so, BeeKey Books and Cats has three complete book reading done now (The Wind in the Willows, The Secret Garden, and The Time Machine), and the first chapter of The Lost Prince just went up this morning.
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If people are interested in reading (or watching) some classics, here’s some where the original version just entered the public domain. Later updates are still copyrighted. For reference, the Steamboat Willie version of Mickey Mouse is public domain, but not the majority of the newer versions of him.
- Nancy Drew mystery stories, such as *The Secret of the Old Clock". (The Hardy Boys entered public domain a few years ago.)
- The Shadow
- Golden Bat
- All Quiet on the Western Front movie
- The Little Engine that Could
- The Looney Tunes cartoon “Dizzy Dishes” with Bosco and Betty Boop in her original dog form, and the cartoon “Swing You Sinners!”
- Four cartoons starring Flip the Frog plus two others MGM never copyrighted.
- Some Disney “Silly Symphony” cartoons.
- Mickey Mouse cartoons released in 1930.
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About the time I get done with book 2, The Short Victorious War will arrive and I’ll be able to put it in above Field of Dishonor. By the time I make it to the two “lore of the Honorverse” books at the bottom, I should be able to pick up the rest of the main series before branching out into rest,
And if I can find a better copy, I’m going to swap out The Honor of the Queen with it. Someone really cracked the spine and the pages have been discolored by age or something that also give it a musty or dusty smell.
If you’ve never read these, you’ll find them in the science fiction section, but they’re really military action adventures, like what you might find with Harold Coyle or Tom Clancey. The only science fiction so far is they take place in the future across several star systems, the ships have different propulsion methods, and combat between ships is measured in kilometers per second.
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I read some of them years ago. Mr. TM started reading them in 2024 and is thoroughly enjoying them.
I love the first 8 or so of those. After that they start losing what I started reading the series for. They got very political. The Treecat series gets that feeling back.