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I loved Johnny Cash in Columbo "Swan Song" 1974. Anyone ever see that episode? He plays a singer/guitarist who kills his wife in a plane crash. One of my favorite Columbo episodes.
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Hmmmmmm.....
Came across a very different read about guitars and ancestry. The title is, " The Guitar, And The New World...A Fugitive History." Written by Joe Gioia. Published 2013. The gist of the book is that Americas' root music is truly indigenous-Native American! Gioia has some unique surprises to tell...it's worth a look
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I just finished book four (The Hinge of Fate) out of six of Winston Churchill's series The Second World War. This book covers from December 1941 and the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor to June 1943 at the end of the North African Campaign. Though the U.S. has joined the war and Churchill knows England's salvation is at hand, this period marks a procession of losses he fully expects that lead up to North Africa being the turning point of the war. Before it, we, the Allies, were unable to turn the sword of either of our enemies. But starting with the Battle of Midway in June of 1942, continuing with the Battle of Stalingrad in February 1943, and finishing with the battles from Libya to Tunisia ending in May of 1943, the hinge is turned and the Axis can no longer win any pitched battle.
I had an interesting confluence of information going during this read. Somehow I became interested in the last surviving, fully functional German Panzer VI Ausf. E (Tiger I) tank, turret number 131, housed at the Bovington Tank Museum near Portsmouth, U.K. I began reading up on this tank and as I followed its trail of history from being abandoned in the middle of a battle on a hill near Gueriat el Atach in North Africa to its present home. I discovered that it was involved in the very Tunisian campaign that I was reading about. Hilariously, the deeper I dived into Tiger 131's history, the closer Churchill's history and the streams of Tiger 131's history began to arrive at me in a somewhat synchronized fashion. Right as I arrived at Churchill's and the King's visits to the theater of battle after the campaign was won in Book Four, I came across pictures and historic documents with the King crouching on the deck of Tiger 131 and finally a film of Churchill inspecting the captured tanks on that visit. It was just unique how two streams of history, one at ground level and the other, the view from aloft, came together at the same time. Bob
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I'm halfway through this book - not a big Bruce fan as such but I acknowledge his talent and his sober habits, clear memory and solid work ethic make this is a great read.
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My wife and I have been reading Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" to each other off our Kindle.
We just finished John Grisham's "A Time for Mercy." At bedtime I have been reading an older paperback from Scott Turow called "Ordinary Heroes." Also, we have been reading a really interesting non-fiction book called "An Edible History of Humanity" by Tom Standage. - Glenn
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Copyright, 1910. Still relevant today.
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Have about 1/4th left of the last Game of Thrones book (so far): A Dance With Dragons. Alternating with "Major Dudes: A Steely Dan Companion," which is a collection of interviews with the right honorable Messers Fagan and Becker.
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I'm reading James Michener's "Alaska."
It's 866 pages. By the time I'm done, I'll know a lot about Alaska. And I'll have great big forearms from holding up that 15 lb. book.
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I’ve had that book in my pile for a long time and still haven’t read it yet. You’ve inspired me to dig it out!
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Forgive me if this has already been posted - Sanjay Gupta's 'Keep Sharp - Build a Better Brain At Any Age' makes for some very interesting reading.
I'm not a huge fan of fiction since there is soooo much real life information to absorb. One of my all time favs is Bill Bryson's 'At Home' - an engrossing book on the evolution of the house as we know it. |
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Been on a history jag, I would recommend any / all of these
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I just finished a (unauthorized) biography "John Prine: In Spite of Himself" by Eddie Huffman, ©2015 (doesn't include Tree of Forgiveness or his death last year).
I enjoyed it quite a bit. Well researched and neither overly critical nor gushing fan-boy. Last edited by Mandobart; 03-07-2021 at 08:38 AM. |
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Just bought this one:
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