Missive #482 Published 19 April 2025
Stories depict the struggle for survival on Earth after it is devastated by war, as mutants prowl the ruins and new powers arise to challenge the survivors.
This is volume number nine in the ten book series. I'll finish the last one soon, they have all been good as short story reads.
Missive #481 Published 18 April 2025
83. Nasruddin Eating Eggs
Nasruddin was sitting in a chair outside, eating eggs for dinner. He didn’t usually eat dinner outside, and eggs were not his usual dinner, but so it was: Nasruddin was sitting in a chair outside, eating eggs for dinner.Missive #480 Published 16 April 2025
Rome, 799 AD: Pope Leo is viciously attacked in the street by unknown assailants. Sigwulf, a Saxon prince who has been banished to the court of King Carolus in Frankia, is sent to Rome as a spy to discover who was responsible. There, he discovers a web of lies—the only clue to the attackers' identity is an intricate gold buckle, which Sigwulf links with a mysterious gold warrior flagon he finds in the home of the Pope's chamberlain.
his book was the last in the Saxon series and is the last of Severin's books that I have to read. I must say that I liked his fiction better than his nonfiction adventure books although they were very good.
Missive #479 Published 14 April 2025
In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"—the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?
His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing.
Missive #478 Published 13 April 2025
Continuing The Anti-Federalist Papers
Cato VII
by George Clinton
To the People of the State of New York:
Missive #477 Published 11 April 2025
82. An Unexpected Visit from Nasruddin …
This is a short book that I read online as a PDF from the author's Unqualified Reservations blog. I think other of his books are also available in PDF on his blog. Much of this one was also included as quotes in Nick Land's The Dark Enlightenment.
Missive #476 Published 9 April 2025
It was almost a decade ago that Least Heat-Moon (Blue Highways ) followed the trail of Lewis and Clark in River Horse ; in the first section of his latest peripatetic writings, he and his wife, Q, trace the lesser-known Dunbar-Hunter Expedition of 1804 through the southern half of the Louisiana Purchase, searching out the head of the Ouachita River in Arkansas. Least Heat-Moon's fans will find this territory, and that covered in the five other “journeys to places a goodly portion of the American populace would call 'nowhere,' ” instantly familiar, as he and various companions take digressive paths from one small opolis (“where anything metro was clearly missing”) to the next in search of “quoz” (an 18th-century word meaning “anything out of the ordinary”).
Missive #475 Published 5 April 2025
Continuing The Federalist Papers.
Federalist No.44
Restrictions on the Authority of the Several States
Author: James Madison
To the People of the State of New York:
Missive #474 Published 4 April 2025
81. Nasruddin on the Roof
A man down on the ground was shouting to Nasruddin up on the roof. “Please, sir, come here!”
Nasruddin climbed down and asked the man what he wanted.
“I need money,” the man explained.
“Why didn’t you just say so?” said Nasruddin. “Instead, you made me climb down.”
“I was embarrassed to shout it out loud,” the man explained.
Nasruddin told the man to come up on the roof. Then, once they were both up on the roof, Nasruddin told the man he had nothing to give him.
“Why didn’t you just say so?” the man asked.
Nasruddin just smiled.
Missive #473 Published 3 April 2025
A loving mother. A notorious murderer. They both have reasons to hide their secrets in a novel of escalating shock and suspense by New York Times bestselling author A. R. Torre. Perla Wultz lives with her husband, Grant, and their precious daughter, Sophie, in a gated Pasadena community. Affluent, sociable, and accomplished, Perla plays the part of loving wife and mother to perfection.This is another good suspense book, not as good as The Wronged Sons or The Patient’s Secret. I’ll be adding the author to my To Read list and see what some of her other books might be like. It seems an ideal life, if not for a decades-old crime that has become Perla’s dark and consuming secret obsession.