Trying to find a better way to track books I want to read than a random spreadsheet. I had used readinglog.info which was provided by my local public library until they shut down the program. Luckily, I regularly backed it up via their CSV export. I've used Library Thing for years, but adding books for "To Read" really screwed up a lot of the other features of the website, like recommendations, etc. I really love Free Software & the Fediverse particularly. My primary social media account is on Friendica @fu@libranet.de for now everything I post here is automatically "re-tooted" there.
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London, 1927. Since losing his beloved in the Amazon a year ago, Indiana Jones has …
started this afternoon and already a third of the way through this adventure tale of Communists, Czarists, Pentacostals & Noah's Ark.
This is William D. Haywood's own story, written during the last year of his life. …
As a Wobbly I want to read the autobiography of our founder, the IWW's Big Bill Haywood.
Describes the techniques of Mexican Indians for making masks and analyzes the symbolism, religious functions, …
Referenced in "The world of lucha libre : secrets, revelations, and Mexican national identity" by Heather Levi regarding how Lucha masks have connection to ancient Latin American religious settings, and I wanted to find out more.
Not nearly as good as the previous book in the series "...and the Dance of the Giants." While the adventure at stone henge ended with Diedre having second thoughts about marrying Indy, leading to believe we'd probably never see her again, but their on-again-off-again relationship is on for most of the book, with a note that her mother died, which I don't recall being in the last book.
Brody thinks he has found proof that there were European explorers to the Americas long before Columbus (& Leif Ericson though no mention of him) & there is one eccentric English explorer who agrees, Jack Fawcett. Of course, he disappears while in search of proof, Deidre and Indy go looking for him with very little evidence to go on. At times the book is hard to follow, the "seven veils" from the title refer to a way the people in this lost …
Not nearly as good as the previous book in the series "...and the Dance of the Giants." While the adventure at stone henge ended with Diedre having second thoughts about marrying Indy, leading to believe we'd probably never see her again, but their on-again-off-again relationship is on for most of the book, with a note that her mother died, which I don't recall being in the last book.
Brody thinks he has found proof that there were European explorers to the Americas long before Columbus (& Leif Ericson though no mention of him) & there is one eccentric English explorer who agrees, Jack Fawcett. Of course, he disappears while in search of proof, Deidre and Indy go looking for him with very little evidence to go on. At times the book is hard to follow, the "seven veils" from the title refer to a way the people in this lost world work, through magic, mystery & dreams, the convoluted plot, particularly near the end, reminds me of Illuminatus!
The middle was quite blase and easy to put down. The ending was not a total surprise, though it kept you guessing till you got there, and somewhat of a letdown.
The actual 4th book in the series, just put on hold through the Michigan e-library system, mel.org. Correctly listed as #4 in "Les aventures d'Indiana Jones" on Librarything.com
Finished this morning and realized that I had the incorrect next book in the series already borrowed from the library.
A strange mystery connects the whispering moai statues of Easter Island to the eerie ghost …
On hold at the Library, next in the 1990s Indian Jones stories from before the movie.
It's been 100 years since William Seymour, an African-American Christian revivalist, guided his small Los …
Not quite what I was expecting. I had hoped for more details on the original Azusa Street Revival, but what was there was about what I had already read on Wikipedia. That being said the rest of the book was still good. In fact I read it more quickly than I have much non-fiction the last several years. The rest was about what happened since then, from the racial split in classical pentacostolism, to the global south growth of Christianity thru the spirit filled belivers. The establishment of charismatics who chose to stay in their old churches and renew them rather than leaving to form new ones.
What I found most mighty and surprising was Pope John praying in the 20th century on 1-1-1901 & dedicating the new century to the holy spirit and man the latter rain came down.
It's been 100 years since William Seymour, an African-American Christian revivalist, guided his small Los Angeles congregation through a multiday …
Celebrate Sonic the Hedgehog's 30th anniversary with a full-color historical retrospective that explores nearly every …
Fun reference of all the Sonic games from the.90s-20s. Not something you'll read all the way through, but certainly fun to flip through. Even learned of a number of 90s arcade games I never heard of before.
For sixteen centuries the Order of Pythia has awaited the reappearance of the ancient oracle …
I first read this during summer vacation as a teenager. it was the first book I eve read that described lustful thoughts directed at a naked woman. This teenage hornball was enthralled.
I recently reread it, the story was good, and i found in the 5th chapter the particular passage I had read over and over in the 90s. All that was there was the few details I remembered and no reason to actually go to town.
A very good read. light and fast. I did have to re watch SG-1 S04E10 "Beneth the Surface" to get some of the subtext of the immediate previous mission.
While still recovering from memories of someone else living in their head, SG-1 advances to a new planet in search of the "Shield of the gods" hoping that its a defense mechanism against the Go'ahuld.
They find another very clean happy advanced city protected from the sun that would otherwise burn them to death, think climate change 40000 years from now. They all have accepted the same religion, which is lived out through the daytime soap opera of Sunrise teaching the beatitudes of their sun god.
They find the daughter of the pastor knows of a whole beyond their ark. They meet people who are barley surviving and have mixed feelings about sun rise.
The sun god they worship and fear …
A very good read. light and fast. I did have to re watch SG-1 S04E10 "Beneth the Surface" to get some of the subtext of the immediate previous mission.
While still recovering from memories of someone else living in their head, SG-1 advances to a new planet in search of the "Shield of the gods" hoping that its a defense mechanism against the Go'ahuld.
They find another very clean happy advanced city protected from the sun that would otherwise burn them to death, think climate change 40000 years from now. They all have accepted the same religion, which is lived out through the daytime soap opera of Sunrise teaching the beatitudes of their sun god.
They find the daughter of the pastor knows of a whole beyond their ark. They meet people who are barley surviving and have mixed feelings about sun rise.
The sun god they worship and fear is not Ra but their sun itself. SG-1 must find forbidden knowledge to save the people, the planet, and maybe someday mankind itself.
Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Giants is the second of 12 Indiana Jones …
I don't remember the last time i fished a book in less than week, and i would have been two days if I had more time. I had to keep turning the page to see what happens next.A brilliant story even better than some of Lucasfilm. After getting his PhD in France Indy gets his first teaching job in London by the help of Marcus Brody. He teaches an intro class that most kids gloss over but the one egg head is also the deans daughter. Shes smaet young beautiful what every young American dreams a Scottish lass may be, but he's too scared.
Then crazy men start following him, eventually figuring their employees of this girl's ex..omg. Her term paper makes some pretty bold claims that Merlin was a historical figure, and she can prove it, as her mom just happened to br heading a dig this summer in …
I don't remember the last time i fished a book in less than week, and i would have been two days if I had more time. I had to keep turning the page to see what happens next.A brilliant story even better than some of Lucasfilm. After getting his PhD in France Indy gets his first teaching job in London by the help of Marcus Brody. He teaches an intro class that most kids gloss over but the one egg head is also the deans daughter. Shes smaet young beautiful what every young American dreams a Scottish lass may be, but he's too scared.
Then crazy men start following him, eventually figuring their employees of this girl's ex..omg. Her term paper makes some pretty bold claims that Merlin was a historical figure, and she can prove it, as her mom just happened to br heading a dig this summer in same local.
Indy and Deidre head out to Scotland, mom will join later, sex the train, a big party when they get there.
Local priest is worried anything connected to metlin will bring pagans and Death and sin upon his town. Are the Catholics tryinh to ruin the dig, or is it the druids?
Aftee many near death experiences the couple ends up in stone Henge with even more secrecy, more like exbf and half brother troubles, and a changed soul. Highly recommended to anyone who likes adventure fiction.