I didn’t know that surfing was an Olympic sport until I saw a story with a fantastic picture. Surfing was included in the Olympics for the first time in Japan in 2020, and the competition this year is taking place in French Polynesia. It is a judged sport, as opposed to racing or throwing things [...]
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Vacation book reviews, continued…
I read three books by Elizabeth Daly, a murder mystery writer from the 1940’s. Her setting is New York City around World War II. She is not writing about bustling immigrants but about gentry, decaying or otherwise, and a bit of society life. The books are described as English country house, only set in New [...]
… call me and bid me come to you …
‘In hora mortis meae voca me, et iube me venire ad te’ (at the hour of my death, call me and bid me come to you). This is the prayer of Christian hope.” Pope Saint John Paul II, Letter to the Elderly, 1999 I read a book weeks ago, that starts with a death bed. [...]
I’m out of practice on titles… Book Reviews!
Last week I was away in a place that has problematic internet access. I also had to spend a lot of time at a bank and at a town hall, or waiting for a call back from the town hall, or trying to figure out how to not need a call back from the town [...]
Book Review
Tales of the United States Space Force: 23 Stories and Mythbusting Articles by: (long list of authors) I recently read this somewhat mixed anthology and I had somewhat mixed feelings. The book is about the new branch of the armed services called the Space Force. One of the articles in this anthology explains exactly how [...]
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