What Are You Reading or Listening To?

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Just bought the first one on Kindle!

 

I finishing Claudius the God. Moving on to An Anonymous Girl (or as Monty Python used to say, "And now something completely different".





Listening to Prokofiev lately, among others....

 

Here are a few links to Secrets of the Dead episodes that you might find interesting. Perhaps you've seen them. Some of these links expire in a month or so, others later.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/neros-sunken-city-full-episode/3471/

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/cleopatras-lost-tomb-full-episode/2909/

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/leonardo-man-saved-science-full-episode/3521/

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/the-nero-files-full-episode/4040/

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/king-arthurs-lost-kingdom-full-episode/4094/

 

I've been missing my usual regular trips to the gun range during this pandemic, and some of my usual friends from the range have been trying to get me into this for a while, so I've been learning about long range shooting and building a 1000+ yard rifle. Long range shooting is almost a separate hobby in itself in the same way coin photography and coin cleaning are from coin collecting, so there's a lot to learn but it's been fun so far.

 

I like that book. Building an AR10 myself.

 

CT

 

I just finished The Sword and the Scimitar by Simon Scarrow. A good historical fiction about the siege of Malta by Sultan Suleiman in 1565. I can highly recommend to readers of historical fiction.

 

Its been out awhile... meaning I could pick it up at a discount..



So far - very well done!
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In these unprecedented times we can always turn to music to set the mood..
Here is one Canadian classic...

I felt like this for a few weeks:


And a couple of Canadian silly/fun '80s tunes to lift the spirits..
I grew up in the '80s... looks weird now..

 

One has to spend the time somehow during lockdown, and I realised that even though I like to collect old books, I very rarely actually read them! That is because old and frail books are hard to read, and I tend to avoid handling them too much and usually go for an electronic version if I really want to read the content.

There is an electronic version of what I now picked to read from my library, but this one is a pocket book (thus easier to read on a sofa) and is full of interesting gravures that usually are missing from the electronic versions.

It is the 'Adventures of Telemachus' written in 1699 by Fenelon the archbishop of Cambrai. We often accuse Hollywood of unecesary sequels, prequels, or spin-offs, but this one was written much earlier and is a fictional account of Telemachus' journey to find his father Ulysees. My copy is an english translation printed in 1749. A difficult and slow read, but it has 24 miniature plates which I love plus a very interesting 17th century fold-out map of the med.





















Coin-wise, I haven't bought anything in a while and what I do is to add interesting coins in my favourites folder. To my horror, they usually get sold after a couple of days. People are still buying coins, I guess they are not afraid of virulent postmen... One thing I noticed though is that in the last few days the number of new coins hitting the usual online marketplaces has been dramatically reduced.

 

Not a book, just an interesting read that I thought I could share :

https://www.romeartlover.it/Augusta.html

 

Am reading Mythos by Stephen Fry



A light read with a retelling of the Greek myths with snippets of linguistic anthropology thrown in.

I have owned this for some time and tried to read it a few times and failed to get into it. Enjoying it this time round.

 

I thought it would be fun to revive this thread.
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Currently reading Fake Nero by Feuchtwanger. Not 100% impressed, I was expecting something a little more spectacular, but not bad.