NFR What Are You Reading
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Hello PNWFF members. New to the forum and look forward to participating in discussion.
Just finished "The Explorers" by Martin Dugard, a story of outcast explorers and their impossible success. The author explains how curiosity, hope, passion, courage, independence, self-discipline, and perseverance are required for a successful expedition. Take away one of the seven and the expedition is doomed. Next read beings winter is around the corner will be about Ernest Shackelton and the ill-fated Endurance.
Just finished "The Explorers" by Martin Dugard, a story of outcast explorers and their impossible success. The author explains how curiosity, hope, passion, courage, independence, self-discipline, and perseverance are required for a successful expedition. Take away one of the seven and the expedition is doomed. Next read beings winter is around the corner will be about Ernest Shackelton and the ill-fated Endurance.
I've been on a John Le Carre kick for the past few months. On to A Perfect Spy now, which is great. If you haven't ready any, I would start at Call for the Dead, and then work through the Karla trilogy (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honorable Schoolboy, and Smiley's People). Also, there's a great new documentary on Apple+ about David Cornwell (pen name John Le Carre) called The Pigeon Tunnel. And if you really want to geek out, the BBC's adaptation of Tinker Tailor and Smiley's People are fantastic. Alec Guinness is Smiley. I'm pretty sure you can find both on YouTube.
I just finished Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey.
It was the author’s first book and ended up as a finalist for the Pulitzer about ten years ago. (I wonder what that rise to fame would have been like
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I’m not a huge reader or critic but thought it was very well written. Evidently it’s the retelling of a Russian fable or fairy tale.
It was the author’s first book and ended up as a finalist for the Pulitzer about ten years ago. (I wonder what that rise to fame would have been like
)I’m not a huge reader or critic but thought it was very well written. Evidently it’s the retelling of a Russian fable or fairy tale.
Fascinating book!
You can watch the entire BBC series Tinker Tailor and then Smiley's People (both with Alec Guinness) on YouTube. The sound quality isn't stellar, but the story and acting are, and much like the books they have a real ring of truth. The more recent remake of Tinker Tailor is also great!
Yeah, the BBC mini-series' are great. I find myself watching them about once a year. The Gary Oldman Tinker Tailor is pretty good, but it's hard to fit so much into a single movie. It's a pretty killer cast though. I'd love to see more modern Smiley stuff (there were rumors of a Smiley's People series remake a few years ago with Oldman), but I won't hold my breath.
Have you watched Slow Horses? Mick Herron (the author upon whose work the show is based) is the only contemporary heir apparent to Le Carre. The books are great, too.
Westfly Refugee
Steelhead
It's always good to have a deeper understanding of where you live.....
Just released last month - "Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley" by David G. Lewis
A lot of history that simply isn't taught or even talked about is contained within this book which relies on primary sources.
A small sample -- the original Coastal Reservation as planned encompassed most of Oregon's central coast, from Tillamook down past Lincoln City (!)
Just released last month - "Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley" by David G. Lewis
A lot of history that simply isn't taught or even talked about is contained within this book which relies on primary sources.
A small sample -- the original Coastal Reservation as planned encompassed most of Oregon's central coast, from Tillamook down past Lincoln City (!)
x2 - the 1954 Western Oregon Indian Termination terminated the legal existance of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde (over 30 tribes and bands), the federal funding of their education and healthcare programs, and tribal rights to 60,000 acres that included prime steelhead and salmon habitat.
Decades of effort led them to being once again recognized as a formal tribe in 1983, which allowed them to leverage the 1988 National Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to build the Spirit Mountain casino which since being opened pays for all cradle to grave reservation programs, as well as donating millions to various non-tribal non-profits around the state each year.
The week long annual get together of all the tribes and bands is a sight to behold. Among them (hard to miss when that long line of Harley's roll in) is a chapter of BACA - Bikers Against Child Abuse - their members making sure Foster kids are being treated right in their assigned homes. Lot to respect there.
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The Grand Ronde Tribe also bought the now defunct Blue Heron paper mill in Oregon City.
Got two books this week in the mail...
One before Scotland trip and the other is a self published book from a good friend after years of pushing from friends and family his journey and adventure in Alaska back in the pipeline days! (We have had some of the stories around camp fires!)
One before Scotland trip and the other is a self published book from a good friend after years of pushing from friends and family his journey and adventure in Alaska back in the pipeline days! (We have had some of the stories around camp fires!)
I just reread The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen. Several reviews call it a "humorus" book and certainly there are many passages that made me laugh out loud but overall, there was for me a deep sadness in the story line. I had to remind myself it's fiction.
Re-reading three of my favorites from the past. Cormac MaCarthy’s Border Trilogy is 2/3 down with All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing finished. Waiting on the feed of Cities of the Plain. Still think The Crossing is one of the finest reads I’ve come across in 70+ years. Discovering a love of reading at a young age and the facination that a brick and mortar library brought to my life has never left. Good memories but then again it’s nice to be able to change font size. 
