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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: MplsSteve
The Wine-Dark Sea, by Patrick O'Brian (#16 in the Aubrey/Maturin series)

The Pale Horse, by Agatha Christie

The Man Who Was Thursday, by G. K. Chesterton

Life among the Lutherans, by Garrison Keillor

101 posted on 07/07/2011 2:44:48 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (There's not a moment to be lost!)
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To: prairiebreeze

A new “Clan of the Cave Bear” book... I wonder if this is the one where Ayla invents the electron microscope and the jet engine?? (sorry, couldn’t resist!!!)


102 posted on 07/07/2011 2:46:25 PM PDT by Notary Sojac (I have not heard a single Michele or Cain backer threaten to stay home if Palin is nominated.)
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To: MplsSteve
I love this thread. I always wonder what other conservatives are reading when I'm wandering around the library. Currently reading Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg. The Mao Case, a novel by Qui Xiaolong is on deck.
103 posted on 07/07/2011 2:48:19 PM PDT by neefer (Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run.)
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To: La Enchiladita

I listened to “My Antonia” on CD a few years ago, after it was discussed on a FR thread, and then went on to read as many of Cather’s books as I could find in the library ... at least 8 so far. “O Pioneers!” is similar in theme, but a more direct narrative.


104 posted on 07/07/2011 2:50:34 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

Vince Flynn (any title that can be begged/borrowed)

PS: keep him in your thoughts as he is being treated for cancer


105 posted on 07/07/2011 2:55:05 PM PDT by famousdayandyear
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To: MplsSteve

Oh yay, I love this thread.

Just finished, I kid you not, “Gates of Fire,” which I’m sure was on my list from a previous book thread on FR.

That was a doozy. Not my usual genre. Very violent. But really a superlative book, I think I got myself an education, and I believe I know a lot more about Greek history, Sparta, and particularly Thermopolaye now.


106 posted on 07/07/2011 2:56:26 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: Notary Sojac

Heh! The book has really lousy reviews on Amazon. I guess I missed book 5 and think I’ll probably miss this one too.


107 posted on 07/07/2011 2:57:06 PM PDT by prairiebreeze
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To: momtothree

No shame in reading “Charlotte’s Web.” I was delighted to read all of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books, and the Little Britches series, aloud to my kids. Along with many more. Much “children’s literature” is superior to the junk marketed to adults today.


108 posted on 07/07/2011 2:58:26 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: MplsSteve

Atlas Shrugged
(5th-6th time - I’m losing track...)


109 posted on 07/07/2011 2:58:57 PM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: kalee

“The Life and Campaigns of Lieut. Gen. T.J. (Stonewall) Jackson by R. L. Dabney D.D.”

All my sons read this for high school history. One of the years we do history I just have them read biographies of their choice and do book reports on them.


110 posted on 07/07/2011 3:00:46 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: Persevero

“No shame in reading “Charlotte’s Web..”

This is for child number 3... now, you think that since I read it twice before for the other two, I wouldn’t cry. I still cry.


111 posted on 07/07/2011 3:08:42 PM PDT by momtothree
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To: momtothree

“This is for child number 3... now, you think that since I read it twice before for the other two, I wouldn’t cry. I still cry.”

There are some books that mess me up every time I read them. My breakdown during the annual reading of “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” is legendary in my family.

GREAT read-aloud book.


112 posted on 07/07/2011 3:10:26 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: MplsSteve

I found “The Agony and the Ecstasy” in a used book store and am reading that one.


113 posted on 07/07/2011 3:12:55 PM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: MplsSteve
rereading Rainbow-Six
114 posted on 07/07/2011 3:17:42 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: MplsSteve

The Civil War by Shelby Foote


115 posted on 07/07/2011 3:20:53 PM PDT by 2nd Bn, 11th Mar (The "p" in Democrat stands for patriotism.)
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To: MplsSteve

Re-reading James Clavell’s, “Shogun.” Read the book (weighed 3 or 4 pounds) about twenty years ago. Reading digitally on my iPad this time.


116 posted on 07/07/2011 3:23:50 PM PDT by The Citizen Soldier (I will always remember exactly where I was when Obama made his NCAA picks.)
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To: knittnmom

“Just finished re-reading the Harry Potter series, in preparation for viewing the final movie.”

I need to do that too. I started a couple of weeks ago with book 1 but stopped after #4. I should get going on 5,6, and 7. But it is summer and the pool is very distracting. So is the veggie garden. Gardening mags are about all I have been reading lately.


117 posted on 07/07/2011 3:27:08 PM PDT by madamemayhem (defeat is not getting knocked down, it is not getting back up.)
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To: 2nd Bn, 11th Mar
The Civil War by Shelby Foote

Best Civil War book every! Read it about ten years ago. Represents almost a year out of my life, but inspired me to take a week's vacation in Virginia just to visit Civil War battleground sites in Pennsylvania and Virginia.

I was saddened when Shelby Foote passed away in 2005 (at the age of 88), but what a tremendous legacy he left with his trilogy. While a Southerner through and through, Foote's historic account of the Civil War is probably the most fair and balanced.

118 posted on 07/07/2011 3:35:02 PM PDT by The Citizen Soldier (I will always remember exactly where I was when Obama made his NCAA picks.)
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To: MplsSteve

I am currently reading the NIV Study Bible, The Wiersbe Bible Commentary and John MacArthur’s The Jesus You Can’t Ignore.


119 posted on 07/07/2011 3:42:48 PM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: MplsSteve
All of Dorothy Sayers' old Peter Wimsey novels written in the twenties through the forties.
120 posted on 07/07/2011 4:15:27 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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