Worth you are so right. Thanks for the correction!

Yes you do know the cold. You worked in it for many years.

With a little imagination and some research you will find Antarctica means, "No bears.

A free translation would be "opposite of near the bear", with bear being the constelation of Big Dipper.

PlainJane wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2019 7:23 pm Reading Ad Hoc At Home, because I love to read cookbooks.
Also reading The Farthest Shore in the Earthsea series. (Ursula K. Le Guin)

The Earthsea series is next on my list. How do you like it so far?
Maybe not in the exact same genre but I did enjoy The Handmaidens Tale. Don't have HBO so I decided to read what the fuss was about. Glad I did.

I read the Earthsea books many years ago. I liked them a lot. If you do too you should try her Hainish Cycle books. The Dispossessed is one of my all-time favorites, and The Left Hand of Darkness is awesome too.

The Handmaid's Tale tv show (runs on Hulu) covers the book with its first season, with original material further on. It's one of the best current tv shows. At moments it's very brutal, but also cathartic. The flashback scenes describing how Gilead came into existence are heartbreaking.

Atwood released recently a follow-up to The Handmaid's Tale, called The Testaments. It includes some elements of the show's narrative.

worth1 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2020 11:14 am With a little imagination and some research you will find Antarctica means, "No bears.

That is not quite so in this book. But that is the Wow in this one. There is a side of this one that is true fiction. The end of this book just amazes you.

peebee wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2020 12:45 pm

PlainJane wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2019 7:23 pm Reading Ad Hoc At Home, because I love to read cookbooks.
Also reading The Farthest Shore in the Earthsea series. (Ursula K. Le Guin)

The Earthsea series is next on my list. How do you like it so far?
Maybe not in the exact same genre but I did enjoy The Handmaidens Tale. Don't have HBO so I decided to read what the fuss was about. Glad I did.

The Handmaidens Tale was gripping. Really penetrated my brain. I plan to pick up the sequel once it’s out in paperback. (I guess I should check; it may already be out.)
I loved the Earthsea series. She’s my second fav SciFi writer after Heinlein. Orson Scott Card is good, too.
Another really entertaining book I’ve read recently is Artemis by Andy Weir (who wrote The Martian).

arnorrian wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2020 3:44 pm I read the Earthsea books many years ago. I liked them a lot. If you do too you should try her Hainish Cycle books. The Dispossessed is one of my all-time favorites, and The Left Hand of Darkness is awesome too.

The Handmaid's Tale tv show (runs on Hulu) covers the book with its first season, with original material further on. It's one of the best current tv shows. At moments it's very brutal, but also cathartic. The flashback scenes describing how Gilead came into existence are heartbreaking.

Atwood released recently a follow-up to The Handmaid's Tale, called The Testaments. It includes some elements of the show's narrative.

Agree! Agree!

So, you’ve read The Testaments? Good? Letdown?

Back to my food obsession, a friend turned me on to this.
There is both a book and a Netflix series, which I’ve already binge-watched.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainme ... ix/572731/

Got stuck in the middle of the Wheel of Time series - somewhere around book 6 or 7. This series went from exciting to... 1,000 pages of boring. Think I have all the books now - need to revisit.

Started the Runelords series and just finished the first book last night, and picked up the rest of the Earthking series at a second hand book store for cheap.

PlainJane wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2020 6:47 am
So, you’ve read The Testaments? Good? Letdown?

Not yet, I'm rereading Dune, I'm on the book 3 of 8 now.

Been listening to a book, it's sometimes so hard to listen to because of the events, but it is very good. Historical about Thurgood Marshall , called "Devil In The Grove" by Gilbert King.

I have been re-reading the Lincoln Myth.

What is it about, Worth?

The only books that I read are cookbooks. There are probably a half dozen or so of gardening books in my collection, and a number of woodworking books, from my early years, but probably 98% are cookbooks. And I really need to build a third bookcase...

Nan6b wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 4:49 pm What is it about, Worth?

It is a book by Steve Berry.
The main characters are Cotton Malone, Cassiopeia Vitt and his old boss Stephanie Nelle of the Justus department and several others including President Danny Daniels.
Cotton Malone is a retired agent for the so called Magellan billet that lives in Copenhagen and owns a book store.

There is a series of stories with these people in it.
Not saying everything is true but things mentioned in the book are.
Like Texas Vs White and the White Horse prophesy.

Here is the synopsis of this one.
September, 1861: All is not as it seems. With these cryptic words, a shocking secret passed down from president to president comes to rest in the hands of Abraham Lincoln. And as the first bloody clashes of the Civil War unfold, Lincoln alone must decide how best to use this volatile knowledge: Save thousands of American lives? Or keep the young nation from being torn apart forever?

The present: In Utah, the fabled remains of Mormon pioneers, whose 19th century expedition across the desert met with a murderous end, have been uncovered. In Washington, D.C., the official investigation of a international entrepreneur, an elder in the Mormon church, has sparked a political battle between the White House and a powerful United States senator. In Denmark, a Justice Department agent, missing in action, has fallen into the hands of a dangerous zealot – a man driven by divine visions to make a prophet’s words reality. And in a matter of a few short hours, Cotton Malone has gone from quietly selling books at his shop in Denmark to dodging bullets in a high-speed boat chase.

All it takes is a phone call from his former boss in Washington, and suddenly the ex-agent is racing to rescue an informant carrying critical intelligence. It’s just the kind of perilous business that Malone has been trying to leave behind, ever since he retired from the Justice Department. But once he draws enemy blood, Malone is plunged into a deadly conflict – a constitutional war secretly set in motion over 200 years ago by America’s Founding Fathers.

From the streets of Copenhagen to the catacombs of Salzburg to the rugged mountains of Utah, the grim specter of the Civil War looms as a dangerous conspiracy gathers power. Malone risks life, liberty, and his greatest love in a race for the truth about Abraham Lincoln —- while the fate of the United States of America hangs in the balance.

Wow! That's a lot of action! Interesting.

Nan6b wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 5:44 pm Wow! That's a lot of action! Interesting.

I dont have all of them but quite a few.
Stopped buying books when I stopped flying.
Books are hard to find in stores anymore and expensive.
I refuse to read and or have a battery operated book.
You cant give it away loan it out or anything.
I have books that are over 100 years old.

Libraries are cool.

Nan6b wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 8:30 pm Libraries are cool.

And many regional libraries have access to a lot of audio and digital material that is being paid for, at least in my area, by property taxes. So you might as well use it, you may be pleasantly surprised.