Another fun readathon is done. I finished 10 books and got some good quality reading done.
Thank you @Squidget for hosting.
#ShutdownReadathon #Round2
DieAReader Great job! 🤯🥳🎉 Thanks for joining in! 3y
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Another fun readathon is done. I finished 10 books and got some good quality reading done.
Thank you @Squidget for hosting.
#ShutdownReadathon #Round2
pickColin Jost seems like a very nice guy. I wasn't sure about his humor at first, knowing nothing about him except his Weekend Update skits on SNL. He won me over quickly with his sly, self deprecating sense of humor. 4 🤣🤣🤣🤣
10th book #ShutdownReadathon #Round2 @Squidget (50:08:31)
2nd book #FabulousFebruary @Andrew65 (12:52:06)
pickI'm not sure serial killer devotees will enjoy this book, the title is misleading. Yes the Mad Butcher case is part of the book, but only a small part. More of it is about Ness's efforts to clean up Cleveland's criminal elements, and update the police force. Ness was way before his time, introducing many elements that are now part of every day policemen/women lives. 4👮♂️👮♂️👮♂️👮♂️
9th book #ShutdownReadathon #Round2 @Squidget (46:41:59)
pickI finished this last night, but I wanted to sleep on it before posting. I could write a whole page on this amazing book, Kolbert has again knocked it out of the park. I feel optimistic, yet I'm angry too at man's arrogance and hubris. We can't "game" nature, we can't tech a shortcut to fixing the problem. I think the line that hit home for me was, the choice isn't between the way things were and the way things are now, the choice is between ⬇️⬇️
pickIt's hard to believe this was published one year before the better known meteor novel, Lucifer's Hammer. While the Niven/Pournelle novel was like an Irwin Allen disaster movie, this was much smaller, following a smaller group of people trying to survive a killer meteor storm. It's so quaint and "English" it feels like something written in the 1950s. 3 ??? 1/2
7th book #ShutdownReadathon #Round2 @Squidget
#LitsyAtoZ #LetterI @BookishMarginalia
pickA little bit dated, having been written before the rise of the internet and social media, but still relevant in the discussion of how our culture has evolved (devolved?) from a print society to a visual one, where everything (religion, politics, sports, news, history) is packaged for entertainment value. 3 📺📺📺 1/2
6th book #ShutdownReadathon #Round2 @Squidget
pickIf you believe in fate or destiny this might not be for you. However, if you believe, as I do, that history (and life) is a messy series of chance, luck (good & bad), coincidence and plain stupidity, then I think you'll find this compendium of unusual facts to be most enjoyable. Who knew a high school diploma could have averted WWII?!? 4 🍀🍀🍀🍀
5th Book #ShutdownReadathon #Round2 @Squidget
pickThis wavered between a pick and so-so, but I'm feeling generous so I'll give it a low pick. Its gritty urban fantasy, although the first story seemed more post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction. I don't believe I'd be interested in following the series any further. 3 🧝♂️🧝♂️🧝♂️
4th book #ShutdownReadathon #Round2 @Squidget
3/10 #bookbuyingdiet
pickAn entertaining basic primer into Nordic mythology, religions, culture and history. Not a lot of depth, but a good starting point for anyone interested in exploring the northern cultures. 3 🇮🇸 🇮🇸 🇮🇸
4th book #ShutdownReadathon #Round2 @Squidget (21:12:15)
so-soCan someone really write a whole book about why cats always land on their feet? The answer is yes, but it requires a lot of detours, including the history of photography, animal studies in space science and several feuds between scientists. By the end, I had the answer but I wasn't sure I cared anymore. 3 🐈🐈🐈
3rd book #ShutdownReadathon #Round2 @Squidget (15:32:04)
1st book #20in4 @Andrew65 (6:42:21)
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