Book Board Chat

good evening. always an interesting read here.

jim - i am with you on historical authenticity. if the era is before the invention of the zipper, i want the dresses to lace up. i want the bits in the horses' mouths to be period. i want the guns and the swords to be period.

i bought rutherford's books and started on 'sarum', and it was sort of like a chicken gizzard: it got bigger and bigger the more i chewed and i put it down. i am like that sometimes. it took me 3 tries to read 'the confessions of nat turner' and i still consider it a disappointment. (nothing good must have been written that year) i love ken follett's historical novels; i love michener; and i also love tolstoy. he was writing about his contemporaries but he was telling it like it was. all that worrying about where to send the carriage first and how to bundle up when traveling by train in 'anna karenina', all that information about the russian generals selling the soldiers uniforms and boots and starving the troops: good stuff!

this was sent to me by a very computer savvy friend:

As much as I like to 'Google', they are getting a bit too intrusive for my libertarian sensibilities... In case you hadn't heard, effective March 1, 2012, they are going to be 'tracking' even more of your online activities & sharing the info across all of their products (& who knows where else)...

(Supposedly) You can opt out of this via the steps in the article at:

http://news.yahoo.com/how-to-remove-your-google-web-data-history.html

Stay safe !