Nothing Like Subject Variety!
Sorry to be gone for a bit. Got caught up in a bedroom painting project as well as managing multiple indexing projects.
Global Bioethics was an interesting scholarly collection on ethical issues in the medical and biotechnology areas these days.
More fun was Investing For Dummies. Made me want to check out my IRA's balance of investments and make sure I didn't panic over the recent volatility in the market. I'd say the author is a fan of what's called value investing. Do the fundamentals research on your investment targets, invest for the long term (no day trading--might as well go to Vegas if you want to gamble like that), but don't be afraid of the stock market.
In complete contrast, I then started on a son's remembrances of his father and mother, who were leading literary figures of the 1920s-1970s. Edmund Wilson was famous for his intensively researched writing on world events and places for magazines like the New Yorker, and his third wife, Mary McCarthy, was famous for her biting satire of the bohemian culture surrounding her. Reuel (the author and their son) focused his memoir on the literary community at Cape Cod, back in the days when you didn't have to be rich to stay there. It was a wild, name-dropping ride for this indexer, with pauses for detailed nature descriptions by Wilson and some pretty good poetry, in between his drunken tirades at his wives (four altogether), and the multiple love affairs that both Wilson and McCarthy engaged in. A bit unstable for Reuel, but he seems to have come through it all right, with a good academic career of his own.
And then, we travel to...Vietnam in the 1960s, which means the war that the U.S. got sucked into. This book, Steel and Blood, is an oftentimes blow-by-blow account of the war from the experiences of a South Vietnamese military officer. He spares no expense in criticizing his superior officers and then-president Thieu, along with the U.S., for abandoning the fight. Way too much detail in places, but a very eye-opening perspective.
More later!
Joanne
Global Bioethics was an interesting scholarly collection on ethical issues in the medical and biotechnology areas these days.
More fun was Investing For Dummies. Made me want to check out my IRA's balance of investments and make sure I didn't panic over the recent volatility in the market. I'd say the author is a fan of what's called value investing. Do the fundamentals research on your investment targets, invest for the long term (no day trading--might as well go to Vegas if you want to gamble like that), but don't be afraid of the stock market.
In complete contrast, I then started on a son's remembrances of his father and mother, who were leading literary figures of the 1920s-1970s. Edmund Wilson was famous for his intensively researched writing on world events and places for magazines like the New Yorker, and his third wife, Mary McCarthy, was famous for her biting satire of the bohemian culture surrounding her. Reuel (the author and their son) focused his memoir on the literary community at Cape Cod, back in the days when you didn't have to be rich to stay there. It was a wild, name-dropping ride for this indexer, with pauses for detailed nature descriptions by Wilson and some pretty good poetry, in between his drunken tirades at his wives (four altogether), and the multiple love affairs that both Wilson and McCarthy engaged in. A bit unstable for Reuel, but he seems to have come through it all right, with a good academic career of his own.
And then, we travel to...Vietnam in the 1960s, which means the war that the U.S. got sucked into. This book, Steel and Blood, is an oftentimes blow-by-blow account of the war from the experiences of a South Vietnamese military officer. He spares no expense in criticizing his superior officers and then-president Thieu, along with the U.S., for abandoning the fight. Way too much detail in places, but a very eye-opening perspective.
More later!
Joanne
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