"Living it up, it's a big kick, it's good for you
Watch the big freeze slip, crack the jackpot, get out of control
If you put yourself down, you'll never win, get out of that hole
Keep your mind open, your head up, you'll never ever get old"
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+1 for Lumberjanes. Lightfall is also a good adventure series and the dialogue might be at the right level. timprobert.com/books For more advanced English, we enjoyed the Cleopatra in Space series and a truly great book, Nimona.

Tungsten film is tricky but when it works it is like finding a lost album of ambient music

The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War is extremely good. Brilliant portrait of Du Bois as a writer and an academic. And wow did I learn a thing or two.

But it was the second part of the book, which engages criticisms of the movement, that was most helpful to me. Edmonds takes them seriously, fairly, and in turn, while still leaving me with a sense of urgency around the question of what I should do in times when I have more than I really need.

In reading about how China builds staggering volumes of housing, high-speed rail, and renewable energy, I came away having learned enough about the US context that I could have skipped Abundance altogether. And the spirit of the book, that we should learn from each other, was terrific.

When that kind of TV comes into your life, the feeling can last. We made cardboard TVs of different sizes so we could sit on the sofa and "watch" at the correct distance before getting it. Years have now passed but every few months I turn to my wife and say, "This TV is the best. I love this thing."

I kept my bout sheet from an incredible day in a golden age of sumo in '98. Wakanohana, then ozeki, was promoted to the rank of Yokozuna later that year, when you saw him.

So I watched my kids get into archery, something I never would have found on my own. Maybe something I'll continue to enjoy for years after they strike out on their own. And let me tell you, it's the best.

When the kids got into hockey, I'd played for decades but was hellbent on *not* coaching. Oof. Couldn't be me. Big mistake! Once I started, I realized I should have gone in face first. Working with kids and sharing something you know and love is a gift to yourself.

Insurance and mortgage markets play a big part in Jake Bittle's terrific The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration. Bittle is a journalist. Part of the value of the book is in its reporting on first-hand experience of the crisis. www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Gr...