Nice one, was just thinking it's time for another GTG. Will try and sort an Autumn / Winter meet up when I get back from my holidays.
Reading No Dream Is Too High By Buzz Aldrin About life lessons he learned through life hard to believe he is in his eighty's now I remember being a kid in the 1960's watching him on TV walking on the moon.
My 5th grader told me to read this. Absolutely wonderful book. I think everyone should read it! Great story, great message #choosekindness
I have to sort out another stack of books today but find myself reading them instead ... Wodehouse and Jerome K Jerome in one book? Cracking read and a 1934 First Impression.
Just ordered this one https://www.amazon.com/Escape-Evasion-Revenge-German-Jewish-Bombed-ebook/dp/B00AE7DEPW A little of what's the book about a cool story http://www.marchstevens.com/ Peter Stevens was a German-Jewish refugee who escaped Nazi persecution as a teenager in 1933. He joined the RAF in 1939 and after eighteen months of pilot training he started flying bombing missions against his own country. He completed twenty-two missions before being shot down and taken prisoner by the Nazis in September 1941. To escape became his raison d'être and his great advantage was that he was in his native country. He was recaptured after each of his several escapes, but the Nazis never realized his true identity. He took part in the logistics and planning of several major breakouts, including The Great Escape, but was never successful in getting back to England. After liberation, when the true nature of his exploits came to light, he was awarded the Military Cross. He then served as a British spy at the beginning of the Cold War before emigrating to Canada to resume a normal life. This is the story of a heavily conflicted young man, alone in a world that is in the midst of destruction. He is afforded an opportunity to help his persecuted people to obtain a small measure of revenge. It is at once a sad yet uplifting tale of thankless and unheralded heroism. And he stole a name of some one he knew that died to join to RAF because if he used his name he would be arrested as a enemy alien since he was from Germany.
Wonderful book by Philippe Petit. At first you think he's bonkers for thinking this way....then you gradually realize maybe it was YOU who was thinking wrong.
Strike Three! Wonderful birthday gift last month from my sister. She knows I love baseball, old books and especially when the two combine for classic sports series for kids like this one. This one is written by Clair Bee, himself a famous college athlete, turned author. Published in 1949, this was part of a series of sports related adventures of Chip Hilton, star athlete, and his understanding coach, Hank Rockwell. The rugged Seiko Blue Lagoon Turtle joins in the fun.
A history of every day life in the middle ages. When that's done I am going to read a book about someone who cycled around the world.just finished a biography called Do birds sing in Hell?
Re-reading the old Michael Crichton stash... Jurassic Park, Lost World, Timeline, Sphere, The Andromeda Strain