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What If? A collection of alternate stories, if the outcome had been different, of great battles in world history, as told by military historians.

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"Not everything that steps out of line, and thus 'abnormal', must necessarily be 'inferior'. " -- Hans Asperger (1938)

Solaris by Stanisław Lem, watched the Steven Soderbergh movie last night and thought I would read the book again

I'm two thirds of the way through the latest spectacle by Iain M. Banks:
"Matter"
He's the third author in a row that has the same strange rhythmically rhyming writing style,
the same as the way that I do. Do I dare to ask what's going on there?
The previous two we're Richard Morgan's "Woken Furies",
and Mark Frost's "The List of Seven"
(who was recomended to me by somebody here on WP )
They are all three glorious genre-redefining gods!

"A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace. It's a humor essay collection. Chuck Klosterman considers him an influence, so i decided to pick the book up on that alone. It's pretty good.

I just finished reading this book

"Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss what Matters Most"
by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen and Roger Fisher

on conflict resolution and it's been really helpful. It breaks difficult conversation down into a clear structure and shows how to phrase things to lead to a better outcome. It teaches how to transform a difficult conversation into a learning conversation.

My Sister's Keeper (in Swedish), by Jodi Picoult.

I am reading "Look Me in the Eye," too. I've just started reading it, but it's very interesting.

I'm reading hitler youth. Fascinating.

I am re-reading Living with Asperger Syndrome by Dr Joan Gomez.

"FOR US, THE LIVING: A Comedy of Customs" by Robert A. Heinlein.
The lost first novel from the bestselling author.
Written between 1938 and 1939.
Copyright 2004 by The Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Trust
First published in Great Britain 2005
Set in 2086

I've just "read" it. I can thoroughly recommend that it should have stayed unpublished.

PS. I love Heinlein. He did well not to publish it himself.

I'm just about to read the last chapter of Blood Canticle ~Anne Rice. I've been putting it off for a week. I dislike finishing books, I feel so empty.

The Time Traveller's Wife
The Songwriting Secrets of The Beatles

The Historian's Wizard of Oz
Reading L. Frank Baum's Classic as a Political and Monetary Allegory
Edited by Ranjit S. Dighe

"The Historians Wizard of Oz synthesizes four decades of scholarly interpretations of L. Frank Baum's classic children's novel as an allegory of the Guilded Age political economy and a comment on the gold standard. The heart of the book is an annotated version of the Wizard of Oz that highlights the possible political and monetary symbolism in the book by relating characters, settings, and incidents in it to the historical events and figures of the 1890s, The decade in which Baum wrote his story. Dighe simultaneously values the leading political interpretations of OZ as useful and creative teaching tools, and consolidates them in a sympathetic fashion; yet he rejects the commonly held, and by now well-debunked, view that those interpretations reflect Baum's likely motivations in writing the book. The result is a unique way for readers to acquiant themselves with a classic of children's literature that is a bit different and darker than the better-known film version."