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Jonathan A. Dowdell
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Posted: 21 March 2026 at 4:46pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

Just finished Project Hail Mary. Now I can see the movie! 
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Now starting THE FIST OF GOD by the late Frederick Forsyth,a thriller novel published way back in 1994 with its storyline linked to some of the real-world people and events that preceded the start of Operation Desert Storm.

The book features a character named Mike Martin, a British SAS officer, who plays a major role in Forsyth's 2006 book THE AFGHAN, which I read back in September 2025 without realizing that it was a sequel and not a stand alone novel.



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Funny - I just watched the movie, now I'm reading the book!

Also reading "The Brixton Brothers: The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity" by Mac Barnett. If you have an adolescent at home, it's a great choice to read with them. I'm reading it with my Grade 5/6 class.

Also just finished reading "Going Postal" by Terry Pratchett, as well as "Reaper Man" by the same author. I was reading Reaper Man for myself, I was reading Going Postal to my son. All great books. I'll be reading "Soul Music" shortly.
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As mentioned last weekend, I took an unexpected intermission from Pratchett to read Project Hail Mary. It’s an engrossing story. I read the vast majority of it in the last two days. 

I was recently recommended a science fiction series called The Sun Eater, by Christopher Ruocchio. I might give it a go over the summer, but for now I plan to return to Pratchett.


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Now starting THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene. I was overdue to read some popular science material and so I snared a paperback copy from my local used bookstore.

Turns out it was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and won the Royal Society Prize for science books that year. The updated version I'm reading was published in 2003 with a new preface.

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I often find myself wondering if the Universe is a lot more simple than what scientists make it out to be. If everything out there is exactly what it appears to be, and we don’t really need black holes and dark matter/energy and all the other arcane stuff we’ve basically made up to explain problems that exist only in our own minds.
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