Ed Smiley > Recent Status Updates

I swear I'll update with all the books I've read in the last few years. I swear I will.

I've been so bad.

On February 20, 1938, with the resignation of Eden as Foreign Minister it appears to me that a line was crossed, reading it today. From that day forth Chamberlain was able to retreat from a policy of strength and collective security with a free hand. Sound familiar? Spoiler: it did not end well.

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. " -- Winston Churchill

When opportunities to do something at little cost are frittered away until the cost is almost too terrible to contemplate. I am reading this with an eye to current events which appear to be drifting towards disaster.

I have been horrible about updating my"read" list on Goodreads. That's gonna change. I just worked my way through 2015... so I have a way to go.... :(

OK, again I am months behind in updating this. Does anybody care? :)

I am so behind on updating my currently reading list. Don't believe it. I am so busy reading I don't get around to updating it.

can't keep up... at least I got in all the books I have read since the last update or are reading, have some to close out now... gosh

OK I haven't bothered to update my status in quite a while. I am going to attempt to do so now.

sorry, I am way behind updating status.... will get to it....

gosh I don't think this has a happy ending....

Goodbye Chewey. RIP.

http://xkcd.com/1098/ "Understanding online ratings."

One really responsible man in jail, one real originator of the schemes and transactions which are contrary to the public interest legally lodged in the penitentiary would be worth more than one thousand corporations mulcted in fines.... --Woodrow Wilson

Interestingly I am reading this around Independence Day. It's a very lively account of various of our past leaders and it doesn't pull any punches in characterizing them, including their weaknesses and the form of their character. Nonetheless one gets an appreciation of the unique character of each.

"People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real.” (Erin McKean)

I just heard Nancy Boas speek tonight, she autographed the book. David Park's daughter was in the audience and spoke for a bit.

sublime beautiful and terrifying descriptions of the Antarctic winter...

I joined a book club that is reading its way through Finnegans Wake, aloud. This'll be on my reading list for some time as we are getting through only a few pages per meeting.

damned bedbugs... ...nothing to eat... ...life is great

I am not reading this. GR tought I meant this book....

Happy Birthday Charles Dickens!

Been reading "Dealbreakers" and related lists. Pretty funny!

Not a sentimentalized account. Nonetheless, I started crying.

tragic, just when he is starting to come into his own, produce really great art, his mind (never very stable) begins to collapse