My library just grew again 2019

Started by Rheged, December 30, 2018, 07:06:02 AM

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Hobbes

Quote from: Hobbes on June 10, 2019, 08:53:24 AM
Quote from: Hobbes on May 01, 2019, 09:58:32 AM
My library will have to wait a bit longer for the next acquisition. I live in Soest, NL, but today I saw on a parcel tracking site that my latest book order has been sent to Soest, Germany instead and has to go back to the sender as 'undeliverable' :banghead:

To add insult to injury, I checked today why my order hadn't arrived yet, and it turns out I gave them the wrong address  :banghead:

Arrived today:
Prototypes Expérimentaux Dassault 1960-1980
Ariane 5, une épopée Européenne

Rheged

From  THE WORKS at  Gretna Gateway outlet centre;  Haynes manual of THE EMPIRE FLYING BOAT.  Should have been £6, but with a slightly damaged cover and some points I had on their loyalty card, I  paid £3.50.   Well worth it!!













"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you....."
It  means that you read  the instruction sheet

Gondor

#107
Received yesterday

Valiant Wings Publications: Airframe & Minitures No.10, The de Havilland Mosquito Part2: Fighter, Fighter-Bomber & Night Fighter (including Sea Mosquito)

and todday

Black Cross Volume 2: Junkers Ju 288/388/488

Gondor
My Ability to Imagine is only exceeded by my Imagined Abilities

Gondor's Modelling Rule Number Three: Everything will fit perfectly untill you apply glue...

I know it's in a book I have around here somewhere....

Gondor

Another two books arrived today

Wimpy; A detailed illustrated history of the Vickers Wellington in service 1938 - 1953 by Steve Bond

Russian Tactical Aviation since 2001 by Yefim Gordon & Dmitriy Komissarov. This was published in 2017 and only has a couple or creases on the back of the dust cover so well pleased

Gondor
My Ability to Imagine is only exceeded by my Imagined Abilities

Gondor's Modelling Rule Number Three: Everything will fit perfectly untill you apply glue...

I know it's in a book I have around here somewhere....

NARSES2

I like the AH WWI book Jon  :thumbsup:

Meanwhile a couple purchased before my hols to accompany me.

The Price of Glory - Verdun 1916
The Eastern Front - 1914-1917.
Byzantium at War - AD 600 to AD 1453
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Hobbes

#110
American Secret Projects 2
A man on the moon (Andrew Chaikin)

and a what-if novel:
Nucleus (Rory Clements) - about a WW2 British nuclear bomb program and German efforts to stop it...

Gondor

latest eBay purchase arrived today

MAGACH 6A/B IDF Patton M60A1: M60A1 in IDF Service - Part 3: IDF Armor Series by Michael Mass and Adam O'Brien : Desert Eagle Publishing No.25

bought bacause I have a couple of kits part built in the stash of the tank

Gondor
My Ability to Imagine is only exceeded by my Imagined Abilities

Gondor's Modelling Rule Number Three: Everything will fit perfectly untill you apply glue...

I know it's in a book I have around here somewhere....

Spey_Phantom

got 2 new additions this week:

-Wunderwaffen 9: the latest guest (more Luft46 goodness)
-American Secret Projects Vol 2: US Airlifters 1941 to 1961.
on the bench:

-all kinds of things.

Gondor

received today from eBay

Vickers Aircraft since 1908 by C. F. Andrews & E. B. Morgan

Gondor
My Ability to Imagine is only exceeded by my Imagined Abilities

Gondor's Modelling Rule Number Three: Everything will fit perfectly untill you apply glue...

I know it's in a book I have around here somewhere....

Nick

Meddling Kids Edgar Cantero

What do you get when you mix up the Famous Five, the Scooby Doo gang and Lovecraft?  :wacko:

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

jcf

Quote from: Nick on July 29, 2019, 02:57:48 PM
Meddling Kids Edgar Cantero

What do you get when you mix up the Famous Five, the Scooby Doo gang and Lovecraft?  :wacko:

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

I've read it and I don't really see any connection to the Famous Five.
It's completely a riff on Scooby Doo.

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff is very good and Jordan Peele is developing it
as a series for HBO.

PR19_Kit

I found another of those Aviation Classics bookazines today.

It's called 'American Cold War Stories' and includes all sorts of strange stuff. An article on the XB-35  :thumbsup:, one on the 'nuclear powered' NB-36, lots of stuff from the Viet Nam era, and oddly, a story right at the back that has nothing to do with America! But it's very interesting nonetheless.

£8.00 well spent to my mind.
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

NARSES2

I always have a browse in Smith's bookazine section when I'm in there, they do get some interesting stuff. I often wonder how they do it for the price ?
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

scooter

Added to the library some reading on the train:

HMS Nightingale, book 4 in the Alexis Carew series

The Oracle, Clive Cussler's latest non-Dirk Pitt adventure.
The F-106- 26 December 1956 to 8 August 1988
Gone But Not Forgotten

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zenrat

Quote from: scooter on August 06, 2019, 04:56:06 PM
Added to the library some reading on the train:

HMS Nightingale, book 4 in the Alexis Carew series

The Oracle, Clive Cussler's latest non-Dirk Pitt adventure.

Real books or e-books?
I'm a die hard tree book buyer but I can see the advantages of having a number of books on a reader.  Nothing worse that finishing your book with only half the journey done.
Fred

- Can't be bothered to do the proper research and get it right.

Another ill conceived, lazily thought out, crudely executed and badly painted piece of half arsed what-if modelling muppetry from zenrat industries.

zenrat industries:  We're everywhere...for your convenience..