Yesterday I finished reading the book The Tiger and the Hare. It is fiction set in Vietnam during 1962 and 1963, which are the years of the Tiger and the Hare according to the Vietnamese calendar. It ends after Diem and Kennedy are assassinated, after which things went downhill fast. The author is a woman who lives at Menlo Commons.
In the evening I watched a DVD of the movie Kiss the Bride. It is a comedy about a gay man getting married to a woman. I do not usually like movies about gays, but this one had a light touch that made it passable. It give it three stars.
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My Book List
- Animal, Vegetable, Miricle by Barbara Kingsolver
- Assegai by Wilbur Smith
- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
- Body of Secrets by James Bamford
- Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis
- Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
- Empire of Light by Gregory Earls
- Half the Shy by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
- Hyperion by Dan Simmons
- In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- Legacy of Ashes, The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
- My Stroke of Insight, A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor
- Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
- Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card
- Sleeping Where I Fall by Peter Coyote
- Strange Things Happen, A Life with The Police, Polo, and Pygmies by Stewart Coipeland
- The Afghan Campaign by Steven Pressfield
- The Big Short by Michael Lewis
- The Blind Side, Evolution of a Game, by Michael Lewis
- The Confusion by Neal Stephenson
- The Explosive Child by Ross W. Greene
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
- The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
- The Polish Officer by Alan Furst
- The Shadow Factory by James Bamford
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
- The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
- The Terror by Dan Simmons
- The Tiger and the Hare by Jane Miller Chai
- The Triumph of the Sun by Wilbur Smith
- The Whole Truth by David Baldaccci
- Those in Peril by Wilbur Smith
- True Grit by Charles Portis
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
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About Me
- Old Grandad
- I am a retired physicist. My wife Sally died five years ago, in November 2003. I have five children and ten grandchildren. I was the second of five children. I was born in Alabama, and I have lived in Arkansas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Illinois, New York, California, Maryland, and Alaska.
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