![]() ![]() Dalton's career was parallel to McQueen's for a couple of years. Knock-off Painkillers: A drink for sailors and lan.Originally from the Midwest, Rick Dalton is an actor who moved to Los Angeles and starred in the fictitious television Western series Bounty Law from 1959 to 1963, : page11 inspired by real-life series Wanted Dead or Alive, starring Steve McQueen."Oh, Kaye!" Chats about Margaret Maron's launch at.Which are you: By-the-book? Or Goodbye-to-the-book?.Summer: A Few of my Favorite Things Summer soup: Hallie's gazpacho "to taste".Does size matter? Relax, we're talking houses.I'm going to do this part of the Bingo at some point. Of course, the category is for a year one of your parents was born. I actually found some more Goodreads lists for 1910, but I'm still trying to come up with one that was actually published in 1910 that I want to read. ![]() The Goodreads list for 1910 wasn't helpful, as the books listed were 1911 and after, so I went back to Google. I had forgotten that Hounds of the Baskervilles was published in 1901, and so I was delighted to find it on the list. However, when I went to Google and typed in the two subjects, the Goodreads lists links came up under the list titles of Popular Published 1901 Books and Popular 1910s Books. I followed your lead, Ingrid, and went to Goodreads, but on the list page, I couldn't get anything to come up. This requires me to go back to 19 (my mother was 43 and my father was 52 when I was born). The category that excited me most on this Book Bingo card was the one for reading books published the years your parents were born. One year I did the alphabet challenge, reading a book title for every letter of the alphabet. ![]() I do keep a running list with what I probably will read next, but my physical books need some tidying. One of the things I've promised myself to do next week is tackle some of my TBR stacks and organize them into some sort of schedule. This Book Bingo looks like great fun! I don't know that I could attempt it this year, unless I fill in with already finished books, too. Alfred Bester, Gene Wolfe, Sarah Zettel, Walter Miller, Chip Delaney. UKL wrote some wonderful SF as well, including The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness. For fantasy, try Guy Kay, maybe The Lions of Al-Rassan, or Ursula LeGuin. I used to read a lot of F&SF, and I hope those of you who want to try some will look further than Isaac Asimov, who IMHO desperately needed an assertive editor. So I'm doing a bunch of comfort re-reads right now, including spending some quality time with Clare and Russ, which I have been wanting to do, but couldn't quite get to because of all the new stuff. Unfortunately I had to give up on them the drugs I'm taking after getting my knee replaced are making me a little too fuzzy. My last batch included Waking Up White, In Calabria, and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. I try to read widely, and make extensive use of our wonderful local public library. I'm a member of LibraryThing, which has all sorts of challenges, and once in a while I'll participate in one. And maybe, if there's a category that stumps you, Reds readers will have some good suggestions. You need to fill the whole card to be eligible for the grand prize, but reading any five in a row would make you a winner in my eyes. I downloaded the card from Ingrid's link. The Book Bingo card looks like a great way to prompt that kind of exploration. It's far more likely that I'll stretch by reading non-fiction, to learn something new about our world, or history, or someone I find intriguing. Although I have been burned many times by modern "literary" fiction (Doesn't anybody over there know how to tell a good story anymore? Or create characters I actually want to spend time with? Or understand that you don't kill the dog?) I'll still dip a toe in that pool every now and then. ![]() Like Mark, I mostly read for fun and relaxation, but I do step out of my comfort zone from time to time. The Book Bingo card looks like a great way to stretch your reading muscles. ![]()
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