Posted on 07/03/2008 8:40:03 AM PDT by MplsSteve
OK everyone, it's time for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" thread.
I like finding out what Freepers are reading lately. It can be anything...a technical journal, a trashy pulp novel, an old classic...in short, anything!
Please do not defile this thread by posting "I'm Reading This Thread". It became very unfunny a long time ago.
I'll start. I'm close to finishing "The Last Valley" by Martin Windrow. It's about the siege/battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954.
Well, what are you reading now?!
Am re-reading Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago.
I've finished my copy. And, I just finished Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich, right after it. It is a Stephanie Plum series.
Most enjoyable book I've read in years, and one already scheduled for a re-read.
On deck: An Appeal to Reason, A Cool Look at Global Warming, Nigel Lawson, Duckworth Overlook, 2008, ISBN 978-1-5902-0084-1
Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway.
do you recommend starting w/ Ezekiel or one of the others? sounds like great books. I love when the bible gets tied in.
I am reading:
Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul by Eldredge
Next is
Short History of Renaissance by Paul Johnson
Just completed
The Sistine Secrets by Blech
schu
Are you reading The Hollow?
Try Jan Karon’s Mitford series. The first book is “At Home in Mitford”.
A Tour of the Calculus by David Berlinski
The Third Reich in Power by Richard Evans
Son of the Tree by Jack Vance (love the oldies)
The Lost Fleet: Valiant by Jack Campbell.
Lots of Dean Koontz - my wife didn’t know about him.
I really did enjoy the Devil in the White City.
I just finished reading Janet Evanovich’s latest Stephanie Plum book. Every summer, when this thread is posted, that is my response because a new Plum comes out every June and has done so for the past 14 years and will do so for the next 4 years at least.
“That’s something I’d enjoy reading.”
It has a foreword written by Jim Koch of the Boston Beer Company, aka, Sam Adams. I’ll be doing an appearance at the Ohio Brew Week in mid-June.
More info at http://beerinfood.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/meet-me-at-ohio-beer-week/
I like the historical facts in the Devil in the White City too. Especially about the Ferris Wheel.
I have Erik Larson’s latest book about Marconi but have not started it yet. Well it is at least a year old so maybe it is not his latest.
Pick up Thomas Jefferson: A Life by Willard Sterne Randall (1993)
Well worth it
Just checked it out at Amazon. Looks promising. Thank you.
who are you and why are you in my brain??? LOL...Yes, I read Blood Brothers yesterday and started the Hollow this morning. Is the 3rd of the trilogy out yet?
I have not read Trudeau’s “Bloody Roads South.” I really liked Rhea’s 4 volume set. Very well written, very well researched.
Rhea debunked some myths by doing careful examination of after-action reports, particularly in regard to casualty/present for duty reports. Specifically, he found that frequently repeated claims of horrible casualties at Cold Harbor were grossly inflated. He proved the often-quoted statement of “7,000 dead in 30 minutes” as inaccurate, and traced the origin of the claim. In fact, Union casualties in the Wilderness and Spotsylvania were much higher.
Much to my dismay, Trudeau repeated the “7,000 dead at Cold Harbor” quote in “The Last Citadel.” While I’m enjoying the book, this statement makes me question its accuracy.
50 Mathematical Ideas You Really Need to Know (Tony Crilly, ; ISBN: 1847240089; Hardcover; 2008-04-03)
The art of deception controlling the human element of security
Kevin D. Mitnick and William L. Simon
Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind. : Wiley, c2002.
ISBN: 0471432288 DDC: 5.8 LCC: QA76.9 Edition: (electronic bk.)
Joel Rosenberg is the BEST. I waited for Dead Heat for nearly a year and then consumed it in under 8 hours. Once I finished it I went back and read all 5 in order in a long weekend. I simply cannot say enough about this series. It’s among my favorites of all time.
Re: your request for uplifting, life-affirming books:
Start with The No. One Ladies Detective Agency. Then read the six or so other books that come after. Author: Alexander McCall Smith. You will thank me.
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