The Air Signs Booklist – Wooden Edition – “The Conclusion”
May 21 2024

Note: please refer to the first The Air Signs Booklist post for the beginning of this article and the Silver and Black Editions.

Ladies first versus men on top – U2 and the #MeToo movement

Science fiction, fantasy fiction and historical fiction – trilogies, book series and lifetime achievement.

Sanctions, book-banning, Russian Classics and the Russia Question.

Note Asimov’s Foundation series at the conclusion of the Black Edition. Also note the complete Discworld series of Terry Pratchett contained, in this, the Wooden Edition.

For all humanity and the hope for a positive future for all. Human rights are AI rights – the Borg example Black Edition – “wood” be good.

Jonathan “Joan Baez” Wakeling

I contain multitudes

On to the future Google Gemini, Gemini Cave et al Zimbabwe/Mozambique/Planet Earth.

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The Journey – A Dream Come True (Trilogy)

Part One – Weaving the Nubecula
Part Two – Dancing the Ice
Part Three – Every Nereid to Her Wave

Constitution.

A strong title makes for good writing. A necessary blank space and the empty-book example.

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“What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?”
~Wilfred Owen

A few favourites revealed:

• Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
• Sea of Tranquility, Emily St John Mandel
• Regeneration, Pat Barker

Quotes:

“The Road goes ever on and on,
Down from the door where it began.”
~J.R.R. Tolkien

“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.”
~Douglas Adams

“A life lived in a simulation is still a life.”
~Emily St John Mandel

“I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.”
~Pat Barker

Air Signs Booklist “themes” revealed:

• The Air Signs Booklist – Silver Edition – The Original – “Bestseller”
• The Air Signs Booklist – Black Edition – The Next Chapter – “Pulitzer Prizes”
• The Air Signs Booklist – Wooden Edition – The Conclusion – “Booker Prize Winner”

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The Blind Test of Literature

Hopefully the “few favourites” above can give the reader and browser of The Air Signs Booklist a sense of what I, your dear librarian, has actually read from cover to cover. To play Devil’s Advocate I have also read The Gulag Archipelago Volumes 1-3.

While I was compiling this list I thought of how mutually useful such a blind test would be for both myself and my imaginary “examiner” aka “internet user.” Have I passed the archetypal test that would confirm that I am actually human versus being an AI bot. One can equally ask the “Coffee Question” i.e. do I actually enjoy my favourite beverage?

To underline my point: I haven’t read any Terry Pratchett beyond the cover FYI Terry’s Cave, Chimanimani Mountains (Zimbabwe side). Additionally, in the last day or so I read the first chapter of The Eye of the World, from Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series (and Lucinda Riley remains at the top of my TBR list – BTW Pleiades).

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Finally, in total, the three Air Signs Booklists together contain 400 books (plus a few stop press extras!)

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From the feminist in me to the gent in you – may your journey be good and your reading thorough. Bon voyage and adieu Internet. The mythological full stop. (and P.S. Kids – continue to be kids while you can!!!) Have we got this far without mentioning Mercury and Uranus? The End. Sweet dreams. Sweet dreams Venus Conjunct Neptune in Gemini! The take-away and your astrological Easter egg folklore.

Jonathan. ❤️
“Little House on the African Savannah” 🏡