What are you reading?
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Easby Moor has a monument to Captain Cook and can be seen (with binoculars) from where we live.
He's still a bit of a local hero, his life taught in schools; people of a certain age know DCI Morse was named after his ship.I'll endeavour to get the book
@AndyD I hadn’t realized that Cook’s last voyage was really about the Northwest Passage; I only knew that he was killed in Hawaii (we spend time in Hawaii most Decembers).
I worked in a salmon cannery on Kodiak Island, Alaska, which paid for university. Long hours. But the descriptions of Alaska in The Wide Wide Sea brought it all back to me!
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Too much news.
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"The American Heritage History of The Law In America" by Bernard Schwartz (1974)
And as soon as I see my friend, which should be in the next week or so, I'll be reading her new book, "Propaganda Girls."
@Bernard said in What are you reading?:
"The American Heritage History of The Law In America" by Bernard Schwartz (1974)
And as soon as I see my friend, which should be in the next week or so, I'll be reading her new book, "Propaganda Girls."
Please give Lisa a hug from me. She is amazing.
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@Bernard said in What are you reading?:
"The American Heritage History of The Law In America" by Bernard Schwartz (1974)
And as soon as I see my friend, which should be in the next week or so, I'll be reading her new book, "Propaganda Girls."
Please give Lisa a hug from me. She is amazing.
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Still waiting for my library to supply the Captain Cook book...
Reading these:
The Dorothy Wordsworth (bought) is a keeper; after a brief interesting historical introduction, her 225 year old diary is immediate and lyrical - after all she was her brothers inspiration, muse and recorder. And has artwork throughout.
Censoring Victoria is quite academic (library book borrowed 9 times in 11 years).
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I have never read any of Ursula K. Le Guin, so I'm starting the Left Hand of Darkness.
Crazy economist who likes to write about higher education.
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@Piano-Dad ooh, me neither. Not sure where to start.
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On Lying and Politics by Hannah Arendt https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/1a83999a-ad81-4709-a546-8790280e444d
I started out as a poli sci major but I think I'm out of practice. Short book, long read.
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Added this one to my "to read" list:
Indian writer, lawyer and activist Banu Mushtaq has made history by becoming the first author writing in the Kannada language to win the International Booker prize with her short story anthology, Heart Lamp.
It is the first short story collection to win the presigious prize. Judges praised her characters as "astonishing portraits of survival and resilience".
Featuring 12 short stories written by Mushtaq between 1990 and 2023, Heart Lamp poignantly captures the hardships of Muslim women living in southern India.
The stories were selected and translated into English from Kannada, which is spoken in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, by Deepa Bhasthi who will share the £50,000 prize.
In her acceptance speech, Mushtaq thanked readers for letting her words wander into their hearts.
"This book was born from the belief that no story is ever small; that in the tapestry of human experience, every thread holds the weight of the whole," she said.
"In a world that often tries to divide us, literature remains one of the last sacred spaces where we can live inside each other's minds, if only for a few pages," she added.
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@Piano-Dad said in What are you reading?:
I have never read any of Ursula K. Le Guin, so I'm starting the Left Hand of Darkness.
I've had that one on my bedside table for a while. I read and admired The Dispossessed many years ago, and I've taught from her book on writing, Steering the Craft, but The Left Hand of Darkness is her most famous book, so I really want to read it and The Wizard of Earthsea.
Also, I've started taking Tai Chi and my teacher recommended her interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, so I just grabbed the ebook.
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@Piano-Dad said in What are you reading?:
I have never read any of Ursula K. Le Guin, so I'm starting the Left Hand of Darkness.
I've had that one on my bedside table for a while. I read and admired The Dispossessed many years ago, and I've taught from her book on writing, Steering the Craft, but The Left Hand of Darkness is her most famous book, so I really want to read it and The Wizard of Earthsea.
Also, I've started taking Tai Chi and my teacher recommended her interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, so I just grabbed the ebook.
@Mary-Anna Are you enjoying the tai chi? When I started, I found it both relaxing and energizing. It took all my mindfulness to figure out how to follow, which tamped down the constant chatter in my mind.
The chatter is back, but it’s generally pretty focused chatter now. We’ve been doing tai chi since January of 2024.
