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yellowdogintexas

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17. Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up Tom Phillips
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 03:24 AM
Mar 2025

My Liberal Ladies Who Lunch pick for our book group.

I expected this to be dry but au contraire, it is highly readable and very funny! Our discussion next Saturday is going to be fun. There are about 15 of us in the group.

We had our monthly lunch today at our favorite burger place Tommy's Burgers on Forest Park. Excellent food, reasonable prices, a private room and the owner is a hard-core Democrat! This group is not an activist group; it is strictly social. We get a couple or three new ladies each month, and every one of them says "I am so glad to find this group! I can't talk to anyone around me" or "I thought I was the only Democrat in Tarrant County"

Earlier in the week, I read The Mountain Mother Saga by N.S. Wikarski Second in a series I really like this series and hope some more of them pop up on the heavily discounted list. There are 8 of them. The Nephilim cult leader is a real piece of work.

THE ARKANA SERIES A myth-shattering treasure hunt that spans continents, centuries, and lost civilizations, pitting a secret society against a ruthless fundamentalist cult. The prize is a cache of hidden artifacts that could rewrite history or end it completely. With the world hanging in the balance, only one faction can win. More importantly, only one can survive
.Volume 2 - In THE MOUNTAIN MOTHER CIPHER, the race is on between Arkana agents and Nephilim operatives as they rush off to Turkey in search of clues leading to legendary artifacts. Among ancient megaliths on the top of Mount Ida, the foes square off in a literal cliffhanger of a confrontation.At the worst possible moment, the Arkana crew discovers that the Nephilim aren't their only competitors for lost treasure. Unforeseen obstacles and unknown enemies thwart their efforts to complete their mission and escape unharmed. This crisis teaches the newest member of the Arkana team where her real loyalties lie, but not all of the crew might make it home alive.

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I just SARose Mar 2025 #1
Thanks hermetic Mar 2025 #2
I read Crow Mary last year and liked it very much. I am partial to books about the japple Mar 2025 #6
I love Anya Seton's books..I haven't read them all but really enjoyed the ones I did read yellowdogintexas Mar 2025 #14
Mine too! Jilly_in_VA Mar 2025 #19
that book (Catherine) was the beginning of my lifelong interest in the Plantagent Dynasty yellowdogintexas Mar 2025 #24
Me too! Jilly_in_VA Mar 2025 #26
Just started Jilly_in_VA Mar 2025 #3
Wow. A serious undertaking hermetic Mar 2025 #4
I love it so far Jilly_in_VA Mar 2025 #20
I have the first one. I may read it next nt yellowdogintexas Mar 2025 #15
Still reading Anne Tyler's book, A Spool of Blue Thread. japple Mar 2025 #5
I just got hermetic Mar 2025 #7
3/4 of the way through "Fatherland" by Robert Harris. Number9Dream Mar 2025 #8
I read that years ago. I'll probably reread it, as I've been on a Harris kick recently. rsdsharp Mar 2025 #10
I keep having this vague feeling that I have read it and it would have been 42 years ago yellowdogintexas Mar 2025 #16
I think I've got a paperback copy kicking around here somewhere. rsdsharp Mar 2025 #21
aha! Thank you ! Well back in 1983 I read a revisionist history of WWII and I think it was called Fatherland yellowdogintexas Mar 2025 #25
I am starting the Cicero Trilogies. Am loving the first book. Polly Hennessey Mar 2025 #27
I enjoyed all three. I read Pompeii several months ago, which was his first book regarding Rome, but obviously set in rsdsharp Mar 2025 #28
A couple of excellent transfixing books: cbabe Mar 2025 #9
Helle & Death by Oskar Jensen The King of Prussia Mar 2025 #11
Hello! hermetic Mar 2025 #12
Halfway through, "The Pharaoh's Secret," Clive Cussler Bayard Mar 2025 #13
Clive Cussler SARose Mar 2025 #18
Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up Tom Phillips yellowdogintexas Mar 2025 #17
Dogs! Mystery! QED Mar 2025 #22
Oh yes hermetic Mar 2025 #23
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