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Freakonomics
Once again, I find myself neglecting my duties, as I haven't gotten around to posting a Summer Reading Thread yet, even though summer arrived almost 2 weeks ago.
If I may expand, without hijacking, this thread: a couple question that I'm curious about: do you want more frequent Book threads or would you prefer just pings to existing book threads?
i just finished nassim nicolas taleb’s “black swan”
and i’m a third of the way thru’ jonah goldberg’s “liberal fascism”.
Just finished Patrick O’Brian’s “The Commodore.”
Currently reading “Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy” by Ian W. Toll.
Excellent read. I highly recommend it.
Pyramids, by Terry Pratchett
"Triplanetary" is so dense that even though I'm 100 pages in, I haven't a clue as to what I'm reading, and I'll probably give up soon. Oddly enough, the Foreward, written sometime in the 70s even admits that the first few chapters are terrible, but then it gets going. I've no clue where it's going.
If I give it up, I'll probably pull out the 4 David Gemmel books that have been in the basement for way too long: "Legend", "The King Behind the Gate" and the next two books in that series.
I'll probably also request the next 2 or 3 Sue Grafton books from the library as that's been my summer reading for the last couple of years.
Past books at: http://www.geocities.com/tanniker/
Yep, I started keeping a page just to remember the books that I've been reading. I've thought of switching to a blog, but then I'd have to start all over again.
Beyond the Band Of Brothers by Dick Winters. Futher recollections by him that did not make the original book or mini series
Just finished “Dead Heat” by Joel Rosenberg
This is the last of His Last Jihad series.
The Last Jihad
The Last days
The Ezekiel Option
The Copper Scroll
Dead Heat
these are excellent, fast moving stories based on Bibical Scriptures in ‘now’ time.
I started with ‘the Ezekiel Option’. all were Great reads.
Now I am reading his non- fiction book
“Epicenter”
Also an excellent read.
Just Finished Ken Timmerman’s Shadow Warriors. Unbelievable and sickening. The State Department and CIA are completely infiltrated with liberals who would rather destroy the President than protect the country.
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at
by Erik Larson - A really fascinating book that intertwines the story of the building of the Chicago Worlds Fair and serial killings of H.H. Holmes during the fair.
A novel of WWII.
I would recommend it to anyone.
Well since I’m kinda burned out on politics and need an escape, I’m reading the Jim Butcher Dresden Files series.
Just started book 3 Grave Peril.
Great book about the life of Capt. Henry Morgan, privateer turned pirate and how he terrorized Central America and the Spanish Main in the mid 1600s.
On deck...
Right now, I’m for once not reading anything, because I’m editing and re-editing (rinse and repeat) a story I am writing for a writing contest. Yes, pray for me. ;-)
BUT, my mom just gave me “Ann Rule’s True Crime Files- Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder.” So that is one deck and next up on audiobook (I get to listen while I work) is “Reading Lolita In Tehran.”