After listening to a two hours short prequel to a Sci-Fi series read by one of my favorite narrators, R. C. Bray, I am now three chapters into Adrian Goldsworthy's Anthony and Cleopatra. I doubt there will be much new info, but I am interested in Goldworthy's take on the war between them and the Roman fleet.

This morning, while waiting for the "vampire" to call me in for bloodwork, I pulled up The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac by Eugene Field, but get to start it before I got called in. Field was a poet and writer who lived in the second half of the nineteenth century. I may not have run across his name anywhere, but I do remember one of his most famous poems, "Wynken, Blynken and Nod".

Here is a little known story about Ethiopian fleeing through Sudan to be able to reach Israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVOSo7N6hNg

Bubble, what an amazing story, among so many of a strong, determined people even with so much historical religious hatred turned toward them.

Daily we hear so many poignant stories, so many incredible experiences...

I am not sure this is the place for posting this, but it certainly made me reflect on the importance of knowing and remembering history.

https://youtu.be/Yj8MGR-Oh1o?si=WbRCR2d_OtYV-23R

Bubble, such powerful and amazing truth. I saved, downloaded and forwarded.

Thanks for sharing bubble - amazing bit of truth using poetry to speak - don't know which was more wonderful - the story or the poetry...

Bubble, such an important and necessary message.  Spellbinding, to watch and listen to Yuval David, tell the story . . . the history.  I liked it very much, and plan to send it on to others who I know will feel the same way. 

Current FLP read is a crime novel by Anders de la Motte called The Mountain King. It is set in Malmo, Sweden and surrounds and involves two missing young hiker/explorers. Also, I am picking my way through a science fiction anthology of works by Keith Laumer. Despite Laumer's death in 1993, many, if not all, of his works appear to be copyright free otherwise they would not be listed in Project Gutenberg's catalog. As for my listening, I have switched to the fourth of a Michael Mammay science fiction series involving a retired veteran turned for hire investigator.

My sister is continuing her fascination with foreign films and TV series, including Korean, Spanish, Turkish, Brazilian. She isn't particularly interested in Japanese at the moment and does not care for Indian productions citing a difficulty with the sound of their language not suiting her ears which in turn, distracts her from the action.

Mars, How does your sister happen to have access to so many foreign films and TV series?  Are they shown on a pay channel that she subscribes to?  Out of curiosity I'd like to take a look, but doubt that I would watch on a regular basis.  I'm  already  far behind on both American and British shows I have recorded.

My younger daughter is fascinated with the early silent Hollywood films . . . mostly 1920's.  They are shown on TCM on certain nights during the week.  She records them and watches them on weekends. Last week she saw,  "The It Girl",  staring Clara Bowe, and was urging me to watch it.  Next time it rolls around, I may take a look.

Marilyne, Sue says she gets them all on Netflix. She added saying she really likes the Norwegian crime mysteries, but the last series she watched was Scottish. I don't do Netflix. I only get Amazon Prime and Peacock (until Feb. if I don't start paying extra for it). There a bunch of other free movie and TV  offerings like Tubi, FreeVee, PlutoTV, Fawesome and a few others. There were a bunch that were recently dropped, including Crackle. I do not remember Crackle bit the dust or was assimilated into another venue.

I think I forgot to mention that The Mountain King, aside from being a crime/police procedural, is a serial killer thing. I finished it, surprisingly. I usually stay away from them, so if I had known, I would never have borrowed it.

I am still reading a book of Keith Laumer short stories which are all science fiction I think. They are not bad. So far, I have read everyone of them. Usually I only end up reading half of short story anthologies regardless of genre.

Also, my audio book listen is Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll's Ghosts of Honolulu, a nonfiction book about the beginnings of the real NCIS. The chapters tend to be short which is nice. Mark Harmon narrates.

Now that I have finished Ghosts of Honolulu, I am just starting Ghosts of Panama which follows an NIC special agent as he investigates the murder a marine in Panama which blew up into war with Panama and the removal of Noriega from office. Nonfiction and again narrated by Mark Harmon.

While checking out some sale books on Audible, I ran across J. Warner Wallace who is/was a cold case detective who has written The Truth in True Crime: What Investigating Death Teaches Us About the Meaning of Life and Person of Interest: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World that Rejects the Bible. My online library has Person of Interest, so it is now included on my wish list. I am not much of a true crime reader, but this unusual approach has piqued my curiosity.

Marilyne, remember when we talked a little about Laura Dare's The Last Thing He Told Me? Apparently it was made into an Apple TV+ series. Now she has a sequel coming out in January which is titled The First Time I Saw Him. It is set five years after the first book's events. Now, all I have to do is remember to keep an eye out for it.