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[SteveO]

DYLAN -100 SONGS & PICTURES






I tend to be attracted to music books lately these days! This heavy 488 page edition is fabulous! A gift from my grandkids,,,,chronicles Sir Bob's recording history, with comments on his songs, and then a music chart for the song with the appropriate guitar chords !!!! I love it!!!! ...and there are Dylan quotes for each song and all the lyrics !!! Oh ya, loads of pictures, gotta have pictures...lol. Also comments from Baez and Paul Simon ..and other notable musicians on the songs.

A must have for Dylan fans! (I am currently trying to play All I Really Want To Do....only three chords A,D,E ..lol)...great fun!

[Music Head]

Margaret Mitchell - Gone With The Wind - 1936



My first chic book since the wife made me read that Hunger Games crap. This was much better. Not sure if I have even read this before so I dug out my copy that I presented to my wife around the time of our marriage. Our daughters are named Scarlet and Tara. Best part of this book for me is the Civil War setting and the reconstruction period after. Fascinating for me to imagine what life would have been like in the south back then. Once I get past that historical stuff I then have to read about Scarlet and Rhett and Ashley and Melanie and all that lovey dovey melodrama. Scarlet is even more of a bitch in the book than she was in the movie.

Grade - B

next up - Obama's Wars by Bob Woodward

[Music Head]

Bob Woodward - Obama's Wars - 2010



Not very good for a Woodward book. Only covers roughly a year and a half of Obama's reign and on a topic that has yet to reach it's conclusion. Not that it will have one. This book is a summation of meetings that took place among members of the Obama administration and anyone else involved with the war planning. Amazed at all the infighting that goes on among the major players just trying to jockey for power. Hard to see how anything is accomplished. In fact I guess nothing has been.

Grade - C

next up - Fear by L. Ron Hubbard

[whitesand]

Currently I'm reading 'Cockroaches' by Jo Nesbo.
It's a crime novel and it's second book with detective Harry Hole and I'm really surprised how good it is!
Of course, I'm reading in polish, norwegian is too hard for me

[ArtVandelay101]

I'm currently reading Venetian Blinds

[CRAZY-HORSE]

A synopsis would help us decide if it's worth exploring

[MAG2NYC]

I just finished reading Elizabeth Gilbert's The Signature of All Things and Daniel Abraham's The Widow's House. I liked Gilbert's book a lot, but have a feeling that I might not have liked it as much had I not listened to it as an audio book read by Juliet Stephenson. Abraham's book is the fourth in a series of five and while I binge read the previous three and couldn't wait to read this one, I found it slow and overly didactic compared to the previous books. I'm really hoping he saved the best stuff for the last book because there needs to be an epic ending to this saga!

Now I'm reading Radley Balko's Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces and Ann Patchett's Truth and Beauty.

Music Head, knowing your sensibilities, I think you might actually like Gilbert's book and it's characters. It's set in the 19th century, and the female characters are good Dutch women!

[Big Ears]

Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Empire (1952, the second volume in the Foundation series. Asimov is not the most engaging writer in my experience, despite being regarded as one of the top three science fiction wrters (the others are the very engaging Robert Heinlein and Brian Aldiss). He was a prolific genius writing a copious amount of books on a range of subjects from an early age. I have found myself reading various sci-fi books recently, but I am not particularly a fan. The Foundation series is episodic probably because it was serialised in a magazine, Astounding Stories, so it is good for reading in bed, although I find myself reading more than I intended and then struggling to wake-up.

The Foundation series is about a foundation established on its own planet(s) to record mankind's knowledge in the Encyclopaedia Galactica while the galactic Empire disintegrates. However, the Foundation uses its accumulated knowledge to combat the Empire and becomes an entity in its own right. I also have a collection of Asimov's famous robot novels/ short stories to read eventually.

[Music Head]

I just finished reading Elizabeth Gilbert's The Signature of All Things and Daniel Abraham's The Widow's House. I liked Gilbert's book a lot, but have a feeling that I might not have liked it as much had I not listened to it as an audio book read by Juliet Stephenson. Abraham's book is the fourth in a series of five and while I binge read the previous three and couldn't wait to read this one, I found it slow and overly didactic compared to the previous books. I'm really hoping he saved the best stuff for the last book because there needs to be an epic ending to this saga!

Now I'm reading Radley Balko's Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces and Ann Patchett's Truth and Beauty.

Music Head, knowing your sensibilities, I think you might actually like Gilbert's book and it's characters. It's set in the 19th century, and the female characters are good Dutch women!

love historical fiction
I will check it out
thanks

[Music Head]

Music Head, knowing your sensibilities, I think you might actually like Gilbert's book and it's characters. It's set in the 19th century, and the female characters are good Dutch women!

just ordered this
didn't realize before who she is
I have Eat, Pray, Love by her
very interesting memoir by her about her travels through Italy, India and Bali
if you haven't read it I recommend
a lot of new age stuff and you seem to be a new age kind of woman
not sure what that means but it sounded cool
you know, like I know what I'm talkin' about