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That's so intense, but so well written. Read "Finding Iris Chang" as a follow-up, if time allows. She was so driven, so interesting.

History buffs take note of this brilliant new book from James Bradley. Bradley is the author of "Flags of our Fathers" and the son of John Bradley, one of the men who raised the American flag on Iwo Jima. "Mirage" is capably written and deeply researched, and details how the American view of China created the history of the past several decades, reaching back to Teddy Roosevelt's administration and beyond. It deftly shows how our misperceptions and yearning to believe in a China that aspired to be both Westernized and Christianized (an American mirage) created policies which led to repeated f

Nice! Thanks for posting this! I wonder what color vinyl it'll turn out to be?

Hahahaha! I got Nels.

I'm currently reading Sacks' autobiography, "On the Move", and he speaks frequently about the experiences that led to that book and others. It's fascinating to know what was going on behind the scenes as he compiled his material and worked to create something publishable. He fleshes out several of the accounts that made up that book. What a fascinating life he had! I'm glad to hear that you've apparently outgrown your migraines. Miserable things.

I've just finished this: Her writing is so gorgeous and her stories so compassionately human. Highly recommended, along with another of hers, "The Weight of Heaven". Very moving!

Love that reply.

Yeah, i liked that answer too.

New sticks that he hasn't been able to break! That's saying a lot, for Glenn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8etgrCFrNc

This should be fun!

How could I have forgotten "An Anthropologist on Mars"?!! That's an amazing book, and "The Last Hippie" is one of my favorite stories from it!

Even knowing it was coming hardly blunts the loss today of this brilliant and compassionate soul. For any of you who have never read any of the famed neurologist's writings, I recommend either "The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat" (read it & that title will make sense) or his best known work, "Awakenings". Both books had me so enraptured that I carried them around with me for the time it took me to read them, taking bathroom breaks as needed to escape the kids and read just a bit more of his fascinating writing. Sacks had been diagnosed with a cancer of the eye, which had resulted in

Yes, in November 2004. She was suffering from depression, which may have been related to the horrors she had researched for "Nanking" and the book she was currently writing on the Bataan Death March. "Finding Iris Chang" has been an interesting psychological profile of a fascinating woman, so far. I'm about halfway through the book. It's written by her friend Paula Kamen. Reading the two books back to back has really given her story extra depth.

Don't miss that innocence too much, Jeff. Just keep getting better & better as you go, like you've been doing! Have a wonderful day!

Be warned, though, as well as the story is told (and it is!) it is nonetheless a horrifying story. But well worth the read, a fascinating piece of history.

I've just finished this horrific,powerful, brilliant book: And am now following it with a poignant look at its author's life, written by a close friend of hers, after Iris Chang's suicide in 2004. What a short, profound life, and what a loss.

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No worries, I'll be on that list momentarily, I'm sure.

Brian, I'm so, so sorry for your loss. Peace to you and your family.

Some up-and-coming little band called Wilco...outside under those California stars!

Aw, that's a damned shame, rwrkb! Next time for sure.

I can't help you with crash space because I'm traveling up too, but see you there! You might consider looking into the hostel beds at McMenamins Edgefield...they are very inexpensive and then you are right at the venue. They have to be reserved so you should call quick if you want to try that. Good luck!

Well, it's official now...the part that washed up on Reunion Island is definitely part of MH370. I hope somehow the families of the deceased can find some closure in at last knowing for certain.

Merged it for you so that mistaken title is also gone.

It's nice to see you again! And yeah, what an album they've sprung on us lucky fans! I get to see them the day after tomorrow, and I'm psyched!