Jim Kane

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Lifelong reader, husband, dad, and father-in-law. Focused on biography, history, and historical fiction in my reading, well good books in just about any genre. Coffee fan, too! ☕☕☕☕☕ 📚 Voc Rehab is my work and I love it! #disabiltyadvocate
Book Review #8 for 2025 is Ed Offley's Turning the Tide. A well written book about the Battle For The Atlantic in WW2. Offley highlights the men and the ships, who braved the cold and the uncertainty to get supplies to Britain. Featured is the turning point in May 1943 when convoy ONS 5 engaged in a battle with over 40 U-Boats that resulted in 6 sunk and 7 damaged and the eventual removal of the boats from the North Atlantic. ☕☕☕☕ review #history #WW2 @books @bookstodon
Book Review # 7 for 2025 is John Le Carre's Smiley's People. Smiley comes out of retirement to confront his nemesis Karla. A tense novel that twists and turns. I really liked this one! #books #bookstodon #spynovel #novel #fiction @books @bookstodonmy @bookstodon ☕☕☕☕☕ review
Cartoon by Joe Heller. “Sacrifices to the god of hypocrisy.”

Our first spring in the new bookshop, and we're loving the way the late afternoon light filters into the Children's Room.

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #livres #bookshops #librairies #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse #bookstodon

Fun Fact: Immigrants aren’t coming for your jobs. They never were and even illegal immigrants contribute far more to the economy than they take.

HOWEVER. There are 60,000 highly educated, hard working people with very impressive resumes whose jobs were just eliminated.

Those people are coming for your jobs.

In case anyone's wondering how my "cope with burnout by constantly thinking about Legend of Zelda" strategy is going, I have some new wall art and 1000 hits on my latest fanfic, but I'm not really close to finishing Tears of the Kingdom yet. ❤️

#zelda #LegendOfZelda #VideoGames

Algorithmic Anxiety? I never dreamt that I would be learning about electronic anxiety, and to be honest, experience it! #whatiamreadingnow #books #bookstodon #culture @books @bookstodon

‘quiet’ by susan cain is one of those books that is so hyped, one just expects to love it—at least if you are an introverted idealist who loves reading in general and psychology in particular. but i didn't. i was missing the science.

full review: https://idealistatheart.com/quiet-by-susan-cain/

#books #bookstodon #nonfiction #science #reading #psychology #introvert #review #bookreview #book #bookrecommendation #amreading #read #personality #selfhelp #mentalhealth #personalgrowth #personaldevelopment #wellbeing #buch

quiet | nonfiction book reviews on idealistatheart.com

written by a lawyer-turned-consultant susan cain, 'quiet’ is so hyped as the ‘bible for introverts’, one expects to love it. but i was missing the science.

idealistatheart.com