About: JK James George

J. K. (Jim) George writer and student of the world has been an avid amateur radio enthusiast, with special love for Morse code and radiosporting, since his teenage years, over fifty years ago. He started his hobby listening to short-wave broadcasts and long-distance AM radio stations. He is a graduate of Virginia Tech, where he was president of the VT Amateur Radio Club and was inducted into the Virginia Tech Academy of Engineering after serving as Chair of the Advisory Boards for both Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as the College of Engineering.

Recent Posts by JK James George

Book Review: The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War

The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, by Jeff Sharlet A gift from my son, who heard the author interviewed on NPR, this book is 333 pages and includes numerous small to large B&W photos. The author has written six previous books and edited one.  This book is difficult to read. My notes on…
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Blogs and Book Reviews, an Update

OK, I admit it, I read a lot. Always have... newspapers and magazines, and books. It is a joy to be a member of a small men's book club here in Austin - about a dozen of us, now most of us aging into our seventies and eighties - with a fairly steep "duty" of…
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Book Review: A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway

I ordered this book in January 2021, and re-discovered it on my "to read" shelf two weeks ago. Our men's book club now is in our three-month summer break, and it was a perfect little book and I enjoyed it immensely; it took only a week or so to zoom through the roughly 200 pages…
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