It was tongue in cheek, but a factor some would certainly fault equally to being a Communist at the time.
@Kalvin Mitnic Curiously enough, the Los Alamos operation seemed to have an inordinately large proportion of Jewish folks employed from the very top, down to the slime heap at the bottom, feeding on illegal monies received for selling information to the Russians. During that time frame, Kurchatov in Russia was busily employed in directing development of their own bomb, using in large part, information received from the likes of Greenglass. The names read like a scene from "The Israelites": Scientists: Director, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, Isidor Rabi, Edward Teller, Richard Feynman, John von Neumann.....the list is long, my memory short. Spies and espionage: Harry Gold, David Greenglass, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg The Rosenbergs leaving Federal Court.
With everything that is going on in the world now days....when I read something I want it to be one of those "Calgon take me away" moments. And it usually is.
You certainly can get a bit lost in a book and there is nothing wrong with that. I agree with your post.
How was this if you have finished? I'm not a country music fan but I like reading biographies because people's lives can still be interesting. I read Still Woman Enough by Loretta Lynn. I never did read Coal Miners Daughter.
I, too, have been reading less due to number of problems. My eye tires and weeps so that i can't see without continuing to wipe, my concentration is mostly a has-been much of the time, and it has been terribly hard to find anything that interests me or strikes my fancy. Most of my reading lately has been non-fiction in nature, as one might see on Flipboard. I have been reading some on Mindfulness but its fair to say i am not the reader I used to be. Maybe age has something to do with it.
I have to admit although I'm usually an Avid reader, I haven't got past the first few pages of this. I've been away on the continent for several weeks..and never got around to any reading time...but from the first few pages it looks like he's not pulling any punches so I'm betting it'll be good.
I just downloaded a free sample of "Hillbilly Elegy".. heard about it a couple of years ago and now that it's $4.99 on kindle I may buy it if I like the sample I read. Ive been buying books from Book Bub almost every other day but I'm just not in a reading mood. When I will be I'll have lots to read.
Well that was the most disappointing free sample Ive ever read. Many pages of introduction and only one page of Chapter One. Anybody read this book? For $4.99 I can rent a movie. What to do what to do.
I just finished "The Little French Bistro" by Nina George. I really liked her style of writing (lots of creative metaphors) while describing her travels and adventures around France. There's a lot happening from page one to the end as she leaves her old life and starts a new one. She had lots of interesting characters mostly aged 60+ including an artist which I resonate with. There was one character into the occult (a "good witch" or "white witch") that made me a bit uncomfortable so I just reminded myself that this is fiction and just take it as that. It wasn't much until the Epilogue at the end which was full of it so I'd skip that if it makes you uncomfortable. I did, as soon as I realized it...a bit much....starting with the Druids there in France, celtic legends and lore I think, or something.
Reading "Ove" right now about an aging curmudgeon who supposedly will have a change of heart. Can't wait as I'm getting a little tired of the complaining he's doing...but I've only just begun. My favorite part so far was when his dad, who was slender but had firm muscles, used to win all the arm wrestling fights in the railway yard against "giants". That night he put his arm around Ove's shoulders and said, "Ove, only a swine thinks size and strength are the same thing. Remember that". And Ove never forgot it. Any suggestions as to how to pronounce "Ove"? It's really irritating me . I'm pronouncing it like "Ovulate" (sorry, couldn't think of a better word lol). My sister's friend pronounces it like "Oval". And then there's "Of" like "Love"
Since I'm having a short term memory problem, slowed down on reading anything that requires deep thought. Probably won't remember much if I did. That can be unsettling, so I try to avoid it if I can. Like many here, I just need to 'escape' sometimes to another land, another time in a book. I am rereading books from the shelf that I can get lost in. Starting the first book in the John Carter of Mars series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. I also load the audiobook up on my phone to listen to it when reading isn't possible. ( audiobook from the library using OverDrive app ) This seems to be a nice combination, reading and listening.