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What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Thread
7/07/11 | MplsSteve

Posted on 07/07/2011 12:57:12 PM PDT by MplsSteve

Hi everyone! I hope your 4th of July was a good one.

it's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" thread. As you know, I consider Freepers to be among the most well-read of those of us on the Internet and I like to see what other Freepers are reading these days.

It can be anything - a classic novel, a trashy pulp romance, a technical journal, etc. Please do not deile this thread by posting "I'm reading this thread". it became very unfunny a long time ago.

I'll start. I'm just finishing "Chancellorsville 1863: The Souls of the Brave" by Ernest Furgurson. It's OK. Nothing to rave about though.

Well, what are you reading now? Let's hear about it!


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: booklist; books; godsgravesglyphs; literature; magazines; pages; reading; readinglist
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To: TheMom

“Gone Baby Gone” is really the best of that series IMO. The movie was pretty good except they changed a few minor things. For example, they made Bubba into a drug dealer instead of an arms dealer. Ben Aflack really is a pretty good director.
He also did a great job with the movie “The Town”.

There is another of the detective series coming out in hardcover soon. I read about it on Amazon. They are married and have a child in this book.

I read “Shutter Island” but not “Mystic River”. I will have to pick that one up. The movie was great. Of Course, Clint Eastwood directed it.


161 posted on 07/08/2011 6:50:01 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: MplsSteve
continuing my study of the US Navy operations in the Pacific as recounted by well researched current scholars, I am Reading now The Last Stand of The Tin Can Sailors by James D Hornsfischer.

I have recently read and re read in parallel The Battle of Leyte Gulf by H.P. Wellmont and Clash of the Carriers by Barrett Tillman. Taken as a whole the three describe the total destruction of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the period July through October 1944. The first two are concerned with the 4 battles lumped as the battle of Leyte Gulf that occurred in late October and the last describes the great battle of the Philippine Sea during which Japanese air power was destroyed.

These books are all within the last 5 or so years and draw on references and perspectives not available to authors who wrote earlier. I am also reading fiction by P. T. Deuterman, Zero Option that is eerily similar to the present reality where federal agencies go their own way and big time problems result.

162 posted on 07/08/2011 7:35:03 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: A_perfect_lady
Don't Panic! when I tell you that the book is the first of a four part trilogy.
163 posted on 07/08/2011 7:38:24 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: La Enchiladita
Her Death Comes for the Archbishop is one of my favorite books.
164 posted on 07/08/2011 11:57:47 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: Tax-chick

Thanks, Tax-chick.

Cather’s stories set in Nebraska resonate for me because that was where my mother was born and raised in the early 20th century. Throughout my life, my mother regaled me with anecdotes of farm life, of being a country girl. She wrang the necks of the chicken for dinner and she chopped wood. She learned how to cook, mostly Pennsylvania Dutch style, from watching her grandmother. I wish I had written more down more of what she told me.


165 posted on 07/08/2011 1:05:56 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (It should be illegal for illegals to play with matches... just sayin'...)
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To: BIGLOOK

I read that a couple of years ago for the first time.
Bradley gives a vivid, unvarnished picture of what our Marines went through, what they accomplished.
If anyone doubts that war is hell, they should read it.
It was good to know the men, as human beings, who raised the flag.


166 posted on 07/08/2011 1:14:51 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (It should be illegal for illegals to play with matches... just sayin'...)
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To: La Enchiladita

I heard similar stories from my grandmother and her sisters when I was a little girl in Missouri. It’s not as flat as Nebraska, though!


167 posted on 07/08/2011 2:00:26 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("This is a revolution, damn it! We're going to have to offend somebody!" ~ John Adams)
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To: MplsSteve

I was reading Anna Karenina but had to take a break from it for a week. Just read Catcher in the Rye and could only underline about two paragraphs from the book. I don’t understand why it is a classic. I am due for a vacation soon and am looking for the perfect sci-fi book on my Kindle. I was going to download Canticle for Leibowitz but they don’t have it on the Kindle yet.


168 posted on 07/08/2011 3:07:49 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: bigbob
The last book of Stephen Kings Dark Tower series (#7 and 20 years after the original book was written)

I quit at book #3, is it worth picking up again?

169 posted on 07/08/2011 3:10:15 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: The Raven
Night of the Grizzlies, Jack Olsen I was scaring myself before a vacation at Glacier Park this summer.

My parents read that book to us when we vacationed at Glacier in the early 80's. I think my dad enjoyed scaring us. Especially when he would get close to the edge of the cliff on Going to the Sun road.

170 posted on 07/08/2011 3:19:49 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: DManA
nteresting that no one is reading Kissinger’s new book about China.

I was in Barnes and Noble looking for books to download on my Kindle and saw that one sitting on the rack. I think I will download that one soon.

171 posted on 07/08/2011 3:25:02 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: Sawdring

The Going to the Sun road is closed -— there is about 40 ft of snow on the road at Logan’s Pass and it will be the latest opening of the road since the park opened.


172 posted on 07/08/2011 3:59:48 PM PDT by The Raven
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To: MplsSteve

A lot of you are reading books about the Civil War.

If you live in the Atlanta area be sure to come to the 147th anniversary of the Battle of Atlanta next weekend Saturday July 16th.

Check out all the activities. There are a number of lectures earlier in the week.

http://www.batlevent.org/main.html


173 posted on 07/08/2011 4:34:19 PM PDT by Atlantan
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To: MplsSteve

As usual, I’m grazing.

Fiction: HUNGER GAMES TRILOGY, STORM OF SWORDS

Nonfiction: PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR


174 posted on 07/08/2011 4:40:43 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: The Raven

I took my family there last year. I got in a global warming debate with a ranger that was giving a sermon on the receding glaciers up at Logan Pass. I wonder if they are encouraged to talk about global warming or if she did it out of her own concern.


175 posted on 07/08/2011 5:16:31 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: MplsSteve
Just finished Sea of Thunder," by Evan Thomas, and The Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk.

Now reading The Real George Washington, by Parry, Allison, and Skousen, The Rising Tide, by Jeff Shaara, and A World at Arms, by Gerhard L. Weinberg.

Queued: The other two in Shaara's WWII trilogy plus his new one on the Pacific theater, Texian Iliad, by Hardin, and a Michael Connelly book or two...

176 posted on 07/08/2011 6:04:14 PM PDT by umbagi
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To: umbagi

... I also read The Bible, ten chapters a day, and have been doing so for years...


177 posted on 07/08/2011 6:06:18 PM PDT by umbagi
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To: MplsSteve

The fathomless, ever increasingly interesting, edifying Bible.


178 posted on 07/08/2011 7:42:26 PM PDT by Bellflower (Isa 32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful.))
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To: knittnmom

I also re-read the last book so I would be ready for the final film. I will be wearing my SpectraSpecs to the midnight premier.

I’m really going to miss discussing the Harry Potter books with my now grown children.

I’m also reading “Sweaty Palms” which is a book about interviewing well.


179 posted on 07/08/2011 8:13:34 PM PDT by Melian ("I can't spare this [wo]man; [s]he fights!" (Apologies to Abe Lincoln) Go, Sarah!)
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To: umbagi

Tell me about “The Real George Washington”. What is the gist of the book?


180 posted on 07/08/2011 8:54:21 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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