
- Girls on the Verge by Sharon Biggs Waller
- There's Going to Be a Baby by John Burningham
- Draw Me A Star by Eric Carle
- Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
- A Stolen Life by Jaycee Duggar
- The Carnival of Bray by JessieAnn Foley
- In A Glass Grimmly by Adam Gimwitz
- Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie Green
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Locke and Key: Alpha and Omega by Joe Hill
- Locke and Key: Clockworks by Joe Hill
- Locke and Key: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill
- Identical by Ellen Hopkins
- Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Attack on Titan Vol. 2 by Hajime Isayama
- Grown by Tiffany Jackson
- DUFF by Kody Keplinger
- The Walking Dead: Book Ten by Robert Kirkman
- Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
- Monstress Vol. 2: the Blood by Marjorie Liu
- Late Night at the Telegraph Club by Malina Lo
- Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
- Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas
- The Way We Work by David Macaulay
- Wicked by Gregory Maguire
- Sold by Patricia Morrison
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- Skin by DonnaJo Napoli
- Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez
- Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick
- Beautiful by Amy Reed
- Mrs. Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Graphic Novel by Ransom Riggs
- You: The Owner's Manual for Teens by Michael Roizen
- I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez
- In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
- A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
- The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
- Blankets by Craig Thompson
- Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
So the rest of the series are okay, just Volume 2 is banned? I have to say, the decision makers must be nuttier than a squirrel's pantry. Either ban the entire series or don't bother at all--go big or go home.😤
A lot of these lists (and pre-written legislation and pre-written ballot measures) are manufactured by national-level activist groups and then adopted verbatim by local authorities.
... or take the intelligent approach that no books should be banned at all anywhere
What, no Science Fiction or Fantasy? Some of the best in those areas are the most thought provoking, and we can't be provoking thought.
Phillip Pullman -- His Dark Materials series
James Blish -- A Case of Conscience and Black Easter/The Day after Judgement
Arthur C Clarke - Childhood's End
Pierre Boulle -- Planet of the Apes / La Planète des singes
As a young Catholic* I remember battling with A Case of Conscience.
* I have since recovered.
And this one was pretty much saying there was no God... Obviously here in TN there are no brains...