I set this book aside to voraciously read the book Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty, which I think was outstanding! The HBO series is based on Moriarty's book, but the book is a much satisfying and gratifying read (In my opinion).

I plan to finish reading Grisham's book by the weekend.

Then break into the other book I've set aside Undue Influence, by Anita Brookner. The Brookner book is not an easy read, I think, but who knows? The book has mixed reviews....people either love it or hate it.

Kobi, your book sounds interesting! I like reading books that present difficult to hear points of political views. I'll check it out before too long. Thanks for your post, Kobi.

Undercover Girl: The Lesbian Informant Who Helped the FBI Bring Down the Communist Party -Lisa Davis
 

At the height of the Red Scare, Angela Calomiris was a paid FBI informant inside the American Communist Party. As a Greenwich Village photographer, Calomiris spied on the New York Photo League, pioneers in documentary photography. While local Party officials may have had their sus-picions about her sexuality, her apparent dedication to the cause won them over.

When Calomiris testified for the prosecution at the 1949 Smith Act trial of the Party's National Board, her identity as an informant (but not as a lesbian) was revealed. Her testimony sent eleven party leaders to prison and decimated the ranks of the Communist Party in the US.

Undercover Girl is both a new chapter in Cold War history and an intimate look at the relationship between the FBI and one of its paid inform-ants. Ambitious and sometimes ruthless, Calomiris defied convention in her quest for celebrity.

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I have lived on Cape Cod for over 40 years. It is not unusual to run into, do business with, have breakfast with people of celebrity without having a clue as to who they are.

Angela Calomiris is one of those people.

If you are of my era and ever spent time in Ptown, you probably met this woman too. Angela was the owner of Angels Landing bed and breakfast on Commercial St.

Kobi, is your book an e-book? If NOT, would you be interested in doing a book exchange?

Shattered is a dry read I must say just so you know!

i am struggling....


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Currently reading Gwen Wilson's story.....I belong to no one..

The end of loyalty : the rise and fall of good jobs in America / Rick Wartzman.
 

In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers--General Motors, General Electric, Kodak, and Coca-Cola--he shows how big businesses once took responsibility for providing their workers and retirees with an array of social benefits. At the height of the post-World War II economy, these companies also believed that worker pay needed to be kept high in order to preserve morale and keep the economy humming. Productivity boomed.

But the corporate social contract didn't last. By tracing the ups and downs of these four corporate icons over seventy years, Wartzman illustrates just how much has been lost: job security and steadily rising pay, guaranteed pensions, robust health benefits, and much more. Charting the Golden Age of the '50s and '60s; the turbulent years of the '70s and '80s; and the growth of downsizing, outsourcing, and instability in the modern era, Wartzman's narrative is a biography of the American Dream gone sideways.

Deeply researched and compelling, The End of Loyalty will make you rethink how Americans can begin to resurrect the middle class.

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I'm thinking "richly detailed" is a euphemism for mind numbing minutia.

Good stuff, just a lot of detail to wade through.

White working class : overcoming class cluelessness in America / Joan C. Williams
 

"Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class.

Meanwhile, the professional elite--journalists, managers, and establishment politicians--is on the outside looking in, and left to argue over the reasons why.

In White Working Class, Joan C. Williams, explains why so much of the elite's analysis of the white working class is misguided, rooted in assumptions by what she has controversially coined "class cluelessness."

Williams explains how most analysts, and the corresponding media coverage, have conflated "working class" with "poor."

All too often, white working class motivations have been dismissed as simply racism or xenophobia.

Williams explains how the term "working class" has been misapplied--it is, in fact, the elusive, purportedly disappearing middle class. This demographic often resents both the poor and the professionals. They don't, however, tend to resent the truly rich, nor are they particularly bothered by income inequality.

Their dream is not to join the upper middle class, with its different culture, but to stay true to their own values in their own communities--just with more money.

White Working Class is a blunt, bracing narrative that sketches a nuanced portrait of millions of people throughout the world who have proven to be a potent political force.

For anyone stunned by the rise in populist, nationalist movements, wondering why so many would seemingly vote against their own economic interests or simply feeling like a stranger in their own country, White Working Class will be a convincing primer on how to connect with a crucial set of workers--and voters"--book jacket.

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Excellent, informative, simply written and easy to understand - all in less than 200 pages.

Also does well to explain why Nixon's southern strategy and Trump were successful with the silent majority type groups.

The Success Principles by Jack Canfield.

Kobi? Does Joan Williams supply footnotes, and possibly an indexed appendice in her book? I also wonder too, if you don't mind sharing, is Williams neutral, non-partisan in her views and as well, is she a current Sociology professional? I ask because I am not familiar with any of her works. And thanks for your post! : )

The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
 

The Girl Who Wrote in Silk---Kelli Estes

A simple reading about the lives of two women 130 years apart that are connected with a secret. A light presentation of the horrific historical time of the late 1800's when the Chinese population were pushed out of the Northern West Coast of the US and Canada. The story mostly takes place in the Seattle area and Orcas Island.

Oh, very nice! Thank you Kobi.... I will snag a copy of it soon. That's impressive, 30 pages of foot notes! And I'm sure that her source citations will be very interesting. Every field of academic study adheres to particular tenets of research methods, so no doubt Law will utilize stringent codification process of discovery. Very nice, and many thanks!!

Just started Sacred Economics by Charles Eisentsein....and to balance that out I am currently rediscovering Maya Angelou with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

Hey Knight, thanks for posting this! I've ordered it from Thrift Books and I'm going to be reading it next whenever it arrives by mail :hangloose:

Book first, movie second ♡♡♡
 

Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy).

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Hey there homoe, I am excited that you will read the book... It inspired me to research the PNW history of the treatment of the Chinese population in the late 1800's... I hope that you like it.. its a quick fluffy read but very enjoyable.
cheers!

One of my favourite books of all times that I read again and again.

OMG this is my favorite novel of all time. I know it has a horrible message of the adulterous woman but I truly love this book - the passion, romance, intriguing characters, all the beautiful set pieces of 19th century Russia, I just love it. I have read it dozens of times since I was a teenager.



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Edit: LMAO knight posting at the same time.

Knight, you may enjoy the book "Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet"

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"Political Ponerology" A science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposesby Andrew M Lobaczewski

"The original manuscript of this book
went into the furnace minutes before
a secret police raid in Communist Poland.
The second copy, painfully reassembled
by scientists working under impossible
conditions of violence and repression, was
sent via courier to the Vatican. Its receipt was
never acknowledged - the manuscript and all
valuable data lost.

In 1984, the third and final copy was written
from memory by the last survivor of the original
researchers: Andrew Lobaczewski.
Zbigniew Brzezinski blocked its publication.

After half a century of suppression, this book is
finally available...."

Real.

Greco

Homoe thank you so much for the suggestion I will order it from our local book store... It looks like a great read.
cheers!

Wrong Answer (an article on a school in Atlanta) by Rachel Aviv

Game Of Thrones - A dance with dragons.....

I've had troubles with my vision and having migraine headaches during the current heatwave going on in our neck of the woods, but I've read the first couple of chapters!

It's a great study on what NOT to do in a romantic relationship, *lol*. I broke out in a case of laughter over a character (Stevin) who just can't seem to get it right. Stevin goes out to skate on ice to woo the woman he's attracted to, but the woman sees right through the facade of his moves. She busts Stevin by telling him that she's not attracted to him at all because he 'stirred another woman' wrongly. Priceless!!!

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The Slave Ship: A Human History
by Marcus Rediker

In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth century. Drawing on thirty years of research in maritime archives, court records, diaries, and firsthand accounts, The Slave Ship is riveting and sobering in its revelations, reconstructing in chilling detail a world nearly lost to history: the "floating dungeons" at the forefront of the birth of African American culture.

One of my very favorites-- especially the long metaphysical tangent at the end: beautiful

LQQKS like a good read, dark_crystal!

And, I'll keep that in mind about the end of the Tolstoy book, too. :) :bunchflowers:

Miss Katz how long before you reckon you'll be done with that big ass book, any clue?

OMG, *LOL*, :giggle: ..... :blush:

<<<<<~ as soon as my vision corrects itself and my migraine disappears. It's been SO hot here....so once the weather cools down, I guess I should be done by early September. And you're right, homoe! What a big a$$ book. :| :blush: :eyebat:


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Unslut, A Diary and a Memoir by Emily Lindin

From the book sleeve: The founder of the Unslut Project uses her actual middle school diary entries to reflect on relationships, bullying, and what it means to be labeled a slut.

The organization where I work requires all supervisors to take a minimum of 8 hours refresher training on "Team Leading" a year. Today they brought in a guest speaker named Robyn Benincasa. She wrote "How Winning Works: 8 Essential Leadership Lessons from the Toughest Teams on Earth." Robyn is a world champion adventure racer and a Guinness World Record kayaker (Not that kind of Guinness :beerfunnel: ) and a member of an all-female firefighting crew. She is also the founder of "Project Athena" which is a non-profit organization that helps women survivors of medical setbacks live an adventurous dream as part of their recovery.

As part of the training class we were all given a copy of the book which I started this evening. Some of the points seem rather intuitive but overall the book looks promising. I am grappling with a few things, one being her quote "Having a Plan B distracts from achieving the goal of Plan A." I'm not sure how to feel about that as I am a "Plan A, B, C, D,..." kind of gal. However I am keeping an open mind.

Katniss~~

I've been wanting to read this so I'm about to treat myself:

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Billionaire Buddha......rags to riches to rags story.

Just downloaded this to my kindle....will start it in the morning. Looks like a powerful read. thanks Greco.

I'd appreciate an update Miss Katz.....

....... I am half way through the book....I left off on page 305....and it's not an easy read, for me, due to the way I read a book first.

When I read Big Little Lies, I made notes on the edge of the pages, noting interesting things which were not a part of the HBO series.

In Anna Karenina, it's a slow process because of interesting ideas I find that center on power, status, diction, rules of civility, rules concerning romantic overtures...etc.

Once I am done taking notes, first, then I begin again and read the story for the second time....bypassing all my notes because I've taken the time to study the intricate maneuvers between characters in the story....like a good chess game.

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Ps/ I love both of the books I have been reading! :hangloose: