What are you reading?

Bob Wilson

 

Recently finished The Anatomy of Courage, part of the First Contact series by Peter Cawdron. It was on the Kindle unlimited recommendations on my phone, I'm into SiFi and dystopia and that sort of stuff.
Quite enjoyed the Anatomy of Courage, the insights and reasoning of a trauma medic in the trenches in a future war against aliens who can pinpoint lightning strikes on any electronic signal from 100 mile away, so the whole war if fort using technology and tactics from the first world war

T1 Terry

 

Intriguing

 

I remember a very nice evening 30 years ago, seeing all three Theban plays (two intermissions) in what I remember as a really moving modern-ish adaptation by Robert Emmett McGill.

Somehow, it's really difficult to find any online record of now. Donald Robert Fox, who did the sound design and worked on the lighting, is apparently at Midwest State University Texas now, and mentions it in his bio. I think it won a Detroit Free Press theatre excellence award. Maybe in a library that has an old-newspapers database a person could find that. Otherwise, I could almost think I imagined the whole thing, if I didn't have the program.



Looking at the credits, I see the first (Oedipus Rex) act somehow had both child-Antigone and Ismene and grown-Antigone in it. I don't remember how that worked exactly. Some kind of framing device in the adaptation.

I sort of wish there was a way to see it again.

Interesting reading the bios of the "guest actors" who played young Antigone and young Ismene.

Wonder where their lives have taken them.

That was a pretty good season overall. Of course You Can't Take It With You never gets old.

 

Been cleaning and painting around the house -- my adventures with door latches are noted in another thread -- https://priuschat.com/threads/escaped-locked-room-houdini-would-be-proud.249269/unread --

Was going through old books and once again came across my Dad's old VW repair manual. Each time I see it, I start to get rid of it, but then I sit down and start reading,,,,not that I have a VW, nor have I ever had one.

My actual novel at the moment is:

The Sympathizer: By Viet Thanh Nguyen, it delves into identity, loyalty, and betrayal. Set during the Vietnam War, it follows a communist spy who infiltrates the South Vietnamese army and eventually escapes to the United States. Won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

That Southeast Asia "police action" was a big deal> My dad just missed draft age for that, but his older brother, did not...
Kris

 

ya, that's a keeper. might be priceless

 

It has value:


BTW, it was one of my GO TO books when I had a 1966 VW MicroBus. It filled in the Clinton's gaps.

Bob Wilson

 

Chilton Bob

 

The one and only. That's the book that got me started on DIY repair in the first place.

I have several editions of it now, including the audiotape accompaniment that was advertised in the back pages of a few editions.

Really well written and the illustrations are just incredible.

"Be kind to your nice person, for it bears you."

 

Who's Chilton Bob? . Ah, for want of a comma.

But I did find this,,,,and I have NO IDEA what this is: Chilton Bob Major | Methods | Blueline

As an aside, I just checked my bookshelf and have no Chilton's. I thought I had hung on to one of the older ones, but nope.
kris

 

Between the Muir work and the Robert Bentley books I wound up with high expectations for other automotive manuals. *sigh*

 

I've long speculated that Sandy Munro should use their disassembly to have a techno-writer publish as repair manual for the EVs they take apart. Something along the line: "How to replace your <EV name>" with pictures.

Bob Wilson

 

good idea, or professor kelly. they are missing the boat.

 

I never read this as a kid, nice story

 

After reading James’ comments on Biltmore, I had to try something by him

 

i think i read a sparks book recently, love stories?

 

Read before, but doesn't get old....



My favorite translation (that I know of). Wilbur keeps the pace and even the verse form of the French, with some very entertaining results in English.

 

that looks like a good one. took henry james back to the dump where he belongs.

 

Yep - for the most part.
I picked it as a palette cleanser, which I needed after #207 which was a one-month refresher in basic electronics so I could pass an FCC exam for a ham license.
The book was short (6 hours) but I would have picked another one if I had a do-over.
(Spoiler Alert!)
The Notebook (I never saw the movie) shook me powerfully since I've lost a neighbor and a mother-in-law to Alzheimer's and this disease terrifies me much more than cancer, or any other disease or trauma that I can think of.
If you've ever watched somebody go through the Sisyphean struggle of nearly figuring out who they are only to be overwhelmed by the confusion and anxiety of 'sundowning' then you'd rather spend 10 years in a Russian prison than face that disease.

Sparks is an great writer!
However (comma!!!)
You should probably take a pass on this book until - say next March.

Going to try:


(Haven't seen this movie yet either so I'll get the book unaltered by Hollywood....)