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  1. 12-05-2017, 10:59 PM #1
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    A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

    I'm re-reading this and hoping to find some inspiration. I checked out the novel yesterday and then stumbled on this today.
    The first scrooge - BBC News
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    I'll be starting to read "Ego is the Enemy" by Ryan Holiday today.
    This title really caught my eye, what way to better yourself as a man, than to destroy your Ego?

    I'll give a brief opinion when I finish it this week.
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    I am re-reading the mystery series by Robert van Gulik dealing with Judge Dee, a historical Magistrate in old China. The series is fiction but Van Gulik lived in China before WWII and many old customs remained.
    There are three cases in each volume and more than 17volumes available. Out of print for years but available new,from The University of Chicago Press:
    Robert van Gulik
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    "The Haunted Monastery". It is number 6 in the series.
    Alibris often caries the Author's books. :
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    I'm reading "The power of mathematical thinking"
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    When visiting my daughter she took me here to get a book or two for the train ride home.

    About Us - Powell's Books

    They say they are the biggest and I will not argue with that.

    If you are ever in the neighborhood I would recommend checking them out.

    I am reading The Last Dark that I got there.
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    My wife picked this up on overstock at Raven Books, and it's really an engrossing read: Don Lattin, The Harvard Psychedelic Club. Well-written, with a lot of wry humor, it traces the respective lives and interweaving encounters of Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil in the 1950s-1970s. Fast-food loss of self, oh yeah.
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    Reading "The Stalingrad Protocols", which is about the Battle for Stalingrad in WW2.

    The human spirit of the Russians in WW2 never ceases to amaze me.
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