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Lsquare28, 1 month ago to books

#NowReading

“Rendezvous With Rama”

by Arthur C. Clark

#BookWyrm #Books #Bookstodon
#BooksofMastodon
@bookstodon https://bookwyrm.social/user/LarryS/generatednote/4295208

Lsquare28, 1 month ago

@mattmaison @bookstodon I’m looking forward to this!

Lsquare28, 2 months ago to books

#NowReading

Childhood's End

by Arthur C. Clarke

#BookWyrm #Books #Bookstodon
#BooksofMastodon #ScienceFiction
@bookstodon https://bookwyrm.social/user/LarryS/generatednote/4157199

Lsquare28, 2 months ago

@mattmaison @bookstodon I read the 2001 series many Moons ago (2001, 2010, 2061, 3001). And I read “The Sentinel” (an anthology of some of his short stories), a few years back. I’m overdue to finally check out some of his other works

Lsquare28, 3 months ago to books

#NowReading

“Forward the Foundation”
by Isaac Asimov

#BookWyrm #Books #Bookstodon
#BooksofMastodon
#Foundation #IsaacAsimov #ScienceFiction
@bookstodon https://bookwyrm.social/user/LarryS/generatednote/4023287

Lsquare28, 3 months ago

@franciscawrites @bookstodon I just started it. I’ve read the rest of the Foundation books, so this is the last one, for me.

janerationx, 4 months ago to NFL

Oh, Dan. Why?

#NFL #Lions @nfl #Blogging

https://janerationx.com/take-the-points/

Lsquare28, 4 months ago

@janerationx @nfl I agree. Always take the points! Still, it was a season for Lions fans to be proud of. Though the concept of being proud of one’s football team is foreign to me…

Lsquare28, 4 months ago to books

#NowReading

“Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present”

by Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#BookWyrm #Books #Bookstodon
#BooksofMastodon
@bookstodon https://bookwyrm.social/user/LarryS/generatednote/3563379

Lsquare28, 4 months ago

@Nonya_Bidniss @bookstodon I’ve seen the author interviewed on TV a number of times, so I’m eager to finally read this.

Lsquare28, 5 months ago to books

My #Reading wrap up for 2023. I completed 16 #Books this year. #NowReading #Bookstodon #Read #BooksofMastodon
@bookstodon

“American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer”
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

“The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store”
James McBride

“Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution”
Elie Mystal
….
#LarryLooksBackAt2023

http://bookwyrm.social/user/LarryS/2023-in-the-books?key=b5df7b0f03ba49e99335243a3678bc60

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Lsquare28, 5 months ago

@bookstodon My completed #2023 cont:

“Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America”
Steven J. Ross

“Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance”
Michael R. Beschloss

“The Making of the President 1960”
Theodore H. White

“Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World”
Margaret Macmillan

“The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone”
Edward Dolnick

Antisemitism: Here and Now
Deborah E. Lipstadt

Lsquare28, 5 months ago to books

#NowReading

“Prelude to Foundation”

by Isaac Asimov

#BookWyrm #Books #Bookstodon #Read #BooksofMastodon
@bookstodon https://bookwyrm.social/user/LarryS/generatednote/3248428

Lsquare28, 5 months ago

@suelli @bookstodon Thanks, I agree. I Actually read Foundation and F&E years ago, but for reasons I don’t remember, stopped. Last year, I restarted the series at Foundation, and have now read everything except the two “prequels.” Figured I might as well check them out.

Lsquare28, 5 months ago

@suelli @bookstodon Yeah, I remember starting the original trilogy decades ago, and really enjoying it. But for reasons lost over the passage of time, I stopped during the Mule storyline, and never went back. Fast forward to last year, when I restarted at Foundation, and read the trilogy plus the two sequels. I watched the first season of the TV series, and my reaction was “meh.” Not bad, but not special.

lisamelton, 7 months ago to random

I arrived on Mastodon one year ago today. Here's what I wrote to celebrate that anniversary:

https://lisamelton.net/2023/11/03/one-year-of-mastodon/

Lsquare28, 7 months ago

@lisamelton Hey, that’s my anniversary, too!

Lsquare28, 7 months ago

@lisamelton Ha! Congrats to you, too! Though you have done a few more reposts, than I have!

j, 7 months ago to nfl

The O/U in the #NYJvsNYG game is 36.5, and I can't stop laughing. Also of note: it has very little TV coverage. 😂

@nfl

Lsquare28, 7 months ago

@j @nfl LOL. Also, Tiki Barber? Yeesh.

Lsquare28, 7 months ago

@j @baseball @baseball Bye bye phiLOLies

Lsquare28, 7 months ago

@j @nfl That game is probably gonna be ugly. :(

Lsquare28, 8 months ago

@bookstodon #JamesMcBride #HeavenAndEarthGroceryStore @bookstodon

AkaSci, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

#OTD on Sept. 17, 1976, NASA rolled out its first space shuttle, named the Enterprise, from its manufacturing plant in Palmdale, California.

The ceremony was attended by 600 invited guests and 185 media representatives.

As Enterprise emerged from the hangar, the Air Force Band of the Golden West from March Air Force Base in Riverside County, CA, played Alexander Courage’s Star Trek musical score.

https://youtu.be/83LU8vfKhsI
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/45-years-ago-space-shuttle-enterprise-makes-its-public-debut
#Enterprise #SpaceShuttle
1/n

Lsquare28, 8 months ago

@AkaSci Here it is, on the Intrepid (from when I saw it in 2019)