What is Everybody Reading?

[Weedygarden]

"Journey, A Novel of America," by James M. Vesely

A story about a Czech (Bohemian) family who came to America. I am about 1/3 finished and enjoying the story. They are from Trebon, Czech. I have heard of that from a woman in my Czech genealogy group, but I don't have ancestors from there.

 

[elkhound]

But they don't have photos!

even my free audio books is no longer a thing...its been stopped over AI project something another...see jazzys thread about youtube downloader thing....ugghhhh

read this bs

https://www.homesteadingforum.org/t...ourube-video-download-app.38215/#post-1032576

 

[elkhound]

Still hating yall...but even more so today....i just pretended to be a drunken sailor.....something headed my way...been wanting a long time...i went a different route...hope i done well and it doesnt bite me in the rear...will show and tell in future.

but for now....grrrrr..to you other book nerds ...i blame yall....no way i am taking blame.

I am now the proud owner and i have in my possession the original foxfire books hardback edition volumes original book with no number then 2-7 and they are like new and show zero wear...pretty good for back in 70's. i have other volumes but i think #8 was last hardcover edition they published.

anyway...life is great and i done well.

 

[Bacpacker]

Just picked up a couple books. One is a classic I've never read, The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. I'm looking forward to this one for sure. Need to go back and read a bunch of the classics.

The other book is The Things our Fathers Saw, by Mattew A. Rozell. It's Volume 1-3. I think the series is a 10 volume set. The series is based on in person interviews with WWII survivors. Each book is a different area during the war.
Volume 1: Voices of the Pacific Theater
Volume 2: The Untold Stories of the World war II Generation from Hometown, USA. The War in the Air, From Depression to Combat
Volume 3: The Untold Stories of the World war II Generation from Hometown, USA. The War in the Air, Combat, Captivity, and Reunion.
This series should be fantastic. Most likely will be adding more of the series to the Christmas list the wife told me to make.

 

[elkhound]

here we go again...this thread...ughh

all i know about dorian gray is he had a hot redheaded girl friend in that one movie!! she stuck that picture in his face...the end !!

 

[Mountain trapper]

American Rifleman.

 

[LadyLocust]

Four Midwestern Sisters Christmas Book. It’s nice since it was written before everything became political. Also has some recipes I might need to try out.

 

[Pearl]

here we go again...this thread...ughh

all i know about dorian gray is he had a hot redheaded girl friend in that one movie!! she stuck that picture in his face...the end !!

 

[Neb]

Ben

 

[Pearl]

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[Bacpacker]

here we go again...this thread...ughh

all i know about dorian gray is he had a hot redheaded girl friend in that one movie!! she stuck that picture in his face...the end !!

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was the movie. And for the life of me I can't recall who she was. She was a cutie for sure.

 

[Magpie]

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was the movie. And for the life of me I can't recall who she was. She was a cutie for sure.

Peta Wilson; she reminds me of a young Belinda Carlisle; both pretty.
As usual I've several books on the go for studies, mainly about Irish history / social history. 'Light' reading is The Plague, by Albert Camus. Haven't read it before, its one of my 'must read sometime' classics.

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Class...refix=the+plague+albert+camus+,aps,371&sr=8-1

 

[Mountain trapper]

The Home Blacksmith and Blacksmithing for the Homestead.

 

[Bacpacker]

Peta Wilson; she reminds me of a young Belinda Carlisle; both pretty.
As usual I've several books on the go for studies, mainly about Irish history / social history. 'Light' reading is The Plague, by Albert Camus. Haven't read it before, its one of my 'must read sometime' classics.

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Class...refix=the+plague+albert+camus+,aps,371&sr=8-1

What was her character in the movie? I can't recall that either. And I know I should

 

[elkhound]

What was her character in the movie? I can't recall that either. And I know I should

Mina Harker....she was Darians old girlfriend....scorned lover....one of the reason she showed him the picture in the end.

 

[Bacpacker]

Mina Harker....she was Darians old girlfriend....scorned lover....one of the reason she showed him the picture in the end.


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I was thinking she had her own character from another story. Guess thats why I couldn't recall it.

 

[elkhound]

I was thinking she had her own character from another story. Guess thats why I couldn't recall it.

Her character has been in lots of movies,stories etc. played by many actresses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mina_Harker

 

[Bacpacker]

Good article.

 

[Weedygarden]

One is a classic I've never read, The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. I'm looking forward to this one for sure.

There are a few movies made about this. The most recent one had Colin Firth in it. I am a big fan of him and his work, so I have seen that version. I have tried to see everything that he is in. There is also a movie about Oscar Wilde, and Colin Firth is in that as well. Oscar Wilde led a crazy life!

 

[Magpie]

There are a few movies made about this. The most recent one had Colin Firth in it. I am a big fan of him and his work, so I have seen that version. I have tried to see everything that he is in. There is also a movie about Oscar Wilde, and Colin Firth is in that as well. Oscar Wilde led a crazy life!

I visited the graves of Oscars step sisters, who were sort of hidden away. Sad story, their dresses caught fire after a party and they were both badly injured, dying a short while later. This is the newish gravestone, theres an old one also.

 

[dademoss]

"Doomsday Reef" by Matt Bracken.

 

[Weedygarden]

I visited the graves of Oscars step sisters, who were sort of hidden away. Sad story, their dresses caught fire after a party and they were both badly injured, dying a short while later. This is the newish gravestone, theres an old one also.


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That is sad. I wonder if there were other siblings. I just looked on Find a Grave and I am probably missing information because I couldn't find them. Are they buried in England? It is possible that no one has created memorial pages for them yet, but I would think that there would be one for Oscar.

 

[Magpie]

So @Weedygarden the family are fairly scattered, strangely enough. Oscar is buried in Paris, in the same graveyard as Jim Morrison from the Doors, and some other famous people (Karl Marx? Edith Piaf) https://www.paristoolkit.com/whattodo/paris_cemeteries.htm Its on my bucket list (because of Jim).

His younger sister Isole is buried in Co Longford. The two sisters that were burned, Mary and Emily, were before his fathers marriage, which is why they were living apart, I don't know their mothers name. As a rule in school we weren't taught about them. His brother William is buried in a mass grave, which is strange, because that usually happens to paupers, not sure about Henry.
There is a statue of Oscar Wilde across from a house in Dublin, by the park where he used to go.

 

[Weedygarden]

So @Weedygarden the family are fairly scattered, strangely enough. Oscar is buried in Paris, in the same graveyard as Jim Morrison from the Doors, and some other famous people (Karl Marx? Edith Piaf) https://www.paristoolkit.com/whattodo/paris_cemeteries.htm Its on my bucket list (because of Jim).

His younger sister Isole is buried in Co Longford. The two sisters that were burned, Mary and Emily, were before his fathers marriage, which is why they were living apart, I don't know their mothers name. As a rule in school we weren't taught about them. His brother William is buried in a mass grave, which is strange, because that usually happens to paupers, not sure about Henry.
There is a statue of Oscar Wilde across from a house in Dublin, by the park where he used to go.
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Thank you for this information. I tend to go down rabbit holes and do further research about people, especially artistic types, such as actors, authors ,musicians, and others. Famous guy, but a strange one at that.

If I were to go to Paris, I would likely go to the cemetery to see their graves. I have been to many cemeteries, mostly for genealogy research. I once saw the name of a man on Find a Grave, buried in a cemetery in Nebraska. It was early in my research, before as much information was available online as is now. It was a family name. I didn't know who the guy was. I was driving close by and decided to visit the cemetery and grave. Later, it turns out, the guy was my gg grandfather. I found his obituary, written in Czech in a Nebraska Czech newspaper. Using google translator, I translated that obituary. I have been back to his grave again since. And I found his wife's grave, buried in another cemetery, by a road that I had driven by a few times. His last name was spelled with a W on his grave, hers with a V. I think there was a rift in the family and their son buried her in the other cemetery, away from him. The W was pronounced as a V in Germany and Czech, but in America, it was always pronounced as a W. Sorry, off topic and down another rabbit hole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde