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Month: April 2019

Books Fiction

Casino Royale – Ian Fleming

I have been listening to an audiobook about Ian Fleming, and decided recently to reread the books, this time in...

Michael C. Smith
April 6, 2019
Books Science

NASA Saturn V 1967-1973 (Apollo 4 to Apollo 17 & Skylab) NASA Apollo 11 (Owners’ Workshop Manual)

I am such an Apollo fanboy that I have both the Saturn V and the Apollo 11 Owners' Workshop Manual...

Michael C. Smith
April 6, 2019
Books Fiction

Booked to Die Paperback (Cliff Janeway novels) – John Dunning

I don't know this for sure, but I suspect that after I've had a couple of drinks I get on...

Michael C. Smith
April 6, 2019
Books Fiction

Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London) – Ben Aaronovitch

The Rivers of London series is similar to the Laundry novels in that it's about practitioners of magic within the...

Michael C. Smith
April 6, 2019
Books Science

Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant Paperback – Daniel Tammet

A friend that I'd had a discussion about Aspergers Syndrome with recently sent me this book, and I finished it...

Michael C. Smith
April 6, 2019
Books History - General

Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11 – James Donovan

This was not a book that needed to be written.  The story has been told many times, and better, but...

Michael C. Smith
April 6, 2019
Books History - General

The Last Days of Night: A Novel Hardcover – Graham Moore

I listened to part of this and ended up reading the rest because it was going too slowly.  It's about...

Michael C. Smith
April 6, 2019
Books History - General

How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization – Mary Beard

I didn't really know when I bought this book that it was an accompaniment to “How Do We Look” and...

Michael C. Smith
April 6, 2019
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Winston’s War: Churchill 1940-1945 – Max Hastings

You really can never go wrong with Max Hastings on WW II topics.  I've read many of his books, and...

Michael C. Smith
April 6, 2019
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The Labyrinth Index – Charles Stross

I love Charles Stross' Laundry novels - I really do.  But the absolute absence of any connection between the book...

Michael C. Smith
April 6, 2019

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