Once a prolific reader, eyesight means a shift to Audio Books.
Current listening;
Tailspin, a WW11 story of the rear gunner of a B17 Tailgunner who was in his position when the plane was shot down, his section of the plane detached from the fuselage and it, with him fell Four miles to the Earth without a parachute. He survived the fall, injury and captivity.
World War II tail gunner Gene Moran fell four miles through the sky without a parachute and lived. Captured by the Germans, he survived a harrowing eighteen months as a prisoner of war, including a six-hundred-mile death march in 1945 across Central Europe.
When Gene returned home, he kept those memories locked up for nearly seventy years. His nine children knew little of their dad's war story. But when John, a young history teacher, learns of Gene's amazing fall, he's desperate to learn more. Finally, Gene agrees.
So begins a series of "Thursdays with Gene" interviews. Gene, nearing his ninetieth birthday, recounts incredible tales. But John has no idea what wounds he's reopening. Gene's nightmares and grief return. But both men persevere, bonded by their close and growing friendship.
Favourites that travel with me;
Earth Abides:
Earth Abides is a 1949 American post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by George R. Stewart. The novel tells the story of the fall of civilization from deadly disease and the emergence of a new culture with simpler tools. Set in the 1940s in Berkeley, California, the story is told by Isherwood Williams, who emerges from isolation in the mountains to find almost everyone dead.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull;
Jonathan Livingston Seagull is an allegorical fable in novella form written by American author Richard Bach and illustrated with black-and-white photographs shot by Russell Munson. It is about a seagull who is trying to learn about flying, personal reflection, freedom, and self-realization.
Callanish:
One evening, a frightened and bedraggled golden eagle is brought to the London Zoo, his young life constrained to a bleak cage far from his native Scotland. It is tempting for Creggan to forget: to bury memories of the mountain and seas and, above all, the glorious skies of his homeland.
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared:
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared is the bizarre and imaginative tale of centenarian explosives expert and vodka-lover, Allan Karlsson, who climbs out of his bedroom window at the old people's home on his 100th birthday and sets off with no set destination in mind.
This is a new, favourite, along with.
The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man:
These books I find indescribable except that they are funny and unpredictable.
Finally;
Joseph Alexander Altsheler (April 29, 1862 – June 5, 1919) was an American newspaper reporter, editor and author of popular juvenile historical fiction. He was a prolific writer, and produced fifty novels and at least fifty-three short stories. Thirty-two of his novels were part of his seven series:
The Civil War Series (8 volumes)
This Is a cleverly written series of Books. Centered on The American Civil War and should be ready in chronological order.
There is a central core of characters, goodies and baddies throughthe series but two characters feature, school time friends, related but one is for the South and the other for the North.
The books alternative to feature one or the other, they meet on the battlefield, they meet each others families off the battlefield. there is a Northern spy through the stories who befriends the Southern character, a gang of renegades who fights for themselves against both sides.
All volumes are available for free download from Librevox.org.
Current listening;
Tailspin, a WW11 story of the rear gunner of a B17 Tailgunner who was in his position when the plane was shot down, his section of the plane detached from the fuselage and it, with him fell Four miles to the Earth without a parachute. He survived the fall, injury and captivity.
World War II tail gunner Gene Moran fell four miles through the sky without a parachute and lived. Captured by the Germans, he survived a harrowing eighteen months as a prisoner of war, including a six-hundred-mile death march in 1945 across Central Europe.
When Gene returned home, he kept those memories locked up for nearly seventy years. His nine children knew little of their dad's war story. But when John, a young history teacher, learns of Gene's amazing fall, he's desperate to learn more. Finally, Gene agrees.
So begins a series of "Thursdays with Gene" interviews. Gene, nearing his ninetieth birthday, recounts incredible tales. But John has no idea what wounds he's reopening. Gene's nightmares and grief return. But both men persevere, bonded by their close and growing friendship.
Favourites that travel with me;
Earth Abides:
Earth Abides is a 1949 American post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by George R. Stewart. The novel tells the story of the fall of civilization from deadly disease and the emergence of a new culture with simpler tools. Set in the 1940s in Berkeley, California, the story is told by Isherwood Williams, who emerges from isolation in the mountains to find almost everyone dead.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull;
Jonathan Livingston Seagull is an allegorical fable in novella form written by American author Richard Bach and illustrated with black-and-white photographs shot by Russell Munson. It is about a seagull who is trying to learn about flying, personal reflection, freedom, and self-realization.
Callanish:
One evening, a frightened and bedraggled golden eagle is brought to the London Zoo, his young life constrained to a bleak cage far from his native Scotland. It is tempting for Creggan to forget: to bury memories of the mountain and seas and, above all, the glorious skies of his homeland.
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared:
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared is the bizarre and imaginative tale of centenarian explosives expert and vodka-lover, Allan Karlsson, who climbs out of his bedroom window at the old people's home on his 100th birthday and sets off with no set destination in mind.
This is a new, favourite, along with.
The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man:
These books I find indescribable except that they are funny and unpredictable.
Finally;
Joseph Alexander Altsheler (April 29, 1862 – June 5, 1919) was an American newspaper reporter, editor and author of popular juvenile historical fiction. He was a prolific writer, and produced fifty novels and at least fifty-three short stories. Thirty-two of his novels were part of his seven series:
The Civil War Series (8 volumes)
This Is a cleverly written series of Books. Centered on The American Civil War and should be ready in chronological order.
There is a central core of characters, goodies and baddies throughthe series but two characters feature, school time friends, related but one is for the South and the other for the North.
The books alternative to feature one or the other, they meet on the battlefield, they meet each others families off the battlefield. there is a Northern spy through the stories who befriends the Southern character, a gang of renegades who fights for themselves against both sides.
All volumes are available for free download from Librevox.org.
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so that's my reading on the boat ,oh well the trip has to end at some point.
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