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Book review#15 for 2024 C. Raymond Calhoun's Tin Can Sailor: Life Aboard the USS Sterett, 1939-1945. The writer was an officer aboard the Sterett from its commissioning in 1939 until a combat wound required him to leave the ship in 1943. The emotional bond the crew had with one another is something that came out in the writing.
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My Dad was a Tin Can Sailor during WWII.

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What are your thoughts on DNF (Did Not Finish)-ing books? Do you feel guilty about it? Do you worry you missed out on something? Or are you confident in dropping a book and reaching for the next one?

At what point are you most likely to DNF, if ever? What sorts of things cause you to DNF?

My friend, book blogger Kriti, was musing on these questions a while back, and it sparked this new post: https://armedwithabook.com/dealing-with-dnf-the-practice-of-did-not-finish/

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I finished college 50 years ago. "Moby Dick" was required reading in HS and college. I never finished it.

My mother's favorite book was "Angle of Repose" by Wallace Stegner. I did not finish it on a first attempt due to subject matter (going through divorce at the time). A few years later I started over, and was glad I finished it. I had better insight into my mother, and into myself by that time.

I read about 50 pages before giving up. I keep a list of "unreadable" books.

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Yes. These are "Do not bother, enjoy the reading years you have left" books. Sometimes I'll re-read a book instead. I think I've read "Silas Marner" three times (middle school, young adult before kids, middle age).

KitMuse , to bookstodon
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I need your help . One of the classes I'm taking at the graduate level this semester is Religion & Science Fiction. I read more fantasy, and would like to do my research paper on something that's not obvious (like ST/BS5/Matrix/etc.) & I'd love to use more modern sf rather than the golden age classics.

Anyone have any interesting ideas for my research paper on regarding the intersection of religion and science fiction?

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