The Other Sky's the limit
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I bought this book from Amazon and loved it!  I have been looking to read first hand accounts (credible ones) from the experiencers themsleves and not from the researchers who must report second-hand information.  The Other Sky will send chills down your spine while uplifting your spirit with its most enligthening and exciting conclusions.  I recommend this book highly!
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"Secrets of the Night Sky" shows you the wonders there are all around us, and that go unnoticed most of the time. It depicts things with a sense of awe that arouses curiosity.
I bought this book because I thought it would tell me how to locate more things than a "A Walk Through the Heavens", which has maps and tells you how to locate stuff by going from one constellation to the next, and from star to star, and I was a little disappointed. This book seemed at first glance too colloquial, with not enough depth.
I have finished it now, and the best thing this book does is to show how a sunset is amazing, that the Red Spot is not red, why the moon looks bigger sometimes, why the moon looks crimson, how some planes tried to shoot down Venus (its very fun). Also, it explains how to recognize satellites, where to look for meteor showers, how to locate Mercury, Venus, Jupiter. It has a lot of basic information, but presented in an awe inspiring way.
This is the best companion book for "A Walk Through the Heavens". "A Walk" shows you how to locate stuff; "Secrets", why you should look for it.
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The view is not as clear as I would have expected or desired.
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Offworld by Robin Parris is a very good read.  I was not sure if I would like the book since I'm not that into science fiction, but this one kept me wanting to read the next page and the next.

It is a thought-provoking book because it leads me to contemplate just how far we, as a people, want to go to try to become god of our "universe".  Where is the stopping place?

Read this book and ponder the same questions.  But, on the way, enjoy the characters and the suspense of this novel.
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This book is well written, it kept me enthralled till the end. One cannot help but see the arrogance of man as he tries to control that which is not meant to be controlled. It has a message to give that is pertinent to us today. Read the book and think how it compares to our real world. See if you follow blindly the preacher. See if you try to control the uncontrolable without a thought for the safety of others. We are in charge of our destiny, but we allow others to affect our futures.
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This is a really good value!  The limitation is that you have to be close to what you are observing 3-4 inches.
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There are enough information about beings from another planet or dimensions that have the means to travel to our earth or any part of the universe that they wish. Even if we think that is too much farfetched. The universe is a vast and we humans can not be the only Lord's creation. It is not logical. This book is full of fantastic new information. I recommend it highly
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This is the latest volume in an extended alternate history, most of it around the Pacific Northwest. Taken as a whole, it is a beautifully written, extended look at what happens of the laws of physics are fundamentally changed, and humans can no longer use electricity, or nuclear power, or even gunpowder. When you take modern societies and immediately plunge them into a world relying on muscle power, blade, and bow and arrow, things Change.

In this volume, the daughter of the High King of a realm stretching from Oregon and British Columbia inland to Iowa is murdered. The king was much beloved, and the murder is a suspected tool of an inhuman, alien power. Together with visitors who crossed the Pacific from Japan to elude the inhuman foe, a small band searches for the key that could lead not just to revenge, but gaining a hand in a long war with a cold, unfeeling foe.

The writing is that of a mature hand, graceful and at times poetic, yet Stirling does not let style keep the novel from unwinding a spellbinding story.
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what is not understood by this author is that eventually we will all live in a non-physical world once we leave our physical body. The author's complaint is that there are different "heavens".  Why would anyone think that all the landscapes of the non-physical world or potentially other dimensions of existence would be the same? Just think if we were visiting earth for the first time and 4 individuals were sent out, one to New York City, One to the bottom of the sea, One to Antarctica, and one to the Mohave Desert. Of course they would all report different scenerios based on their personal experience. What Mr. King and most in-the-box thinkers are stuck on is the resistance to any type of realistic views on an existance past this physical life. This is what the NDE's and death-bed visions represent. That there are different landscapes and the experience is individualized to mostly minimize trauma to the person transistioning should not be a shocker.
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This is perfect with a wide field of view on any night with a moon or stars.  On overcast nights you can turn on the red LED for additional illumination, but your field of view is cut to about 1/3.  I'm not sure why.
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It's not as long as it looks, a little disappointing.
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All the Light We Cannot See
By Anthony Doerr
Heres a novel about a blind, freckled little girl growing up in Paris.  Shes enjoying her childhood with her father who adores her.  At the same time an orphaned little boy and his sister are growing up in a childrens home thats about 300 miles northeast of Paris in Zollverein, Germany.  As they all enter their teen years, World War II starts, and then The Occupation, and the French Resistance.  Life out of their control, and they are on opposite sides.  The reader naturally draws comparisons and contrasts between these childrens lives.  Eventually their lives directly collide.

This book is about intolerable choices forced onto people, and the resulting consequences to themselves and to the people around them.  What the war did to dreamers.  It also shines a light on the ways, against all odds, that people can try to be good to one another, in whatever ways they can see.  Each character comes alive to the reader, beyond the circumstances they suffer.  Their spirits plummet, and waver, and somehow survive the bleakness, on a glimmer of hope.  So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

Hidden away in the folds of the story theres a lustrous stone thats older than the ages.  Its said to invisibly protect the holder, but brings harm to those nearby.  But does this gem truly emit such powers, or is a stone simply a stone?

The author skillfully shows us the adaptability, and the resourcefulness of people, especially in these dire, war circumstances.  Every decision, every move is life or death.  Then a picture of kindness to one another, moments of kindness and courage displayed.  This book shows the courage that people act on and the courage that they learn.

All the Light We Cannot See was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.  The authors short stories and essays have won four O. Henry prizes and been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories.  His work has been translated into over forty languages.

To paraphrase, those who fail to learn from history are destined to repeat it.  On that note, there is hope when this historical novel was recommended to me by a high school student.
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A great series from Monty O. The sky is the limit here and the fresh way of animating is energizing. Accept this series for what it is and what it is not and you will enjoy it all the more.
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it's far too light. If you don't have a way to hold it down, it'll blow away.
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This deice is a little limiting.  On our course we have two tee boxes across from one another and I can only get a reading for one.  Unfortunately it is always the same one.  Also I wish it would give other distances, such as to a water hazard .  This is my first attempt to use one of these devices and now know more what to look for.
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In a haunting vision of the near future, inexorable draught and desert sands have laid waste to the mystical southwestern desert and the once shining beacon of California that at one time held a promise of gold, fame and citrus. Those who are still alive there survive on cola rations and black market fruit.

Ensconced in this dismal setting are two rays of light: Luz (the Spanish translation of light. Luz was light, she was light-headed, light within light) and Ray (think: sun ray). As a deserter and a quitter, his life has been an archipelago of ambiguity and abstraction and impossibility; as the former poster child for the Bureau of Conservation, she is defined by her thirsty needs. And then one day, they discover a strange fragile young toddler named Ig. They abduct her to save her and so the real story begins.

Claire Vaye Watkins astounded me with her short story collection Battleborn, surely one of the best contemporary collections of the past five years. So even though I am not a fan of dystopian literature (the only two Ive liked have been Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel and Dog Stars by Peter Heller), I just had to see how far her talent had taken her.

The book is a wonder and testimony to a fertile imagination. Its about how we lay waste to our greatest gifts: our land, our dreams, our abilities to love and nurture.  Its about how weve become parched for the anything authentic, seeking false saviors and believing in fake visions as we strive to satiate ourselves. Its about the mystical lure of cults and drugs and visions and liesanything that leads us away from ourselves. And its about an unknowable child, a child who may just be the catalyst to help those to whom shes entrusted know themselves.

In ways, its also about how barren and bereft and lifeless our lives become  both interior and exterior  when we lose sight of what we truly thirst for. Claire Vaye Watkins touches on many issues: apocalyptic weather phenomenon, government conspiracies, cult idoltry, forced evacuations, crowd acquiescence, and loss and forgiveness. Yet Ms. Watkins never ignores her characters; Luz, Ray and Ig come across as all too real.  I cant even imagine where this talented young writer is headed next.
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Timmy is older now and is driven by forces beyond his control to seek out the truth.  This book takes us across the big pond to Ireland, and the serenity and beauty of the area are in direct conflict with the agitation and ugliness with which Timmy by now has become all too familiar.  I enjoyed this reminder that no matter how far you travel, the grass is not always greener on the other side.  You may even find that it is much more bitter than you imagined it could be.