A bookcase full of books really ties the room together. 
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Interesting book. Cardston is the well known Mormon enclave in Albertaā¦for years, a dry city. They sell liquor now but not widespread.
Iām currently reading:
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I didnāt know that. Maybe thatās what the title is referring to.
Nope it is Isaiah 43:19
For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert; the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water .
I understand. I was wondering if there was a double entendre.
Interesting, going to go down that path soon myself. Cheers for the suggestions.
Currently re reading Children and Nature. It continues to be possibly the best book ever written, in my opinion. Well, of the books i have read. Dry as fuck, but fantastic and profound if connecting to ones society and perosnal experiences as a child, adult and parent. truly eye opening into how we work as an individual animal.
https://direct.mit.edu/books/edited-volume/2599/Children-and-NaturePsychological-Sociocultural-and
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So I finally got a Kindle. I like it a lot. I never enjoy reading outsideā wind and whatnot. But the pageless wonder is great. Tap here, tap there, tune page go back a page. Itās quite easy to use. The browser is there but I havenāt used it yet. I got a monthly subscription to kindle unlimited as I have a stack of real books to read and I can check out literally millions of different books for $11 a month.
But first I had to finish
Which was great. Just great historical fiction.
So onto the kindle. I poked around and saw
And went out on the deck and dove in. So far so good
It is Solaris. Phone posting is shit these days. (fixed!)
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Thatās a good one. I remember me and Charlie Jack (RIP) discussing how great it was (in this thread?) a while back. Iām looked forward to Lincoln whenever I have time for another 600+ page historical novel.
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A couple of others mentioned it.
Lem is a favorite of mine, though some works (because of the poor translations with at best slapdash copyediting?) are lackluster rote sci-fi.
He wasnāt a fan of Tarkovskyās film of Solaris. But I think the movie is amazing, though still not the equal of Stalker.
Iāve probably given Lemās whimsical The Cyberiad as a present as much as any book. Also noteworthy are The Star Diaries (esp. the delicious āThe Eleventh Voyageā) and The Tales of Pirx the Pilot (esp. the chilling āTerminusā).
His work is also sprinkled with plenty of perfect allegories of aspects of life under communism.
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In the same series (?), 1876.
I have an old slow Kindle. I had a fancy Paperwhite ultimate supreme thingamajig Kindle in my shopping cart through cyber Monday (US$150), but I never managed to pull the trigger. I could have stood out in a rainstorm to read since itās waterproof. Or the shower, or the pool. The possibilities. I still couldnāt make it work in my head. Went back to US$200 today, naturally.
The one indispensable thing about a Kindle is the ease of looking up a word. Thatās the thing actual books lack. And of course it takes just a minute to have a book in hand.
One thing I note which I donāt much like is the note on how many people highlight the same sentence.
Fucking sheep. Must be writing essays or summinā. 
Thereās an option to turn that off somewhere in the settings. I donāt understand the supposed appeal of that feature at all.
Hive mind.