What have you been reading this March?

[Georgann]

For the time travel Bingo slot, I read Time Trials . It was a good adventure!

[Audrey]

Georgann wrote: "For the time travel Bingo slot, I read Time Trials . It was a good adventure!"

Yay! D. J. Butler is a friend of mine.

[Pierre]

I finished Conspirator and I am starting Deceiver, continuing to enjoy that series.

[Andrea]

Finished The Secret of Abdu El-Yezdi, this is one intricate time travel series. Got to give the author credit for keeping track of all his loose ends and explaining all the paradoxes without the reader's mind blowing up (or I've just seen enough Star Trek that I have a lot of practice with time travel)

Back to the Jump Universe with The Price of Peace by Mike Moscoe. I'm going to be short one book this month, will have to see if I can catch up in April. I have to keep up with a pace of about 3 per month if I'm to finish by the end of the year :)

[Georgann]

Audrey wrote: "Georgann wrote: "For the time travel Bingo slot, I read Time Trials . It was a good adventure!"

Yay! D. J. Butler is a friend of mine." Cool!!

[K.G.]

Tony wrote: "I have finished The Boys, Vol. 11: Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men and started on The Boys, Vol. 12: The Bloody Doors Off, which is the final volume ..."

Hey Tony! I wanted to chime in on your thoughts on unchecked capitalism... It showed up in my email feed, and of course, when I logged on to Goodreads to reply I was rerouted away and now I can't find the entry! So I'll do it here, I guess!

I agree with all that you said. It's a topic that I often think about, and I believe is well-represented in sci-fi and some tabletop RPGs (Like Shadowrun!). I am not anti capitalist, it's just that capitalism needs to have a conscience... or in the absence of self-imposed morality, it needs to be regulated. Unbridled or unchecked, it invariably leads to oligarchy and/or autocracy. We can't have the Newt Gingriches of the world deconstructing the guardrails so his cronies can do whatever they want (and keep he and his ilk in power!) Yes, it began under Reagan when Newt emerged on the scene and put party and win at all cost before country and basic human decency.

To put in into an easy metaphor, I mean. if I own a farm, then I do my best to keep the fox out of the henhouse! So why do we let that old eggstealing chicken killer run amok in corporate America? We should not. It's just common sense. (And nothing against actual foxes! I happen to like them a lot. I just don't let them get into my henhouse!)

My 2 cents... thank you... please drive through.