Dona Ferentes
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BOOKS - What are ASF members reading?
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The Adelaide Writers Week inspired me. Too much TV, social media and every day bad news is not good for the soul, I haven’t watched any TV, video or online clips since last Tuesday, and instead I have been reading and listening to an audio book with my wife. I started a type of journal, for lack of a better description, spent the weekend at the beach swimming, reading, talking and cleansing the mind.
I’m reading Two Steps Forward by Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist. Very easy read and enjoyable, almost done.
And at night, lying under the stars on the beach listening to The Notebook with the love of my life. 35 years of marriage this year, we’ve had our troubles but I can see another 35 years if our mind and body is willing, planning and discussing our next step in life. Finding our final destination home on the coast with a view.
As we get to the stage of life we’re at you start to realise that media and technology has been unintentionally created to make us feel like we’re not in control and that we need to always be active in trying to control and change things.
It’s all false.
The world is going to end by decisions made by people who think they know better, life just goes on.
So more reading and less media for me. Keep building on our dreams.
Enjoy your books everyone.
I’m reading Two Steps Forward by Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist. Very easy read and enjoyable, almost done.
And at night, lying under the stars on the beach listening to The Notebook with the love of my life. 35 years of marriage this year, we’ve had our troubles but I can see another 35 years if our mind and body is willing, planning and discussing our next step in life. Finding our final destination home on the coast with a view.
As we get to the stage of life we’re at you start to realise that media and technology has been unintentionally created to make us feel like we’re not in control and that we need to always be active in trying to control and change things.
It’s all false.
The world is going to end by decisions made by people who think they know better, life just goes on.
So more reading and less media for me. Keep building on our dreams.
Enjoy your books everyone.
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I have been reading books by Ben Macintyre. Great stories exceptionally well written.
Just reading Operation Mincemeat which was the story of how a dead body with appropriate documents was able to deceive the Germans in a most critical invasion scenario
Found a great review of it and thought it worth plugging
Ugh why is Macintyre so good!??! This book was BEYOND anything I could have hoped for, excellent in every way, every page.
Rivals The Spy and the Traitor, but this one was just so ... imaginative, yet all true.
“The plan was born in the mind of a novelist and took shape through a most unlikely cast of characters: a brilliant barrister, a family of undertakers, a forensic pathologist, a gold prospector, an inventor, a submarine captain, a transvestite English spymaster, a rally driver, a pretty secretary, a credulous Nazi, and a grumpy admiral who loved fly-fishing.”
“Wars are won by men like Bill Darby, storming up the beach with all guns blazing, and by men like Leverton, sipping his tea as the bombs fell. They are won by planners correctly calculating how many rations and contraceptives an invading force will need; by tacticians laying out grand strategy; by generals inspiring the men they command; by politicians galvanizing the will to fight; and by writers putting war into words. They are won by acts of strength, bravery, and guile. But they are also won by feats of imagination. Amateur, unpublished novelists, the framers of Operation Mincemeat, dreamed up the most unlikely concatenation of events, rendered them believable, and sent them off to war, changing reality through lateral thinking and proving that it is possible to win a battle fought in the mind, from behind a desk, and from beyond the grave. Operation Mincemeat was pure make-believe; and it made Hitler believe something that changed the course of history.”
Just reading Operation Mincemeat which was the story of how a dead body with appropriate documents was able to deceive the Germans in a most critical invasion scenario
Found a great review of it and thought it worth plugging
Ugh why is Macintyre so good!??! This book was BEYOND anything I could have hoped for, excellent in every way, every page.
Rivals The Spy and the Traitor, but this one was just so ... imaginative, yet all true.
“The plan was born in the mind of a novelist and took shape through a most unlikely cast of characters: a brilliant barrister, a family of undertakers, a forensic pathologist, a gold prospector, an inventor, a submarine captain, a transvestite English spymaster, a rally driver, a pretty secretary, a credulous Nazi, and a grumpy admiral who loved fly-fishing.”
“Wars are won by men like Bill Darby, storming up the beach with all guns blazing, and by men like Leverton, sipping his tea as the bombs fell. They are won by planners correctly calculating how many rations and contraceptives an invading force will need; by tacticians laying out grand strategy; by generals inspiring the men they command; by politicians galvanizing the will to fight; and by writers putting war into words. They are won by acts of strength, bravery, and guile. But they are also won by feats of imagination. Amateur, unpublished novelists, the framers of Operation Mincemeat, dreamed up the most unlikely concatenation of events, rendered them believable, and sent them off to war, changing reality through lateral thinking and proving that it is possible to win a battle fought in the mind, from behind a desk, and from beyond the grave. Operation Mincemeat was pure make-believe; and it made Hitler believe something that changed the course of history.”
Dona Ferentes
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many a convict , when the 7 years were up, left Tasmania for Victoria; this was especially true at the time of the gold rushes .
The text is a collection of vignettes, with a few biases; the recidivists earned criminal records in their new home, some settlers tried, often successfully, to hide their pasts. Many slipped into obscurity.
many a convict , when the 7 years were up, left Tasmania for Victoria; this was especially true at the time of the gold rushes .
The text is a collection of vignettes, with a few biases; the recidivists earned criminal records in their new home, some settlers tried, often successfully, to hide their pasts. Many slipped into obscurity.
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Found an old book on my travels recently....
Living Biographies of Great philosophers By Henry Thomas & Dana lee Thomas
Very interesting book to read how the people of our past thought about life!
I think the one thought that jumped off the page was when i was reading about Plato was....
"To create something of beauty is to Conquer Death"
Living Biographies of Great philosophers By Henry Thomas & Dana lee Thomas
Very interesting book to read how the people of our past thought about life!
I think the one thought that jumped off the page was when i was reading about Plato was....
"To create something of beauty is to Conquer Death"
