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I just started my December book club read -- "The Wrong End of the Telescope" by Rabih Alameddine -- and was a little apprehensive that it'd be a difficult book to get into. However, the writing is very good and the first 30 or so pages flew by.
Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp's children. Soon, a boat crosses bringing Sumaiya, a fiercely resolute Syrian matriarch with terminal liver cancer. Determined to protect her children and husband at all costs, Sumaiya refuses to alert her family to her diagnosis. Bonded together by Sumaiya's secret, a deep connection sparks between the two women, and as Mina prepares a course of treatment with the limited resources on hand, she confronts the circumstances of the migrants' displacement, as well as her own constraints in helping them.
- "Intuitive Eating" by Tribole & Resch. I read it for the first time some 11 years ago. I have it on Kindle. I find it very good for mindful eating, it has some good tips for eating in silence, paying attention, exercising for health not to lose weight etc. It's pretty good. It made me lose some some kilos 11 years ago very fast. These days reading from it, I decided to have all my meals in the kitchen at the table, in silence. No distractions.
- "Ancient Remedies" by Dr. Axe. This one I got recently, hard cover, new. It's very interesting, has old remedies from plants and teas, talks about Chinese medicine, it has recipes (keto). I love it, lots of information.
- "The Bulletproof Diet" by Asprey. I got this one from my public library, I'm reading it online. Not bad, about exercise and diet, the quality of foods, nutrients, what is toxic what not, supplements etc. Many things I didn't know.
- "The Plant Paradox" by Dr. Gundry. Hard cover, from the library. I just started it, not sure yet.
I read The Railway Children by E Nesbit. I had never heard of it although it is a real classic. It was very sweet, beautifully written and just overall a delight. It was published in 1906. I think there are more books in the series and there are movies of it as well, but I rarely appreciate movies. I might try for another book in the series. Fwiw, I read it from the library on kindle so that tells me that I am probably in the minority of not having heard of it until a few weeks ago.
Highly recommend, a very nice distraction and change from today.
A practical (& often pessimistic) analysis of theoretical human settlement on Mars. Husband and wife collaborate to address the misunderstandings surrounding colonizing Mars. Interesting insights and facts. Wife is the author, and husband provides the illustrations (which are typically cartoon style).
That looks really good. Considering how short a time frame the US used the Pony Express mail delivery, it's remained a part of our consciousness.
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