Mark’s Comments (group member since Jun 29, 2016)

Mark’s comments from the NOVA Men's Book Group group.

Hello,

The overwhelming winner for the dystopian selection is Starship Troopers. Scheduled meeting on March 3rd at the usual meeting place.

It's good I checked. I thought it was for tomorrow on 9/22.

I just checked and my niece's big wedding is for that day, sadly. Pity, because I'm a quarter through the book and enjoying it. I'm surprised the author's second language is English because it's an easy read.

My calendar is updated + I just finished the book. Arrr!

I'm totally going to regret writing this in the morning, but I worry someone else will beat me to it:

Avast me maties. I have liberated a copy from the fairfax overdrive library in kindle version but there are still 3 copies left for you scurvy ridden scallywags.

Arrr.

Will be there. I believe the "Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World" is the title for May? I decided to get an early start on it.

here's a Tesla biography well rated on goodreads I also found available in the library system:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Working on the Tesla biography but also found this one out there I think is ideal for this group. I remember him mentioned on an episode of Strange Science:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

This guy is fascinating because he made a listening device using, cough, microwaves, that was so strange that it took American scientists finding the bug a decades to figure out how the thing worked. The original remote powered listening device. Take THAT RFIDs!!!!

I finished Boer War. When's the meeting?

I didn't read this month's selection so I won't attend (I know I can and perhaps I'll change my mind and attend anyway to hear what I missed.) I am on hold at the library for the Churchill biography and hope to start digging into that this week.

I missed some notifications including the next book for March. I just requested the Churchhill biography via kindle. I think I needed to adjust my discussion preferences to make sure I get notifications. Has a meeting date been set?

And I got a ticket for going 39 in a 25 mph zone! Thankfully, my attorney got it pled down to speedometer malfunction. I guess that makes sense since according to Einstein, relatively I was at rest....

I added selections to the bookshelf "The Skylark of Space" and Masquerade. I searched for "With Fire and Sword" and could not find a reference on goodreads but found this version on amazon: http://tinyurl.com/jd7nuoj

I put the ebook AND regular selection by Loftis on hold. Hopefully, I"l get started on one format this week!

My suggestion for non-fiction for December:

"Masquerade: Dancing Around Death In Nazi Occupied Hungary" by Tivadar Soros
http://tinyurl.com/ja22s95 (Amazon) Note, you can buy a used copy for a penny while supplies last.

Nice to see all of you!

I finished reading and plan to be there. Made sure my calendar was set for SUNDAY

Ok. Will update my calendar

We're getting close. Are we still on for Saturday?

Now up to "At Sea". Hoping to finish off by tomorrow.

I'm now about 6/10ths into the book (Kindle doesn't believe in old fashioned "page" numbers). Would love an extra week or two of breathing room.

This sounds like a fun book and hoping to get into it but parenting is getting in my way. :-) Which I suppose is a neat allegory for the concept: Are many parents who are busy being parents and disconnected from culture? One way to controlling access of the "common culture" to the child would be DVD's. They get a bad rap, but it's neat that my friend who raised his daughters had cut the cord to cable and they could only watch films, documentaries, cartoons that he had pre-selected as healthy and devoid of commercials.