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Then I started Christodora which seems pretty good so far but I am not thrilled with the time jumping. Here are the chapters I have read 2001, 2009, 1981, 1992, 1984. I keep trying to page back and figure out who is who and what age they are. Then it was talking about cell phones like the norm I believe in the late 90's. Anyway...good story just trying to get a grip on the time traveling, lol.
Thanks for the heads-up on that! I have it on my "to read" list and will need to prepare myself (with a jetpack and an Ativan).
Thanks for the heads-up on that! I have it on my "to read" list and will need to prepare myself (with a jetpack and an Ativan).
Anytime. I would love a jetpack
Ha, ha talking about Avitan or similar. DH and I were in NY one time with one of his sisters. She tends to be a little anxious. Anyway she was doing a minor freak out and my DH told her to "take a pill"...() next thing she says "good idea" and pops a pill. You had to be there but it was funny.
Location: Montreal -> CT -> MA -> Montreal -> Ottawa
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Anytime. I would love a jetpack
Ha, ha talking about Avitan or similar. DH and I were in NY one time with one of his sisters. She tends to be a little anxious. Anyway she was doing a minor freak out and my DH told her to "take a chill"...() next thing she says "good idea" and pops a pill. You had to be there but it was funny.
Hahaha! I didn't even have to be there -- that's funny. I like that she took his comment literally.
I'm enjoying Home Before Morning. As the Vietnam veterans get older, it's easy to forget that nightmarish war. But we shouldn't. This book is well-written and gives an up close and personal view of the misery they suffered.
Mild political rant:
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It pisses me off more than ever that "some people" criticize John McCain as not being a war hero because he was captured. It should be a prerequisite to being a politician to serve in a war zone.
I'm enjoying Home Before Morning. As the Vietnam veterans get older, it's easy to forget that nightmarish war. But we shouldn't. This book is well-written and gives an up close and personal view of the misery they suffered.
Looks good. Thanks for that.
Mild political rant:
Spoiler
It pisses me off more than ever that "some people" criticize John McCain as not being a war hero because he was captured. It should be a prerequisite to being a politician to serve in a war zone.
Maybe so…then maybe they wouldn't be so quick to start wars for all the wrong reasons Nobody wins in war.
I'm enjoying Home Before Morning. As the Vietnam veterans get older, it's easy to forget that nightmarish war. But we shouldn't. This book is well-written and gives an up close and personal view of the misery they suffered.
Marlow, agree with your spoiler. I'm reading The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Nguyen was born in Vietnam but raised in the U.S. so he brings a distinct perspective to the war. The novel opens with the fall of Saigon. I'm only on Chapter 3. So far the writing is excellent.
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“I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces. Perhaps not surprisingly, I am also a man of two minds, . . . able to see any issue from both sides. Sometimes I flatter myself that this is a talent,” he continues, but “I wonder if what I have should even be called talent. After all, a talent is something you use, not something that uses you. The talent you cannot not use, the talent that possesses you — that is a hazard.”
I’ve almost finished Different Class by JoAnn Harris. The book is too overly descriptive and “wordy” for my taste, but I want to see how it ends. I really liked Five Quarters of the Orange by Harris.
Still working on The Zero and the One.
I downloaded I See You by Clare Mackintosh. So looking forward to starting this one. I Let You Go was a page turner so hope this one is as well
Someone here recommended Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Addiction by Sam Quinones, and WOW, I can't put it down! Very well written and very informative. Since my husband works a lot in the Rust Belt, and since we live in Texas with it's long border with Mexico, and since we've seen people we were SHOCKED to even think of as addicts become addicted to both opiates and heroin over the years, I find this book to be very eye opening.
Thanks to whoever recommended it - I can pass that recommendation along!
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In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital center of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across America--addiction like no other the country has ever faced. How that happened is the riveting story of Dreamland.
With a great reporter's narrative skill and the storytelling ability of a novelist, acclaimed journalist Sam Quinones weaves together two classic tales of capitalism run amok whose unintentional collision has been catastrophic. The unfettered prescribing of pain medications during the 1990s reached its peak in Purdue Pharma's campaign to market OxyContin, its new, expensive--extremely addictive--miracle painkiller. Meanwhile, a massive influx of black tar heroin--cheap, potent, and originating from one small county on Mexico's west coast, independent of any drug cartel--assaulted small town and mid-sized cities across the country, driven by a brilliant, almost unbeatable marketing and distribution system. Together these phenomena continue to lay waste to communities from Tennessee to Oregon, Indiana to New Mexico.
Introducing a memorable cast of characters--pharma pioneers, young Mexican entrepreneurs, narcotics investigators, survivors, and parents--Quinones shows how these tales fit together. Dreamland is a revelatory account of the corrosive threat facing America and its heartland.
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) next thing she says "good idea" and pops a pill. You had to be there but it was funny.
I like that she took his comment literally.
