Posted on 06/27/2014 8:33:15 AM PDT by Tax-chick
What are you reading? There used to be a quarterly "What are you reading?" thread, but I haven't seen it for a long time. I got a lot of good book suggestions that way, and I miss it.
So here's a thread! If you're reading something interesting you think others would like, or something boring you'd recommend we all avoid, jump in! If you have a ping list of FReepers who might be interested, ping them!
Blood Feud by Edward Klein
A Table in the Presence by Lt. Carey H. Cash... Lt. Carey H. Cash is a battalion chaplain to infantry Marines in the United States Navy. In Operation Iraqi Freedom, his unit was the first ground combat element to cross the border into Iraq.
The Aeneid with my sons
The Republic and the Laws--Cicero... with my son
Those are lovely books - I have them all and reread them constantly.
I’m reading “The Maligned King,” by Annette Carson, an excellent look at Richard the Third and his contributions to making England a more equitable country. He was an adopted Yorkshireman like James Herriot (Alf Wight).
“Theodore Plievier” isn’t in my library catalog. Are you sure that’s spelled correctly? Are the books fiction or nonfiction?
It’s about a girl who was the daughter of a Russian defector in Sweden; she was thought to be schizophrenic and a few other complicated syndromes, but she had an eidetic memory and knew how to hack into almost any computer in the world.
Her fight to be “normal” involves a lot of peripheral stories that all come together about half-way through the third book.
Riveting, is about all I can say.
oops—forgot one... Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L’Amour
I seem to be on an Australian history kick at the moment...all books by Peter FitzSimons.
“Batavia”, the story of a shipwreck/mutiny in 1629 of the Dutch East Indies Co. flagship en-route from The Netherlands to the spice islands near Java.
“Eureka” the story of the Australian gold rush (which dwarfed our own) and the revolution it caused.
“Tobruk” The story of Australia’s struggle in WWII and Victoria’s Cross recipient, John Edmondson.
Thanks! I’ll have to consider them when I have time to be riveted again after Chaim Potok ;-).
I read that, too, when it came out. It's disappointing that his son never seems to have completed a full biography of Louis.
Not anything at the minute.
Isn’t Walt Whitman, Bill Clinton’s favorite author.
Everyone should read Thucydides’ “The Peloponnesian War”.
Everyone probably has read Dickens’ “Great Expectations” and rightly so.
Also Churchill’s six volume “History of World War II”.
There were a few “slow” parts, but only because so much of it moved so fast.
Darn, not in my library. I’d have requested “Tobruk” if they were!
Hour of Peril-Stashower
Events from Lincoln’s election to his train trip to DC for the first inauguration. How Pinkerton helped him through baltimore where there was a plot to assassinate him when he switched trains.
Good background on Pinkerton’s life and how he built his agency.
Lot’s of stories of Lincoln’s inner circle.
Lots of info on the politics taking place during a time when 7 states succeeded.
Good read.
Yep! Herriot could have perhaps chosen a better opening. But even then the sequence had its share of humor. Do you remember Uncle, who was observing, and making unhelpful suggestions the whole time?
By the way, Herriot's books are now on Audible. I'm actually listening to the Audible version of the book. Like you, I read the hard-copy version years ago.
[enters the confessional]
I do most of my reading in FanFiction. I know, there's more than a little bit of dross out there, but much of it is written in earnest, and I find quite a few diamonds in the rough.
Oh, and I [ahem] write some myself.
When I typed “Carey Cash” into the library catalog (open in the next window ;-), I felt bad for him that his parents stuck him with that name! (Book isn’t there. Is it new?)
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