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Jim Bodie

I finished book 30 which was Jessica Fletcher & Donald Bain’s, “Murder, She Wrote: Blood on the Vine”. I bought Kat the entire paperback series of the MSW books and I enjoy them as well. They are a quick, refreshing read that I enjoy between longer books.

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SubstackJim Bodie on SubstackI finished book 30 which was Jessica Fletcher & Donald Bain’s, “Murder, She Wrote: Blood on the Vine”. I bought Kat the entire paperback series of the MSW books and I enjoy them as well. They are a quick, refreshing read that I enjoy between longer books. You all ought to know of the “Murder, She Wrote” TV show with lead character Jessica Fletcher a retired English teacher turned murder mystery writer who just so happens to be near a murder where ever she goes. She claims to not want to get involved in a real murder, and instead ends up figuring out whodunit. Jessica and her Scotland Yard detective friend, George Sutherland meet up for a week in Napa Valley, California. Dear friends of Jessica moved to Napa Valley to open up a bed & breakfast. Jessica has lunch with local rich blowhard Bill Ladington. Bill doesn’t take no for an answer and gets Jessica to spend the afternoon with Bill at his winery. Bill wants Jessica to help write his autobiography. She refuses as she doesn’t write those sorts of books, not to mention she did not find the man pleasant enough to want to spend any more time with him. With all the people that do not like Bill, it is no spoiler to tell you he ends up dead and Bill’s sun asks, well begs Jessica to figure it out. What follows is a foray into the lives of some unpleasant people, any of which had a good motivation to kill Bill. (And to think, I thought it was Uma that killed Bill.) Will Jessica figure out who did it? It is also no spoiler to tell you she’ll figure it out, but it might not be who you are expecting, or maybe it will. Like I said before, I like the MSW books and this one is no exception.
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I finished book 29 which was Matt Dinniman’s, “Carl's Doomsday Scenario” which is the second book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. After a world ending event, Carl and his ex-girlfriend's Persian cat Princess Donut continue to explore a world-wide dungeon that is televised to the Universe. If they can survive, the rewards will be substantial, if they can survive.

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SubstackJim Bodie on SubstackI finished book 29 which was Matt Dinniman’s, “Carl's Doomsday Scenario” which is the second book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. Carl and his Persian cat, Princess Donut, now sentient and in some ways more powerful than Carl, survived the destruction of the world and are among the surviving humans that entered the world wide dungeon. The aliens that created the dungeon out of the wreckage of humanity are televising it across the universe. Book 1 in this series, “Dungeon Crawler Carl” gives a great description of the dungeon as well as the things encountered in the first 1 levels. This book delves, (get it, delves?) into level 3 where Carl and Donut get to choose a different race and class. It’s not just Carl and Donut, all surviving players get to chose a race and class in this level. Carl and Donut choose their new race and class, and by new, they are allowed to keep the same race (human, cat, etc.), solve a side quest or 2 and take on a few bosses. This is not your mind numbing repetitive hack and slash sort of operation. Oh sure there is a lot of hacking, and slashing, and exploding, and smashing, and a few other related verbs, but some of these quests go far deeper than just kill this, save that, and kill that other thing. Everyone seems to be a fan of Princess Donut. There’s a good reason for that. She’s a cat with all the strong personality cat traits, but she’s also got an evolved moral sense and a growing intelligence and power. She often expresses observations of Carl’s life that one does not realize the cat remembers. she fancies herself in charge of the party and everyone, even Carl sometimes, seems to think that is agreeable. I like this series. I have books 1 - 6 and I see book 7 just came out. Guess the Kindle version will be bought the next time Amazon does on of their triple point days. Either that or I finish book 6, whichever comes first.
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Jim Bodie

I finished book 28 which was Matt Dinniman’s, “Dungeon Crawler Carl” which is the first book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. After a world ending event, Carl and his ex-girlfriend's Persian cat Princess Donut find themselves exploring a world-wide dungeon that is televised to the Universe. If they can survive, the rewards will be substantial, if they can survive.

The full details can be read at: substack.com/@jimbodie/note/c-

SubstackJim Bodie on SubstackI finished book 28 which was Matt Dinniman’s, “Dungeon Crawler Carl” which is the first book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. Meet Carl, a 20-something US Coast Guard veteran, in good shape who is living with Bea his girlfriend, and her show award winning Persian cat Princess Donut. Bea went on vacation and posted on instagram, bikini clad pictures of her sitting on her ex-boyfriend’s lap. That is how Carl decided that Bea was not his ex-girlfriend. Princess Donut was left with Carl while Bea went on vacation. One night in the Seattle winter, Carl saw Donut in a tree outside the apartment. Somehow she god out. In his crocs, boxers and sweatshirt, Carl went out to retrieve the cat. That is when the attack happened. Every human in any sort of building, shelter, bus stop, car, really any form of cover was killed when those dwellings were flattened by aliens. Carl and Donut survived only because Donut happened to get out and Carl went out to retrieve her. The voice from the heavens, or rather lead spaceship announced that the world-wide dungeon was opening up shortly. There was a couple hundred thousand entrances around the world. All survivors had a brief time to enter the dungeon. People who did not enter the dungeon would be left alone to survive on what was left of the Earth. Survival for those that did not enter the dungeon was unlikely. Survival of those who did enter the dungeon was also unlikely. Carl grabbed Donut and entered the nearest dungeon entrance. The party consisted of the very under dressed and even more under-equiped Carl and his pet Donut. If Carl can survive enough levels of the dungeon he would be very well off. Very few get that far. The dungeon is the Universe’s most popular game show. The more than 10 million humans that entered the dungeon are fighting for their very survival, but for the rest of the Universe, this is high entertainment. In a safe room, Donut drinks a potion, and is transformed into dungeon crawler, not only equal in status to Carl but a little stronger than Carl in some skills. It figures a cat would naturally take charge of the party. It’s a great book. I did enjoy the very different monsters, many of which were clearly inspired by Dungeon & Dragons monsters and monsters from various RPG video games. They were inspired by, but also different from those monsters in most amusing ways. I look forward to the rest of this series and due to delays in posting this report, I’m already 2/3 into book 2.
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Jim Bodie

I finished book 27 which was Lee Hollis’s “Death of a Gingerbread Man”. This is the latest book in the Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mystery series. Lee Hollis is the pen name of Rick Copp and his sister Holly Simason.

It's Christmas time and once again Hayley is solving a murder. This time her long absent deadbeat father may be the killer. Hayley is hoping to prove otherwise.

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SubstackJim Bodie on SubstackI finished book 27 which was Lee Hollis’s “Death of a Gingerbread Man”. This is the latest book in the Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mystery series. Lee Hollis is the pen name of Rick Copp and his sister Holly Simason. The series takes place in Bar Harbor, Maine. Unlike a lot of other murder mystery series that takes place in Maine, Bar Harbor is a real place. It’s been like 35+ years since I’ve been there, but Bar Harbor is really nice. It’s Christmas time. Hayley is busy running her restaurant, and doing everything else to get ready for the holiday. Her mother and mother’s boyfriend are coming to visit from Florida. Dear ole Mom can be a handful. While accompanying one of her lifelong friends, Mona, to deliver forgotten medication to Mona’s father 3 hours away in a cabin, Hayley discovers that her deadbeat father, who she has not seen since she was a child, was one of the guests at this cabin. A cabin 3 hours away, and her mother in Bar Harbor should be no problem. That is if her father keeps his promise not to come to Bar Harbor. I think you see where this is going. It’s not only Hayley’s mother that loathes Dwight, Hayley’s father. More than half the town has reason to throttle him for ways he screwed them over. Dwight, while a con artist and deadbeat, is also ha hell of a cook and baker. one of the residents who has a grudge against Dwight, rather than fight him or get all angry challenges Dwight to a gingerbread contest. His revenge would be to beat Dwight. It would be a spoiler to tell you who one, but it might be obvious to know the other man dies under suspicious circumstances and it looks like Dwight did it. Hayley butts her nose in all the other murders (Maine is like the murder capital of the whole world with all these murder series taking place there), so she is determined to figure out who did it. I like this series. They tend to be quick reads and are a good break from my usual fantasy, Sci-Fi or military history reads.
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I finished book 26 which was Septimus Brown’s “When the Sky Breaks”. This is a ARC book that I received from the author. It is being released May 30. This is a YA Sci-Fi book with some Fantasy elements. The book follows Marix as he escapes an autocratic military run moon base and Corvun, a mysterious lad sailing in secret to some remote island.

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SubstackJim Bodie on SubstackI finished book 26 which was Septimus Brown’s “When the Sky Breaks”. This is a ARC book that I received from the author. It is being released May 30. The author has described it as “YA science fiction with a genderpunk twist”. I don’t know what genderpunk is, but YA, Young Adult is fitting, but don’t let the “young” set you off. It is enjoyable by readers of any age. I would just call it Sci-Fi with a touch of Fantasy and leave it there. it was a fun, engaging SF&F novel with a twist that I will do my best to not spoil. The world is similar to Earth with a mixture of modern and futuristic technology. Planet side, travel by boat is very common. air travel is available as well. Boats travel by motor or sail, but are also blessed with this planet’s version of GPS and satellite phones and other tech. Space travel is also a thing with stations on the moon and maybe elsewhere, but only the moon station is covered by the book. The book follows 2 protagonists, Marix and Corvun. Marix is the son of a deceased father and a tough, autocratic career military officer mother. That live on the moon station. Marix was caught performing some sabotage, but instead of life in the penal colony on the moon, he was allowed to move to the moon station with his mother. Prison might have been more gentle for him. He was put to work processing prisoners of a failed coup and befriends a young woman that he once knew of before. Corvun has a mysterious, undocumented past. He is working aboard a sailing/motor vessel. He needs to get to a remote island, but he cannot travel through conventional ports due to his undocumented status. He is put off by one crew and joins another crew that is going to sail through a becalmed region of the sea where a lot of boats do not survive. If you wanna get someplace through unofficial channels, sometimes you get to deal with some danger. Marix got home 20 minutes late one day and his mother said, “that’s it, you’re going to the dangerous military school”, (I paraphrased that part). Corvun has an artifact he needs to deliver to a remote island. A lot of powerful people would rather have that artifact. That could lead to some conflict. So Marix needs to get off the military controlled moon base, and Corvun needs to get to some remote island. That’s all I’m telling you. To tell more would be to spoil some stuff. What I can tell you is that this was an engaging book. There is good character development and some good action. With 2 main characters, the chapters alternate between one and the other. It was very well done. As I was reading this book, I was picturing it as one of those books that would be turned into movies. Hopefully in this case, but would be better than some of the other books to movies books. There is a twist that I really wonder how it would be done in a movie. Now I need to write a review to be published when the book is released. I have plenty of time to give enough background without spoiling anything.
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I finished book 25 which was G. Harry Stine’s “Warbots”. This was the first book in his Warbots series.

In the future, conventional fighting where large armies of men fact off against each other and shoot and kill each other, has been replaced with warbots. Armed robots, controlled by safely located humans, now do the fighting. It has been 20 years since the US Army fought wars in person.

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SubstackJim Bodie on SubstackI finished book 25 which was G. Harry Stine’s “Warbots”. This was the first book in his Warbots series. In the future, perhaps not too far from current times, conventional fighting where large armies of men fact off against each other and shoot and kill each other, has been replaced with warbots. Armed robots, controlled by humans in a far away safe place now do the fighting. It has been 20 years since the US Army did any boots on the ground sort of fighting. An Imam of a radical Muslim sect rises to power in an area of Iran. for the most part they shy away from technology, at least that is the idea they want everyone to believe. The Iman happens to be aligned with a woman scientist whose ambition for power is the only thing that exceeds her beauty. To raise capital to grow their revolution, 100 hostages are taken. If they are not paid $10 million in gold for each hostage, one a day will be horribly tortured and killed. Captain Curt C. Carson and his company, Carson’s Companions are sent in, boots on the ground with their warbots to rescue the hostages. Other companies are sent in support. It is no spoiler to tell you that things go to shit as soon as the mission starts, hell even before the mission starts. High tech warbots have troubles when faced against masses of low tech attackers. It was a great read. An author I mutually follow on another social media site, Timothy Imholt was a big fan of the books and got the rights to release the books. Glad he did as that means I can not read them.
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Jim Bodie

I finished book 24 which was “Star Wars Legends: The Original Marvel Years: Droids & Ewoks”. This is an omnibus of the Droids and Ewoks Star Wars comics. This is a good collection. Some stories were silly, some were perhaps meant for younger readers, but they were all good including a 3 part version of the original Star Wars from the viewpoint of C-3P0 and R2-D2.

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I finished book 23 which was the omnibus of the comic book version of Fritz Lieber’s “Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser”. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser had many adventures as Fritz Lieber wrote about them and this is the collection of a comic version book of those stories. They’re a fantasy classic and good stories no matter the medium.

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I finished book 22 which was James R. Benn’s “Road of Bones”. This is the 16th book in the Billy Boyle World War II series. This is a historical fiction mystery series set in the very real setting of World War II Europe (and a little Pacific).

Ike's special investigator and distant relative Billy Boyle finds himself in the Soviet Union investigating a double murder.

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SubstackJim Bodie on SubstackI finished book 22 which was James R. Benn’s “Road of Bones”. This is the 16th book in the Billy Boyle World War II series. This is a historical fiction mystery series set in the very real setting of World War II Europe (and a little Pacific). At the entry of the US into WWII, Boston police detective Billy Boyle, the youngest detective in the department, earns himself a commission in the US army and taking advantage of a distance relationship to Col. Dwight D. Eisenhower, he is assigned to Eisenhower staff in DC. Eisenhower is promoted to general and he and his staff transfer to war torn England. Billy goes along and his safe stateside job turns into a more exciting, i.e. dangerous, job as Ike’s special investigator. Since AI likes to borrow from other works, I’m going to borrow from Google’s AI: The Road of Bones (Russian: Дорога Костей, Doróga Kostéy) refers to the Kolyma Highway, a 2,031-kilometer (1,262 miles) road in Russia's Far East, infamous for its construction by Stalinist-era prisoners, many of whom died and were, according to some accounts, buried beneath the road. The Road of Bones was a very real road and many died working on it. That horrific road, and the many bodies buried along, or under, it was the inspiration for the title of this book. The very real setting of Operation Frantic, the deployment of American bombers and ground crew in Soviet Territory to participate in shuttle bombing (England to Ukrainian SSR to Italy and back to England), to allow for bombers to attack areas normally outside their range, was the setting for most of the book. Billy, Kaz, his Polish Baron partner in most of his work, and Big Mike, also a cop back in the states are assigned to work a murder case in one of the soviet bases. A US sergeant and a NKVD officer were found murdered in a secure supply room in the base warehouse. The Soviets, not caring about the truth. want to blame a decadent American and the Americans want to make sure the truth is found. The Americans of course would prefer if it was a Soviet who did the killing. Billy and Kaz find themselves withing with an old “friend”, Sidorov, a former NKVD Captain who Billy and Kaz had the absolute displeasure dealing with in England in a previous book. Sidorov was sent back to the Soviet Union in disgrace, stripped of all of his rank and privileges, and sent to work on the Road of Bones. When the Soviets learned who would be investigating, they brought Sidorov in to work with (and spy on?) Billy and Kaz. To say much more would be a spoiler so that’s all of the plot you get. The book does get into some of the workings an culture of distrust and secrecy that was the Soviet Union. The shabby way that Stalin treated his own people is also detailed. Like the rest of the books in this series, I like how well the author blends a real historical setting with the fictional events of the story. Many events that are described really happened. The author of course takes artistic license to fit the events into the story, but that is the “fiction” in historical fiction. I have 2 more books in the series and then I have to wait until August when book 19 comes out in paperback.
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I finished book 21 which was Terry Pratchett’s “The Bromeliad Trilogy”. This book collects the 3 books, “Truckers”, “Diggers”, and “Wings”.

The little people known as nomes (never capitalized) were 4 inches tall and they lived hidden from mankind. They lives faster than humans and lived their full lives in on average 10 human years.

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SubstackJim Bodie on SubstackI finished book 21 which was Terry Pratchett’s “The Bromeliad Trilogy”. This book collects the 3 books, “Truckers”, “Diggers”, and “Wings”. These were young adult books but given the author, definitely enjoyed by readers of any age. The little people known as nomes (never capitalized) were 4 inches tall and they lived hidden from mankind. They lives faster than humans and lived their full lives in on average 10 human years. A human hearing a nome talk would hear a very high pitched and super fast speech while a nome would hear a human talking very sloooow. There’s gonna be spoilers here. Hard to describe book 2 and 3 without spoiling things a bit in the previous books. In “Truckers” a group of nomes living, quite literally, in a hole in the ground found their living situation in tenable. They hitched a ride on a human truck and ended up in the Store where they encountered a much larger group of nomes that lives throughout the store. The native inhabitants learned to accept the outsiders, even though they believed there was no such thing as “The Outside”. Sadly the store was closing so the nomes, through teaching themselves how to read, learned how to steal a truck and managed to take it a few miles away to a closed quarry that was near an airport. In “Diggers”, the few thousand nomes made a new home in the closed stone quarry. They managed to rig up some electricity like they did in the store and settled into their new home. The pesky humans decided that the quarry needed to be reopened. Several thousand nomes were not going to stay hidden for long. A few went to the airport. You see a computer device the nomes had from thousands of years ago mentioned that they came to Earth from elsewhere. Their ship was still out there in space. A few nomes went to the airport to try to get to Florida to launch their device into space so it can call their ship. The nomes that stayed behind caused trouble for the humans and tried to fight back as well as find a way to get to the barn a ways away from the quarry. In “Wings”, we see the story of Masklin, as well as his 2 companions Angalo, and Girder who followed the grandson of the store’s founder (they read some newspaper articles that he was going to Florida to watch a shuttle launch), from their home in England to Florida. The trio rode in style in a Concorde. The question is, can they get to the launch in time? Can they get The Thing (their computer device) on board? Can The Thing transmit to their mother ship? Even if they reach the mother ship, will it still function after thousands of years of being dormant? The big question, being a Terry Pratchett book, just exactly how zany will their adventures be and you can reasonably expect them to be quite zany indeed. I’ve never read a Terry Pratchett book that I did not like immensely and this book is no exception.
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I finished book 20 which was A.A. Milne’s (as in the guy who wrote Winnie the Pooh) “The Red House Mystery”. This is the only murder mystery the author wrote. My only complaint is that while someone said the word “bother”, no one said “Oh, bother.”

It was a very good book and the full report can be found here: substack.com/profile/22175895-

SubstackJim Bodie on SubstackI finished book 20 was A.A. Milne’s (as in the guy who wrote Winnie the Pooh) “The Red House Mystery”. This is the only murder mystery the author wrote. My only complaint is that while someone said the word “bother”, no one said “Oh, bother.” It’s 1920-something in England. Mark is rich and lives in a big house known as The Red House. Mark has a brother Robert who was a wastrel and was sent to Australia 15 years ago. Mark lives with his cousin Cayley who acts as his secretary, listening board, and anything else Mark needs him for. Mark was entertaining several guests when he got a letter that Robert, was back from Australia and would be visiting that day. The tone of the letter was not so pleasant and Robert could be expected to try to get money from Mark. Enter Anthony. He is staying in a nearby hotel. He decides to go visit his friend Bill who is one of the guests at The Red House. Anthony enters The Red House to see Cayley banging on the office door. Mark and Robert were meeting in the office, arguing really, and a shot rang out. Anthony helps Cayley break in a window and see Robert dead of a gunshot and Mark missing. Oh, bother indeed! What follows is Anthony fancying himself a real Sherlock Holmes with Bill as his Watson. They try to figure out who killed Robert and what happened to Mark, and for that matter, was Mark a murderer, or did he accidentally kill Robert, or maybe Robert killed himself and Mark just panicked and ran. I thought the book was very enjoyable and I suspected some of the final story of whodunit, and figured out more as time went on, but there was still a bit of a twist that I did not see coming. This is the sign of a good mystery book.
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I finished book 19 which was “Chicks in Chainmail” a short story collection by various authors and edited by Ester Friesner. These stories are about ass kicking women with most of them being written by women.

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SubstackJim Bodie on SubstackI finished book 19 which was “Chicks in Chainmail” a short story collection by various authors and edited by Ester Friesner. The title sounds sexist? While acceptable in 1995, it would never fly today, right? Wrong on both accounts. These stories are about ass kicking women with most of them being written by women. Some stories take place in your typical medieval environment where there are literal chainmaill clad women warriors. Others take place in a more modern setting, and some are a hybrid of both with a modern world woman (cop) who also has to deal with her Fae relatives. I like short story books. They are a great break from whatever lengthy novel or military history book I am reading. It doesn’t matter if it takes me a few weeks to read a short story collection as each story is independent of the rest and I’m not missing anything by a delay between stories. This was a great short story collection and it is the first of 7, although it appears I am missing a couple of them. I shall have to fix that discrepancy in my collection.
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I finished book 18 which was Lee Hollis’s “Murder on the Class Trip”. This is the 3rd book in the Maya and Sandra Mystery series. Lee Hollis is the pen name of Rick Copp.

Maya Kendrick, former cop in South Portland, turned private detective owns her own agency with Sandra, soon to be ex-wife of US Senator Stephen Wallage. Maya has daughter Vanessa who is dating Sandra’s son Ryan.

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I finished book 17 which was David O’Keefe’s, “Seven Days in Hell: Canada’s Battle For Normandy and the Rise of The Black Watch Snipers”. When I think of the Black Watch, I think of kilted soldiers charging their enemies with raised claymores (the swords, not the “point this side at enemy” mines). There is also a Canadian Black Watch and this book details their 7 days of hell in France in July 1944.

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SubstackJim Bodie on SubstackI finished book 17 which was David O’Keefe’s, “Seven Days in Hell: Canada’s Battle For Normandy and the Rise of The Black Watch Snipers”. When I think of the Black Watch, I think of Scottish bagpipers and kilted soldiers charging their enemies with raised claymores (the swords, not the “point this side at enemy” mines). There is also a Canadian Black Watch, and they fought in France, the Netherlands and Germany in World War II. A frighteningly high percentage of the Black Watch never returned home. From the Black Watch’s wikipedia page: During the Battle of Verrières Ridge on 25 July 1944, 325 men left the start line and only 15 made it back to friendly lines, the others being killed or wounded by well-entrenched Waffen SS soldiers and tanks. They may have been one of Canada’s most storied regiments, a very well deserved reputation, but even the best of soldiers will find themselves massacred when facing a better entrenched and better armed enemy. A massacre is exactly what they experienced in that week in July 1944. The Black Watch fought well, far better than anyone has the right to expect. They deserve every accolade they received for their tenacity and bravery in battle. This was a very well researched and well written book. I may have read a lot about WWII, and I indeed have, but there is still so many things I have not read about before. This unit was one of the ones I was not familiar with, but thanks to David O’Keefe, I am now.
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I finished book 16 which was Kurt Vonnegut’s, “We Are What We Pretend To Be”. This is a book put out after his death that contains his first and last works, neither of which was published before.

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SubstackJim Bodie on SubstackI finished book 16 which was Kurt Vonnegut’s, “We Are What We Pretend To Be”. This is a book put out after his death that contains his first and last works, neither of which was published before. His first work, a novella titled “Basic Training” was written in 1950. Young Haley Brandon lost his mother. His father was long long gone so he went to live with his Mother’s brother, the General. The widowed General, and his 3 daughters as well as a farmhand ran his farm. He was loving, but very strict with a rigid timetable for everyone’s chores. Haley wanted to go to music school, but a spell working on the farm was in store for him instead. The author’s last work was, according to his daughter Nanette, the beginning of a novel that was never finished. Gil Berman is a comedian who had some trouble with drugs and rehab. A lot of entertainers lead similar lives and have similar circumstances. The character of Gil also came from the authors toxic circumstances of his later life. Both stories were good and definitely the same sort of work one would expect from Kurt Vonnegut.
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