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I just got done reading this book. I enjoyed it! It was so impactful about what happened to the Indianapolis. I also added this book to the #ISpyBingo challenge for the space for waves. I rated this book a 5 out of 5 stars.

#FreedomDay
#ShowSomeLove
#Family

6 brothers who fought for our freedom... the youngest, bottom right, didn‘t make it home 💔 🇺🇸

The first DNF of the holiday season! I‘m definitely interested in learning more about this Indianapolis but this book is boring, boring, boring.

Honoring the men in my family who served in WW11. My grandfather is the top right. I didn‘t get to know him well because he died when I was 6. All came home except their brother Elvin who perished on the USS Indianapolis... so sad, he had a wife and baby here at home and was only 18.. 😓 Can you imagine sending your 6 sons to war?? I can‘t...

#VeteransDay
#ThankfulThoughts

They didn‘t fight and die for us to lose our freedom.🇺🇸

An incredible amount of detail in this book about the history of the US Navy cruiser, the Indianapolis. Classified missions (including delivery of the components of the atomic bomb), a Japanese submarine torpedo attack, a sinking, sharks, a delayed rescue, a court-martial, and those who worked to clear the captain‘s name. Quite the sea disaster story!

Honoring the men in my family who served in WW11. My grandfather is the top right. I didn‘t get to know him well because he died when I was 6. All came home except their brother Elvin who perished on the USS Indianapolis... so sad, he had a wife and baby here at home and was only 18.. 😓 Can you imagine sending your 6 sons to war?? I can‘t...

#MemorialDay
#MagicalMay

Thanks to all who have and continue to fight for our freedom 🇺🇸

Wow...just getting to McVay‘s court-martial, and the “good ol‘ boys club” is alive and well in the WORST way here. Really changes the way you view a lot of powerful historical figures, including Nimitz. Such a miserable shame.

#Menthatmatter
#NamasteNovember

My great uncle Elvin (bottom right) was the only brother who didn‘t make it home. He was only 18 and died on the USS Indianapolis 😓 My grandfather is last brother on top row.

Thanks to all of our Veterans 🙏🏻 🇺🇸❤️.

I really want to read this book 🛳

This book was compelling, but also heartbreaking. I‘ve been listening to it in doses for the past several months just because the authors do such a great job making you feel like you were there. The courtroom scenes were very good as well- I got a similar feeling to when I listened to the podcast Serial. Don‘t skip the appendix either!

#NFNov

#TIL about the expedition to examine the wreckage left by the USS Indianapolis. I didn‘t know this had happened.

#NFNov

#rescueme
#MOvember

These guys certainly needed rescuing... one of my favourite books of last year.

#TIL how the timing of this tragedy made the news doubly unbearable. Families found out about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis at the same time they found out the war was over. #NFNov

#AyUpAugust #Day12 #TooMuchTooYoung Most of the seaman on the Indianapolis when she went down were just boys. A large majority were 21 & under, quite a few had lied about their age and were only 17. The hell they went through, a torpedoed ship, injured friends, 5 days in the water with no food, no drinking water & sharks was an experience that the survivors still have nightmares about 70yrs later. Too much horror on too young shoulders.

I decided to spend shark week reading about the U.S.S. Indianapolis and some of the heroes of WWII. It‘s a fascinating piece of history with heart breaking consequences and survivor accounts that deserve to be told. This book is personal, devastating, and also honest about so many mistakes made but not on who actually took the blame and his exoneration. I loved every page and am so glad I picked it up. It never should be about the sharks.

Bottom right is my great uncle Elvin who died at sea on the Indianapolis... He was only 18 years old... He was married and had a baby on the way... 💔 His brothers pictured here all served in WWll and made it home...

#Ship
#LetsTravelAugust

I was not sure about this book, it was recommended by a friend and author so I dove in. It is moving and a tale told very well.

I took a different route for my #audiowalk today to see my favorite apple tree, but it wasn‘t blooming yet. It was nice to see different sites though.

Listened to this fascinating audiobook while planting and weeding tonight. I keep having to take breaks on this one since I know what‘s coming.

#bookhaul 1st shipment from B&N sale!

Audiocooking this morning.

Started a new book today on my #audiowalk. I‘m looking forward to learning more about this subject.

Loved this book, scary how the navy covered up what really happened for 60 years and if wasn‘t the fact of it being mentioned in Jaws no one would have known better

#NonFiction2019 #SomethingWrittenByAWoman The tagged book is also my”Written by a Woman” square on my #NonFictionBingo card. I was riveted by this book, it really makes the sinking & the chaos and death after seem so real. Those men are the only ones to know what happened that night & they were, to a man, defending their captain. That it took the Navy so long to exonerate him( and they danced around the issues brought up)infuriated me so much!

Look at these endpapers! Aren‘t they fabulous? It‘s a actual picture of the wreck taken by an ROV coz it‘s too deep to dive. This was a fantastic book, I think because it was made so personal by the survivors accounts the authors either got firsthand by those living & written testimonies by those no longer with us. I love Quints monologue in JAWS about the sinking but the truth is much more complicated. Using as my V book.4.5⭐️ #LitsyAtoZ #LetterV

Getting started on the second half of Indianapolis whilst enjoying some summer watermelon. Watermelon is the best thing to eat in summer, especially on what will be the hottest week so far in Sydney, 39C(102F)today, 40C(104F)tomorrow & 44C(111F)Friday!🥵I love my hubby for putting ducted air con in our house🥶

Back to my #NonFiction2019 I‘m just over halfway done with this book,the boat has now been sunk and the survivors have just been picked up by the rescue aircraft & boats that came to her aid, 4days too late for a lot of sailors unfortunately. There were a lot of heroes in the water for those awful days & a few cowards as well. Still can‘t see how the navy managed to pin it on the captain yet, I‘m just about to hit those chapters. Prepare for rage!

Bk3 Of 2019 is another non-fiction about a boat during war. This time it WWII & the boat is the Indianapolis, made famous by the scene in Jaws where Robert Shaw tells the story of delivering the bomb before being torpedoed. Of the almost 900 men that went in the water, barely 300 survived the next 3 days of dehydration, hypothermia & the circling sharks. Their mission was so secret, no one knew they‘d been sunk until it was too late for so many.

If you‘re planning on buying kindle books in the next few days, click on the digital day banner on the amazon home page. On the digital day page, scroll down and there will be an end of the year offer. That offer, once activated, will give you $6 in ebook credit if you spend $35 on kindle books between now and the end of the year. (Wish I‘d seen it before I hit up today‘s daily deal. 😉)

getting my boyfriend to become a reader is a great accomplishment of mine.

Reading Indianapolis on Veterans Day! Respect and love to all my fellow vets! #GoNavy

While the story of the loss of 3/4 of the sailors in the sinking of the Indianapolis is incredibly compelling, I had some frustrations with the structure of the book. I found the occasional use of a nonlinear timeline confusing in places. There is also the utilization of some historic racism without the acknowledgement as such. But overall I did enjoy this.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone who's interested in the military, Naval History, US History, the history of World War II or even just history in general.

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The #SummeroftheBail continues. I‘ve officially walked away from four books, two of which have been hanging over my head for months. I‘m not loving my current reads, either, so there‘s a good chance I‘ll start September with two or three more bails, but I‘m not quite ready to give up on them. I had a lot of lackluster reads, as well, that I powered through, but the four pictured above were all 5-star reads and I loved them.

I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway and I just can‘t get to it! Ugh! I really need to read about the #soldiers and the tragedy of this ship sinking. Background is a photo of my father in his US Navy uniform. 😁 It has occurred to me that we never really discussed his WWII experiences and it‘s too late now. I guess the veterans never really want to relive the horrors of war.
#abbainaugust

Washing kitchen and bathroom rugs at the laundromat. Not my favorite place to be, but I‘ll get some reading done, so there‘s that.

Birthday weekend Day 1: take the day off to sit by the pool and read a book and get terrified of sharks 🦈

Just...read it. Please. Buy a copy. Borrow it. Whatever. Just read it.

All. The. Feels.

#julyroundup

20 books read, the tagged book just squeaked through last night and was my favourite of the month, followed by Circe and The Perfect Nanny.

Litsy Reading Challenge - 1 (25/25 - finished!)
PopSugar Reading Challenge - 1 (37/40)
Litsy AtoZ title - 0 (23/26)
Litsy AtoZ author - 1 (24/26)

Oh, and I discovered Libby! 😻😻

My tentative #AugustTBR includes the three books I started in July (top row), which are all really good so far, a couple of NetGalley books that release on 8/7, a library book, and this month‘s #AgathaChristieClub selection, which I‘ll be listening to on audio. Hugh Fraser is the narrator and he‘s hands down my favorite Christie novel narrator. I also want to do the #BOTMBacklist challenge, but I don‘t know if I‘ll have time. 😔

I‘m slowly making progress through this book. The writing is exquisite, the subject matter, absolutely heartbreaking. Many tears have already been shed, but I wanted to take a moment to gush over the quality of the hardcover book itself. It‘s beautiful, the paper feels lovely, and the charts/maps are stunning. If you have any interest in history, do yourself a favor and buy this book in hard copy.

The sinking of the USS Indianapolis was the worst naval disaster in US history. My great uncle Elvin was aboard and we believe he died in the sea. (from what our family was told) He was only 19 years old, was married and had a baby on the way. Out of 1,195 only 316 survived. 😢😢

Excellent, honestly I think this story is crazy but can‘t always pay close attention to the amazing detail in the book.

Thank you Goodreads! I won this nonfiction book in their giveaway!

I‘m anxious to read this account of the sinking of the Indianapolis after it delivered the Hiroshima bomb. It was the worst naval disaster in United States history. 900 make it into the sea but only 315 survive the elements.

#weak #heatofjuly

#BookMail Pt2 I‘ve been fascinated with sinking ships since my dad got this beautiful book about the Titanic when I was about 8.Since then,I‘ve read books about Titanic & it‘s sister ship The Britannic,The Lusitania & the Andrea Doria.I‘d never heard of this one until watching Jaws,that scene on the boat where the Captain talks about the sinking”Eleven hundred men went in the water” Best monologue ever.Full clip here:

https://youtu.be/u9S41Kplsbs

Sorry for all the posts today. I‘ll make this the last one, but I just had to share the gorgeous end papers in the hard back version of this book. I‘m so excited to have this in my hands and grateful to NetGalley for the ARC, because I probably never would have picked this book up if NetGalley hadn‘t made it sound so interesting. The writing is incredible and the hardback is gorgeous.

I haven‘t finished the ARC from NetGalley, but this book released yesterday and I‘ve loved what I‘ve read so far. Since today is the first day I‘ve left my house since Saturday, I stopped at B&N over lunch to grab it. Maybe having the print version will inspire me to read, since I haven‘t even cracked a book at all in two days. #migrainessuck #bookhaul

I‘m reading an ARC via NetGalley, and Litsy, listen... I usually avoid all things WWII, but this book so far is incredible! The writing is phenomenal. I‘m only putting it down because I must get sleep before work tomorrow. I am beyond grateful that Wednesday is a holiday and I will have the whole day to read. This book releases on July 10th and unless there is some catastrophic change in writing, I MUST BUY IT! 💸💸