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When a wartime shortage of pins interrupted his collecting of flies, he turned his attention to ants, which could be stored in jars

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Hey mojo lad...Love John D MacDonald...Have read the Travis McGee series a couple of times through...Starting on his stand alone novels now...Went to Bahia Mar in Fort Lauderdale a couple of months ago and took my picture at the plaque they have for John D. at the captains office near the slip, that no longer exists, where the Busted Flush was moored...

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A German shepherd named Tinsley, first thought to be a lost dog, led police to the site of its owner’s rollover crash. The vehicle’s occupants were seriously hurt, but thanks to Tinsley’s dogged efforts...

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Bagchucker...is everything ok at home?

i was thinkin about "its"

how we got all this harem scarem alarum

regarding LGBTQXYZCH

that the reporter won't mischaracterize or mispromulgate or misattribute

the true nature of the b*tch



but a dog you cannot ask



so a good reporter mighta lifted the dog's leg

and spared us a its

which is all i need to know

to scritch my dog-on-dog punny

his-or-her itch

I guess not...

kermy's 2021 reading list:

Blood and Thunder – H Sides
Badger State (A Wisconsin Memoir) – K McDonough Mundo
California Fire and Life – D Winslow
The eighth sister – R Dugoni
The awakened kingdom – N K Jemisin
Fortune’s formula: The untold story of the scientific betting system that beat the casinos and Wall Street – W Poundstone
China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties (History of Imperial China Book 2) – M Lewis
Gravity’s rainbow – T Pynchon
Razor girl – C Hiassen
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance – R Chernow
Jitterbug perfume – T Robbins
Killer collective – B Eisler
Guns, germs and steel – J Diamond
Agent running in the field – J LeCarre
The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962-1976 – F Dikotter
Ball lightning – Cixin Liu
The Falcon and the Snowman: a true story of friendship and espionage – R Lindsey
The power of the dog – D Winslow
Skinny legs and all – T Robbins

NICE list!
Like the diversity and LOVE the Tom Robbins reads.
"Skinny Legs" is awesome and funny! and Jitterbug Perfume is charming as all get out.
And Hampton Sides classic too! Great historical tome.

Ever read any Pete Dexter?

I'm too embarrassed to post my 2021 list. Haven't read many books in the covid era, and what little I've read has been pretty trashy. I've mostly been reading true crime articles, a lot of them from the archives of Texas Monthly, which is a great source for that particular genre.

2022 has started off a bit better. Just finished The Sinner and the Saint (2021) by Kevin Birmingham, which tells the story behind Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”: the events leading up to its writing, the difficult conditions under which it was written, and the notorious real life French murderer who gave Dostoevsky the initial spark of inspiration. Good job by the author, who obviously did a ton of research. Lots of terrific detail about 19th century Russian life, if you’re into that sort of thing.

2021 list. All of these were started, not all were finished! (roughly 70% finished) I've become much more aggressive these days about giving up on books that aren't going anywhere for me. (especially after reading 4000 weeks) A couple of these, Pirsig and Steinbeck, are re-reads

Title	Author
The Scout Mindset	Julia Galef
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance	Robert M. Pirsig
Crashed	Adam Tooze, Simon Vance
The Dawn of Everything	David Graeber, David Wengrow
The Gilded Edge	Catherine Prendergast
Four Thousand Weeks	Oliver Burkeman	might be my favorite of the year
The Year of Magical Thinking	Joan Didion
This Is How I Lied	Heather Gudenkauf	Saw it while waiting in line and bought it
What Happened to You?	Oprah Winfrey, Bruce D. Perry
Our Team	Luke Epplin	My baseball read of the year
The Sleepwalkers	Christopher Clark	WWI stuff
The Planets	Dava Sobel	Thanks 'chucker not a subject that interests me but she's a great writer
Courtroom 302	Steve Bogira
The Gift of Fear	Gavin De Becker
Ages of American Capitalism	Jonathan Levy
Doom	Niall Ferguson
Seven Fallen Feathers	Tanya Talaga
The Secret Life of Groceries	Benjamin Lorr
The Safety Trap	Spencer Coursen
Travels with Charley	John Steinbeck
Reign of Terror	Spencer Ackerman
A History of the World in 6 Glasses	Tom Standage
Extra Life	Steven Johnson
Trying Not to Try	Edward Slingerland
Racecraft	Barbara J. Fields, Karen E. Fields
Without Conscience	Robert D. Hare, PhD
Browsings	Michael Dirda
The Swerve	Stephen Greenblatt
Somebody's Daughter	Ashley C. Ford
Sula	Toni Morrison
Wanting	Luke Burgis
Futureproof	Kevin Roose
Calling Bullshit	Carl T. Bergstrom, Jevin D. West, Patrick Zeller
The Dynasty	Jeff Benedict
Subtract	Leidy Klotz
Genius Makers	Cade Metz
The Empathy Diaries	Sherry Turkle
The Collapse of Parenting	Leonard Sax
The Magician's Nephew	C. S. Lewis
The Echo Maker	Richard Powers
Ghosting the News	Margaret Sullivan, Amanda Carlin
The Ministry for the Future	Kim Stanley Robinson
Cadillac Desert	Marc Reisner
Getting Things Done	David Allen
The Future Is History	Masha Gessen
The Tyranny of Merit	Michael J. Sandel
Billionaire Wilderness	Justin Farrell
Atomic Habits	James Clear
The End of the Myth	Greg Grandin
Alchemy	Rory Sutherland
Jackpot	Michael Mechanic
Fears of a Setting Sun	Dennis C. Rasmussen
Caste	Isabel Wilkerson
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity	Carlo M. Cipolla
Acting with Power	Deborah Gruenfeld
Nomadland	Jessica Bruder
The Cult of Smart	Fredrik deBoer
Metropolis	Ben Wilson
The Hard Thing About Hard Things	Ben Horowitz
Humble Pi	Matt Parker
The Overstory	Richard Powers
Notes on a Nervous Planet	Matt Haig
The Long Snapper	Jeffrey Marx
The Art of Invisibility	Kevin Mitnick
How to Disappear	Akiko Busch
Enemy of All Mankind	Steven Johnson