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Nuclear War: A Scenario​

by Annie Jacobsen

This book was loaned to me by a thanksgiving dinner companion on Sunday October 12 .

Originally the plan was Chinese Dinner & The Long Walk Movie.

As it turned out I got a meal to go and a long wait in Emergency for another dinner companion who felt that they were experiencing symptoms that mirrored their previous heart attack.

As I waited and waited and waited - I started reading this book which describes in full detail a scenario of a nuclear attack on the US and the response plans that are in place that very, very likely would be executed.

My dinner companion did not have a heart attack after all and that is a happier ending than I anticipate for this book that I have not yet finished.
 
Never, never look for conclusions ... ends are so upsetting! You often find them on pedestals or columns!

Like antes on track for a picnic in the woods ... that's life ... crazy but in denial!

In occult fashion we go there in a rush ... part of the fight, or flight syndrome ... a game?

There appears to be a paranoia about flight, fey, and other disturbing runs ... thus the abstract! Never enter the mystery without a bit of light and levity ... or you could get rodded and shafted ... therein a hook!

Its biblical ... all in a book ...
 
I got enough nuclear war in the 70s and 80s to last me a lifetime. The recent resurgence of tension that could trigger one has been alternately amusing and frightening. Too tired to read right now. Still battling jet lag, the mental equivalent of a nuclear strike. :rolleyes:
 
Mendalla said:
I got enough nuclear war in the 70s and 80s to last me a lifetime. The recent resurgence of tension that could trigger one has been alternately amusing and frightening. Too tired to read right now. Still battling jet lag, the mental equivalent of a nuclear strike. :rolleyes:
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It is like a railroading of moods ... or Streetcar of Desire ... if you can stand the howls! That 'd be the fiddler ... the essence in the messing ... something else to get thro' ... what' Sah Matter?

It doth draw ...
 
I've read a lot of historical fiction set during WWII for awhile. That makes some of the current events a little more alarming. I'm trying to find other eras of historical fiction. Currently reading one series set in London, UK in the Victorian era. In waiting for the next installment from the library
 
Carolla said:
US funeral director & author Caitlyn Doughty
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I saw this earlier and forgot to respond. She has a terrific YouTube channel on death, funerary practices, their history, and such.

www.youtube.com

Caitlin Doughty

Funeral Industry Reformer. Green Death Advocate. Morbid History Club. www.orderofthegooddeath.com www.caitlindoughty.com
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Northwind said:
I've read a lot of historical fiction set during WWII for awhile. That makes some of the current events a little more alarming. I'm trying to find other eras of historical fiction. Currently reading one series set in London, UK in the Victorian era. In waiting for the next installment from the library
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Northwind have you read any of Laurie R King's series on Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes? I love them! I think it begins with The Beekeeper's Apprentice. Each is in a slightly different historical & geographic setting but carries on with the main characters. Brilliant dialogue and lots happening to keep the reader engaged. I think you would enjoy the series. I read one or two a year I think.
 
Carolla said:
Northwind have you read any of Laurie R King's series on Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes? I love them! I think it begins with The Beekeeper's Apprentice. Each is in a slightly different historical & geographic setting but carries on with the main characters. Brilliant dialogue and lots happening to keep the reader engaged. I think you would enjoy the series. I read one or two a year I think.
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I'll have to check that out. Thanks. I've got the last Thursday Murder Club book on hold. I'll need another good series

Edit: it's on my Want to Read list Goodreads. The library has an ebook version of the first book.
 
I'm reading of Tom Harpur's Afterlife because it seems the myth never concludes adequately to stop the reverberations through the mystery ... always some waste remains as if prodigal!
 
Starting a new book - "Field Notes for the Wilderness - Practices for an Evolving Faith" by Sarah Bessey. Canadian author! Looks like an interesting read that I'll take slowly & thoughtfully.
 
Reading a fascinating novel right now, post French Revolution, The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue, written from the POV of a young female anarchist a century after the Revolution. On a steam engine with personality. It's rather well done.
 
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BetteTheRed said:
The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue
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Maybe I'll give it a shot. I have long had good intentions about reading her (she's based here in London but moves around a lot) but whenever I find a title of hers that I think will interest me, I seem to bog down. Though I'm not sure if that's her writing or my general disinclination to read anything anymore outside of the odd non-fiction that catches my fancy.
 
Carolla said:
Northwind have you read any of Laurie R King's series on Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes? I love them! I think it begins with The Beekeeper's Apprentice. Each is in a slightly different historical & geographic setting but carries on with the main characters. Brilliant dialogue and lots happening to keep the reader engaged. I think you would enjoy the series. I read one or two a year I think.
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Laurie R King is one of my favourite novelists.

I also recommend her standalone , and shorter series.
Folly is fantastic.
 
I'm reading "The Covenant of Water" right now. So well written, but so long....It will take me awhile.
 
Nancy said:
I'm reading "The Covenant of Water" right now. So well written, but so long....It will take me awhile.
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That topic was covered when I took a course headed up by Fred Wilks in Chicago during 74-75 as a WR Grace orientation! It was far too complex for many of the participants ... they just didn't get it ... non-comprehension Al! Somatic ...

The short run at psychosomatics! If you don't believe in the psyche pool you wither ... source of thou Goethe ...
 
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