Some books and passages just beg you to read them aloud! Here is an example - from Holy Disorders by Edmund Crispin. A 40-something finicky composer of church music and organist, goes shopping for a butterfly net in a rather stuffy British department store during the Blitz. The book itself is a Golden Age murder mystery and a spy thriller all in one and all of it is hilarious! Naturally, the bad guys get it in the neck at the end but, like most of Crispin's work, it is a wild ride! Try reading aloud every now and again!
The subtitle reads "The Political Education of Theodore Roosevelt." Politics used to be 'something else' even back then...but essentially, money equalled power and business was where the money was. Teddy was something of an idealist any why not - when he overcame so much - more in an effort to prove he could to himself. Now all he had to do was convince everyone else. Easy? Read and find out. Highly recommended.
Misguided people often like to cite other misguided people because doing the actual research can be time consuming and requires reading, and understanding, a lot of biochemistry. The often cited 'dangers' are, in fact, 1. only apply to certain people, 2. temporary as in during adaptation, 3. usually caused by one thing which is 4. easily 'cured'. Further information can be found on the youtube channel Low Carb Down Under wherein scientific and clinical results and information are given in easily digestible 30 minute presentations.
NOT PORNOGRAPHIC Sorry, guys, but we do have some standards. Tired of "crashing and burning" or committing 'social suicide" when it comes to women? This book will give you the ugly truth you don't want to hear - you're doing it wrong! Then she'll clue you in. In my review of her book, I have to say that she's told you more than you really need to know but apparently she's not a woman who does things by half. There's even humor in it! Available online only and most likely in a 'brown paper wrapper'. I have sanitized the cover for this video to keep it 'friendly'. I encourage you to get this book and read it even if you think you don't need it.
Three books and 1 problem. A Fighting Chance, Danger Money, and Hunting with the Hounds are three works that suffered from the worst thing a story can do... FAILURE TO GRIP. Bored by the fourth chapter and we toss that one aside. Sure any author can produce a dud now and then every other one you have also fails, seriously?!?!? I bought them else they wouldn't be here but I feel a cull is overdue. If you like Barbara Cartland's work - Mignon Eberhart is the romance & mystery writer for you! Enjoy!
How many times have you heard this? I find this situation to be very sad. One of humanity's greatest accomplishments is the transmission of knowledge over time. We can hear from them, in their own words, know what they knew, hear how they lived, thought, believed and felt. But there are those incurious people who aren't willing to spend a bit of time reading and yet, if it was a movie, they'd spend hours glued to the screen...because it's easier to imbibe someone else's interpretation than to form their own pictures/narratives in their mind. Very sad.
Ernest Hemingway (aka Papa), 1899-1961, was a journalist and a classic author of understated fiction and memoir and sometimes it was difficult to distinguish between the two because he did live life he depicted in his books. Big game hunting in Africa, an aficionado of bullfighting and horseracing, and he was into the whole Paris & Harry's Bar scene as well as blue-water fishing out in the Gulf of Mexico. He married 4 times and had three sons. He won the Nobel, the Pulitzer and was awarded a Bronze Star. For beginners: read "A Moveable Feast".
Dr. Robert Lustig's latest work on the subject of nutrition and human health, written for the general population, is out and although I'm not in complete agreement with him, I'd still recommend this book for those newly interested in this topic - how to eat to be healthy from cradle to grave. Fair warning: he's from New York and doesn't take prisoners. Available everywhere.
Plants really don't want to be eaten so, they evolved into chemical factories and have come up with various phytotoxins to call for help, warn of danger, resist attack, punish and/or kill attackers and, finally, to seduce preferred pollinators and seed-spreaders to do their work for them. Since humans evolved on this planet, what was created to affect various lower lifeforms will also affect humans. Please, be careful what you eat and make sure you process those plants you do eat thoroughly...because they might kill you.