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They are both great books, and thanks to Max, I am so ready for the next Zombie invasion.gagonthis said:
Grab the Nearest Book...
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"Only nine months after her own magnificent wedding, she was to be one of the leading guests at the wedding of the King's second daughter, Princes Claude, with whom she had grown up."
--Elizabeth & Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens by Jane Dunn
--Elizabeth & Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens by Jane Dunn
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Blood And Thunder, An Epic of The American West
"Kearney seemed to reserve his softer emotions for horses. He was, above all, an equestrian. He doted on his mounts and saw to it that they were always immaculately shod and curried. He loved to breed and race them. He abhorred the rough treatment of animals then prevalent in the army. Kearney was the commander of the U.S. Dragoons at Fort Leavenworth, the elite unit of mounted soldiers created in 1833 to police the Western borderlands (the name "dragoon" derived from the so-called "dragon" guns carried by a venerable French mounted outfit on which the dragoons were loosely based). Kearney had personally recruited and shaped this fabled precursor to the United States Cavalry from its very inception. It is because of this that historians would later call Kearney "the father of the American cavalry." Not surprisingly, the largest part of Kearney's training concerned the care and handling of horses. In the first manual of the U.S. Dragoons, which Kearney wrote, he urged that each soldier always be "very careful to avoid alarming or disturbing his horse." A soft-spoken man by nature, Kearney advised the dragoon to speak to his mount in a low, even voice, almost a whisper."
-Hampton Sides
Blood And Thunder, An Epic of The American West
New York, 2006
A well written and researched account of the little known first American imperial wars- the conquest of the Navajos, Mexico, California, and the Southwest.
"Kearney seemed to reserve his softer emotions for horses. He was, above all, an equestrian. He doted on his mounts and saw to it that they were always immaculately shod and curried. He loved to breed and race them. He abhorred the rough treatment of animals then prevalent in the army. Kearney was the commander of the U.S. Dragoons at Fort Leavenworth, the elite unit of mounted soldiers created in 1833 to police the Western borderlands (the name "dragoon" derived from the so-called "dragon" guns carried by a venerable French mounted outfit on which the dragoons were loosely based). Kearney had personally recruited and shaped this fabled precursor to the United States Cavalry from its very inception. It is because of this that historians would later call Kearney "the father of the American cavalry." Not surprisingly, the largest part of Kearney's training concerned the care and handling of horses. In the first manual of the U.S. Dragoons, which Kearney wrote, he urged that each soldier always be "very careful to avoid alarming or disturbing his horse." A soft-spoken man by nature, Kearney advised the dragoon to speak to his mount in a low, even voice, almost a whisper."
-Hampton Sides
Blood And Thunder, An Epic of The American West
New York, 2006
A well written and researched account of the little known first American imperial wars- the conquest of the Navajos, Mexico, California, and the Southwest.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Young men want to be faithful and are not; old man want to be faithless and cannot."
-Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
New York, 1957
A man with a rapier wit and a nearly unequalled facility with words who, unfortunately, was done in by hubris and a lack of common sense.
"Young men want to be faithful and are not; old man want to be faithless and cannot."
-Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
New York, 1957
A man with a rapier wit and a nearly unequalled facility with words who, unfortunately, was done in by hubris and a lack of common sense.
Lady_Mornington
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Bernard Cornwell "Sharpe's Triumph"
"Rich as a Jew, he is."
"Rich as a Jew, he is."
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Twilight In The Desert, The Coming Saudi Oil Shock
"The 1933 decision of Saudia Arabia and SOCAL to sign this concession changed forever the nature of the kingdom that Abdul Aziz founded. This planted the seed that grew to become the most important oil producer on earth. But oil success did not come overnight, and in fact may not have been expected at all. Some long time observers of Saudi Arabia have maintained that the king never would have entered into this agreement had he really believed there was any oil. Others have argued, however, that Abdul Aziz would have had to deal away his oil rights, even if he had known his oil resources were vast, to satisfy his great need for hard currency."
-Matthew R. Simmons
Twilight In The Desert, The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and The World Economy
New York, 2005
Possibly, the most important book published in 2005 and NOT READ!
"The 1933 decision of Saudia Arabia and SOCAL to sign this concession changed forever the nature of the kingdom that Abdul Aziz founded. This planted the seed that grew to become the most important oil producer on earth. But oil success did not come overnight, and in fact may not have been expected at all. Some long time observers of Saudi Arabia have maintained that the king never would have entered into this agreement had he really believed there was any oil. Others have argued, however, that Abdul Aziz would have had to deal away his oil rights, even if he had known his oil resources were vast, to satisfy his great need for hard currency."
-Matthew R. Simmons
Twilight In The Desert, The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and The World Economy
New York, 2005
Possibly, the most important book published in 2005 and NOT READ!
Maid of Marvels
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On a summer's day in 1809 two riders were travelling along a dusty country lane in Wiltshire. The sky was of a deep, brilliant blue, and beneath it England lay sketched in deep shadows and in hazy reflections of the sky's fierce light. A great horse-chestnut leant over the road and made a pool of black shadow, and when the two riders reached the shadow it swallowed them up so that nothing remained of them except their voices.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell - Susanna Clarke
(the punctuation in the title, or lack of, is exactly as I have typed it)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell - Susanna Clarke
(the punctuation in the title, or lack of, is exactly as I have typed it)
impish_pixie
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Deathbed of Edward the Confessor
"There was nothing unusual in the summoning of the witan; they always met at
Christmas, and the ecclesiastical members at least would certainly have been
bidden at any time of the year to such a great consecration."
1066: The Year of the Conquest
David Howarth
"There was nothing unusual in the summoning of the witan; they always met at
Christmas, and the ecclesiastical members at least would certainly have been
bidden at any time of the year to such a great consecration."
1066: The Year of the Conquest
David Howarth
Apparently a kind person, an almost grey brush of hair, painstakingly close-shaven, a sharp nose, the flesh over his cheekbones often ebbs and flows like a wave.
27 November 1910, from Diaries, Franz Kafka
(Max Brod, ed.; Joseph Kresh, tr.)
27 November 1910, from Diaries, Franz Kafka
(Max Brod, ed.; Joseph Kresh, tr.)
Lady_Mornington
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"De närmaste åren var jämförelsevis lugna"
(The following years were comparatively quiet)
C.W Smith - Lätta Brigaden (The Reasons Why)
(The following years were comparatively quiet)
C.W Smith - Lätta Brigaden (The Reasons Why)
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Time Enough For Love
"There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who 'love Nature' while deploring the 'artificialities' with which 'Man has spoiled Nature.' The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of 'Nature-' but beavers and their dams are. But the contradictions go deeper than this prima facie absurdity. In declaring his love for a beaver dam (erected by beavers for beavers' purposes) and his hatred for dams erected by man (for the purposes of man) the 'Naturist' reveals his hatred for his own race- i.e., his own self-hatred.
In the case of 'Naturists' such self hatred is understandable; they are such a sorry lot. But hatred is too strong an emotion to feel toward them; pity and contempt are the most they rate.
As for me, willy-nilly, I am a man, not a beaver, and H. Sapiens is the only race I have or can have. Fortunately for me, I like being part of a race made up of men and women- it strikes me as a fine arrangement and perfectly 'natural.'"
-Robert A. Heinlein
Time Enough For Love
New York, 1969
Heinlein, prolific science fiction author, once wrote (in the chapter titled "Excerpts From The Notebooks of Lazarus Long" from the same book), "Natural laws have no pity."
"There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who 'love Nature' while deploring the 'artificialities' with which 'Man has spoiled Nature.' The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of 'Nature-' but beavers and their dams are. But the contradictions go deeper than this prima facie absurdity. In declaring his love for a beaver dam (erected by beavers for beavers' purposes) and his hatred for dams erected by man (for the purposes of man) the 'Naturist' reveals his hatred for his own race- i.e., his own self-hatred.
In the case of 'Naturists' such self hatred is understandable; they are such a sorry lot. But hatred is too strong an emotion to feel toward them; pity and contempt are the most they rate.
As for me, willy-nilly, I am a man, not a beaver, and H. Sapiens is the only race I have or can have. Fortunately for me, I like being part of a race made up of men and women- it strikes me as a fine arrangement and perfectly 'natural.'"
-Robert A. Heinlein
Time Enough For Love
New York, 1969
Heinlein, prolific science fiction author, once wrote (in the chapter titled "Excerpts From The Notebooks of Lazarus Long" from the same book), "Natural laws have no pity."
Maid of Marvels
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*runs in with a severe nosebleed*
or is that profuse?
Well it's bleeding.
*whines* (the Italian kind)
and collapses
I have this thing about not finishing a book and right now I am reading two that are making the ingredients on the back of my deodorant look like prize winning material.
*convulses* (and not in a good way)
*sigh*
or is that profuse?
Well it's bleeding.
*whines* (the Italian kind)
and collapses
I have this thing about not finishing a book and right now I am reading two that are making the ingredients on the back of my deodorant look like prize winning material.
*convulses* (and not in a good way)
*sigh*
Lady_Mornington
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*Stares in shock and dismay before summoning her maid to attend to the dear lady in distress*
"Vesting turns most people into fiscal Republicans, I've noticed"
Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
"Vesting turns most people into fiscal Republicans, I've noticed"
Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
Maid of Marvels
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now my eyes are bleeding, too
Prophets and saints have discovered eternal truths because they were convinced that such truths were not of their creating, and that they were merely instruments for transmitting God's Word.
Jean Renoir, Renoir, My Father
(Randolph Weaver, tr.)
Jean Renoir, Renoir, My Father
(Randolph Weaver, tr.)
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Maid of Marvels said:
Push your hips up and back, keeping the spine straight and your neck and head in a straight line
(pose # 2 "downward dog" article "power of OM" in my homebasics magazine)
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The Americans at D-Day by John C. McManus
The rest of the directive, in effect, gave him the necessary power to complete that enormous task.
The rest of the directive, in effect, gave him the necessary power to complete that enormous task.
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The Vintage Mencken
"But, as I have noted, their innocence of literae humaniores was not necessarily a sign of stupidity, and from some of them, in fact, I learned the valuable lesson that sharp wits can lurk in unpolished skulls. I knew cops who were matches for the most learned and unscrupulous lawyers at the Baltimore bar, and others who made monkeys of the oldest and crabbedest judges on the bench, and were generally respected for it. Moreover, I knew cops who were really first-rate policemen, and loved their trade as tenderly as so many art artists or movie actors. They were badly paid, but they carried on their dismal work with unflagging diligence, and loved a long, hard chase almost as much as they loved a brisk clubbing. Their one salient failing, taking them as a class, was their belief that any person who had been arrested, even on mere suspicion, was unquestionably and ipso facto guilty. But that theory, though it occasionally colored their testimony in a garish manner, was grounded, after all, on nothing worse than professional pride and espirit de corps, and I am certainly not one to hoot at it, for my own belief in the mission of journalism has no better support than the same partiality, and all the logic I am aware of stands against it."
-H.L. Mencken
The Vintage Mencken (gathered by Alistair Cooke)
originally published in Mencken's 1942 Newspaper Days as "Reflections On Notable Cops"
New York, 1955
After his 1956 death and through the '60s, Mencken's opinions and philosophy (as well as his work) fell into some disrepute and neglect. Alistair Cooke played a critically important role in championing and successfully reviving widespread interest in Mencken's incomparable prose, wit, vocabulary, and genius.
"But, as I have noted, their innocence of literae humaniores was not necessarily a sign of stupidity, and from some of them, in fact, I learned the valuable lesson that sharp wits can lurk in unpolished skulls. I knew cops who were matches for the most learned and unscrupulous lawyers at the Baltimore bar, and others who made monkeys of the oldest and crabbedest judges on the bench, and were generally respected for it. Moreover, I knew cops who were really first-rate policemen, and loved their trade as tenderly as so many art artists or movie actors. They were badly paid, but they carried on their dismal work with unflagging diligence, and loved a long, hard chase almost as much as they loved a brisk clubbing. Their one salient failing, taking them as a class, was their belief that any person who had been arrested, even on mere suspicion, was unquestionably and ipso facto guilty. But that theory, though it occasionally colored their testimony in a garish manner, was grounded, after all, on nothing worse than professional pride and espirit de corps, and I am certainly not one to hoot at it, for my own belief in the mission of journalism has no better support than the same partiality, and all the logic I am aware of stands against it."
-H.L. Mencken
The Vintage Mencken (gathered by Alistair Cooke)
originally published in Mencken's 1942 Newspaper Days as "Reflections On Notable Cops"
New York, 1955
After his 1956 death and through the '60s, Mencken's opinions and philosophy (as well as his work) fell into some disrepute and neglect. Alistair Cooke played a critically important role in championing and successfully reviving widespread interest in Mencken's incomparable prose, wit, vocabulary, and genius.
Lady_Mornington
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"Yet those who raised a cheer as the ship set sail may soon have wished they were back in port when, a short distance out, a violent storm blew up"
Following the Drum - The Lives of Army Wives and Daughters
Annabel Venning
Following the Drum - The Lives of Army Wives and Daughters
Annabel Venning
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We talked about this when you got the book. It would be a fun game, wouldn't it?
