Readers and Reading discussion

please chat here! I closed the September chat.

below is a post from the September chat thread/loop/topic.....whatever GR calls it!

Michael wrote:
Michael wrote: "A few already say we shouldn't be allowed to question global-warming-prevention, because that shows a depraved lack of respect for the planet and the future of the human ..."

In fact, check this out -- another case of censorship against scientists who dare to disagree on this subject. The e-mail quoted in the article linked below is an amazing piece of work

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/ima...

Bunny I fell at home 9/15 and broke my upper arm and shattered my elbow. It is healing well, but my arm still hurts. The elbow has never hurt. I was already left handed from the stroke, but the sling tends to make my balance off. Oh well, am only working about half days.

Deb

Richiesheff wrote: "Bunny I fell at home 9/15 and broke my upper arm and shattered my elbow. It is healing well, but my arm still hurts. The elbow has never hurt. I was already left handed from the stroke, but the ..."

I've had my arm in a sling and sympathize with how uncomfortable it is. What surprised me at the time was how polite people were to me, like sliding the doors open for me in the freezer section of the market and many other little acts of kindness that I didn't expect.

Schmurgals and others who like to read about the law, I thought I would post the schedule for a new series that Book TV C=SPAN 2 will be showing about the Supreme Court.


C-SPAN's Supreme Court Week Debuts Sunday!
9 pm ET
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This Sunday night, Supreme Court Week kicks off on C-SPAN with the premiere of our new feature-length documentary The Supreme Court: Home to America's Highest Court. Hear directly from all 11 current and retired Supreme Court Justices about the role of the Court, its traditions, and history. Tour the building and see the grand public spaces of this historic building, including the Great Hall and Supreme Court Chamber, and spaces only accessible to the Justices and their staff, such as the Robing Room and the John Marshall Dining Room. The rest of the week features more original Supreme Court programs, including interviews with the sitting and retired Justices, Supreme Court staff, historians, and journalists at 9 pm ET, Oct. 5 - 11. For video clips, a trailer, bonus material about the Supreme Court, and series information, visit www.c-span.org/supremecourt.

Complete Schedule:

Sunday, Oct. 4
8 & 11 pm
Q&A interview with Mark Farkas, executive producer of The Supreme Court: Home to America's Highest Court
9 pm & midnight
Premiere of The Supreme Court: Home to America's Highest Court

Monday, Oct. 5
9 - 10 pm
Interviews with Lyle Denniston (SCOTUS blog) and Joan Biskupic (USA Today)

Tuesday, Oct. 6
9 - 9:35 pm
Interview with William Suter, clerk of the Supreme Court

Wednesday, Oct. 7
9 - 10 pm
Interviews with Jim O'Hara (Supreme Court Historian) and Frank Gilbert (grandson of Justice Louis Brandeis)

Thursday, Oct. 8
9 - 10 pm
Interviews with Drew Days III (solicitor general, Clinton administration) and Maureen Mahoney (former Supreme Court law clerk and private attorney)

Friday, Oct. 9
9 - 11:30 pm
Interviews with Justices Kennedy (9 pm), Ginsburg (9:40 pm), Scalia (10:20 pm), and O'Connor (10:55 pm)

Saturday, Oct. 10
9 pm - midnight
Interviews with Justices Sotomayor (9 pm), Thomas (9:40 pm), Breyer (10:30 pm), and Alito (11:25 pm)

Sunday, Oct. 11
9 - 10:40 pm
Interviews with Justices Roberts (9 pm) and Stevens (10 pm)

Monday, Oct. 12
6 & 8 pm
Encore presentations of The Supreme Court: Home to America's Highest Court All times Eastern.

* JoAnn, I wasn't sure where to post this. If this is the wrong place, pls feel free to move it to another folder.

Alias, I re-posted this to the TV folder but am leaving it here too.

Thanks

National Book Award Finalists announced

http://www.nationalbook.org/

What I Read in October 30 Years Ago (1979)

Not too extensive a list:


Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems Volume I, by Thomas Babington Macaulay (read 28 Oct 1979) At a used book sale I picked up a 3-volume set of Macaulay's Essays, which books are over 80 years old. I paid 75 cents for the set! I have now finished Volume I, and must say it is well worth a quarter. Some of the essays are really a joy to read, allowing of course for the author's bias. He writes with a magnificent sweep. True, many of his essays only remotely deal with their supposed subject, e.g., the one entitled Mirabeau says very little of Mirabeau, but sweeps through the history of France for 150 years. The final essay in this volume, entitled "War of the Succession in Spain," tells much I did not know or had forgotten about that war--and tells it with verve and sweep. An excellent book.

National Book short lists

Thanks for the link, JoAnn.

Depennding on what wins, I will read two of these books:
FICTION

Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press)
Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin (Random House)
Daniyal Mueenuddin, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (W. W. Norton & Co.)
Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Alfred A. Knopf)
Marcel Theroux, Far North (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)




NONFICTION

David M. Carroll, Following the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Sean B. Carroll, Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt)
Adrienne Mayor, The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy (Princeton University Press)
T. J. Stiles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
(Alfred A. Knopf)

Of the ten, the one on Vanderbilt seems to be the only one I might read even if it doesn't win.

The only one I have read is LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN which was (I thought) disjointed at first but was one of those that came together in the end. I really loved reading it. Schmer, you might not like the language.

Hate to say I haven't even heard of the others. I really miss working in the bookstore and knowing what was going on in the book world.

And why did I think Jayne Ann Phillips was a fluff writer? I really don't know anything about her.

Leslie/cloudla wrote: "And why did I think Jayne Ann Phillips was a fluff writer? I really don't know anything about her. ..."

Leslie, I thought the same thing, but we are thinking of Jayne Anne Krentz, who does write fluff.

Speaking of fluff, I am reading Brilliant by Marne Davis Kellogg (a Kick Keswick mystery). Definietly not a typical mystery, because I do not usually read mysteries, but this is so entertaining and right now, I need that, esp. after reading "The Lost Symbol". The book is set in the high-stakes world of a London auction house and Kick's secret life is nothing short of decadent. And I love reading all the inside info about an auction house like this one.

I do not know how I found out about this author, but there are 3 more Kick Keswick books which I am planning to read. Has anyone else read any of these books?

http://www.amazon.com/Brilliant-Kick-...

In line with noting the death of people whose book(s) I have read I note:
The Airman and the Carpenter: The Lindbergh Kidnapping and the Framing of Richard Hauptmann, by Ludovic Kennedy (read 5 Dec 1985)
The author died Oct 18, I learned today. Wikipedia has an article on him.

Saying Hello! It's been awhile since I posted.

In connection with the Ludovic Kennedy book I read usually I tell what I thought of the book, but in my post neglected to do that so I will do that now:

1964 The Airman and the Carpenter: The Lindbergh Kidnapping and the Framing of Richard Hauptmann, by Ludovic Kennedy (read 5 Dec 1985) On July 9, 1962, I read Kidnap and was convinced Hauptmann was guilty. On Dec 4, 1976, I read Scapegoat and came to believe he was not guilty. I have now read this book and am thoroughly convinced Hauptmann was not only innocent but framed. In fact the book was depressing and saddening. When I read Kidnap I thought the attic board was proof positive. Now it seems ridiculous to think anyone could believe Hauptmann would take a board from his attic floor to build a ladder, when he could use wood much more easily from some other source. This book is well-written, although it is confessedly written to prove Hauptmann was framed. A better book would have been more objective, and have proved the same thing. The book is by an English writer who has written other crime books I'd like to read: 10 Rillington Place; A Presumption of Innocence; and Wicked Beyond Belief. [But I never have, yet.:]

Schmerguls wrote: "In connection with the Ludovic Kennedy book I read usually I tell what I thought of the book, but in my post neglected to do that so I will do that now:

1964 The Airman and the Carpenter: The Li..."

I read 10 Rillington Place years ago, and it was very creepy.

I had heard of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society but the title was off-putting and I never did get around to reading it. Recently, a friend let me borrow her copy so I figured I'd give it a try. I was hooked immediately. I am reading it slowly, as I am savoring each and every page. I don't usually recommend a book until I have finished it because there are times when the ending was disappointing. This time I am recommending it even though I'm only about half-way through. It is a delightful book.

I also was hooked from the first page, Jan. Lovely book.

I'm still trying to find my way around this message board. After posting the above, when I went back to check on it, I couldn't find it. I hadn't remembered under which category I had posted it. Give me some time, please. :-) This is a great board but I'm all thumbs when it comes to navigating it.

LOL Jan, We're all still learning! We're glad to have your input. :o)

Donna in Southern Maryland

Jan, don't worry about where you put something. And CHAT is always open for....whatever.

Happy Halloween to all here. I'm celebrating by reading a charming YA novel by Neil Gaiman called The Graveyard Book. It's much tamer than you'd think from the title.

The Graveyard Book