Comments on: Recommended books: Summer 2017

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By: michael123

michael123 — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 07:05:00 +0000

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By: Daphne Gray-Grant

Daphne Gray-Grant — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 01:26:00 +0000

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By: michael123

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By: Daphne Gray-Grant

Daphne Gray-Grant — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 17:14:00 +0000

In reply to michael123. Yes, of course you're right. My copy editor would have caught this! Too bad I can't afford to hire her for editing these posts. Thanks for calling attention to this; I surely won't make the same mistake in future.

By: michael123

michael123 — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 09:09:00 +0000

In reply to Daphne Gray-Grant. No, am aghast at the "off of" Americanism that has been widely discredited as improper grammar. The last word is redundant, extraneous, etc and may be dropped.

By: Daphne Gray-Grant

Daphne Gray-Grant — Sat, 01 Jul 2017 15:15:00 +0000

In reply to David Carlson. Thanks for all of your suggestions, David. Hope you have a terrific Canada Day — and fourth of July, of course.

By: Daphne Gray-Grant

Daphne Gray-Grant — Sat, 01 Jul 2017 15:14:00 +0000

In reply to michael123. Are you objecting to a sentence that ends with a preposition?

By: Christine Zeadow

Christine Zeadow — Sat, 01 Jul 2017 01:42:00 +0000

I’m in a bit of a self-help kick. I’ve finished two by Brene Brown: Daring Greatly, and Rising Strong. I know that some of her work is really common sense, but when you’re hurting, or face down in the arena, sometimes you need to hear sage wisdom again. I also finished Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher, You can.You will by Joel Osteen, Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyer, and the first 2 of Rick Riordano’ s New series -Magus Chase and the Gods of Asgard. All I can recommend.

By: David Carlson

David Carlson — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 15:48:00 +0000

Happy Canada Day! We will try out our new passports and cards on a day trip to Thunder Bay on Sunday.

Already read 25 of 30 books toward my Goodreads goal for the year.

What not to read:
The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend by Bob Drury, Tom Clavin. A NYT best seller! An example of revisionist history with thinly-veiled white nationalist prejudices

An ongoing goal is to read classics I had not read. “The Jungle Book”, by Kipling is outstanding. Imagine the voices of Nature that sing to you and talk to you daily.

Favorite fiction: “The Man of Legends” by Kenneth C. Johnson. Science fiction, time-travel, and battles between Good, Evil, organized religion, and millennialists since the hero was born in 15 B.C. It is a long, confusing story that could be a TV series like Game of Thrones, which I also have on my reading list.

Favorite non-fiction: “The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World” by Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Abrams.

I will add a few more books since I joined the American Meteorological Society last month.