What are you reading?

Mineralogy is at the same time fascinating but also often taught in a soul-crushing way.

Silver minerals that are red in color remind me of nanometer gold that colored red stained glass long before anyone had any idea what was going on. It may not be due to the same quantum nechanical weirdness. But I like to imagine so.

 

There you got me hoping that 'nechanical' would also turn out to be some cool obscure word, but I guess it was not to be.

 

This particular bobble got a lot of interest while discussing gum violence.

 

Anybody remember a gum called Bazooka?

 

did someone hack your account?

 

Storm Watch by C.J. Box, a game warden gets tangled with hired guns. I think I have already read it as I have read most of Box's Joe Pickett novels.

Really posting because I broke down and ordered a neck light to help with reading in bed.

Bed is about the only place kids, dogs and husbands leave me alone (Hm, maybe that did not come out as I meant?).

Will let you know how I like the reading light.

kris

 

at least there won't be anymore kids

 

i finally found a decent book. it's not my genre, but the writing is very good:127279000-listen-for-the-lie

0:17Instagram • amytinteraCrafting Thrillers That Keep You on the Edge: 3 Essential ...I'm Amy Tintera, author of Listen for the Lie and in my opinion, here are the three things that make a great thriller.Aug 1, 2025

 

Hmm, from the title I thought it was about a politican Hmph, there I go veering into politics.
kris

 

My tour of contemporary US Southern authors continues....

HOW a person with Rick's background could wind up with a Pulitzer, a pink slip from the NYT....AND still be employed as a monthly columnist with....Southern Living magazine is an enduring mystery to ME.
He's a large dollop of Lewis Grizzard with a cup of Jeff Foxworthy and just a pinch of Pat Conroy.

You HAVE to have a good sense of humor to live in the South, and a passionate love affair with the English language to bend it enough to EXPLAIN life down here to outsiders without hurting it.
...much.

Rick certainly qualifies.

 

Ihave to grab a copy of Southern Journey.

Neck light has done well for past few days. Can also be used for household/auto repair.

Reviews of a few options

The 4 Best Reading Lights of 2025 | Reviews by Wirecutter

 

"The Gales of November". I was at the launch of the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1958 at 7 yo. Fasinating book.

 

@ETC(SS)
I found a guy who writes just like you!
Acronyms and hep language, are you a fan?

 

I'm NO writer.....which is why I fix phones for a living.


Not a fan or a foe......yet.
I've only read the one book that everyone else has.

 

Wife and me are glacially working our way through Huckleberry Finn. I'm reading it aloud. Huck's tricky, Jim more so.

 

Yeeeeaup.
You're going to want to be very careful WHERE you read those out loud......

 

i've tried huck and tom several times, no luck.
i think most of twain was overrated as a reading experience. his messaging might not be, idk.
much prefer dickens

 

Huck currently has a internal dilemma going, one the one hand, aidin'-an'-abettin', a runaway slave trying to get to a "free State", and "doing the right thing". A slave with a wife "owned" in one place, and their children in another.

Then there's Huck's dad, a piece of work. Maybe even taught Huck a thing or two, but...

And yeah, the terminology. The past was politically/morally incorrect, but it was.


It's a book of the times, and I think Twain was not showing all his cards, walking a narrow path. This is supposedly post Civil War.

 

Don't want to get political here. There are enough "escaped" threads already, but there is a world of difference between the books Tom Sawyer vs. Huck Finn. Twain had matured and you might say his eyes had opened.

Try reading his autobiography. My high school English teacher made Twain/Clemens our semester long project.

As an aside Twain helped a promising young black student (law?) secure one of the first spots ever given to a black student at university (DARTMOUTH?? ).

Again, just an aside, do not want launch a graphics intense debate here.
kris

 

I must admit that I've never read much Twain as an adult.
I do remember being forced to read one of them in elementary school - or at least write a report about it.
IIRC - I faked reading it and bluffed my way through the report.
I have the Ron Powers bio, unread, on my phone.