What are you reading?

It can.

Read a couple of Mark Twain books and get back to me on that....or maybe Harriet Beecher Stowe.

 

have done

 

Well, managed to slip on a talus slope and whack out my shoulder and left arm...so it is bedrest, so it's extremely light duty for three or four days....so this recent non-fiction book about spending summer on a remote island off Norway with eiderdown ducks.

 

i hope you are all better by the end of your bok kris!^^^

on the road - jack kerouac

found this on one of our daughters high school bookshelf. i'd heard of it, and seen it referenced many times, but had never read it.
i had no idea the sixties started in the forties.

 

Wow!

Think I have read on the road three, maybe four times. Last about nine (?) years ago when I was doing field work in the State of Washington. Between Kerouac and Ken Kesey they had the freaky road trip genre pretty well covered.

Would have loved to spend a couple of hours talking to either of them. Well, I did all my incredibly stupid bumming rides when I was 16/17 and lived to tell the tales.
kris

 

I'm currently on "forever hold' for The Shepherd's Life.
Placed a hold for The Place of Tides. (thanks!)

 

Tides had a dozen people ahead of me on the library hold list. Shepherd's had four. I spent the $ at local bookstore for Tides. Took about 30 or so pages to get into it...but very good so far.

My shoulder, not so good.

 

Page 239 in my edition of Place of Tides, says it all.

"Human life is full of projection...focus on...what is...not what you think about it."

kris

 

Are those ellipses in the original, or are you giving us something like the Vanna White veto?

 

It's a small fraction of about three pages near the end of the book. Those pages just seemed to ring so true.

Having said that, realize I am enduring a fair amount of pain and a few children, furry and non-furry, all without any "modern" medicinal help. But, Meyer's lemon tea does help.
kris

 

This is a tough read, and makes me think of the current admin:

 

Before reading that @bisco, go to a really nice steakhouse and throw money at their best efforts.

After reading it you may lose the chance to appreciate. I do not care if you eschew (instead of chew) sausages because they are not all that interesting in toto. But an excellent chunk of beef, well prepared - dang.

 

Dang!!!
This is a lot of red meat to take in for one day's "what are you reading?"
(Fish are FRIENDS, NOT food!)
I'm reminded of a very recent VPOTUS.......

Could not agree more completely!
As far as Sinclair?

It makes ME think of the current admin too - but ONLY because they want to abolish the ed.gov.
Upton was required reading in my primary school, and any cursory glance at his.....'work' might remind one of a New York mayoral race mashed up with a 60 Minutes piece featuring rocket motors, or military records.

Meanwhile?
HAVE the Steak!
Medium.

BE reminded that our system makes good use of FOOLS and LIARS.
......meaning the steak will almost certainly be yummy, safe, and nutritious!

 

only because of people like sinclair and government agencies

 

Love reading, but never seem to have the time, with kids (furry and non), adults (husband and my sister) and life in general

But as I lost my job AND severely injured my left shoulder and arm, I have managed to carve out some time. Just picked up:

Who Shot The Water Buffalo? | Washington Independent Review of Books

A fictional account of two helo pilots in Vietnam in '62 -- or is it '63.

Reviews are so-so, but author Ken Babbs is local -- a neighbor claims to be a casual friend of Babbs. Also, it deals with shoulder wounds, so thought I would give it try. I really should checkout something on rehab for shoulders ;>0
kris

 

is it your rotator cuff or something else?

 

You might be a candidate for audiobooks.
Most libraries have them digitally (via Libby)
Just a thought....

@ken Babbs - UNFORTUNATELY you will not be able to listen to either of Lt Babbs' books because he hates the visually handicapped....or maybe he just didn't pop for an audio edition.
Babbs in an interesting character.
Like our own @bwilson4web he made a HARD left turn after leaving the Corps, but (like Bob) he left the big green machine honourably.
Too bad.
I would have loved to listen to one (or both) of his books!!
All of the US Armed Forces use commissioned officer-officers to fly their fling-wings but the Army uses Warrant officers.

The 60's were good to him!

 

Never knew Babbs was in service -- and as a pilot in Vietnam. It was just a wow to me considering his later life -- but -- then again maybe it should not be a surprise considering what he may have experienced.

To be part of the whole Stanford University writing program is also not something to be taken lightly.

I read the book Babbs wrote with Kesey; "The Last Go-Round." Not too bad.

As for my shoulder/arm, just was being in a hurry and had a rock the size of a softball roll under my right foot, which caused me to launch backwards and come down on a knife-edged boulder with my left scapula and arm, while my right hip -- which is pasted together with Clark's Teaberry gum -- slammed into another boulder.

Luckily two 90-pound dogs decided I was playing and leaped all over me as I screamed at them to go away.

Ah, well, they were only playing. Slowly getting better probably another week.
kris

 

He was a helo pilot in the very early days of the Nam, what they call the 'advisory years' when we weren't supposed to be making much noise over there. To side-quote from another 'coming of age' story things went to crap there very gradually, and then all at once.

I wasn't the least bit surprised.
You have to remember that all the kids in the 60s grew up hearing VERY romanticized accounts of what it was like in Dubbaya Dubbaya Deuce...
Then?
They found out what W.T. Sherman said in the 1800s just after another civil war.....
"War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it."
This would later be distilled down to "War is hell."

Some generations used VFWs to deal with that.
Others used LSD.

 

Wow. One of the most insightful thoughts I have read in a long while.
kris