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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Australian Legend Posts: 21749 Rockhampton, Q Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #525 - Jun 23^rd, 2017 at 4:53pm Lisa Jones wrote on Jun 20^th, 2017 at 6:28am: Gordon wrote on May 7^th, 2017 at 12:15pm: Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS Book by Joby Warrick Hmmmm....that sounds interesting. I want to add that to my Fall of Singapore and other books list. I know sweet stuff all about that.
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Gordon Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 20231 Gordon Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #526 - Jun 24^th, 2017 at 10:25pm Got my holiday read. https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Tribe.html?id=Isx1jgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y&h...
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Reply #527 - Jun 29^th, 2017 at 5:18pm

The Secret Life of Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKay.

About the WWII codebreaking effort there.

Coming is:
“Art Nouveau Architecture” (Paperback)
By (author) Rene Beauclair

and

“A Global Warming Primer: Answering Your Questions About the Science, the Consequences, and the Solutions” (Paperback)
By (author) Jeffrey D. Bennett

So, something to guide me to building and decorating my south Tassie house and info on AGW—will be looking for more advanced works on AGW—It is the problem facing us that needs to be faced and tackled.

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Reply #528 - Jun 30^th, 2017 at 7:56am

Only the Empty Sky. A novel set on Lord Howe Island in 1918. Its the first work by Russell Kelly and concerns the locals and an itinerant American collector and painter of bird life. It is quite well written and interesting, but I'm hot on mistakes in period novels. This novel needed to be proof-read by someone with a good knowledge of the period. Also, the author doesn't know a sheet from a sail. But all in all, its a good read.

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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 43658 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #529 - Jun 30^th, 2017 at 7:32pm A sheet is a rope connected to a sail, right? A painter is a rope that connects a boat to a ship?
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Lord Herbert Gold Member Offline Posts: 34441 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #530 - Jun 30^th, 2017 at 8:50pm 'John Stuart Mill' by Richard Reeves. A good read.
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Reply #531 - Jul 1^st, 2017 at 5:42pm

Jovial Monk wrote on Jun 30^th, 2017 at 7:32pm:

A sheet is a rope connected to a sail, right? A painter is a rope that connects a boat to a ship?

Basically correct. The sheet (single part or tackle) is the principal means of controlling the trim of the sail. Other lines are attached to the sail: Halyards for hoisting, cunninghams, barber haulers, reef pennants etc.

In a boat, the painter is usually a permanently fixed bow line.

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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 43658 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #532 - Jul 1^st, 2017 at 7:38pm Learned something from the Hornblower books then.
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Reply #533 - Jul 7^th, 2017 at 1:07am

rhino wrote on Jun 19^th, 2017 at 11:37pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Jun 19^th, 2017 at 10:02pm:

But I am being held up with Fit2Fat2Fit about a guy who deliberately gained 75lbs. Then lost 75lbs to gauge the health effects.

I will go out on a limb here and and predict that the guy was fitter and healthier without the 75lbs of extra fat.

There was a lot on the psychological changes the man went through, as well as the input from his wife. His wife happens to be a "foodie". But even she goes through a health kick in response to her husband's new poor diet.

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Emma Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9853 OZ Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #534 - Jul 8^th, 2017 at 3:09am Patricia Cornwall... Depraved Heart. Just started.
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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #535 - Jul 8^th, 2017 at 9:08am The Chilbury Ladies' Choir by Jennifer Ryan. It's a bit like the story of the Home Fires TV series.
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Reply #536 - Jul 28^th, 2017 at 12:12pm

Just finished The Woman on the Stairs, by Bernhard Schlink. Its translated from German, but set largely in Australia. This novel is very well written so anyone who appreciates literature will find it worthwhile. However, I think the author's observations on life will not necessarily hold much meaning for those who have yet to reach middle-age.

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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 131562 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #537 - Jul 28^th, 2017 at 1:20pm Lord Herbert wrote on Jun 30^th, 2017 at 8:50pm: 'John Stuart Mill' by Richard Reeves. A good read. An excellent read. I'm about 100 pages into that one.
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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #538 - Jul 29^th, 2017 at 8:17am I've started re-reading Dickens (biography) by Peter Ackroyd. I always promised myself I would. I mostly don't keep promises, so will I get through it? When not reading it, it comes in handy as a step stool. But it's a great work not just of biography but of social history of the 19th century.
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Frank Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 40675 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #539 - Jul 29^th, 2017 at 6:01pm Alan Furst, A Mission to Paris (audiobook) Unrelated but tres amusant: ‘You can’t switch it off — it’s a book.’
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