The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More- Roald Dahl

Currently listening to The Screwtape Letters- C. S. Lewis.

Speaking of C. S. Lewis. Someone sent to me a hardcover version of Mere Christianity.

Very kind.

If one of you fine fellows sent that to me, please make yourself known.

The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones- Rich Cohen.

Safari- Parnell Hall

coop is back and he's looking for you...at least that's what I heard

uh oh...dum dum dum...

Voices of Hawaii, Vol. 1 - Jane Marshall Goodsill

“For Jane Marshall Goodsill, Voices of Hawai'i began as a labor of love. A kama'aina accomplished in the art of oral history, she began interviewing Island residents who had known her late father, a partner in a venerable Honolulu law firm. But avocation soon became vocation. As Goodsill's joy in recording these life stories grew, so too did her pool of subjects: business executives, war veterans and POWs, retired plantation managers, Island entertainers, conservationists, taro farmers, educators, broadcasters, retailers, ranchers, activists, judges, journalists and so many others. Taken together, their oral histories told a fascinating, behind-the-scenes tale of Hawai'i's journey from the World War II era into the 21st century. The best of these candid interviews-compelling tales of deals made and glass ceilings shattered, of ancient ways revived and legacy lands preserved-are collected here under the themes of Island life: history, race, land use, art and music, philanthropy, development, and the spirit of aloha.”

A fairly easy read as she edited the interviews down to stick to the topic at hand. There were a couple of interviewees that I know but didn’t know that their parent(s) or a relative were movers ‘n shakers. Purdy sure I’ll be reading the 2nd volume afterwards.

The Fall of Berlin- Antony Beevor

Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (also known as The Fall of Berlin 1945 in the US) is a narrative history by Antony Beevor of the Battle of Berlin during World War II. It was published by Viking Press in 2002, then later by Penguin Books in 2003. The book achieved both critical and commercial success. It has been a number-one best seller in seven countries apart from Britain, and in the top five in another nine countries. Together this book and Beevor's Stalingrad, first published in 1998, have sold nearly three million copies.[1]

Stasiland: Stories From Behind the Berlin Wall- Anna Funder.

East Germany may have been--until now--the most perfected surveillance state of all time. In Stasiland Anna Funder tells extraordinary stories of ordinary people who heroically resisted the communist dictatorship, and of those who worked for its vicious secret police, the Stasi. She meets Miriam, who as a sixteen-year-old was accused of trying to start World War III. She visits the regime's cartographer, a man obsessed to this day with the Berlin Wall, then gets drunk with the legendary "Mik Jegger" of the east, once declared by the authorities "no longer to exist." And she finds spies and Stasi men, in hiding but defiant, still loyal to the regime as they lick their wounds and regroup, hoping for the next revolution.Stasiland is a brilliant, timeless portrait of a Kafkaesque world, as gripping as any thriller. In a world of total surveillance, its celebration of human conscience and courage is as potent as ever.

Finished Lawrence Sanders - Stolen Blessings

Just started Anne Rice - Prince Lestat

For Love of Country- Tulsi Gabbard.

Good book. Better person.

R.A. Salvatore

Bill D. Cat for prez!!!

https://imgur.com/gallery/vote-bill-d-cat-with-opus-vp-edyRT 

And more to the thread point, rereading Bloom County Library Vol 1

Summary of Liz Cheney's Oath & Honor.

Only 20 pages in duration. Efficient in its telling of the in front and behind the scenes of the 2020 ellection her r and aftermath. An explaination of her role and the actions of others gave me a chill.

Unsure if I'll listen to the whole book. The 18 weeks wait doesn't give me warm and fuzzies.

Glad I read thhis overview and the previous book by Tulsi Gabbard.

TG left the Democratic party for a miriad of reasons in her book.
A small group of people in the 2020 Republican Party left her.

A Lefty that went Right, and a Conservative Republican who stood her ground.

Two patriots.

Probably done with political books for the moment.

That's Not Funny, That's Sick. The National Lampoon.

Written by Ellin Stein.

needed some escapism from reality, chose The Whole Truth, by David Baldacci...

he's a fave fiction writer who weaves thrillers into the real world of international relations...this story describes efforts of an American billionaire weapons manufacturer who wants to re-start the Cold War to drum up business...apparently the U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in the mid-2000's wasn't producing enough business, so he planned and executed a world-wide anti-Russian propaganda campaign...

author illustrates the power of disinformation and the appetite among peoples of the world to swallow misinformation

Diary of a Dead Man On Leave- David Downing.


From bestselling author David Downing, master of historical espionage, comes a heart-wrenching depiction of Germany in the days leading up to World War II and the difficult choices of one man of conviction. In April 1938, a man calling himself Josef Hofmann arrives at a boarding house in Hamm, Germany, and lets a room from the widow who owns it. Fifty years later, Walter Gersdorff, the widow's son, who was eleven years old in the spring of 1938, discovers the carefully hidden diary the boarder had kept during his stay, even though he never should have written any of its contents down. What Walter finds is a chronicle of one the most tumultuous years in German history, narrated by a secret agent on a deadly mission.

The Football Factory- John King

The Football Factory is a book about modern-day pariahs, people reduced to the level of statistics by years of hypocritical, self-serving party politics. It is about the insulted, marginalised, unseen. Graphic and disturbing, at times very funny, The Football Factory is a rush of literary adrenalin.

When Footballers Were Skint- Jon Henderson

Story of English footballers from around WW1 through the 1960's.

Irena's War, James D. Shipman, Irena was a social worker in Warsaw Poland when WW2 began. She was a social worker who fed the poor. When the Germans invaded and took control of the city, they drove out the rulling Poles and rounded up all the Jews. The Germans wanted to starve the Jews to death, but Irena had other ideas. She went underground to evade the German authorities to feed and liberate the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto.

Detective- Parnelll Hall

In the heat of a mysterious murder investigation, Stanley Hastings has his long-awaited chance to prove himself as a real detective, but what price will he have to pay?

UNIT X

How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are transforming the future of war.

~ Raj Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff

Gene, you prolly will enjoy this book.