Excellent read. Very, very engaging. Wonderful storytelling with lots of compassion and insight.
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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
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Stranger in a strange land by Robert A. Heinlein
"A deluxe hardcover edition of the most famous science-fiction novel of all time--part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of …
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@carms I had a hard time getting into this book. Does it pickup after a while?
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Index, A History of the by Dennis Duncan
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How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the …
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Cannibal Capitalism by Nancy Fraser
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@sunny_dee I'm in the middle of this book and it has already opened my eyes to other animal's noses!
BookBeetle quoted O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Alexandra drew her shawl closer about her and stood leaning against the frame of the mill, looking at the stars which glittered so keenly through the frosty autumn air. She always loved to watch them, to think of their vastness and distance, and of their ordered march. It fortified her to reflect upon the great operations of nature, and when she thought of the law that lay behind them, she felt a sense of personal security. That night she had a new consciousness of the country, felt almost a new relation to it. Even her talk with the boys had not taken away the feeling that had overwhelmed her when she drove back to the Divide that afternoon. She had never known before how much the country meant to her. The chirping of the insects down in the long grass had been like the sweetest music. She had felt as if her heart were hiding down there, somewhere, with the quail and the plover and all the little wild things that crooned or buzzed in the sun. Under the long shaggy ridges, she felt the future stirring.
— O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (25%)
BookBeetle reviewed O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
BookBeetle reviewed The white cascade by Gary Krist
Interesting time in history
4 stars
I was reading this right when the RR unions were standing up in 2022, so it was an interesting parallel.
Before reading this I knew little about the history of the rail roads or the Paciffic North West. It was an interesting time. I recently read The Indifferent Stars Above about the Donner Party and an earlier period of westward migration. This book was an interesting companion to that one.
It was also interesting to read about an age when the telegraph was so critical.
BookBeetle finished reading The white cascade by Gary Krist
The white cascade by Gary Krist
"In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard hit Washington State. High in the Cascade Mountains near the tiny town of Wellington, …