Two more books

I finished book #6 for the year the other day, which I re-read in honour of the 80th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs, Sadako and the Thousand Cranes by Eleanor Coerr, in one session, Today I decided to look through my Audible collection (I am not currently a member, having disentangled myself from Amazon for the most part for now at least, but I have 80 titles in my library, most of which haven't been listened to yet, so I decided that might be a good use of downtime, and today is the first day I actually had a couple of hours where I wasn't otherwise occupied.

I finished one I'd started called Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions From Tiny Mortals About Death, where mortician Caitlin Doughty answers questions submitted to her by children about death and what happens afterwards. She has a popular YouTube channel, which is very entertaining and informative. I'm happy she has narrated her own book. It's quite delightful, and I learned a lot. So it's #7 for the year. I did revise my goal from 36 to 15. I just don't think I have 36 in me. We'll see. Maybe I'll exceed 15, though, especially since I'll be counting audiobooks. Despite having trouble with audio processing, I sometimes have an easier time getting into an audiobook than a written book these days. I'm sorry to say, it's sad for a librarian to be challenged in reading books. I don't know why. I blame my ADHD.

Found on Facebook

When I read John Hersey's 'Hiroshima' in college, this is what horrified me more than any other immediate consequence of the bomb.

Strange things my friend stumbles upon

'Pig 311' Mysteriously Survived 1946 Atomic Bomb Test in a Pacific Atoll
Poor girl. She lived another four years, and she had amazing fortitude, but what a horrible thing to experience at the whim of the government (not to detract from what the same government did to the Japanese of Hiroshima and Nagasaki).

Nor should we forget

an event that meant the death of some 140,000 people--mostly civilians, and had far-reaching consequences for both the survivors and for our world in general: Japan marks anniversary of atomic attack on Hiroshima

Imagine

Japanese man is a double A-bomb survivor: He was in Hiroshima on business trip before returning home to Nagasaki

My double radiation exposure is now an official government record. It can tell the younger generation the horrifying history of the atomic bombings even after I die.--Tsutomu Yamaguchi, 93

For a short look at the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the following MSNBC video does a decent job, although I would really recommend John Hersey's book, Hiroshima, a classic, for an in-depth account. For children, the story of Sadako Sasaki in Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes may be useful. It is certainly moving.

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A strange video on my RSS feeds

via Steven on Library Stuff

Nina Persson (of the Swedish band The Cardigans) & husband Nathan Larson - Losing My Religion


An excellent cover of R.E.M's classic, set to a video of images related to atomic bombs and 'duck and cover' videos. Steven's right, it's an eerie combination. Well, I've eaten; it's time to go to sleep now. Good night.