re: Do we really need a book board, what’s the last book you read?

The last book I read was “How to start interesting threads on message boards”. Apparently you did not read it.

This is typical of the smug answers found on this board.

The instruction on how to build some stuff for the kids.

I listen to iBooks alot when i drive but other than reading books with the kids at night, i wouldn’t say i have read a book

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Do we really need a book board, what’s the last book you read?

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This question is what the Book Board is for.

The last book I read was The Last Days of Night a few months back. I’m currently reading the CISSP study guide so that sucks.

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Have you ever read a book ?

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Plenty, actually. Reading Spillover by David Quammen right now. It's about zoonotic diseases, like Coronavirus and Ebola, and the epidemics that have arose from them.

Sea Stories by Retired Admiral William H McRaven. Awesome autobiography. Dude did some amazing stuff.

1984

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That’s sounds like a good one. Maybe we ought to move to the book board so we can discuss it.

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If is...if I could ever quit getting distracted by other stuff to finish it. The problem I have with most of Quammen's books (with the exception of books like Flight of the Iguana, which are compilations of his writings from different magazines more or less) is that they are so damn long! Several of them are 500 pages, and it's not 500 tiny pages either. It might as well be typed on 8.5x11. And it's just information dense.

But I've been reading Quammen since college when I read Monster of God and Song of the Dodo in the same semester, and have been a big fan of his ever since.

The really eery part of Spillover is the number of references to the "Next Big One" and how it's like he called COVID-19 (the book was written in 2012). But when you read it, you realize it isn't some big deal to call something like this. It was going to happen eventually. They've been extraordinary lucky to keep outbreaks down in the past, but with the increased globalization of our world, it was only a matter of time until one with a high infection rate made its way around the globe very quickly.

Thankfully, it wasn't one of the Ebolaviruses that had something like a 75% mortality rate.

I read three books a week. I enjoy the Book Board. Gives me ideas and new material.

IDK, but I just saw this on the Election board. This dude is truly unhinged.

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