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About gkindall

History @ Third Place Books

... I'm a bookseller & used book buyer at Third Place Books. I read lots of history, avidly, indiscriminately, but not exclusively -- fiction, especially if it has an interesting relation to history, also gets a place in the stack by the reading chair. At the moment I'm reading Edmund Wilson's Patriotic Gore.


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    I second "Gypsy Jazz". (There are remainder copies at both Third Place Books stores at the moment!)

    gkindall commented about 1 year ago
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    Hurricane Katrina book recommendation?
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    Douglas Brinkley's big book, The Great Deluge (2006) will give you the "start to finish" and more. If you want something more personal, there is a good compilation of survivors' tales, Voices from the Storm (2008). It was published by McSweeney's, the same folks who did Zeitoun.

    gkindall answered in Book Recommendations about 1 year ago
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    Another great Roman Sherlock is Gordianus, in Steven Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa series. (Begins with "Roman Blood")

    gkindall commented about 1 year ago
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    Arm Chair Traveller Mysteries?
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    This wouldn't get put in the mystery section of your bookstore, but for adventure and political intrigue, not to mention the Inquisition, I really like the Captain Alatriste books by Arturo Perez-Reverte. Set at the end of Spain's Golden Age, when things are getting a bit tarnished and a good assasin comes cheap.

    gkindall answered in Book Recommendations about 1 year ago
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    Historical/anthropological non-fiction?
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    I have a few books I'd add to the list:

    on the anthro side :
    Tom Standage, An Edible History of Humanity
    Tom Standage, A History of the World in 6 Glasses

    and similarly:
    Daniel Levitin, The World in Six Songs: How the
    Musical Brain Created Human Nature

    or, since you've already read Sacks:
    Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia

    and since you mentioned the arts:
    Alan Riding, And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris

    or:
    Noah, Charney, Stealing the Mystic Lamb (the hardly credible history of Van Eyck's 1432 Ghent altarpiece).

    David mentioned The Buried Book, by David Damrosch. A must-read if you're attracted to the ancient world or archaeology.
    But this reminds me that Damrosch's brother Leo came out earlier this year with Tocqueville's Discovery of America. Also a great read, it follows Tocqueville as he wanders around Jacksonian America, trying to get his head around it.

    Simon Winchester (since he's been mentioned) has a new book out, Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories.

    gkindall answered in Book Recommendations about 1 year ago
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    A belated thanks for this. I did have AnyAndAllNames@mysite.com forwarded to my "real" email address. I just wondered why I myself never received spam purporting to be from a Big Corporate Entity, if it was so easy to spoof, as if this was just a problem for those of us lower on the food chain.

    gkindall commented about 1 year ago
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    Thanks!

    gkindall commented about 1 year ago
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    spammers using my domain name

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    Should I cut back my hop vines?
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    Misty - I have a hop vine that gets cut to the ground whenever I get around to it. Anytime from now until next spring when the new growth starts. It just depends on how tidy you like things. One thing to think about, though -- apparently ladybugs, those assiduous eaters of aphids, like to overwinter their larvae in hopvines.

    gkindall answered in Edibles & Herbs about 1 year ago
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    Books about NW explorers, sailors, wanderers
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    Martin Allerdale Grainger, Woodsmen of the West (1908). Look up Grainger's Wikipedia article - he's an interesting character. The novel is pretty good - it has a story but its main purpose is to explore the logging industry. Out of print in the US, but you can have one printed on an Espresso Book Machine (Third Place Books, University Bookstore, Village Books).

    Robert Bringhurst, A Story as Sharp as a Knife: the Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World (1999).
    The stories of the Haida are the focus here, but there is a huge amount of commentary, much of it about the short career of John Swanton among the Haida of the Queen Charlotte Islands. I don't know how anyone can read this and not be haunted by the Haida Gwaii ever after.

    gkindall answered in Books & Writing about 1 year ago
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