BtZ42 Group Read Misc.

[Mark Kohut]

>From today's featured article

Moonraker <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonraker_(novel)> is the third
novel by the British author Ian Fleming
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming> to feature the Secret Service
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Intelligence_Service>agent James Bond
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_(literary_character)>. It was
published by Jonathan Cape <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Cape> on
5 April 1955 with a cover design conceived by Fleming. The only Bond novel
set entirely in Britain, it features Drax, an ex-Nazi working for the
Russians, who plans to build a rocket, arm it with a nuclear warhead, and
fire it at London. Moonraker, like Fleming's previous novels, was well
received by critics. It plays on fears common in the 1950s, including
rocket attacks (following the V-2 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket>
strikes of the Second World War), Soviet communism
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union>, the re-emergence of Nazism
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism> and the "threat from within" posed
by both ideologies.

List of desk things, ala Tyrone Slothrop

On my desk I have a stack of books, a laptop, a phone charger, and an
assortment of pens. I also have a butt plug, a masturbation sleeve, a
mysterious menstruation tonic, and of course, a pile of porn. Welcome to
the Museum of Sex.".....Congratulations Sarah Jacobs Forbes
<https://www.facebook.com/sarah.jacobsforbes>
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