Being unemployed has been tremendous for my leisure time. Here’s what I’ve been reading and listening to this month. (Affiliate links included) Richest Man in Babylon by George S Clason Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett Start by Jon Acuff Surely You...
My journey through the Discworld series has brought me here to Moving Pictures. The tenth book in the publishing order and the twelfth I’ve read. Since I went back and started at the beginning I can say they just keep getting better and better and I’m...
I love a good dystopian tale. I also love reading things in Charlton Heston’s voice. So I am looking forward to finally reading the book that inspired Soylent Green. Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison. In 1798 Thomas Malthus published his Essay on the...
I’ve got a lot of catching up to do. I didn’t discover the Discworld books until just a couple of years ago. And since there’s 40 something of them, I’ve got a way to go. I jumped around for a bit at first and read some Death books and the City Watch novels. But I’ve...
It’s been a little while since I’ve posted what I’ve been listening to on Blinkist. I was all set to post something last week but then the world fell apart. I know…excuses, excuses. I am enjoying the format. It’s like a podcast minus the...
In the past couple of days, I’ve hiked several miles and been to the gym twice. In that time I’ve also listened to 12 books on this Blinkist thing. That is non-fiction books condensed to 15 -20 audiobooks. I’m really enjoying it. Even when I hit a bad book, it’s not...
It's a collection of short stories about time travel, alien invasions, selling homes in alternate dimensions, giant combiner robots, post-apocalyptic beagles and much more. And it's all read by the amazing Phil Thron.