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For people who want to talk about their favorite reads, their current reads and for those who need or want to give book recommendations.

For people who want to talk about their favorite reads, their current reads and for those who need or want to give book recommendations.

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Books: Only Books
Sep 21, 2022Sep 2022

Posted by AlanCliffe
Marilynne Robinson's Gilead on the table. Written before Jack, but its events coming afterward. Interesting to a non-believer that the literary artefacts of a worldview foreign to one's own—as in, some religious people, including at least one ...
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Oct 10, 2022Oct 2022

Posted by AlanCliffe
Coming to the end of Marilynne Robinson's Home. I might have said this before, but I'll say it again. The black sheep—or maybe the white sheep—of a family may see Jack Boughton in him/herself, or him/herself in Jack Boughton. But the difference...
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Mar 16, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by AlanCliffe
VALIS again, about forty years after my first time around. PKD's Exegesis extensively excerpted. An explication of an elaborate cosmology, or is it a cosmogony, that isn't true. Insanity recollected in a state of sanity? Maybe. But having an ...
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Feb 11Feb 11

Posted by Julie808
We of Little Faith I Stopped Pretending to Believe (and Maybe You Should Too) By Kate Cohen. I just finished this book, and I found myself nodding my head a lot at the many subjects the author tackles in each chapter. I highly recommend this ...
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Feb 11Feb 11

Posted by pamagain
Caste..The Origins of Our Discontents.....by Isabel Wilkerson. Nothing really new but well-put and carefully thought.
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May 16May 16

Posted by AlanCliffe
Sometimes I think this whole world Is one big prison yard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards. Bob Dylan, “George Jackson.” Some random thoughts on Jerome Loving's Jack and Norman. That is, Abbott and Mailer, the longtime ...
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Jun 23Jun 23

Posted by AlanCliffe
I've been coming across about five million hatchet jobs on J.D. Salinger by hateful phonies—I mean, they've got to make sure everybody knows they're real hotshots, so what they do, they try to tear down what they liked themselves when they were ...
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Sep 3Sep 3

Posted by Julie808
I've been listening to the audio version of "The Better Angels of Our Nature; Why Violence Has Declined" By: Steven Pinker, published in 2011. It's a long book, 36 hours to listen to it, and I'm only about 10 hours in, but it's an interesting ...
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Sep 18Sep 18

Posted by KateOahu
This was fun.
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Posted by Julie808We of Little Faith I Stopped Pretending to Believe (and Maybe You Should Too) By Kate Cohen.

Posted by dfrossI enjoyed "The Dictionary of Lost Words", a historical fiction about the creating of the Oxford-English Dictionary and the fight for women's suffrage in the UK.

Posted by ReignmondA highly biased selection.

Posted by ReignmondI read this back in 2018. Absolutely loved it. It is an oddly small sized book, so it is good to travel with. [amazon.com]

Posted by ReignmondI read this back in 2018. Absolutely loved it. It is an oddly small sized book, so it is good to travel with. [amazon.com]

Posted by ReignmondA short Sci-Fi that is quite good even though it will only take about an hour to read. It is also kinda cheap. [amazon.com]

Posted by ReignmondLooking again at this book reminds me that I wanted to re-listen to it again.

Posted by ReignmondThis freebie ebook from Gutenberg Press and by the Master Sci-Fi writer Philip.

Posted by ReignmondAt Home: a short history of private life by Bill Bryson. An enjoyable book about everyday things we don't even think about. [amazon.com]

Posted by ReignmondAt Home: a short history of private life by Bill Bryson. An enjoyable book about everyday things we don't even think about. [amazon.com]

Posted by ReignmondJust finished Bomber Mafia written by my genetic 4th cousin on both of our Fathers' side.

Posted by ReignmondI read this back in about 1983.

Posted by ReignmondVery good. I have noticed that 12 step programs are ineffective. [goodreads.com]

Posted by ReignmondActually read this some time ago (46 years) while trying to figure out why I simply could not believe in Jesus or God or anything else I was being told by Bible Thumpers.

Posted by ReignmondThis is one of my very most favorite books.

Posted by Julie808I'm currently reading "The Power Worshippers" by Katherine Stewart. Is anyone else reading this?
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