Month: May 2024
Mules Baseball vs. Carmi, 4-30-24
Yeah, I did not get much from this one. Continue reading Mules Baseball vs. Carmi, 4-30-24
Book Nook: The Great Poets: Robert Burns
Blurb The 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns (1759 – 1796), one of the most popular of poets, was celebrated in 2009. A pioneer of the Romantic movement, works such as “A Red, Red Rose”, “A Man’s a Man for a’ That”, and the ubiquitous “Auld Lang Syne”, have made him an international figure. Naxos AudioBooks’ popular Great Poets series marked the anniversary with this audio, bringing together all the key works. Review Yeah, you read that write. I’m reading some 18th century Scottish poetry. Consider this the start of my homework for a trip to Scotland next … Continue reading Book Nook: The Great Poets: Robert Burns
Book Nook: All Systems Red, the Murderbot Diaries #1, by Martha Wells
Blurb “As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure.” In a corporate-dominated space-faring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. For their own safety, exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern. On a distant planet, a team of scientists is conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid–a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all Murderbot wants is to be … Continue reading Book Nook: All Systems Red, the Murderbot Diaries #1, by Martha Wells
Book Nook: Artemis, by Andy Weir
Blurb The best-selling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thriller – a heist story set on the moon. Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you’re not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you’ve got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. … Continue reading Book Nook: Artemis, by Andy Weir
Book Nook: Marvel Comics, The Untold Story, by Sean Howe
Blurb The defining, behind-the-scenes chronicle of one of the most extraordinary, beloved, and dominant pop cultural entities in America’s history — Marvel Comics – and the outsized personalities who made Marvel including Martin Goodman, Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby. “Sean Howe’s history of Marvel makes a compulsively readable, riotous and heartbreaking version of my favorite story, that of how a bunch of weirdoes changed the world…That it’s all true is just frosting on the cake.” —Jonathan Lethem For the first time, Marvel Comics tells the stories of the men who made Marvel: Martin Goodman, the self-made publisher who forayed into comics after … Continue reading Book Nook: Marvel Comics, The Untold Story, by Sean Howe
Lady Mules Softball vs. Carmi, 4-30-24
Mules Baseball vs. Flora, 4-25-24
Lady Mules Invitational, 4-25-24
Fab Five Friday–May 3, 2024
Here are this week’s five songs worth listening to. Waylon Wyatt–Everything Under The Sun Got to see this 17-year-old kid open for Drayton Farley, playing his second show ever. Waylon Wyatt–Arkansas Diamond Why not double up on the kid? Last … Continue reading Fab Five Friday–May 3, 2024
