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A game of secrets and lies. ‘Bloody Orkney’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland, mainly in Orkney, during World War Two. It uses many real settings.

Ness Battery near Stromness helped guard the western entrance to Scapa Flow during the war and can still be visited today, as it was by the book’s characters in November 1942. This modern image shows the battery observation post and fire command.

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I've finally cut my last personal connection to Amazon. I stopped buying books or anything else from them years ago, but I still held onto my old Kindle for #reading.

I’ve always preferred physical #books but being a bookworm requires an unreasonable amount of shelf space. So e-reading still has its place.

I've replaced it with the Tolino Epos 3, and after a month of using it, I can say it's been a great choice. The reading experience is smooth and best of all—I’m free from Amazon’s grip.

Finished earlier this year, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams.

I don't know how many times I've read this book so far in my life or how many times I will read it still, but I will.

If you haven't, you should give it a chance.

Trying to write anything meaningful about the book in 500 characters is almost impossible, but I do think there is one thing I can say about the book that will describe it perfectly & it's this;

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I’m usually a little hesitant to get into philosophy books from military folks because I’ve seen… we’ll say a “rah rah,” attitude where things could be a lot more objective than they wound up. I think it’s a product of our modern all-or-nothing society that allows so little room for nuance.

But I heard his commencement speech and thought the idea of a book where he expands on his lessons learned sounded interesting.

And it was.

It’s also a good philosophy book harping on the importance of team work and pragmatism.

I found the most interesting part of it was the foreword where he said he was hesitant to give the commencement speech in the first place because, even if it was in Texas, he had doubts that a military man would have an audience in a college.

Then he was shocked that they seemed to like it so much.

I think that we’re often sold black and white pictures of people or groups and there’s very little room for gray. Even less so with increasingly-sparse social media outlets where we’re limited so much. Too much.

Nuance slips away until you’re left with such basic sentences that everyone is either friend or foe and the lines are clearly dividing everyone when, in reality, there’s a lot more middle ground and occupants of said ground than we’ve been led to believe.

It’s okay to be nuanced. Hell, I would say most of us are pretty friggin’ nuanced so I guess what I’m saying is it’s okay to acknowledge it in ourselves and others.

This guy was sold the idea that all universities are left-wing anti-military incubators and he was wrong, wrong, wrong. Tons of people in college are nuanced enough to realize it’s okay to support troops while also being anti-war and angry at politicians who are so blasé about sending troops in to die.

That’s probably the best lesson I got from this book: be open to the idea that we’ve been manipulated into thinking the world is FAR more black and what than it really is.

#philosophy #books #reader #lifelessons

booksns.com/123749/ How do you usually answer when a random person in public asks you what you’re reading? #books Do you usually tell them the title, author, and maybe what the book is about? Most of the time I just tell them the genre to keep it short ("Just a sci-fi/fantasy book"), as I find that most of the time they'll just reply with "I don't read books" or some variation of that so …

Trending Books · How do you usually answer when a random person in public asks you what you're reading?Do you usually tell them the title, author, and maybe what the book is about? Most of the time I just tell them the genre to keep it short ('Just a sci-fi/fantasy book'), as I find that most of the time they'll just reply with 'I don't read books' or some variation of that so the conversation never goes anywhere.by AndalusianGod

Some of my books are currently only available on Amazon because that is the only retailer where I earn anything. A guy needs to eat, right?

But some of my books can be found through competitors to the Kindle platform, such as Kobo, B&N, Google Play Books, etc. If I start to earn on other platforms, I will have less incentive to make current and future titles exclusively available on Amazon.

#fiction #fantasy #books

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