My Desultory Blog

RichC | October 1, 2022

Another interesting story tied to scientific development during World War 2 has crossed my email inbox from WSJ+.  This one is about the virtually unknown Mary Sears, “the first oceanographer of the Navy.” Her groundbreaking oceanographic research led the U.S. to victory in the Pacific theater during World War II, according to the summary. I’m […]

Category: Audio, Books, History, Innovation, Millitary, Science | No Comments »
Tags: audio, audiobook, Books, catherine musemeche, glose, lethal tides, mary sears, ocean, oceanography, wsj

RichC | June 8, 2022

In keeping with a previous book, I downloaded another book: “Land Of Big Numbers” by Te-Ping Chen. It is a collection of stories … on the “diverse and legion Chinese people” and according to a review, this book offers an “acute social insight” on Chinese history, their government, “and how all of that tumbled—messy, violently, […]

Category: Audio, Books, Human Interest | No Comments »
Tags: audio, audiobook, Books, censorship, china, chinese, land of big numbers, listening, reading, te-pin chen

RichC | September 19, 2021

One of the more inspiring movies in the last decade or so was that based on the career of Katherine Johnson called “Hidden Figures” in 2016. It was compelling enough and about NASA and the Apollo space program that when I spotted the book “My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir” by Katherine Johnson, Joylette Hylick and […]

Category: Audio, Books, Space | No Comments »
Tags: apollo, audiobook, book, hidden figures, mp3, my remarkable journey, nasa, racism, space

RichC | September 5, 2021

Last week I downloaded a new library app called Libby that is an Overdrive component for audiobooks for borrowing digitally from the library. I put it to use immediately after checking out the Bill O’Reilly book “Killing the SS.” So far it is very interesting considering I’m only in chapter 2, but love the storytelling […]

Category: Audio, Books, History, Tidbits | No Comments »
Tags: audiobook, bill o'reilly, frewsburg, jamestown, killing the ss, libby app, library, nazi, new york, nuremberg trials, overdrive, robert h. jackson, supreme court, tidbits

RichC | July 28, 2021

Perhaps it is my aging eyes, just worn out in the evening … or just too many distractions when the TV is on … but my book reading has slowed a bit. Of the several books sitting next to my chair, on my Kindle or iPad, most have been started, but sit unfinished.  So this […]

Category: Audio, Books, History, Sailing | No Comments »
Tags: audiobook, book, circumnavigation, discovery, exploration, francis drake, in search of a kingdom, laurence bergreen, maps, queen elizabeth, seafaring, voyaging

RichC | May 22, 2021

Audiobooks and eBooks are some of the perks that come with being a long time Wall Street Journal subscriber. This WSJ+ membership includes early pre-production copies and likely word-of-mouth publicity marketing associated with giving away free “controlled” copies of books. I say controlled because readers do not really own the books, but are granted the […]

Category: Books, History | No Comments »
Tags: 1933, all against all, audiobook, book, bookshout, glose, History, hitler, nazi, paul jankowski, wsj, ww2