What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Survey

12/31/10 | MplsSteve

[teenyelliott]

GRIT magazine...celebrating rural America since 1882.

[Puppage]

Lol. Sounds like my wife, too. Our local library now let’s you check out books via Kindle. Pretty neat.

[fhillary2]

The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose

I got the 6 DVD HBO series as well for Christmas

[woodbutcher1963]

Did Clancy actually write this book ?

[PIF]

Surface Detail and The Algebraist by Iain M Banks.

[LomanBill]

Just finished “VALIS” by Philip K Dick... now working on “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer”.

[Onelifetogive]

I liked it. Good story. Good human relationship story. Little action.

[daisyscarlett]

I recently read "5th Ave. 5 a.m." about the making of the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's. I am fixin to reread the novella by Capote. The book and movie are quite different.

The movie has been on TNT a lot lately because Blake Edwards, the director, was featured on TNT because he passed on. Also Mickey Rooney is the featured actor this month and he played the Japanese neighbor.

[onedoug]

Deborah R Hardeen, California Geology (2nd Ed.), and Va´eirah, this week´s Torah portion (Exodus 6:2-9:35).

[Little Ray]

Wild Blue Yonder by Stephen Ambrose.

[Carley]

Decision Points.

When I opened it and began to read it on my flight back to snowy Newark/Liberty Airport my seatmate launched into a spirited attack on Obamanation!!!!

[warchild9]

Two books:

The History of Terrorism: from antiquity to Al Qaeda edited by Gerard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin

Hitler’s Volkssturm by David K. Yelton

/I never read light during the school year

[warchild9]

I just completed a study of the strategy of the War Between the States called “The Grand Design,” by Donald Stoker. It was a quick read on my Kindle, and a really excellent, quick read. Learned some stuff.

[momo]

Just finished Dead or Alive by Tom Clancy.

[warchild9]

When your hardcopy library reaches 5000, like mine did a few years ago, you’ll reverse course. Trust me.

My Kindle has become my new best friend.

[Caipirabob]

A signed version of A Patriots History of the United States by our own LS! I snagged it from my son who I had given it to as a gift. I'll give it back eventually...

[Fiji Hill]

The New Majority--President Nixon At Mid-Passage (sine loco:, Gerard Banks, 1973

In this thin book, which got limited circulation, Pat Buchanan analyzes President Nixon's successes and failures in his first term, takes note of the problems he will be facing, and speculates as to his legacy. This was published in February, 1973, before the Watergate scandal metastasized--in fact, I haven't seen so much as a mention of Watergate.

[warchild9]

“Rainbow Six” is the last book Clancy actually wrote. “Dead or Alive” was ghostwritten by another person using his name as a marketing tool. Big, easy bucks in that sort of fraud!

[justiceseeker93]

I'm currently reading "Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-up," the paperback edition by Leo Damore, published in 1988 by Dell. Although I'm old enough to have some recollection of the infamous incident where a young lady drowned as a result of Ted Kennedy's recklessness, I hadn't thought about it much back then, as it was somewhat overshadowed by the first manned lunar landing that same weekend in 1969.

The book gives you a good idea as to how the fundamental principles of American government and society were being trashed even back then for the benefit of the political class.

[PrincessB]

The Spice Necklace by Ann Vanderhoof.