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What are you reading this weekend ?

My reading is a bit scattered lately.

This weekend, I'll continue with Life After Life. It's very interesting, yet also repetitive (can't be helped with this subject matter). However, it's getting to the point now, I think, with all these stories coming together....I think.

I also started (barely) You Can't Go Home Again. No thoughts on this yet.

I'll also find a new audiobook after finishing China. Good book. Very long audio.

I'm starting the new month and this weekend reading:


War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
This is a year long Buddy Read challenge. We read a chapter a day. You can still join in.
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Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans
The book is almost 500 pages. I have around 165 pages left. I have to say this book was a disappointment. I do appreciate having all the bios in one place. However, the writing is so dry. I think Wikipedia would have been more interesting.

Healthy Brain, Happy Life by Wendy Suzuki
I'm listening to the audio book. The author is a neuroscientist and professor at NYU college. At first I was surprised that the book includes stories about her personal life. However, now that I'm into the book, I find it sort of refreshing. It's an intersting read and the key takeaway seems to be exercise is key for a healthy brain.

The author is the narrator and she does an excellent job. I actually thought it was a professional narrator. I heard her on NPR and decided to listen to the book.

I was looking for the publication date on Amazon and found out I apparently purchased the book in 2023 for $2. The Black Hole that is my Kindle strikes again ! LOL. Well, at least I can look up the stuff I couldn't because I was listening to the audiobook on the treadmill.

@Petra: I loved Life After Life. It will all come together and she鈥檒l quickly rush thru how the decisions were changed so it鈥檚 less repetitive

The sequel, A God In Ruins, on the other hand infuriated me. I threw the book. The book itself was fine, it was the ending

I am doing a read-a-thon and need to finish these for my team:
Bibliolepsy
Wow, No Thank You
Lincoln In The Bardo
And more War and Peace

Denisse, thank you! Life After Life is a good story and getting better as I go along. It's good to know that this continues throughout it.

I loved Lincoln in the Bardo. It's strange and eerie, but well told, I thought, and caught the essence of grief completely. It's been ages since I've read it.

Denise wrote: "I am doing a read-a-thon and need to finish these for my team:
Bibliolepsy
Wow, No Thank You
Lincoln In The Bardo
And more War and Peace"

Wow ! Enjoy.

Denise wrote: "I am doing a read-a-thon and need to finish these for my team:
Bibliolepsy
Wow, No Thank You
Lincoln In The Bardo
And more War and Peace"

What's the read-a-thon for? Sounds fun!

Happy March Everyone!

I'm hopefully finishing up The Door by Magda Szab贸 this weekend.

And just started The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini. It's a bit odd but I'm enjoying it so far.

Alias Reader wrote: "I'm starting the new month and this weekend reading:

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
This is a year long Buddy Read challenge. We read a..."

War and Peace, Hitler's People, and Healthy Brains - that's a lot of heavy reading! 馃槜

Denise wrote: "I am doing a read-a-thon and need to finish these for my team:
Bibliolepsy
Wow, No Thank You
Lincoln In The Bardo
And more War and Peace"

That's a lot of heavy reading for you as well Denise. Very inspiring. 馃槉

Denise wrote: "@Petra: I loved Life After Life. It will all come together and she鈥檒l quickly rush thru how the decisions were changed so it鈥檚 less repetitive

The sequel, A God In Ruins, on the other hand infuri..."

Did you dislike it because of the way it ends for Teddy?

Barbara wrote: "Alias Reader wrote: "I'm starting the new month and this weekend reading:

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
This is a year long Buddy Read ..."

Wow! it sure is. I agree with you, Barbara.

Enjoy, Alias!

I'm going to try to finish The Black Tower by P.D. James. My right eye is fine now, but my left is still "almost there," so I don't want to overtax it. I am treating both twice a day.

I love your graphics, Alias, especially the National Reading Month.

Alias Reader wrote: "

What are you reading this weekend ?"

I have two books loaded up, but have only made it through the preface of both.

The Third Man--Graham Greene. I didn't realize the film was made first. Greene himself states that no novel can do better than an original movie. Of course, he tried.

Not Without Laughter: Langston Hughes: Langston Hughes--Langston Hughes. I didn't realize Hughes wrote novels, so i wanted to give his best known a whirl.

Great graphic for March & Reading Month, Alias. Love the colors & shapes

Petra wrote: "My reading is a bit scattered lately.

This weekend, I'll continue with Life After Life. It's very interesting, yet also repetitive (can't be helped with this subject matter). Howe..."

Artistically, i think the Kate Atkinson novel is good. However, being a fan of science/speculative fiction, i found the story long & boring. I know i'm in the minority on this novel, though.

Have a good reading weekend, Petra.

Alias Reader wrote: "I'm starting the new month and this weekend reading:


War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
This is a year long Buddy Read challenge. We read a..."

Busy reading & reading, Alias. Impressive.

For us, today will be readingless. My siblings are joining us for dinner. Tomorrow, nothing but reading!

Denise wrote: "I am doing a read-a-thon and need to finish these for my team:
Bibliolepsy
Wow, No Thank You
Lincoln In The Bardo
And more War and Peace"

Never heard of such a thing. Enjoy, Denise!

Lindsey wrote: "And just started The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini. It's a bit odd but I'm enjoying it so far.
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Clever title !

Bella (Kiki) wrote: #16
I'm going to try to finish The Black Tower by P.D. James. My right eye is fine now, but my left is still "almost there," so I don't want to overtax it. I am treating both twice a day.

I love your graphics, Alias, especially the National Reading Month.
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I'm happy to hear your eye situation is getting better.

I'm glad you liked the graphics. Happy Reading !

madrano wrote: "
The Third Man--Graham Greene. I didn't realize the film was made first. Greene himself states that no novel can do better than an original movie. Of course, he tried.

Not Without Laughter: Langston Hughes: Langston Hughes--Langston Hughes. I didn't realize Hughes wrote novels, so i wanted to give his best known a whirl.

Great graphic for March & Reading Month, Alias. Love the colors & shapes.."

I haven't come across that too often that the film comes before the book.

I am looking forward to your review of the Hughes novel.

I'm glad you enjoyed the graphics.

In remembrance of Ralph Waldo Ellison on his birthday. 馃巶



Ralph Waldo Ellison was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. Ellison wrote Shadow and Act, a collection of political, social, and critical essays, and Going to the Territory.

Born: March 1, 1914, Oklahoma City, OK
Died: April 16, 1994 (age 80 years), New York, NY

~~Wikipedia



Invisible Man

Juneteenth

Shadow and Act

The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison: A Biography--Arnold Rampersad

Ralph Ellison

madrano wrote: #19

"For us, today will be readingless. My siblings are joining us for dinner. "

Enjoy ! 馃崌馃崚馃崏馃崊

Thank you, Alias.

For those here that love science, I saw a YouTuber give a very positive review of this book. So I thought I would share the title here.

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen

A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases, Spillover is 鈥渇ascinating and terrifying 鈥� a real-life thriller with an outcome that affects us all鈥� (Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction).


In 2020, the novel coronavirus gripped the world in a global pandemic and led to the death of hundreds of thousands. The source of the previously unknown virus? Bats. This phenomenon鈥攊n which a new pathogen comes to humans from wildlife鈥攊s known as spillover, and it may not be long before it happens again.

Prior to the emergence of our latest health crisis, renowned science writer David Quammen was traveling the globe to better understand spillover鈥檚 devastating potential. For five years he followed scientists to a rooftop in Bangladesh, a forest in the Congo, a Chinese rat farm, and a suburban woodland in New York, and through high-biosecurity laboratories. He interviewed survivors and gathered stories of the dead. He found surprises in the latest research, alarm among public health officials, and deep concern in the eyes of researchers.



Spillover delivers the science, the history, the mystery, and the human anguish of disease outbreaks as gripping drama. And it asks questions more urgent now than ever before: From what innocent creature, in what remote landscape, will the Next Big One emerge? Are pandemics independent misfortunes, or linked? Are they merely happening to us, or are we somehow causing them? What can be done? Quammen traces the origins of Ebola, Marburg, SARS, avian influenza, Lyme disease, and other bizarre cases of spillover, including the grim, unexpected story of how AIDS began from a single Cameroonian chimpanzee. The result is more than a clarion work of reportage. It鈥檚 also the elegantly told tale of a quest, through time and landscape, for a new understanding of how our world works鈥攁nd how we can survive within it.

Alias Reader wrote: "For those here that love science, I saw a YouTuber give a very positive review of this book. So I thought I would share the title here.

[bookcover:Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human P..."

This is probably good, as it appears to cover much. I'm considering adding to my TBR but i wonder if i would actually read it, or just worry about things? lol?

How about you, Alias? Do you think you will give it a go?

madrano wrote: " #28

[bookcover:Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human P..."

This is probably good, as it appears to cover much. I'm considering adding to my TBR but i wonder if i would actually read it, or just worry about things? lol?

How about you, Alias? Do you think you will give it a go?"

Yes. I put it on my TBR list.

The YouTuber that I follow is reading it.

Review of Spillover by David Quammen

Alias Reader wrote: "For those here that love science, I saw a YouTuber give a very positive review of this book. So I thought I would share the title here.

[bookcover:Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human P..."

Thanks for sharing, that looks intriguing Alias.
My biochemist/bio engineer brother and I love to talk books but overlap on very few. This sounds like one we'd both enjoy.

Alias and Madrano - I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in wishing you would post your occasionaly reviews as actual 老虎机稳赢方法 reviews, so we can find them again if we run across a title you've talked about.

I don't always remember who said what about a book, just that I recall having read something about it, so if I could see your reviews connected to the title, I'd enjoy that.

Kate Atkinson is a favourite author and I love her Jackson Brodie series. In the latest, Death at the Sign of the Rook, I was surprised the focus was mainly on the strange, gathered assemblage, with much less on Jackson and Reggie (yes, she's back!) whom I really wanted to read about.
My review of Death at the Sign of the Rook

馃巰Happy March, everyone! New month, new book to read again! It's been a while since I chatted in here. I've been busy for a while now, and February has been a stress lately. But overall, I enjoy some of my days in February. This March, I was hoping to read more books, and I was thinking of prioritizing more of my reading habits.馃コ鉂わ笍

I'm currently reading: The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

Alias Reader wrote: "For those here that love science, I saw a YouTuber give a very positive review of this book. So I thought I would share the title here.

[bookcover:Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human P..."

Very interesting review, Alias. I often wonder what the next pandemic will consist of. Will it be deadly? Will we have to isolate again? That's not a problem for me, but I have a family who don't care for isolation like I do. Will we be asked to take experimental vaccines? Who knows?

Thank you for sharing this.

PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Alias and Madrano - I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in wishing you would post your occasionaly reviews as actual 老虎机稳赢方法 reviews, so we can find them again if we run across a title you've talked ab..."

I'd like that, too, Patty.

PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Kate Atkinson is a favourite author and I love her Jackson Brodie series. In the latest, Death at the Sign of the Rook, I was surprised the focus was mainly on the s..."

Amazon keeps recommending this to me. I left my comments on your review. I think this is one I won't be in a hurry to read.

Lindsey wrote: "My biochemist/bio engineer brother and I love to talk books but overlap on very few. This sounds like one we'd both enjoy.
..."

Cool. It does sound like a fascinating book. A bit scary but informative.

PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Alias and Madrano - I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in wishing you would post your occasionaly reviews as actual 老虎机稳赢方法 reviews, so we can find them again if we run across a title you've talked ab..."

I'll think about it. However, I really only want to share with this group. All the books I've read are listed on GoodReads as well as my rating.

You can always put the title in the search bar on the right and all the conversations with that title will come up.

Patricia wrote: "馃巰Happy March, everyone! New month, new book to read again! It's been a while since I chatted in here. I've been busy for a while now, and February has been a stress lately. But overall, I enjoy som..."

Happy new month to you, too, Patricia. I hope things settle down for you and you can relax and read a bit more.

Theodor Seuss Geisel, who wrote and illustrated under the pen name Dr. Seuss, was an American author and cartoonist who significantly impacted children's reading habits. His zany, nonsensical books, written in anapestic tetrameter verse, entertained generations of young readers. Geisel's first children's book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, was published in 1937.

Born Theodor Seuss Geisel
March 2, 1904
Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.

Died September 24, 1991 (aged 87)
San Diego, California, U.S.

~~~~Wiki bio

Thank you, Dr. Suess! My children love your work! I watch "The Grinch" myself every Christmas.

(Those who don't understand German, might not know Suess means "sweet" I've forgotten so much German, but I remember that..!

Cute graphic Alias, thank you!

Alias Reader wrote: "Yes. I put it on my TBR list.

The YouTuber that I follow is reading it. ..."

Thanks for answering my question, Alias. Reading your review on the book will help me decide. Sorry to use you in that way. lol

Msg 31 PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Alias and Madrano - I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in wishing you would post your occasionaly reviews as actual 老虎机稳赢方法 reviews, so we can find them again if we run across a title you've talked ab..."

I hadn't even considered it, Patty. I feel my comments are disorganized, so mainly feel most comfortable sharing only with my loved ones here. You make a good case for it, though. I'm not even sure how to do this.

I must admit i like learning that friends here have already read & posted about a book i'm considering. They are shared above the reviews of people i don't know. Will that happen automatically?

ANYway, i will look into this, given how often i've used that of others.

Patricia wrote: "馃巰Happy March, everyone! New month, new book to read again! It's been a while since I chatted in here. I've been busy for a while now, and February has been a stress lately. But overall, I enjoy som..."

It's great to hear from you, Patricia. I hope March is easier on you. The book sounds good, so i hope it's a rewarding one for you.

deb

PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Kate Atkinson is a favourite author and I love her Jackson Brodie series. In the latest, Death at the Sign of the Rook, I was surprised the focus was mainly on the s..."

Sounds good! I only know the series from the streamed show but really liked it. This sounds like a fun addition, partial as i am to being snowbound. :-)

Thanks, Patty, for sharing here.

Ok, i posted my review for A Pipe for February--Charles H. Red Corn on 老虎机稳赢方法. At least i think i did. I didn't give it a star rating, however, as i change my mind too much to keep them straight.

Oh, i just looked it up & see it published where i wanted it, above the other reviews. Fine. As we are in the final weeks of living in one place for awhile, i don't know that i'll get many "transferred" but i will post future "reviews".

madrano wrote: "Ok, i posted my review for A Pipe for February--Charles H. Red Corn on 老虎机稳赢方法. At least i think i did. I didn't give it a star rating, however, as i change my mind ..."

Your own reviews will always show up first to you, Madrano. Then your friends will see it first along with the reviews of the same book by their other friends, then to non-friends, I have no clue how they post them. LOL

When you read reviews on the book page, you can choose to read only five-star, one-star, or anything in between.

For example, when I go to Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry, I see my review first, then Patty's, then people who aren't on my friend list, even though Patty and many of the others reviewed it before I did. (Patty recommended it to me. She has never steered me wrong.)

This is so we can find our friend's reviews easily and so it is easy for us to edit our own reviews. (I changed my mind about Orbital and James and adjusted my reviews. You and your friends, if your page is private, if not, anyone, I think, can find your reviews on your GR page.

Hope this helps!

To post a review: when you go to the book's homepage, on the left side is an "edit my activity" link. That takes you to the page where you can add a review, rating, etc.

Petra wrote: "To post a review: when you go to the book's homepage, on the left side is an "edit my activity" link. That takes you to the page where you can add a review, rating, etc."

I see that now. Never noticed it before. Thanks.

Bella (Kiki) wrote: "Thank you, Dr. Suess! My children love your work! I watch "The Grinch" myself every Christmas.
.."

I watch that and A Charlie Brown Christmas every year.