Between the Front & Back: Grundle’s Book Club

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Full disclosure, I have never conducted nor participated in book club. But at HardcoreHusky, expertise is a disqualification.

I cheated a little and started this last week. It's completely my wheelhouse, big picture stuff somewhere between the Tug and @creepycoug shitty little bored, knowledge of which helps me not at all in daily life. Call it intellectual onanism.

The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (Daniel Yergin, 2020)

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Named Energy Writer of the Year for The New Map by the American Energy Society

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert, Daniel Yergin offers a revelatory new account of how energy revolutions, climate battles, and geopolitics are mapping our future

The world is being shaken by the collision of energy, climate change, and the clashing power of nations in a time of global crisis. The shale revolution in oil and gas--made possible by fracking technology, but not without controversy--has transformed the American economy, ending the era of shortage, but introducing a turbulent new era. Almost overnight, the United States has become the world's number one energy powerhouse--and, during the coronavirus crisis, brokered a tense truce between Russia and Saudi Arabia. Yet concern about energy's role in climate change is challenging our economy and way of life, accelerating a second energy revolution in the search for a low carbon future. All of this has been made starker and more urgent by the coronavirus pandemic and the economic dark age that it has wrought.

More at Goodreads.[/i]

I read one this guym's earlier books immediately before, and it was outstanding. I only got a couple chapters into this one and it was every bit as good.

So I guess how this is going to work, I'm throwing this out here at the end of February. At the end of March, we'll all talk about it or something. Or don't. I could care less.
 
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I'm on board for sure. But what happened to that Female Orgasms for Dummies that was being kicked around?
 
I will order today from Bezos's successor. And thank you for your patronage of my Shoppe, the most Nebraska classy of our boreds.
 
If anyone is doing this thing, discussion starts last week of March or so. In true HCH fashion, I can't think of any structure to the discussion, just let it rip. It's tempting to say, "keep down the malarkey," but that's the fun in that.

I just finished having the book read to me, didn't disappoint.
 
If anyone is doing this thing, discussion starts last week of March or so. In true HCH fashion, I can't think of any structure to the discussion, just let it rip. It's tempting to say, "keep down the malarkey," but that's the fun in that.

I just finished having the book read to me, didn't disappoint.

I ordered it. Not hear yet.
 
I'm I don't know a chapter or two in. Listening in the car. I miss some parts, but less than if I were reading. Very interesting so far. Especially the sex parts.
 
I'm I don't know a chapter or two in. Listening in the car. I miss some parts, but less than if I were reading. Very interesting so far. Especially the sex parts.

I might listen again, for comprehension, and take some notes.

This guy's approach is more straight analysis, versus the mild-to-explicit advocacy books on energy I've read lately, and I dig that.
 
This may be my only participation because tim is short but the segment on Chinas' energy exploration in the South China Sea, and how they are causing so many international tensions to do it, are supremely interesting. Oil still shaping geopolitical intrigue and the clash of powers all these years after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor to sustain oil rich war gains in the Pacific. I am enjoying this, but speed reading in snatches probably makes me miss half the points. Good chit though.
 
This may be my only participation because tim is short but the segment on Chinas' energy exploration in the South China Sea, and how they are causing so many international tensions to do it, are supremely interesting. Oil still shaping geopolitical intrigue and the clash of powers all these years after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor to sustain oil rich war gains in the Pacific. I am enjoying this, but speed reading in snatches probably makes me miss half the points. Good chit though.

Nobody goes to war over solar panels
 
This may be my only participation because tim is short but the segment on Chinas' energy exploration in the South China Sea, and how they are causing so many international tensions to do it, are supremely interesting. Oil still shaping geopolitical intrigue and the clash of powers all these years after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor to sustain oil rich war gains in the Pacific. I am enjoying this, but speed reading in snatches[/b] probably makes me miss half the points. Good chit though.

Why don't you either pull out or finish and THEN read the book. You'll retain more information that way.
 
I read it. "It" meaning the first 3 chapters online. Chinteresting. Will continue.
 
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