Friday Finds / Book Blog Hop ~ Oct 29-Nov 1
The Book Blogger Hop, a weekly event hosted by Jen at Crazy For Books, is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and share our love of the written word!
Post about the Hop on your blog. Spread the word about the book party! The Hop lasts Friday through Monday. If you don’t have time to Hop today, come back later and join the fun! Each week there is a new discussion question for your post. This week’s question is:
“”What is the one bookish thing you would love to have, no matter the cost?”
That’s easy, I would have a house with a library. A big, high ceiling room lined with bookcases, a fireplace and comfy chairs with large windows opening to a view of a beautiful garden.
What great books did you hear about/discover this past week? Share your FRIDAY FINDS! This weekly event is hosted by Should Be Reading.
All Clear, a new book by one of my favorite authors, Connie Willis. This is book two and follows Blackout which I haven’t read yet but it’s on my list. I can’t resist the time-traveling historians.
In Blackout, award-winning author Connie Willis returned to the time-traveling future of 2060—the setting for several of her most celebrated works—and set three Oxford historians to World War II England: Michael Davies, intent on observing heroism during the Miracle of Dunkirk; Merope Ward, studying children evacuated from London; and Polly Churchill, posing as a shopgirl in the middle of the Blitz. But when the three become unexpectedly trapped in 1940, they struggle not only to find their way home but to survive as Hitler’s bombers attempt to pummel London into submission.
The Wonderful Future That Never Was: Flying Cars, Mail Delivery by Parachute, and Other Predictions from the Past by The Editors of Popular Mechanics and Gregory Benford just looks like fun. Where is my flying Jetsons car anyway?
Between 1903 and 1969, scientists and other experts made hundreds of predictions in Popular Mechanics magazine about what the future would hold. Their forecasts ranged from ruefully funny to eerily prescient and optimistically utopian. Here are the very best of them, culled from hundreds of articles, complete with the original, visually stunning retro art.
Under My Apple Tree 
Yep, I want the library, too!!
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Definitely would love the library as well! What a treat that would be!!
The Delusional Diaries
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A library, you have described my dream there!
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I’ve heard good things about Connie Willis’ time travel books so I really need to make some time to read them soon.
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if I had a library in my house, i’d fill it up with books. in like a week. and then what would I do? lol!
my bookish dream is to own everything my favorite authors have ever written. One of my favorite authors is a Japanese mangaka, and I want everything she has ever written to be translated into English!!
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Predictions of the future — how fun! Reminds me of when I was in the third grade I read in my Weekly Reader there will be picture-phones where you can see the other person you were talking to. This excited me because I’m deaf (born deaf) — the ability to SEE the person at the other end of the line. That “picture-phone” didn’t appear on the scenes until after my own children were grown and out of college. A LONG LONG wait!
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I remember the Weekly Reader! And I actually got to see and talk on a picture-phone demonstration model that was set up at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry waaaaaay back in the ’60’s. We stood in a long line to chat with people at Disney Land. It was so cool, one of those things that sticks in the brain.
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Just found your blog, and I think it is terrific 🙂
These two founds sound like something I would really like…thanks for highlighting them!
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I like the sound of your library…looking out over a beautiful garden sounds dreamy. Especially if it comes with a gardener! LOL I have a brown thumb, but love gardens.
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