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Post by Kady on Oct 29, 2017 10:42:19 GMT -5
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Post by Bob on Nov 2, 2017 19:20:57 GMT -5
Reading "Thank You For Your Service" by David Finkel (the movie was just released). This comes on the heels of my recent reading of the excellent "Shooting Ghosts". Both stories deal with PTSD and soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's eye opening info for me, never having been exposed to the VA and the military.
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Post by highlandannie on Nov 3, 2017 10:53:40 GMT -5
I've just finished the 5th book in the British Kim Stone detective series by Angela Marsons. Deciding whether to read the next one or to start on Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Barbara Fields.
Very long flight the end of the month and like to read suspense novels when I fly. So might save the detective books for then. I have tons of books on my Kindle so lots of choices.
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Post by chinadoll1981 on Nov 3, 2017 18:45:13 GMT -5
The Poetry of Zen edited by Sam Hamill and J.P. Seaton. Collections of Chinese and Japanese poetry over earliest poems to modern.
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Post by rjhangover on Nov 4, 2017 11:20:13 GMT -5
Reading "Thank You For Your Service" by David Finkel (the movie was just released). This comes on the heels of my recent reading of the excellent "Shooting Ghosts". Both stories deal with PTSD and soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's eye opening info for me, never having been exposed to the VA and the military. I'm writing a book about a high school football star that was given a scholarship to play at a university, but turned it down to go fight in Iraq. He gets killed by a roadside bomb, and becomes a ghost wandering in the desert with all these other ghosts that were killed in the war....many of them are insurgents....but they can't kill each other because they're already dead. So the football star becomes friends with a dead insurgent, and they start wondering how come they didn't go to heaven like their Christian and Muslim religions said would happen. It's what happens after that which is the kicker. Someday I'll quit procrastinating and finish it.....maybe when I'm in recovery from my lung transplant....if that ever happens...and if I live through it.
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Post by formerlyme on Nov 4, 2017 12:43:26 GMT -5
Reading "Thank You For Your Service" by David Finkel (the movie was just released). This comes on the heels of my recent reading of the excellent "Shooting Ghosts". Both stories deal with PTSD and soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's eye opening info for me, never having been exposed to the VA and the military. I'm writing a book about a high school football star that was given a scholarship to play at a university, but turned it down to go fight in Iraq. He gets killed by a roadside bomb, and becomes a ghost wandering in the desert with all these other ghosts that were killed in the war....many of them are insurgents....but they can't kill each other because they're already dead. So the football star becomes friends with a dead insurgent, and they start wondering how come they didn't go to heaven like their Christian and Muslim religions said would happen. It's what happens after that which is the kicker. Someday I'll quit procrastinating and finish it.....maybe when I'm in recovery from my lung transplant....if that ever happens...and if I live through it.
That's an interesting premise for a book, rjhangover. I wish you a successful transplant in the near future. #huggy
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2017 13:54:55 GMT -5
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Post by Fireheart on Nov 6, 2017 21:42:10 GMT -5
What the Bleep Do We Know!?
*Yes, that's actually the name of the book
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Post by rjhangover on Nov 7, 2017 11:05:41 GMT -5
What the Bleep Do We Know!? *Yes, that's actually the name of the book I bought the DVD....and DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE is the sequel.
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Post by Fireheart on Nov 7, 2017 19:48:34 GMT -5
What the Bleep Do We Know!? *Yes, that's actually the name of the book I bought the DVD....and DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE is the sequel. Cool. I have heard about the video. I'm going to finish the book and then I'll try to check it out. I'll definitely look into the sequel at some point in the near future. Really enjoying reading this.
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Post by rjhangover on Nov 8, 2017 11:05:53 GMT -5
I bought the DVD....and DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE is the sequel. Cool. I have heard about the video. I'm going to finish the book and then I'll try to check it out. I'll definitely look into the sequel at some point in the near future. Really enjoying reading this. I promise, you'll really love this.... www.crystalinks.com/holographic.html
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Post by formerlyme on Nov 9, 2017 8:34:07 GMT -5
'Quicksand' by Nella Larsen.
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Post by sundown on Nov 13, 2017 11:59:23 GMT -5
I am in the process of reading about the strange and interesting beginnings of the Hippie movement here in the United States, the rock music legendary bands, and how it ties in with the Young Turks (Hollywood stars of that time frame), as well as the possibility that some of the movie stars, and especially the musicians (who traveled a lot with their tours) could have been covert agents for the CIA or some of our other intelligence agencies. The book is actually an online manuscript, so it is free to read from the website. It is called “Inside Laurel Canyon” and is by Dave McGowan. I am about halfway through the book, and it is one of those books that is hard to stop reading. Besides the beginnings of rock musicians, and the Hippie movement, it also explains some of the connections between the (then) new rock bands and the Charles Manson murders in Laurel Canyon. Here is the website for the manuscript. centerforaninformedamerica.com/laurelcanyon/
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Post by Kady on Nov 13, 2017 14:22:36 GMT -5
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Post by novae on Nov 14, 2017 10:06:39 GMT -5
I'm about to begin reading White Fire by Preston & Child.
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