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Post by Mahatma__Ganhdi on Aug 17, 2019 18:43:21 GMT -6
I just got a promotion to a much easier gig. This is important because I can get back to reading again. Nothing like getting your life back.
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Post by daneaux on Aug 19, 2019 8:24:47 GMT -6
When did you get a real job?
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Post by Mahatma__Ganhdi on Aug 19, 2019 16:02:35 GMT -6
2017. Where have you been?
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Post by daneaux on Aug 20, 2019 9:26:10 GMT -6
I guess I just don't follow your twitter feed that closely.
What made you seek honest employment?
BTW, I'm almost finished with the last volume of Winston Churchill, The Last Lion.
It's November, 1943 and I'm wondering how much more there is to learn about him.
I took a week or so off for brain surgery and another to read the Mueller report but I just don't get much time to read.
The Mueller Report was enough to convince me that Trump without a doubt should be Impeached by the House and Tried in the Senate. Any honest assessment of the facts would conclude that he should be removed from office too.
I'll let you know what we should do about Churchill when I'm done with the last 500 pages of almost 3000 pages.
Not sure where I'm going after that but probably another bio. Maybe DaVinci.
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Post by Mahatma__Ganhdi on Aug 20, 2019 17:08:13 GMT -6
Never At Rest is a good bio.
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Post by okie on Aug 20, 2019 21:36:04 GMT -6
I’m enjoyed my Arrowsmist by Sinclair Lewis.
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Post by Mahatma__Ganhdi on Aug 21, 2019 17:47:37 GMT -6
Does that still get credit for being a Pulitzer winner?
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Post by daneaux on Aug 22, 2019 8:33:52 GMT -6
I might give that a try. Newton was a pretty smart guy.
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Post by daneaux on Aug 22, 2019 9:39:47 GMT -6
I read McCullough's The Wright Brothers.
It was everything you'd expect from him.
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Post by daneaux on Oct 9, 2019 10:25:25 GMT -6
I went for Ben Franklins autobiography.
I just found out that he wrote it himself.
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Post by daneaux on Dec 23, 2019 10:08:38 GMT -6
Franklins autobio was hard to read and stopped in 1773 but interesting.
"Bugsy's Baby" about Virginia Hill was well-researched but not particularly well written. Lots of interesting background about organized crime.
Right now I'm reading "Up Jumped the Devil" about Robert Johnson. Really good and the research must have been exhausting and tedious. Lot's of great background about Mississippi and Memphis in the 20's and 30's.
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Post by okie on Dec 23, 2019 12:38:22 GMT -6
Right now I am reading the Able McLaughlns by Margaret Wilson. I am working my way through the Pulitzer winners I have not read.
So far the early ones I have read:
His Family 1917
The Magnificent Ambersons 1918
Alice Adams 1920
One of Ours 1922
So Big 1923
Arrowsmith 1925
Scarlet Sister Mary 1928
All outstanding.
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Post by daneaux on Dec 24, 2019 9:49:13 GMT -6
I forgot to add the Bio of Elon Musk.
Really well done.
It ws published in 2015 though and I'm pretty sure that a lot has changed since then for him. I haven't found anything more recent.
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Post by okie on Jan 6, 2020 16:34:23 GMT -6
I am reading the ANTIFA handbook.
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Post by daneaux on Jan 7, 2020 10:32:33 GMT -6
I finished Up Jumped the Devil about Robert Johnson. He was murdered but apparently didn't really sell his soul to the devil so I guess he's just dead like every other dead guy.
Now I'm reading Bossy Pants by and about Tina Fey and a bio of Lafayette. That way I don't get them mixed up.
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