{"id":8211,"date":"2024-01-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8211"},"modified":"2024-01-16T19:33:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T00:33:58","slug":"some-good-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/some-good-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"SOME GOOD READING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Old guy here reads more history than anything else, and likes to share the best. That, of late, would include \u201cGhosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the untold story of Pearl Harbor\u201d by Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll, Jr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book centers on Douglas Wada, the Office of Naval Intelligence\u2019s only Japanese-American investigator assigned to Pearl Harbor in the run-up to December 7, 1941. Like so many other books on the Pearl Harbor attack, it leaves you maddeningly frustrated at what was known beforehand yet protective action was not taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An aside for gun people: Wada was a distinguished, retired Navy Commander when, in 1980, he was attacked by burglars and stabbed multiple times. Fortunately, he survived. His career would have included qualifying with a handgun, but Hawaiian law didn\u2019t allow him to carry one, and he was unarmed and helpless to stop the attack. He passed away in 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe Last Outlaws: the Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang\u201d by Tom Clavin is a fascinating read for those interested in the legends of the Old West.  More than any other figure, Clavin focuses on Bill Doolin.  Doolin was a skilled gunman, a cop-killer, and an escape artist. His primary turf was Oklahoma, and he was hunted by a trio of famous lawmen who would be called \u201csupercops\u201d today who became known as The Three Guardsmen of Oklahoma.  He interacted with all three at some point. In the course of a horseback pursuit Chris Madsen shot and permanently crippled Doolin, but the fugitive escaped. Sometime later, Bill Tilghman hunted him down and captured him in a dramatic one-on-one arrest\u2026and not long thereafter, Doolin escaped custody again. Finally cornered by a posse and ordered to surrender, Doolin replied with gunfire, and was shot and killed; it is generally believed that Heck Thomas fired the 8-gauge shotgun blast that brought Doolin to justice. The outlaw should have been proud: it would have been the equivalent of a Dillinger contemporary getting wounded by Eliot Ness, arrested by Melvin Purvis, and finally killed by Frank Hamer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a more humorous vein, I offer something from a genre that might be called \u201ckids\u2019 books for adults.\u201d The first of these I ran into was a collection of bedtime stories titled \u201cGo the f*** to Sleep!\u201d that was so hilarious I bought a copy for each of my own kids, who were parents themselves by then. Most recently, the Evil Princess bought a copy of \u201cHookers and Blow Save Christmas\u201d by Munty Pepin. Now, in the tradition of \u201cThomas the Train,\u201d\u00a0 \u201cHookers\u201d is a tow truck, \u201cBlow\u201d is a snow plow, and they rescue a snowbound delivery truck to bring children\u2019s Christmas presents to the village in time for Christmas Eve. I think <\/em>the double entendres will be subtle enough to go over the heads of little ones, but just to be safe, I\u2019ll recommend it only for adults whose sense of humor is tolerant of ribaldry, simply because I thought it was funny as hell. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Old guy here reads more history than anything else, and likes to share the best. That, of late, would include \u201cGhosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the untold story of Pearl Harbor\u201d by Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll, Jr. The book centers on Douglas Wada, the Office of Naval […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8233,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211\/revisions\/8233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}