What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

[Sean Hayden]

[macdoc]

Are you coming down to the civilised part of Oz, mac?

Who is laughing now....
https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/australia/cairns

Happy winter southern boy.

Reading Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs. Very well written and engaging.

Finished a wonderfully imaginative series of related books by Leigh Bardugo.


https://www.leighbardugo.com/reading-order/

The Netflix series seems to be an amalgam of Shadow and Bone and the Crows duology.

Listening to a marginal 29 hours of The Nightblade
....mindless riding fodder tho inventive ....author should not be reading it.

Looking forward to some 75 hours of listening for Dawning of Power series ...9 books.

Cheap on Chirp just now.
https://www.chirpbooks.com/home

[Tero]

I'll be reading another Beatles book. Only, I will not read it when I get it, but during our trip in Aug. This book is not at all on the trivia of who played solos on what track, but a take on how fans (all Americans) reacted to songs at some part of their life. Some describe the first song that clicked.

Songs:
The songs discussed are: She Loves You, I Saw Her Standing There, I Want to Hold Your Hand, I’ll be Back, No Reply, I’m a Loser, Yesterday, Norwegian Wood, Eleanor Rigby, Yellow Submarine, And Your Bird Can Sing, Tomorrow Never Knows, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, She’s Leaving Home, Good Day Sunshine, She Said She Said, Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane, A Day in the Life, I am the Walrus, Dear Prudence, Helter Skelter, The Ballad of John and Yoko, Octopus’s Garden, The End (Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End), You Know My Name (Look Up the Number), Here Comes the Sun, Let it Be and Two of Us.

These cover the period that meant most to me (as a kid): Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane, A Day in the Life, I am the Walrus.

[macdoc]

Re-reading The Hobbit after watching the trilogy AND LOTR ....

[Tero]

My wife had an Icelandic mystery in the sell box that I don't much remember. It's by Ragnar Jonasson, one of the Hulda series. The author uses a Scandinavian fiction trick, where you mess up time and point of view all the time. So here we start with the last (in time) book coming first, and the other two books out go back to her early career. I think she dies in the first book. Nordic noir as we say.

I read a Swedish book a year ago that was the worst use of these tricks. Half way through the book he kills off the main character. The side kick becomes the main character.

[Brian Peacock]

Re-reading The Hobbit after watching the trilogy AND LOTR ....

[Svartalf]

Re-reading The Hobbit after watching the trilogy AND LOTR ....

a cousin gave me this to read, seriously, I get it but I don"t think I'll ever open it again, just not good enough.

[macdoc]

Finished LOTR ...moving on to Harry Potter which I've never read ( like the movies ).

Multiple audio books on the go for riding. Starting the 6 book Ember War series from scratch

[macdoc]

remarkable series...hope they bring to the screen in multiple seasons.

https://www.tor.com/2018/05/01/baru-cor ... asquerade/

[Tero]

Thinking of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness_Explained

[Brian Peacock]

Cage of Souls, Adrian Tchaikovsky, 2019. A kind of boys' own adventure set on an old, dying Earth beneath a bloating Sun - where ecology has gone bonkers and humanity has been reduced to a single crumbling city bordered by a poisoned sea, an impenetrable desert, and an encroaching, and very deadly jungle. It's almost as is the planet is trying to tell us something... ★★★★☆

[JimC]

I'm glad you have something to cheer you up in the midst of the pandemic, Brian...

[Brian Peacock]

For all it's end-of-times bleakness its a rollicking good read packed full of colourfully drawn characters in extraordinary circumstances. Rattles along like a Buchan.

[macdoc]

Some books are seminal and change one's perception in a large way ...this is one.

snip

The science of baking developed alongside the seed harvests. Richard Fullagar, at the Australian Museum, and Judith Field, at the University of New South Wales, found grindstones at Cuddie Springs, near Walgett, in western New South Wales, which had been used to grind seeds more than 30,000 years ago. This makes these people the world's oldest bakers by almost 15,000 years, as the Egyptians, the next earliest, didn't bake until 17,000 BC.27 Other peoples ground tubers to extract starch, but it seems that Aboriginal people were the first to discover the alchemy of baking bread from the flour of grass seeds.
And this baking was not a one-off occurrence. Archaeologists have found a 25,000-year-old grindstone at distant Kakadu in the Northern Territory: the bakers of antiquity. Why don't our hearts fill with wonder and pride?

https://www.booktopia.com.au/dark-emu-b ... 48016.html

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Adrian Tchaikovsky is brilliant.

[macdoc]

Three books The Dry, Force of Nature and this by Jane Harper. A bit formulaic but enjoy the setting ...this one not far west from Cairns....