Posted on 09/29/2008 7:19:37 AM PDT by MplsSteve
It's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" thread!
It can be anything...a NY Times bestseller, a technical journal, a trashy pulp novel...in short, anything!
DO NOT answer by saying "I'm Reading This Thread". It stopped being funny a long time ago.
Here's what I'm reading. I'm just about finished with "Blockaders, Refugees & Contrabands: Civil War on Florida's Gulf Coast 1861-1865."
It's a very interesting book about how the US Navy was able to turn a substantial portion of Florida's Gulf Coast population against the Confederacy, creating a civil war within that part of Florida.
So tell me...what are YOU reading now?
Theodore Rex
“Child 44”, a wonderful first novel by Tom Rob Smith. It is a novel set in the former USSR about the conditions people were forced to live in under Stalin, and which parallels a true story of a serial child killer.
/johnny
“Conquistador” by Buddy Levy. A history of the Spanish conquest of Mexico.
Just finished Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle. Excellent. I’ve read everything he’s written and am looking forward to his new book coming out.
Just finished "A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn" by James Donovan.
Next up: "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
My son gave me a gift card to Borders for my birthday and these are what I came home with...
re-reading the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’brien. the movie “master and commander:Far side of the world” was losely based upon it.
“CONSENT TO KILL” by Vince Flynn,
“CROWN OF SLAVES” by David Weber, and Eric Flynt,
and rereading “AMERICA ALONE” by Mark Steyn.
or,
“..how it should be, how it could be, and how we should prepare for how it will be...”
I’m reading this.... just kidding..
I just finished The Road (actually read it in one nigh).
Researching a book I’m writing, I’m reading:
NLP for Teachers: How to Be a Highly Effective Teacher
&
Secrets of Casino Marketing
‘The Fountainhead’ [again!]
Rich Dad's Guide to Investing by Robert Kiyosaki
First Man; The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James Hansen
I just finished Livy’s book on the “Early History of Rome (Vol 1-5)” and “The Chronicle of the Roman Republic.” Will continue with my Bible reading tonight after the football game.
“Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation 1939-1944 “ by Richard Lukas
All of Robert E Howard and H P Lovecraft on my iphone
A biography of Charles de Gaulle (through 1944) called “De Gaulle the Rebel.” The author is French.
Xenophon’s “The March up Country,” in the Penguin Classics edition. I’m also making occasional progress on Plutarch’s “Lives” and Herodotus’s “History.”
“First Things” magazine.
I finished the latest Clive Cussler “Oregon” novel, “Plague Ship,” yesterday. My daughter’s taking it back to the library today because it’s waitlisted for ever.
over 2000 pages of police procedures and protocols written by desk-sitting cops and lawyers. awful, awful stuff.
The Summa of St Thomas Aquinas. I once got all the way to page 22 in this; I am hoping to do better this time before giving up.
The House of the Seven gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne. I get in the mood to read Gothic-y books like this when autumn, October, and my favorite holiday rolls around...I'll probably start All Hallows' Eve by Charles Williams when I finish the Hawthorne book.
/johnny
Just finished 'The Sicilian' by Mario Puzo
“Ike: An American Hero” by Michael Korda.
NLP and casinos? Want to invest in your company!!!
Faith of My Fathers-John McCain
1776-McCullough
Why are you embarrassed? If things get as bad as some expect, then you at least will be able to put food on your family's table!
Well, Surrender is Not an Option, Bible, Hail Holy Queen, God’s Politics (eegad, how I disagree with this guy on so many points) and Infiltration. Got a Kindle, and switch around depending on how many minutes I get to myself! Some are more difficult reads, of course. All are fascinating!
Not as exciting as it sounds. Working on a book on applying advanced marketing techniques to eLearning development.
Will be starting The Obama Nation - Jerome R. Corsi
C.I.A. Inc.
Bible, Unlocking Gods Secrets (Bob Morley), America Alone(Steyn)
“William Wilberforce” by William Hague
Just finished David Brinkley’s “A Memoir,” published in 1995. Someone sent me this book more than ten years ago and I stuck it in my book shelf. About a month ago, I came across it and starting reading. Some good stuff.
“An American Life” Ronald Reagan’s autobiography. Also rereading “The Return Of The King” by Tolkien.
One Fifth Avenue
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t
Rules for Radicals - Saul Alinsky
‘Treason’s Harbour’ by Patrick O’Brien. It’s superb.
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Just finished “1776” by David McCullough, now I’m back to the Bible (Revised Standard Version - Catholic Edition (RSV-CE)).
“The Reagan Diaries” by Ronald Reagan
and
“Jack of Shadows” by Roger Zelazny
“The Pacific War: 1941-1945” — I’m still trying to figure out how the Japanese managed to blow the huge advantage they owned in 1942.
Good Lord, don't try to read that like a novel. It's good for reference material and there are online collections with search engines. I recently purchased the entire Aquinas collection that has been translated into English on CD which also includes a search engine and other bells and whistles. Also, I think it would be difficult to understand the Summa Theologica (I'm assuming you are not referring to Summa Contra Gentiles) without a firm grounding in Aristotle.
One good thing I found on the Internet was two books and several PDF original newspaper files on the Last Island
Hurricane.
In the sixties, I read a small item in a magazine about
the last Island hurricane which talked about this resort
being cut in two pieces and only one survivor.
I would try to find information about this story every ten
or so.
The truth was more survivors were saved.
Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan isn't really about fishing. Richard Brautigan was a "counterculture" writer that was very popular with young people back in the 60's and 70's. A bit like Samuel Clemens after a few bong hits. Long ago, in high school, and even while in the service. I enjoyed writers like him and Herman Hesse.
I also log many hours of "windshield time," so I listen to an average of two books a month. Currently listening to "The Potato Factory."
A Francis Schaeffer Trilogy.....an analysis of modern liberal philosophical and religious thought from an orthodox Christian point of view. Not easy reading, but very interesting.
Re-reading “My Name is Asher Lev”.
“An Analysis of Euclidian Geometric Priciples Viewed Through the Prism of Hegel’s Master/Slave Dialectic and a Platonic Solid Cosmology” by A. E. Newman
- and -
“The Life and Times of Hung Mung” by Malaclypse the Younger and Omar Kayyam Ravenhurst
America Alone is worth rereading...but my husband has my copy on his to-read table. Wish he would get that done.
The advantage was lost because they ignored the need to supply their troops. Japan expected the army to live off the land.
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