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CHECKPOINT SYNDROME by Liran Ron Furer

In late 2003, a new book appeared in Tel-Aviv. This book: "Checkpoint Syndrome", was written by a young Israeli who had just finished his National Service in the Israeli army. After he was trained, he was sent to serve on the checkpoints. When he finished his service, and was back as a civilian, he looked back on his life as a soldier at the checkpoints, and he wrote a story about his military service.

Here is a review by the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz of the book: https://www.haaretz.com/1.4766243

The book itself is available online here: https://ifamericansknew.org/download/ch ... ndrome.pdf

It's a good time to re-read this.

ORIGINAL: Zorch

It's a good time to re-read this.

warspite1

I think when HG Wells put this story into a book version he moved too far away from Jeff Wayne's brilliant musical. I can't recall a single ULLA!!!!! in Wells' deeply disappointed written version

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Zorch

It's a good time to re-read this.

warspite1

I think when HG Wells put this story into a book version he moved too far away from Jeff Wayne's brilliant musical. I can't recall a single ULLA!!!!! in Wells' deeply disappointed written version

Well, he didn't have Sir Richard Burton. Or Elizabeth Taylor.

I'll need to get this second volume pre-ordered asap [:)]

This is what I got as my "mystery surprise" selection this month.

Meh. I need to whittle my selections to get better stuff. Still reading it, maybe better the next few hundred pages.

Not sure why LoA will not publish Upton Sinclair in annotation, esp. Lanny Budd series.
Better luck next month, I guess.

loa.org

When I first glanced at the forum today. It looked like the title of this thread was "What Bank Are You Robbing at the Moment?"

I’ve been reading the free eBooks that Osprey Publishing have been giving away.

The latest batch of five are out today:

https://ospreypublishing.com/blog/Free_eBooks_week_3/

ORIGINAL: GaryChildress

When I first glanced at the forum today. It looked like the title of this thread was "What Bank Are You Robbing at the Moment?"

only if you:

a) wash your hands first; and,
b) maintain 2m distance from other customers

I am currently reading The Kill List by Frederick Forsyth.

“These Truths: A History of the United States.”
Single-volume histories of the United States are rare these days. Popular historians write tomes about great Americans, and professional historians write about the country’s myriad flaws. What is impressive about writer’s narrative is how effortlessly she weaves both strands into a single compelling narrative.
-by Jill Lepore

ORIGINAL: redcoat


I’ve been reading the free eBooks that Osprey Publishing have been giving away.

The latest batch of five are out today:

https://ospreypublishing.com/blog/Free_eBooks_week_3/

It sounds nice but I see that you have to be a member. Oh well . . .

I'm now reading Hugh Bicheno's Blood Royal which picks up where his other book Battle Royal leaves off.

I had thought that I had a good general understanding of the War of the Roses before I started to read his books. Boy was I wrong! That is a good thing! Acute labor shortages allowed otherwise indentured peasants to become free and contracted labor. English common law allowed women some rights, most notably the right to inherit property. An age of mailed males working out anger management issues and whose singular skill was weaponry. Unscrupulous and larcenous nobles using the royal stations to feather their own nests. Cades rebellion, lollards, influential and wealthy merchants of the Staple and so much more!

George R.R. Martin's works are impressive, but the real life story is so much better.

Kershaw's monster 2-volume work has been condensed into one volume. I think its time I finally set about this (abridged) monster....

A new selection has been presented to me by LoA Director as an enticement to "join" LoA
Little does he know, I am already a member!! Is ok, I will still take advantage of his offer,
and still get my "mystery" select next month!!! So I will only owe them $40+ dollars, instead of $30!!!!
Oh, wait, now it is $70 I think....no matter, I shall read them...LoA, the "mount Olympus" of readings!!!
loa dot org ... is some fine reading

ORIGINAL: warspite1

I'll need to get this second volume pre-ordered asap [:)]

warspite1

Ordered - should be out at the end of the month [:)]

With the "shut down" limiting my Uni Library access to "we don't know when you can look at our stacks or borrow any more books again, go away" (and thus, cutting deeply now into my usual monthly reading habits),

I have been striving to find something interesting via the intertubes, and came across this advice from philobiblos's blog:

"- Harvard invites crowdsourced transcription help for the recently-digitized Colonial North America collection. Get started here."

From that link,

https://fromthepage.com/harvardlibrary

I found myself in a VAST collection of images (of books and their pages) from the Colonial America time frame, which you can look at and help transcribe (if so inclined) or just look about.

It was fascinating. I started to look for notes etc. about Indian wars / interaction, found a Zoology section (which my Dad would have loved, he taught Biology for 40 years), and then found my way into a "Music" section. Aaaaaaas a classically trained musician (I can play about 8 instruments, but only the flute well) I thought, "Wow, I might be good at that part."

Lo and behold, I then spent an hour or two just studying a musical manuscript from 1715: a copy of a Portugese version of the classic Christmas hymn "Adeste Fidelis"

Absolutely fascinating.

https://fromthepage.com/harvardlibrary

Official History of the Canadian Army in Korea
STRANGE BATTLEGROUND

Lack of access to the library and lack of income has led to a massive reread campaign. Just restarted Peter Higgins' rather wierd Wolfhound Century - not sure if its Steam Punk, SF or just suggesting that Stalin spent too long in his early years listening to Angels

Harry Potter [8|]