[LSAggie]

‘The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and The War Against the Human’ by Naomi Wolf. Very readable and packed full of “we’ve been had” explanations.

‘The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health’ by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Everything, I mean, everything is backed by citations/footnotes. Infuriating read.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Just finished “Operation Pineapple Express” about the efforts of former and some current military to get Afghan Special Forces and their families out during the final desperate days there. Both inspiring and absolutely infuriating (where the US government is concerned).

Just started “Prisoners of the Castle” about the Colditz prison in WWII. Includes material from Germans, enlisted prisoners, as well as the “central players” of British officers. So far the story is much deeper that the “heroic” accounts made into books and movies.

[TexasKamaAina]

Other Minds: The Octopus, The Sea, and The Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith

The Tudors by G. J. Meyer

[Pythion.net]

I just finished Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. I read it after finding out that the writer, John Millius had always wanted to write the screen play for a movie of the book, but when he was asked to write a Vietnam movie, he saw the opportunity to indirectly make Heart of Darkness into a movie. Apocalyspe Now was an adaptation of the book set in Vietnam instead of the Congo, and Francis Ford Coppola carried the book around with him while filming and used it as a guide.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” by Matthew Bracken.

[Varsity Flight]

Romans Chapter 8

[Allegra]

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

I loved All the Light You Cannot See a few years ago and so far, this new one is not disappointing at all. Loving the characters. 👍

[bert]

As a result of being kicked off Amazon after someone stole $562 from my account (inside job), I lost control of my Kindle.

I’m reading one good book still accessible that is the works of Charles Dickens. I’m reading it all. Some is quite tedious. There are many, many quotes still in use today. Curious also was the word refrigerator in a book written circa 1850

It is a Dickens trait to never be succinct when there can be 200 words entered. I think he wrote in serials for magazines and had to puff up the story with superfluous wordiness.

But who am I to judge? I’m reading Dickens until I make the effort to go through the hassle of changing my Kindle account

[abb]

Clemmie - John D. MacDonald.