Violet Crown Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 (edited) Today I finished Les Chants de Maldoror, by Le Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse), a book that defies genre. It was Ducasse's only known work; it's sort of a proto-Surrealist series of prose poems, heavily influenced by Baudelaire, and goes into 10x10 category Les Enfants de Baudelaire: Symbolists, Decadents, & Surrealists. If I ever finish my big old book of English Decadent Poetry, I'll have that category polished off I believe. But for now, only random books from my shelves. These are the rules: Middle Girl chooses a number from the Atmospheric Truly Random Number Generator, and we see which book that is in my LibraryThing listing. If it's one of dh's books, a reference book, or a re-read, I may choose again. If it's part of a series or trilogy, I may read the first book instead; if it's a collection, I may read just one book's worth of it. If I realize I truly do not want to read that book, out it goes, making room on the shelf and raising the average quality of the Crown family library. Last night she chose the first book of Maxim Gorky's autobiographical trilogy, My Childhood. So it's socialist propaganda literature for me. We'll see. Edited March 20, 2020 by Violet Crown 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumto2 Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 17 minutes ago, Æthelthryth the Texan said: @mumto2- if you ever do want to read some Buffett that isn't 36 hours worth!, honestly I'd read the BH Shareholder reports he writes. He writes in an extremely approachable way that makes sense to me. I've been working my way through a few of these. I find his writing/communication style far more approachable than the majority of things I've ever read on investing. Free links: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/1999ar/FortuneMagazine.pdf https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html I actually have read some of those thanks to my husband. They are why I thought I would probably enjoy listening to his book. He is fascinating. I really love the entrepreneurial spirit that that generation has/had. Another one I enjoyed is by the ChickFilA founder Truett Cathy......just looked at Goodreads and I have no idea which one I read as it was quite awhile ago. The how he started that super popular chain is such a great story and at least two of the books he wrote appear to be about that. I recently read someplace that the average CFA location makes 5 million a year which is significantly more than other fast food restaurants average and only open 6 days a week....... @Violet Crown I love your system! 😀So how often do the exceptions occur and you chose again? @Robin M Authors with a last name starting with E have overall not been favorites according to my Goodreads. Have you considered Janet Evanovitch? I have read almost all of those.......I cannot resist! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 Authors whose last name starts with an E: Jennifer Estep Michael Ende Louise Erdrich @Negin, a very happy birthday to you! Regards, Kareni 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negin Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 Thank you all so much for the loving and sweet birthday wishes. This was definitely a birthday to remember! Despite all the craziness and surreal feeling everywhere, I feel so blessed and grateful. Here's our dog, Blackie. The second picture is of my dear parents (mom is 80 and my dad will be 90 in a few months). They're self-isolating. We normally see them almost every day. They live a few minutes away from us. Now, we call each other, go on Face Time, and do their groceries. These days, this is the closest that we can get to them. We wave and laugh from the garden, and make Rapunzel jokes. "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair!" 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 56 minutes ago, Kareni said: Authors whose last name starts with an E: As well as: T.S. Eliot (poetry) Endu (Japanese novelist) Elizabeth Enright (children's) Deborah Ellis (YA) 😄 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 Some currently free books for Kindle readers ~ @Robin M, you read something by this first author in 2017. The Suit by B.N. Toler, Healer by B.N. Toler, Hybrid by B.N. Toler, also A Rational Arrangement by L. Rowyn, This is a fantasy with giant talking cats and a polyamorous romance. It has adult content. It's been on my wishlist for some time, so I'm happy to see it as a free book. Regards, Kareni 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin M Posted March 20, 2020 Author Share Posted March 20, 2020 19 hours ago, Violet Crown said: E-authors on my shelves: Maria Edgeworth, early 19th-century novelist and children's author; wrote Belinda. Loren Eiseley, scientist; literary nature writings I think you might like; maybe The Night Country. Shusaku Endo, Silence. A genuinely great book.Euripides, if tragedy comports well with the present moment for you. St Ephrem the Syrian, who wrote beautiful poetic hymns in the 4th century. And of course the Eliots (George and T. S.), and Emerson. Interesting selection and all sound interesting. I do have Middlemarch in my stacks. May be a good time to tackle a chunky book. 18 hours ago, mumto2 said: Authors with a last name starting with E have overall not been favorites according to my Goodreads. Have you considered Janet Evanovitch? I have read almost all of those.......I cannot resist! It's been ages since I read Evanovitch. Now if I could remember which ones. 🙂 16 hours ago, Kareni said: Authors whose last name starts with an E: Jennifer Estep Michael Ende Louise Erdrich @Negin, a very happy birthday to you! Regards, Kareni Wonderful! All good choices. Estep totally slipped my mind . 15 hours ago, Lori D. said: As well as: T.S. Eliot (poetry) Endu (Japanese novelist) Elizabeth Enright (children's) Deborah Ellis (YA) 😄 Thank you . More wonderful choices and looking forward to checking them out. 26 minutes ago, Kareni said: Some currently free books for Kindle readers ~ @Robin M, you read something by this first author in 2017. The Suit by B.N. Toler, Healer by B.N. Toler, Hybrid by B.N. Toler, also A Rational Arrangement by L. Rowyn, This is a fantasy with giant talking cats and a polyamorous romance. It has adult content. It's been on my wishlist for some time, so I'm happy to see it as a free book. Regards, Kareni Oh yeah. Just looked it up. Where one goes which was really good at the time. I'll have to check out the sequel. Thanks. A Rational Arrangement sounds really interesting and intriguing. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mothersweets Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 Happy Birthday @Negin! 💐🎂🎉 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 (edited) A long, long update! Books that I've recently completed: The Collected Works of Emily Dickinson -- Um, I always thought that I liked poetry, but the more I read of this, the less I liked it. Some of her poems were good, but many of them just seemed the same. It almost felt like she looked out her window, wrote a poem a day, and someone decided that they were all worthwhile because they were hers. Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code -- I'm still pre-reading through the Artemis Fowl books. I probably could just hand them over to the older girls (there's a little bit of language that I'm striking through), but if I hand them over I might not get them back. They will be lost in the abyss... Anyway, this was an easy read. Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception -- This one was also good. More adventures in the life of a kid who I'm glad isn't mine. 😉 If the Magic Fits -- This book was requested by my dd15 who plans to become a costume designer. She was thrilled with all of the written details of the dresses in this book that are actually characters. I thought the book was ok, but the world building took for.ev.er. Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen -- This series tells the backstories of some of Disney's most famous villains. It's a good premise, but the writing was not spectacular. The Beast Within: A Tale of Beauty's Prince -- And, I liked this one even less. and I'm currently reading: Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony -- So far, this book is not nearly as good as the others. There is a new cast of characters and I'm having a hard time getting to know them. Bible: The Story of the King James Version -- This is my current non-fiction read. I'm enjoying it, but it's going to take a long time to finish. Jurassic Park -- I just started this one. I've seen the movie, so I have some idea of what's going to happen. And since no one knows what's going to happen in real life, but it can't be as bad a ferocious dinosaurs on the loose, I thought this might be a fun read. :) and I'm still reading: The Bible -- currently reading in the book of Exodus Santa Biblia -- currently reading in the book of Marcos (Mark) El Hobbit -- I am still struggling with this one. The vocabulary is quite difficult for me, but I am enjoying it. Les Miserables -- I haven't been spending much time on this because I've been pre-reading so many other books. Since the library books are not going to be coming into the house for a while, I anticipate spending more time on this soon. Edited March 20, 2020 by Junie 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 Last night I finished an enjoyable contemporary novella ~ Trinkets by Kayleigh Sky; this had a somewhat dreamy/slightly distant feel. (Adult content) Incidentally, this is currently free for Kindle readers. "On the run with a stolen teddy bear and a couple hundred dollars in cash, Alex’s life takes a strange turn when he crashes his car in a freak accident. Stranded in the desert with no water, he is rescued by a crow that leads him to the home of Lars and Lars’ five-year-old niece Holly.Lars is a man with secrets, and he’d just as soon Alex was on his way, but delays in the repair of Alex’s car compel him to offer Alex a place to stay in exchange for babysitting services. Alex accepts the offer and soon falls head over heels for Holly and the mysterious Crow.Over the course of several weeks, Alex finds himself embracing a life he’d only dreamed of. A life of warmth and comfort—and a passion that almost makes him forget the past he’s running from. Almost.As Lars and Alex fall in love, secrets about Lars and Holly, and a dark danger pursuing Alex, threaten to destroy their new family." Regards, Kareni 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 Today only, free for Kindle readers ~ Indiana by George Sand "A noblewoman travels from colonial Africa to revolutionary France in search of love in this nineteenth-century romantic classic.On the Île Bourbon off the coast of Madagascar, Indiana is miserable in her marriage to the cold Colonel Delmare. Although she has a friendly companion in the ever-present Englishman Sir Ralph, she yearns to feel passion and desire. When she catches the interest of the handsome young Raymon de Ramiere, Indiana is willing to take any risk, including running away to France as the July Revolution rages in Paris. But after she falls ill, she will begin a transformation that could bring about her happiness—or her downfall. The first novel Amantine Aurore Dupin published under the pseudonym George Sand, Indiana was an auspicious debut from one of the most fascinating and daring women of the early nineteenth century, a rebellious artist who defied societal expectations and went on to become one of the major names in French literature." Regards, Kareni 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumto2 Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 @Negin Thank you for sharing your pictures! Blackie is a cutie and my don’t your parents look wonderful for their ages.......would never guess 90! @Junie I also read all the Artemis Fowl’s back in the day. Brings back memories. Both kids enjoyed them and for my son the first was quite the challenge......he was 7 and it was a travel book when we moved to England. I was packing and commented that we would leave it behind because he wouldn’t be able to read it and we only wanted things everyone could read. That’s all it took!😂 I have been curled up trying very unsuccessfully to ignore the world this week reading cozy mysteries and am moving on to romances......and the new Patricia Briggs! I revisited 4 series that I read years ago and thought might be worth revisiting and catching up on. Thought I would share my opinions!😉 Knitting Mysteries by Maggie Sefton.........This was probably my Favorite. I know several of you are into fiber arts and this series has knitters, crochet eras, weavers, spinners........covers it all. I ended up using it for my Creative Bingo 😂 I read Fleece Navidad because I am pretty sure that is where I left off many years ago but would recommend starting at the beginning if you are able. This series has a good mix of fun characters that made the wait for the crime entertaining. I did know who did it but catching her was entertaining! Definitely will start working my way through these. Savannah Reid Mystery by GA McKevett...........Almost tied with the knitting mysteries. Death by Chocolate was my book. This was the earliest in the series my library had and I think it might have been a reread. Once again entertaining mix of characters. Fwiw The Who did it was a serious surprise but made sense....as much as they ever make sense. Going to read as many of these as my Overdrive has.......no particular need to read them all. Background was filled in. Tea Shop Mysteries by Laura Child’s..........not nearly as engaging as the above books. I had an early one Shades of Earl Grey and plan to try a later in the series one for my Book Chain Challenge. A Hannah Swenson Mystery by Joanne Fluke........I actually read two, Christmas Carmel and Banana Creme Pie and neither were as good as I remember. This is probably the most popular series I tried but definite disappointed. I did check the next out to get off the cliff hanger. I fear it won’t be a 10 page read to find out what happens but if I can I may just stop. To think I actually made cookies out of this series at one point....they were not great so I no longer read the recipes!😉 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dicentra Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 Happy belated birthday, @Negin! Anyone else find themselves just not able to settle to anything? I start to read a book, then switch to another book, then wander around my house picking things up and putting them down, check the news, check the forum, try to watch a bit of a TV programme or movie, do some grading, switch a load of laundry, and on and on. I can't seem to just DO something for any length of time. I did find a neat bookish website (forgive me if it's been mentioned in previous years) called Five Books: https://fivebooks.com/ From their "About" section: We ask experts to recommend the five best books in their subject and explain their selection in an interview. This site has an archive of more than one thousand interviews, or five thousand book recommendations. We publish at least two new interviews per week. I ended up there via a Google search for popular Chemistry books to read. 🙂 https://fivebooks.com/best-books/chemistry-michelle-francl/ 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin M Posted March 21, 2020 Author Share Posted March 21, 2020 (edited) While 'sipping' from Walking on Water this morning: "We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually....Yet another reason why Wrinkle was so often rejected is that there there are many words in it which would never be found on a controlled vocabulary list for the age group of the ten to fourteen year old." She goes on to talk about when reading and coming across unfamiliar words more than once you intuit the meaning and they go into our subconscious, become part of our vocabulary and come to the foreground when needed. "We cannot Name or be Named without language. If our vocabulary dwindles to a few shopworn words, we are setting ourselves up for takeover by a dictator. When language becomes exhausted, our freedom dwindles--we cannot think; we do not recognize danger; injustice strikes us as no more than 'the way things are." So, it's important to dive into those hard to read books and expand not only our minds, but our vocabulary. Makes me want to reread Wrinkle in Time again, plus quite avoiding @Violet Crown favorite century reads. 🙂 Edited March 21, 2020 by Robin M 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin M Posted March 21, 2020 Author Share Posted March 21, 2020 35 minutes ago, Dicentra said: Happy belated birthday, @Negin! Anyone else find themselves just not able to settle to anything? I start to read a book, then switch to another book, then wander around my house picking things up and putting them down, check the news, check the forum, try to watch a bit of a TV programme or movie, do some grading, switch a load of laundry, and on and on. I can't seem to just DO something for any length of time. I did find a neat bookish website (forgive me if it's been mentioned in previous years) called Five Books: https://fivebooks.com/ From their "About" section: We ask experts to recommend the five best books in their subject and explain their selection in an interview. This site has an archive of more than one thousand interviews, or five thousand book recommendations. We publish at least two new interviews per week. I ended up there via a Google search for popular Chemistry books to read. 🙂 https://fivebooks.com/best-books/chemistry-michelle-francl/ Unfortunately yes, having issues settling. Thank you for the five books link. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 58 minutes ago, Dicentra said: I did find a neat bookish website (forgive me if it's been mentioned in previous years) called Five Books: https://fivebooks.com/ ... I ended up there via a Google search for popular Chemistry books to read. 🙂 https://fivebooks.com/best-books/chemistry-michelle-francl/ I quite liked the Chemistry list (PhD in Chemistry here)! I'll enjoy browsing some of their other lists, so thank you for the links. Regards, Kareni 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin M Posted March 21, 2020 Author Share Posted March 21, 2020 Macmillan abandons library e-book embargo A look inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Celebrate the Ladies of Star Trek with 5 eBooks by and about Women How are local bookshops helping to revive Iraq’s literary community? Windham-Campbell prize winners Shortlists announced for 2020 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 11 Telepathic Plot Points in SFF David Baldacci's favorite classic detective films and favorite truecrime podcast Free romance ebooks by Colleen Hoover 😘 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-M- Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 (edited) Hello, BaWers! I hope you’re doing well. Illinois is under a stay-at-home order, effective an hour ago. The Chicago Tribune article about the order has given me a recurring case of the chuckles, as it includes this assertion: Quote Grabbing takeout, ordering an Uber and dropping off dry cleaning also are still permitted. The order even allows liquor stores and recreational cannabis dispensaries to remain open for business should the second week of impromptu homeschooling create an essential need. Here are some of the books I’ve finished since my last post. ■ The Truants (Kate Weinberg; 2019. Fiction.) LIB A quick, entertaining read. I particularly relished the idea of Agatha Christie as a subject of academic inquiry. ■ Women and Power (Mary Beard; 2017. Non-fiction.) RFS Mary Beard is a genius. Related link here. ■ Men Explain Things to Me (Rebecca Solnit; 2017. Non-fiction.) RFS Related link: “Before there was mansplaining, there was Rebecca Solnit’s 2008 critique of male arrogance. Reprinted here with a new introduction.” p. 10Dude, if you’re reading this, you’re a carbuncle on the face of humanity and an obstacle to civilization. Feel the shame. p. 62Gay men and lesbians have already opened up the question of what qualities and roles are male and female in ways that can be liberating for straight people. When they marry, the meaning of marriage is likewise opened up. No hierarchical tradition underlies their union. Some people have greeted this with joy. ■ The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark; 1961. Fiction.) RFS Muriel Spark was a genius, too. ■ The Lady from the Sea (Henrik Ibsen; 1888. Drama.) RFS Read in anticipation of seeing the Court Theatre production. ■ Five Days at Memorial (Sheri Fink; 2013. Non-fiction.) RFS Related link here. ■ The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare; 1592. Drama.) RFS Reread in anticipation of seeing the Royal Shakespeare Company at Chicago Shakespeare. ■ Zeitoun (Dave Eggers; 2009. Non-fiction.) RFS This was the perfect companion to Fink’s Five Days at Memorial and Patricia Smith’s Blood Dazzler earlier this year. ■ As You Like It (William Shakespeare; 1599. Drama.) RFS Read in anticipation of seeing the Chicago Shakespeare production. Act III, Scene VBut, mistress, know yourself: down on your knees, And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love: For I must tell you friendly in your ear, Sell when you can: you are not for all markets: Cry the man mercy; love him; take his offer: Foul is most foul, being foul to be a scoffer. ■ American Dirt (Jeanine Cummins; 2020. Fiction.) ATY From the NYT review by Parul Sehgal: But does the book’s shallowness paradoxically explain the excitement surrounding it? The tortured sentences aside, “American Dirt” is enviably easy to read. It is determinedly apolitical. The deep roots of these forced migrations are never interrogated; the American reader can read without fear of uncomfortable self-reproach. It asks only for us to accept that “these people are people,” while giving us the saintly to root for and the barbarous to deplore — and then congratulating us for caring. It certainly was “enviably easy to read.” p. 50What a waste of time it had all been. Lydia feels annoyed that her niece won’t get to see the music box she purchased for her special day. How expensive it was! She realizes, even as this thought occurs to her, how bizarre and awful it is, but she can’t stop it from crashing in. She doesn’t rebuke herself for thinking it; she does herself the small kindness of forgiving her malfunctioning logic. p. 276He’s a philosopher, she thinks. He’s rough, but he means what he says, and his openness is a provocation. Despite everything, he likes being alive. Lydia doesn’t know whether that’s true for herself. For mothers, the question is immaterial anyway. Her survival is a matter of instinct rather than desire. ■ Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey (Alberto Manguel; 2007. Non-fiction.) RFS We’ve had our tickets to the Court’s sold-out, site-specific remount of An Iliad since September. It was more than worth the wait and the price. p. 2We don’t know anything about Homer. It is otherwise with Homer’s books. In a very real sense, the Iliad and the Odyssey are familiar to us prior to opening the first page. Even before we begin to follow the changing moods of Achilles or admire the wit and courage of Ulysses, we have learned to expect that somewhere in these stories of war in time and travel in space we will be told the experience of every human struggle and every human displacement. Two of our oldest metaphors tell us that all life is a battle and that all life is a journey; whether the Iliad and the Odyssey drew on this knowledge or whether this knowledge was drawn from the Iliad and the Odyssey is, in the final count, unimportant, since a book and its readers are both mirrors that reflect one another endlessly. p. 88A book’s influence is never straightforward. Common readers, unrestricted by the rigours of academe, allow their books to dialogue with one another, to exchange meanings and metaphors, to enrich and annotate each other. In the reader’s mind, books become intertwined and intermingled, so that we no longer know whether a certain adventure belongs to Arsilaous or to Aquiles, or where Homer ends Ulysses’ adventures and the author of Sinbad takes them up again. p. 226The scene of war, says Homer, is never only that of war: it is never only that of men acting out in the present the events of the day. It is always the scene of the past as well, a display of what men secretly once were, revealed now in their ultimate moments. Confronted with the imminence of violent death, war also confronts them with the memory of days of peace, of the happiness that life can, and should, grant us. War is both things: the experience of an awful presence and the ghost of a beloved past. ■ The Iliad (Gareth Hinds; 2019. Graphic fiction.) RFS I did not appreciate this volume as much as Hinds’ graphic retelling of The Odyssey, which I read last year. ■ Why We Can’t Sleep (Ada Calhoun; 2020. Non-fiction.) LIBp. 221Could we even see our newfound midlife invisibility as a source of power? In Harry Potter’s world, one of the most prized magical tools is an invisibility cloak. There are great advantages to being underestimated. Two of the best reporters I know are women in their fifties. They look so friendly and non-threatening, if you notice them at all. They can lurk in any room without usually wary people remembering to keep their guard up. Then they write devastating whistleblowing articles. The world ignores middle-aged women at its peril. ■ Vinegar Girl (Anne Tyler; 2016. Fiction.) RFS Read as a companion to my Shrew reread. This was also “enviably easy to read,” and that’s not a criticism. ————————————— ATY Acquired this year LIB Borrowed from library OTH Other RFS Read from shelves ————————————— Talk about serendipity, synthesis, and synchronicity… Not long after I finished reading Mary Beard’s slim volume, Women & Power, I visited the MFA, where the Head of Medusa (Arnold Böcklin, 1894) held my gaze. Edited March 21, 2020 by Melissa M 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aggieamy Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 @Robin M - I've been thinking about your shop. Hope you guys continue to stay busy and open. And also importantly ... that you guys stay safe and healthy! We have offices in our basement but Kevin has to go to the water treatment plant and construction sites for his projects ... we're prepared to make very strong arguments if they try to put him on lock-down that what he does is essential. We find 90% of our income very essential! I'm a few chapters into about a dozen books that are lounging on my nightstand with various inappropriate objects being used as bookmarks (a current favorite is to use another book as a book mark which seems a little cannibalistic to me). Nothing seems to be sticking. My audiobook is thirty minutes in and I haven't picked it back up. I might need to steal my Georgette Heyer books out from my daughter's bedroom. The problem is hazmat suits are so difficult to come by these days and I need one to venture in there. I don't get it - my DH and I are such neat freaks. Perhaps she's rebelling? I can only hope. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dicentra Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 3 hours ago, Kareni said: I quite liked the Chemistry list (PhD in Chemistry here)! I'll enjoy browsing some of their other lists, so thank you for the links. Regards, Kareni I did not know you had a PhD in Chemistry, Kareni! What is your area of specialization? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin M Posted March 22, 2020 Author Share Posted March 22, 2020 54 minutes ago, aggieamy said: @Robin M - I've been thinking about your shop. Hope you guys continue to stay busy and open. And also importantly ... that you guys stay safe and healthy! We have offices in our basement but Kevin has to go to the water treatment plant and construction sites for his projects ... we're prepared to make very strong arguments if they try to put him on lock-down that what he does is essential. We find 90% of our income very essential! I'm a few chapters into about a dozen books that are lounging on my nightstand with various inappropriate objects being used as bookmarks (a current favorite is to use another book as a book mark which seems a little cannibalistic to me). Nothing seems to be sticking. My audiobook is thirty minutes in and I haven't picked it back up. I might need to steal my Georgette Heyer books out from my daughter's bedroom. The problem is hazmat suits are so difficult to come by these days and I need one to venture in there. I don't get it - my DH and I are such neat freaks. Perhaps she's rebelling? I can only hope. Thank you and Me too! It's been slow but folks want their equipment so are trickling in. Right now, states are counting on people to be self regulating and from what I've read in the guidelines, y'all are essential, so hopefully no worries. We have our janitorial service sanitizing the floors and doing a major clean today. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 1 hour ago, Dicentra said: I did not know you had a PhD in Chemistry, Kareni! What is your area of specialization? The is in your question should be changed to was as it's been a LONG time since I did any Chemistry. My thesis research used Cobalt 59 nmr. I think I've forgotten 95% of what Chemistry I ever knew though I was pleased the other day to remember the formula for an oxalate. Regards, Kareni 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 2 hours ago, Robin M said: Celebrate the Ladies of Star Trek with 5 eBooks by and about Women I enjoyed this, Robin, even though it didn't feature my favorite book that fits the description -- Uhura's Song by Janet Kagan Any other Star Trek novel fans here? Regards, Kareni 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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