Book Reading.......

[disneydream06]

Just finished up book No. 27.
I read The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett.
It's another of the Disc World series. It's been awhile since I had read from the series. It's good to be back in the Disc World.
This book involved Vimes, the head of the local police, coronation of a Dwarf king, werewolves, and vampires. Vimes, who is also a Duke, had to play politician, a role he is not comfortable playing. Thankfully it turned out that his role as policeman was also needed. lol...


Book List 2016:
1. Schooled in Revenge by Jesse Lasky
2. A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
3. Kicking and Dreaming by Ann & Nancy Wilson with Charles R. Cross
4. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
5. A Kingdom Keepers Adventure: The Syndrome:Finders Keepers Losers Sleepers by Ridley Pearson
6. The Carpet People by Terry Pratchett
7. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
8. Before Tomorrowland by Jeff Jensen/Jonathan Case/Brad Bird/Damon Lindelof
9. Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
10. Dean and Me(A Love Story) by Jerry Lewis and James Kaplan
11. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
12. Detective Strongoak and The Case of the Dead Elf by Terry Newman
13. Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich
14. The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice by M. G. Lord
15. They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie
16. Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
17. The Return: Disney Lands by Ridley Pearson
18. The Return: Legacy of Secrets by Ridley Pearson
19. Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen by Serena Valentino
20. If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won't) by Betty White
21. Confirmed Diagnosis by Mary King
22. The Book of Deacon by Joseph R. Lallo
23. Cyndi Lauper A Memoir by Cyndi Lauper with Jancee Dunn
24. A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie
25. Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich
26. 4:50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie
27. The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett

Comments

[britalone.livejournal.com]

I really must look into reading Mr. Pratchett!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

They are fantastic stories and characters. :)

[owlstorm_9]

Nothing like a bit of Serious Fiction for a change.... Ha.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

LOL.........

[polvodestrella.livejournal.com]

I've heard very good things about those series, so definitely they're in my To Read list

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I highly recommend them. :)
I think I am about half way through the series.

[elkster.livejournal.com]

Wow, you sped your reading up. I must post my list, I think we're about the same number of books now.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Well, I have read more then I did last year, so that's good. lol...

[(Anonymous)]

Last time I commented on a list, you were way behind.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Is this elkster?
My, have you not commented on a book reading since last year? I think I have been running ahead all year. LOL...

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I'm reading a Janet Evanovich book right now. It's part of the Fox and O'Hare series.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Don't know that series. I have only read her main series, and I think one book from another side series.

[sagittariusbun.livejournal.com]

This is absolutely horrible! --> https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/34459063/posts/1078658752

As a Jew, I see Toupee in a whole different light. You can add bigot to the list.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

What's the article about, it wants me to log in.

[bangdrum.livejournal.com]

I love the Discworld books!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

YAY another fan. :)

[kaishin108.livejournal.com]

Oh, getting some sci-fi in eh? I wish I could get into that, it would really expand my world of fiction.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I don't really consider it sci fi though. More along the lines of fantasy. :)

[kaishin108.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, that makes more sense!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I'm not really a big sci fi fan, but that didn't stop me from watching the Godzilla marathon that was on this weekend. LOL.....

[kaishin108.livejournal.com]

Well that does sound like a fun marathon!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Cheesy goodness. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kaishin108.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I know that deal. yum!

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

Terry Pratchett has some great books!!

on to nr 28!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Some real classics. :)

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

yep

[sagittariusbun.livejournal.com]

Mic discovered Sunday that Donald Trump’s Twitter account wasn’t the first place the meme appeared. The image was previously featured on /pol/ — an Internet message board for the alt-right, a digital movement of neo-Nazis, anti-Semites and white supremacists newly emboldened by the success of Trump’s rhetoric — as early as June 22, over a week before Trump’s team tweeted it.

Though the thread where the meme was featured no longer exists, you can find it by searching the URL in Archive.is, a “time capsule of the internet” that saves unalterable text and graphic of webpages. Doing so allows you to see the thread on /pol/ as itoriginally existed.

Of note is the file name of the photo, HillHistory.jpg, potentially a nod to the Neo-Nazi code for “HH,” or “Heil Hitler,” which the alt-right is fond of hiding in plain sight.

The watermark on the lower-left corner of the image leads to a Twitter account that regularly tweets violent, racist memes commenting on the state of geopolitical politics.
This is hardly the first time anyone’s noticed this. Last marchFortune did this story on Trump’s social media ties to genocidal white supremacists. And since Trump notoriously does his own tweeting, it’s notable that he seems to be unusually attracted to the racist tweets that come across his timeline which he likes to retweet to his millions of followers:

In late January, Donald Trump did something that would have sunk almost any other presidential campaign: He retweeted an anonymous Nazi sympathizer and white supremacist who goes by the not-so-subtle handle @WhiteGenocideTM. Trump neither explained nor apologized for the retweet and then, three weeks later, he did it again. This subsequent retweet was quickly deleted, but just two days later Trump retweeted a different user named@EustaceFash, whose Twitter header image at the time also included the term “white genocide.”

None of this went unnoticed among ardent racists, many of whom believe there is a coordinated effort to eventually eliminate the “white race.”

Trump is “giving us the old wink-wink,” wroteAndrew Anglin, editor of a white supremacist website called The Daily Stormer, after Trump retweeted two other “white genocide” theorists within a single minute. “Whereas the odd White genocide tweet could be a random occurrence, it isn’t statistically possible that two of them back to back could be a random occurrence. It could only be deliberate…Today in America the air is cold and it tastes like victory.”

It is possible that Trump ― who, according to the campaign, does almost all of his own tweeting ― is unfamiliar with the term “white genocide” and doesn’t do even basic vetting of those whose tweets he amplifies to his seven million followers. But the reality is that there are dozens of tweets mentioning @realDonaldTrump each minute, and he has an uncanny ability to surface ones that come from accounts that proudly proclaim their white supremacist leanings.

“The retweets are based solely on the content, not the personal views of those individuals as they are not vetted, known or of interest to the candidate or the campaign,” says Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks, who declined to explain how Trump searches through his Twitter feed. Hicks also declined (repeatedly) to answer Fortune‘s question as to whether or not Trump believes that white genocide is a legitimate concern.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

The media need to call out his Facist ass. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sagittariusbun.livejournal.com]

Yes!!! Holy fuck man! If he gets in, grab your parents, grab Maggie and head north my dear. :-o

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

If he wins it won't be the US building a wall between Mexico, it will be Canada building a wall between the US.
LOL..........................

[sagittariusbun.livejournal.com]

Well you and your family are welcome. I will tell the guards (if any) that y'all are with me.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

YAY.......

[sagittariusbun.livejournal.com]

But of course. Any friend of mine(which you are :-D) is welcome to Canada. :-) You will find our Prime Minister very laid back. Justin is just like his dad Pierre. :-)

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sagittariusbun.livejournal.com]

His father was legendary...

Pierre ---> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Trudeau
Justin ---> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Trudeau

Justin used to box... so if anything should happen, pow! Right in the kisser! lol I doubt if Justin will do that though. :-p

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I can think of a few people I would like to see him in the boxing ring with. LOL.........

[nucleosides.livejournal.com]

I used to average about a book every month to two months, then I started reading longer books and, well, James.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Kids have a way of changing plans. :p

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Blimey - steaming ahead.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

LOL.........

[sagittariusbun.livejournal.com]

Grandpa is endorsing Hillary! http://tinyurl.com/h4929uc

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

About bloody time he did. :o

[sagittariusbun.livejournal.com]

Woo! Go Grandpa and Hillary! I want to see what Hillary will do as Prez!! This is history in the making! :-)