What Non-Fiction ebook are you reading right now, and why?

[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

I'm reading "A Confederate Girl's Diary" by Sarah Morgan Dawson. Posted here. Because I have done Revoluionary War re-enactment (I know - different time period from this book) and through it learned to like history, as long as it's NOT from a history book.

Be ye Yankee or be ye one of us?
As Bob is my witless, I'll never eat turnips again!

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

Be ye Yankee or be ye one of us?
As Bob is my witless, I'll never eat turnips again!

Um ... well ... Since we were doing the American Revolution, not the American Civil War ..... I was a "conscripted Tory". French persons, living in the Mississippi River area, just wanted to be left alone --- but were conscripted to fight with the Brits. So I was on the red-coat side! (More pics in my photo album -- in 2-3 minutes.) My unit was in "peasant" clothes.

[HappyMartin]

Brilliant Moon. Dilgo Kyentse Rinpoche's biography/ autobiography. The first half is what he wrote about his life and the second anecdotes about his life from his students perspectives.

Why am I reading it? at this point I have no idea why I do anything other than it might deliver me some pleasure or some future advantage.

[Tattncat]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

Oops! I only see part of everything and missed the "non"!

For non-fiction, it's "How to Make Wired Jewelry." It's a scanned in PDF of a booklet I bought at a gem show oever he weekend.

Dixigal, how did you manage to find an eCopy of How to Make Wire Jewelry? I have and have read the paper version. My current nonfiction read is Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Why because it was downloadable and I am, as always curious.
Please excuse any and ok spelling errors. I am entering this from my Touch.

[carpii]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

I'm reading "A Confederate Girl's Diary" by Sarah Morgan Dawson. Posted here. Because I have done Revoluionary War re-enactment (I know - different time period from this book) and through it learned to like history, as long as it's NOT from a history book.

Im reading this too, Im about halfway through it and enjoying it lots.

I sometimes forget its not fiction, but is actually someones diary from the time, and its easy to forget how scary it must have been in the middle of the civil war with your town being shelled.

I hadnt heard of Baton Rouge before, but Ive since found out its the 2nd biggest city in Lousiana. Its strange to read about it being a fairly small homely place, and to now see pics of it as a sprawling metropolis. Also I like to go onto Google Maps and find some of the places she talks about, like Clinton etc.

Finally if you wonder what the author she looks like, I found

a photo of her

I recommend this book to anyone even though I havent yet finished it

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by carpii

I hadnt heard of Baton Rouge before, but Ive since found out its the 2nd biggest city in Lousiana. Its strange to read about it being a fairly small homely place, and to now see pics of it as a sprawling metropolis.

Where are you from? IF the US, didn't you study the state capitals as a kid?

BOb

[wayrad]

I'm working on the Diary of Samuel Pepys. Just finished Year 3, in which he is mainly concerned with work, home renovations, and turf wars with the neighbors. Oh, and he finally learns the multiplication tables.

[ChipnDale]

I'm reading Quirkology and The woman who swallowed a toothbrush, I like books like these so it's not something new for me. Quirkology is interesting in the peculiarity of the experiments plus I want to know what drawing a Q on my forehead has to do with anything and I've just started TWwSaT so I'm not sure how I feel about it yet.

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

I'm reading "Jewellery - Fundamentals of Metalsmithing" - Tim McCreight (UK edition) - as a pbook. There is no way my Sony is going anywhere near a hot flame and molten silver! Why - because I want to improve my silversmithing techniques

[carpii]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Where are you from? IF the US, didn't you study the state capitals as a kid?

BOb

Im from the UK, and so no

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by carpii

Im from the UK, and so no

ah... that certainly explains it. Hip hip cheerio! (do you actually say that?)

BOb

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Hip hip cheerio! (do you actually say that?)

BOb

No .

[Sparrow]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

ah... that certainly explains it. Hip hip cheerio! (do you actually say that?)

BOb

It's "pip, pip - cheerio" (and only before afternoon tea).

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

It's "pip, pip - cheerio" (and only before afternoon tea).

teehee !

[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by Tattncat

Dixigal, how did you manage to find an eCopy of How to Make Wire Jewelry? I have and have read the paper version. My current nonfiction read is Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Why because it was downloadable and I am, as always curious.
Please excuse any and ok spelling errors. I am entering this from my Touch.

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

I'm reading "Jewellery - Fundamentals of Metalsmithing" - Tim McCreight (UK edition) - as a pbook. There is no way my Sony is going anywhere near a hot flame and molten silver! Why - because I want to improve my silversmithing techniques

Hey, add MJH into the mix of us gemstone and jewelry collectors, and we have a thread of our own! I'm really disappointed in a batch of tumbled stones that were supposedly finished up this weekend - they are nice and smooth, but dull as dishwater. They didn't polish at all. Any ideas about what went wrong?

As for the 1979 version of "How to make wire jewelry," I had to mangle the pbook by cutting it apart, then popped it onto my office scanner. Got a nice, clear, colorful PDF version with this new machine they brought in a few weeks ago.

AM: Where did you learn silversmithing? Tim is fixing to enter the forge soon, while I start taking faceting courses.