2024: ENTERTAINMENT- MUSIC

 books,music,films

love this I wanna get him back

January 31

What's Going on

What's up

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April 9

Tartini-Devils Trill

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May 18

Airplane wish right now

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Billy Joel

Turn the lights back on

Hoozier Too Sweet    

Hozier Too Sweet

Teddy Swim Lose Control

Teddy Swim Lose Control

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June 11 nice instrumental lead in

Love Lies

Eminem Houdid

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2023: FINDING DR, LIVINGSTON

September 1

Started to read this by Stanley mid August. It is slow reading because of a long introduction and the words used are very unfamiliar. Even after looking some of them up I struggle to remember when I come across them later in the story. I have been jotting down thisngs I need explained and will make a list here and look up later! maybe!

matama

manioc

Bagamoyo

Zanzibar

El Dorado

Matuti

Masika

Martin Chuzzlewit

Percys and Douglasses

Women of Kisemo frequently wear lenthy necklaces etc and ankle rings and wrist bracelets were they like Ubangi?

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Burton & Speke

Speke died of a gunshot wound, probably accidental, the day before a scheduled debate with Burton in 1864. Burton has had the upper hand in subsequent accounts.

Captain John Hanning Speke (4 May 1827 – 15 September 1864) was an English explorer and officer in the British Indian Army who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa. He is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile and was the first European to reach Lake Victoria 

Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (/ˈbɜːrtən/; 19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, writer, orientalist scholar,[1] and soldier. He was famed for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke twenty-nine languages.[2]

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Jungles & Forests are mentioned frequently making me wonder the difference. I knew a jungle must be humid!

A forest has many tall trees and can usually be traveled through by humans. The word 'jungle' is usually used to describe a tangled or overgrown mass of vegetation over a large area of land.

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September 27

this books feels like it will never end. I will define these once I finish. :)

Thraldom

Artificial horizon

Libya desolate in 1866

Aster A ???

Webb's River

White Nile

Manyurma

Wag Tail birds.

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need to know now- Wag Tail Birds and Artificial Horizon

Wagtail bird

artificial horizon

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BOOKS:Street Libraries

 Not very clear photos but I am trying to take pix of all the street libraries I see along my travels. ( which are limited LOL)

Battlefield road-Sears Road

 Main Street Chatham across from Agway Nurseries- and a bench for sitting- nice touch.

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BOOKS-Kindle reads

Seeing as I just did an update and lost my book mark on Anna Karenina thought I would list what I have read or tried to read on the Kindle so far.

Anna Karenina- started Oct 2014

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Medieval People

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1491

1493

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Legacy: Arthurian Saga- Mary Stewart

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Crome Yellow- tried to read found impossible - Aldous Huxley

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Astoria-Washington Irving

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Pickwick Papers- Dickens- loved it but took me a long time to read

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Doctor Zhivago-Pasternak- great story.

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The Secret Piano- fascinating story- sent to me by Bob Paulson.

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Plays by Antone Chekhov

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Jo's Boys

loved it.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall- not sure whether I read this or not- there is such a long "foreword"

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The Kreutzer Sonata
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The Complete Angler

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Little Men-

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The POstmaster- Lincoln- loved it!

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Jude the Obscure- loved it!

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Villette- not sure if I read or got stimied

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Born to be Wild- excellent

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Jane Eyre

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Ethan Frome

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The Woodlanders- excellent

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Alice Adams- excellent

Medicine Men- a freebie that was okay

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Under the Lilacs- good

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The Wind in The Willows- impossible to read

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The Magnificent Ambersons- excellent

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The Mayor Of Casterbridge- ecellent

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Agnes Grey - ?

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Little Masterpeices of Autobio - ?

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My Man Jeeves- loved it

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Dracula- loved it-

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Jennie Gerhardt- excellent-

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BOOKS-Books & Authors to check out

note to self- get more organized on reading material.
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Erik Larson- In the Garden of the Beasts- Dodd family & Hitler

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Paula recommended
Geraldine Brooks
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Carol's recommendation
Nathaniel Philbrick.
great recommendation- love all of his books so far.


Francine Yaskin Glass
"Doc" by Mary Doria Russell
Thousand Splendid Suns
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Paula recommended
House
Constant Princess-
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Tess Gerritsen-Dympna Joyce

Have started a group on facebook Books read. Some interesting things going on. Many have e readers and those would be very convenient for me especially when eating and reading- leaves 2 hands free for shoveling food into your mouth!

I am reading Bill Bryson's Science book right now and learning more useless information but it does keep the brain thinking. And I hope to finish Koontz's Mr Murder soon. Getting very tense maybe something I should not read in bed! oh well.
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Alive-Piers Paul Reed
In the heart of the Sea Nathaniel Philbrick-read great!
Cannibal valley-Russell Hill
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Michael Connelly- mysteries-recommended by Cindy Erhenreich
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The Paris Wife- recommended by Paula- now Paula says not to bother- too depressing.

am reading Scarlett letter on my new Kindle and was finally able to load other last night. amazon-kindle needs to improve on their instruction wording. geez.

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Ahabs wife
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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
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The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases (Paperback)

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Paula recommends
Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford

BOOKS--Blogging & Steppenwolf

Well November was  the previous blog- cannot say I am dedicated to this yet.

And it isn't that I have an interesting life .
Maybe I should come here each morning and report my dream from the previous night
or the noises in the neighborhood
the weather

what I am reading.
oh hey there you go.
I am reading Steppenwolf. Fascinating and moves right along. I am at the point where I am anxious to finish it though. It is not like Vidal or Bryson where you do not want it to end. It is very philosophical- I hope I do not become an intellectual because of it.

Fat chance.