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Feb 24, 2017 07:38AM
I have a friend going on safari this summer. I'm pretty sure she will rely on the tour guides for communication.
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That's cool Janice. Someone went on a safari. My brother in law I think. He spent some time in Africa. Or maybe one salesman he spends time in Africa trying to help improve agronomy to have more productive land. It's funny I never realized there are all sorts of places I'd like to hunt for game we don't have. I realize they are all in North America. I guess because north American game doesn't seem that exotic. To go to any other continent I wouldn't want to hunt those animals I'd just like to go on a safari or similar and just take it all in.
I'd love to go on safari. One day perhaps.Travis, you might want to check Janice's reporting rules for read books. I see you are keeping a tally in one thread at the top which is cool for keeping track but you also need to generate an individual post when you complete a book (so a notification occurs) in the same format. I hope that makes sense.
Yeah. I've been filled in Sarah. Just have to probably repost a couple books. Thanks
Shoot I even messed up with that last book because I didn't put the book count. I'll go through here one of these days and straighten it out.preferably sooner than later
2/12 Lisey's Story task #17 Where are you from? US. Read a book set in country or author is from. Double whammy both Maine, US
4/12 Butcher Bird
task 27. Do you have a tattoo. No. Read a book with tattoo on cover. Have a tattooed man as well as a tattoo artist as mc.
5/12 Congo task 50. Which language would you like to learn. Swahili. I picked this up as a short book to movie for the toppler. Boom. Several characters speak Swahili as Swahili is spoken all along the congo
6/12 The Terminal Man task #22. been in an accident. yes. read a book set in hospital. MC is in hospital to undergo experimental brain surgery to try to fix epileptic seizures in which he gets extremely violent during and wants to end the violent episodes.
Sorry to have repeated things Travis. Nice one!
Darn! You made me add two more books to my TBR list. I might have to spend a month and read of all of the MC books on it. I own several already.I don't think I have ever heard anyone speak Swahili.
Travis of NNY wrote: "6/12 The Terminal Man task #22. been in an accident. yes. read a book set in hospital. MC is in hospital to undergo experimental brain surgery to try to fix epileptic seizures in which ..."not as experimental as it may sound.....or at least....it happens.
But you have to remember when Crichton wrote each book. The terminal man was written in 1972 at which time it was new and experimental.
wasn't aware of the time of writing - but I am looking back to personal experience in the 90s. Have to say, the experiments so far have not been very successful....mainly stem cell research - being implanted. I wasn't at all knocking the book just adding my 2 cents worth about the reality of the thing.
I understood where you were coming from Deborah. Interesting how certain things advance so fast in science and other things they never get much of a handle on.
yes...stem cells looked so promising but have not delivered. I think maybe they will but much later than expected. Not enough research gets funded. Mainly that's why research gets grounded.
Show me the money... that's where the research gets funded.
7/12 task #2. Favorite sport. Sex.Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex An entire book of sex. Very interesting. Maybe everything you never wanted to know. Lol. Remember it's science so things can get a little weird
9/12 task 20. Favorite mode of transportation . Automobile Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars: The Fast Life and Sudden Death of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Obviously brand new cars fits automobiles. The story itself didn't include a whole lot of brand new cars because often band members had no licence. They also didn't always have much money or free time to spend it. The cars they bought weren't the high end cars you may associate with rock stars today. They were actually pretty simple men with a passion for music and booze. Lots of booze .
10/12 task 42 set in space. Seveneves The moon explodes and a selection of humans have to go live on a spaceship to try to preserve and then remake man kind once they can find a new habitation until the earth becomes inhabitable again. Which it does after 5000 years.
11/12 task 28. Classic. Read a classic. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ written in 1880. A slow novel as is the case of many books written in the period.
12/12 task 12 favorite pet. Dog The Hunting Dogs has dogs in title. Also has dogs in story. A missing dog, or rather a found dog leads to clues to a mysterious death.
Great reading list for part one, Travis!
I am now the mirror image of myself. Or at least that's what I was going for. Be better if I could have turned the letters backwards but close enough
I see it now, Travis. It really throws me when people change their avitar picture (not so much now as it used to) but when your name changed, I thought I was loosing it. Cherie eirehC. CHERIE 3I43H9. There is probably a way to make backward letters in aski. TRAVIS 5IVA4T. How about that? ;0)
Yeah I know what you mean. You get used to seeing the same thing. When the picture changes you're not sure if it's a new person. The name change was completely random. I just kind of did it one night on a whim without much thought or even much of a reason why.
It threw me at first after you changed it. For some reason my brain still changes it to Travis Sitar. I guess it's in hunt of pattern/word it recognizes : )
I did enjoy The Hunting dogs. It was a good enough mystery and I liked the setting in Norway. Turned out to be #8 in a series but it didn't seem to matter. It worked as a stand alone just fine. I picked it up as a daily deal not realizing it was part of a series. I do plan to track down the first book at some point and if I like it read through the series actually
Been having trouble making books fit lately. Clearly not being creative enough Currently working on task 9 married.
A Man Called Ove
Ove was, is married but his wife has passed. We visit the past of his life with her and then reach the present of a man who thinks he wants to kill himself to reunite with his wife again. In reality he is the most reluctant hero I've witnessed. There are probably few who have a love for their spouse as Ove does for his wife even as he cannot express it in any standard measures. His actions of his life speak what he himself cannot say or show through physical emotions.
Ove is one of the more unique and interesting characters that I've read in a while.
What about using The Nix for the issue your passionate about. Lots of stuff involving children (view spoiler)
Goodness Sarah I completely overlooked that question altogether. That's the problem I look through all the questions and tasks and sometimes miss opportunities. In fact when I was catching my thread up for part 1 I found 3 books for tasks I never realized fit. Thanks for the Nix , sadly I had looked several times and never made the connection. Perfect fit though. :)
Easy to overlook things. I knew i was going to use it for the challenge and had to keep going back to check on my thread what task it fit. I just couldn't keep it in my head for some reason. A book recommended by favourite author. Stupid considering I read it because of that group.
You'll love this one...!! A book club & more
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The Nix (other topics)A Man Called Ove (other topics)
The Hunting Dogs (other topics)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (other topics)
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