How many died? Shackleton
(is 200 pages into Hotspur)
me: *trains glass out front windshield* Ms. Dorsey, set a new course. We’ll tack south’ard to Arby’s. wife: why are you talking like that? (in drive-thru) me: Avast! What have you for your freshest catch today? drive thru kid: uh, we have a fish filet sandwich. me: That will do. And from your storeroom a […]
Ye Ancient Booke Clubs
Sweet article on book clubs dating back to the 1700s. http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/1700s-book-clubs-drinking-socializing http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/1700s-book-clubs-drinking-socializing
Hornblower gets married
Hornblower an the Hotspur – This be the text mates!
Homo Deus – for rebel nonfiction book club
For those that read and liked “The Better Angels of Our Nature” (Um…just me and Jim?) – there is another book in a similar vein that goes a bit further. “Homo Deus” has been getting a lot of press in the past few weeks – I just started it and it is very good. The […]
Great Story!
How the World’s Most Interesting Man Befriended the World’s Most Powerful Man
May 2017 Picks
The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team by Ben Lindbergh 368 pages It’s the ultimate in fantasy baseball: You get to pick the roster, set the lineup, and decide on strategies — with real players, in a real ballpark, in a real playoff race. That’s […]
New Essay by Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy just published his first ever piece of non-fiction–an essay on the origins of language and the subconscious over at Nautilus Magazine. Good stuff. http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/the-kekul-problem
Chapter suggestions for the Better Angels book
For those of you who find this book quite thick, Luke has provided us with some chapter suggestions. Start at the beginning and just read ch 1-3. The ancient people through the middle ages is the best part, he says. Also, Luke believes we should SKIP the women’s rights section (hmmmm, I wonder what his wife […]
March Pick: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker Luke will provide some chapters/sections to call out since the book is so long… Description: Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year The author of The New York Times bestseller The Stuff of Thought […]