So, What Are You Reading?

Read Andrew Nelson Lytle's Bedford Forrest and His Critter Company.

 

Read Arch Frederic Blakey's General John H. Winder C.S.A..

 

Gardener's Latin: A Lexicon. Bill Neal, Barbara Damrosch. Another Thrift Shop find. Combines two of my favourite things - Latin and Gardening.

I'm hoping to find a book that combines some of my other interests - maybe one on Yiddish and Electronics? :smile:
?וואָלט איר ווי צו קויפן אַ ראַדיאָ Volt ir vi zu koyfn a radyo? (Would you like to buy a radio?)

J.

 

Read W. N. Bate's General Sidney Sherman: Texas Soldier, Statesman, and Builder.

 

I want to nominate Ted to be a "Reading Knight."

Smart university honours 'Reading Knights' - Khaleej Times

 

Susan Point - Coast Salish Artist, Ed. by Gary Wyatt. New condition. Publication price - $39.00 (Canada). Thrift shop: My cost 25 cents.

Canadian Native Art in all its forms is a very special thing with me. I have some - and a bunch of books for reference.
This book is really beautiful. Works in glass, wood, prints, paint ... many media. And something she wrote stuck with me:

The future lies buried
beneath the surface of the past,
waiting to be unearthed.

It put me in mind of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets - the first lines of Burnt Norton:

Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past.

Oh heck. Ignore my ruminations about the circular nature of time. The book is a real treasure. :smile:

J.

 

"Holy Heptapods, Batman! It's Abbott and Costello! Now I know what Yogi meant by 'Déjà vu all over again!' "

How the alien language in 'Arrival' works according to linguist - Business Insider I love this stuff!

J.

 

From the article: "This is not the next Klingon."
Qo'. wej. = No. It is not. (Klingon) :smile:

J.

 

ISIS: The State of Terror by Jessica Stern & J.M. Berger

 

Read Richard Lawrence Miller's Lincoln and His World: The Early Years, Birth to State Legislature.

 

Read John David Smith's and J. Vincent Lowery's The Dunning School: Historians, Race, and the Meaning of Reconstruction.

 

Read Robert E. Lee Jr.'s Recollections and Letters of General Lee.

 

Fahrenheit 451....Ray Bradbury..yeah yeah.I have never read it until now. Lol

 

From my last raid ...uh, expedition.

• MARS: Making Contact - Rod Pyle
• Picture Perfect English Villages - James Bentley, Photos by Hugh Palmer
• Cozy Cottage Home Designs - Creative Homeowner Series
• How to Carve Wood - Richard Blitz
• The Build-It-Yourself Furniture Catalog - Franklynn Peterson
• The New Ontario Naturalized Garden - Lorraine Johnson
• Traveling Music - Neil Peart (drummer for Rush) For my son, who likes books by/about musicians, as I do.
• Ukulele for Beginners - All guitar players -even me - know how ukulele works. I made one from a kit recently and bought this for the ragtime progressions that work on many instruments.
• Programming Concepts with Python and TigerJython - Arnold, Kohn, Plüss - freebie from Internet. What a language! TigerJython is basically Python re-written in Java. Runs with JVM. Brilliant!

J.

 

Read Lew Wallace's The Life of Gen. Ben Harrison.

 

Read Larry Gordon's The Last Confederate General: John C. Vaughn and His East Tennessee Cavalry.

 

Read William C. Harris' North Carolina and the Coming of the Civil War.

 

Read S. C. Gwynne's Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson.

 

Read Mitchell Snay's Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South.