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[TheRealTMA]

Season 2 starts on Apple TV on 15/11

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Season 2 starts on Apple TV on 15/11

Season 2 of what?

 

[DejaBrew]

Season 2 of what?

Silo (as discussed here)

 

[TheRealTMA]

Silo.

Ah!

Actually I wasn’t that addicted to S1.

 

[openseat]

Season 2 starts on Apple TV on 15/11

Post automatically merged: Oct 27, 2024

Season 2 starts on Apple TV on 15/11

Good to know. I'm not sure if there is time to read it before then.

I read the three body problem last year (a little late, I know) and was very disappointed with Netflix's interpretation.

Another great read that was put fairly faithfully to air was the Expanse series. It's a shame that Amazon didn't give it 10 seasons to get to the later books.

 

[Drakecula]

Another great read that was put fairly faithfully to air was the Expanse series. It's a shame that Amazon didn't give it 10 seasons to get to the later books.

I haven't read the books, but we really enjoyed the show! It'll be on my list to read one day...

In terms of a book update, I'm still reading the Great Library series, up to book four now.

 

[Drakecula]

I guess it's technically a book, but's not really a novel or non-fiction. I got a copy of one of the Murdle books which has logic puzzles to solve murders. Friends introduced me to the online daily Murdle and on my recent trip to Adelaide I wanted in-flight entertainment so grabbed a copy. I love logic puzzles so it kept me occupied quite easily!

 

[Cossie]

So I read a review of this book in today's SMH. Very unusual to have a review of a book that is seemingly in support of Palestinians. Should have it on Monday, in time for Xmas.

Extract | Cactus Pear For My Beloved by Samah Sabawi

www.penguin.com.au

MEMOIR
Cactus Pear For My Beloved
Samah Sabawi
Penguin, $36.99

If a single book could challenge the phrase “A land without a people for a people without a land” – once frequently invoked by Zionists and their supporters in the lead-up to the creation of the state of Israel – then Samah Sabawi’s memoir Cactus Pear for my Beloved would be a strong contender.

 

[VPS]

So I read a review of this book in today's SMH. Very unusual to have a review of a book that is seemingly in support of Palestinians. Should have it on Monday, in time for Xmas.

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Extract | Cactus Pear For My Beloved by Samah Sabawi

www.penguin.com.au

MEMOIR
Cactus Pear For My Beloved
Samah Sabawi
Penguin, $36.99

If a single book could challenge the phrase “A land without a people for a people without a land” – once frequently invoked by Zionists and their supporters in the lead-up to the creation of the state of Israel – then Samah Sabawi’s memoir Cactus Pear for my Beloved would be a strong contender.

I'd be interested in what you think of it

 

[Cossie]

I'd be interested in what you think of it

I can suggest another book that I have mentioned here before about displaced Palestinians, well worth a read to try and get a balanced view on things.

In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story

An intimate and powerful narrative in which the Israel-…

www.goodreads.com

Dr Ghada Karmi was born in Palestine and then had to flee with her family when it became Israel. She grew up in Britain and now she's a doctor, author, academic, and well-know international commentator on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Ghada still vividly remembers a huge bombing just behind her house in Jerusalem. "It was absolutely dreadful. I was bewildered, I was scared - I could see my parents were scared, which is very scary for a child because you think your parents know it all and they look after you. I knew, from that moment on, things had changed for us. I didn't know how, but things weren't going to be the same again."

After fleeing their family home, her family eventually settled in London. "My mother was very angry about the loss of the homeland. She didn't speak English, she didn't want to come that far afield, she just wasn't prepared. I'm afraid she never adapted, she stayed very Arab. I think it's a very great tragedy, one of the many, is people like my mother, who could not accept her exile, and was never really happy in Britain - and never found happiness again, in fact."

 

[Drakecula]

I forgot to update on books I read while travelling. I revert to ebooks because it saves lugging physical books around. I finished Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop (book four in The Others series), Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree, The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake and Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross.

All fantasy stories (of course). I quite liked Legends and Lattes, it is what they call a cosy story. The premise is that the main character decides to retire from adventuring and buys an old stable in town and does it up into a cafe. No one has heard of coffee before, except her on one of her far flung adventures. So it turns into a quite mundane story really, setting up a cafe is hardly exciting, but I guess it feels different when the main character is an orc fighter out of her element. Haha.

 

[drron]

Admiral Hyman Rickover Engineer of Power, By Marc Wortman.
An interesting book that I read because 2 of my interests are WW2 history and nuclear Power.Rickover straddles both. He was born in Russia though a part that became Poland. He was Jewish and was bought to the USA as a child when his parents fled persecution.
A struggle with education but was accepted into the Naval academy and then studied electrical engineering and after a few tours of duty on ships entered the Electrical section of the Bureau of Ships. In 1946 he felt nuclear power was the way ahead..
In 1949 he became Director of the Nuclear Power division of the Bureau. Congress authorised the first nuclear powered submarine in 1951 and the Nautilus was launched in 1954. He was a perfectionist and was known as obnoxious and a S*** to work for but the result 70 years later no US nuclear powered vessel has had a reactor incident.

Not surprisingly he was passed over twice for promotion to Admiral but finally got there. He was forced to retire in 1982 after 63 years in the Navy. Certainly the longest serving navy officer in the USA and probably in history.

But that wasn't all.He was put in charge of building Shippingport the first nuclear power station in the USA. Basically because Congress withdrew authorisation of a nuclear powered aircraft carrier so the were already plans for a 40Mw reactor. Construction began in September 1954 and it was commissioned in December 1957. It ran for 25 years and shut down to be replaced by 2 1000Mw reactors.
It cost $72.5 million to build - $786.5 miillion in 2023 dollars.

A remarkable man.