About half way through "Lobster Coast" by Colin Woodward. Can hardly put it down. It's a well researched history of Maine and New England. Not the sanitized version that we got in school.
Just finished Newty's "Valley Forge" and working on Atlas Shrugged.
Stieg Larsson. I probably shouldn't have started; now I can't stop. I'm about to go looking for the third one.
> Just finished Newty's "Valley Forge" and working on Atlas Shrugged.
"valley Forge" is on my list
But honestly -
Right not I'm reading
"Facebook for Dummies"
> Stieg Larsson. I probably shouldn't have started; now I can't stop. I'm about to go looking for the third one.
Yep, waiting for paperback...
Deep Economy by Bill McKibben.
Puppies for Dummies.
My MIL sent it to my children and I just wanted to see if I was a doggy dummy.
You guys are way more intellectual than I am. I'm almost finished reading "Last Train to Memphis - The Rise of Elvis Presley" I already read "Careless Love - The Unmaking of Elvis Presley". Each one's about 500 pages so it's got to be pretty interesting for me to stick with a book that long.
We're going to the coast for a few days after Christmas and I'm taking Keith Richards' new book "Life" to read over there.
That book is recommended to me by my employee.
I'm trying to wade through Atlantic but the author has lost me at this point.
Keeping with the historical theme that seems to be common with Land Surveyors:
I've finished:
All of the Aubrey-Maturin series by O'Brian.
All of the Hornblower series and The General by the same author. I highly recommend The General which is a look at WWI through the eyes of a British Army General.
I read a book about a late 18th century Boston Ship Captain who spent four years sailing around the Pacific. It was pretty interesting. I also read a book about the Pilgrims which is a lot different from what we "learned" in school.
I find Historical Fiction to be more entertaining than non-fiction because the author can use some license to make the book more interesting.
> You guys are way more intellectual than I am. I'm almost finished reading "Last Train to Memphis - The Rise of Elvis Presley" I already read "Careless Love - The Unmaking of Elvis Presley". Each one's about 500 pages so it's got to be pretty interesting for me to stick with a book that long.
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> We're going to the coast for a few days after Christmas and I'm taking Keith Richards' new book "Life" to read over there.
Sheesh. I'm re-reading the trilogy (four books) by Douglas Adams (Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy) interspersed with bits of Calvin and Hobbes and the Farside collections.
I bet I'm laughing out loud a lot more than the rest of you though.
"The Emigrants" tetrology by Vilhelm Morberg.
It's the story of Swedish immigrants to the US 1849-1867.
Whenever I get time I read a chapter out of "The Power" by Rhonda Byrne. Coincides with "The Secret". I should go back and read that one again, too!
One of my favorites is "The Tightwad Gazette" Volumes 1, 2 and 3 all together in the same book. My most favorite kid book is "Green Eyes". Every so often I'll pull it out and read through it and get my warm fuzzies fix. 🙂
I'm cussing myself over and over for ever taking "Lee's Leiutenants" to the used book store.
My sister sent me "Awakenings" and am reading that now, then Condolezza Rice's auto-b.
She also sent me "Left Behind". Oh boy....
Steve, I predict you are gonna enjoy "Life" (Keith Richard's book). Just finished reading it-- it was highly entertaining, at times very humorous, and surprisingly well written. All the sordid and disconcerting details, plus some good introspection and excellent knowledge on the 5-string open-G tuning for all you guitar players. Keef obviously kept his journals up to date in anticipation of this book. Seems to have been the only serious diarist amongst the Rolling Stones, he is no dummy. Which is probably why against all odds he still walks among us.
This time of year, in order to stave off the cabin fever, I keep 2 or 3 books going. Am on a Peter Matthiesen jag this winter. Which right now means re-reading "The Tree Where Man was Born" (about East Africa) and "Shadow Country" (about Southwest Florida). "At Play In the Fields of the Lord" (about Amazonia) is next on the reading list. Would highly recommend Matthiesen to anyone.
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Keith spilled the beans about his tunings and what songs they were used on in an article in Guitar Player magazine in the late 80's that coincided with my having sliced the tendon in my index finger in my left hand. I have several guitars tuned in those ways now leftover from the days that I thought I would never be able to play standard tuning guitar again. I've adjusted to the lack of mobility, but nowhere near the adjustment Keith has had to make, have you seen his fingers in the last few years? I would be surprised if he can still play anything but open tuning with any dexterity.
new book
i just started the 2009 BLM manual of surveying instructions, as a preparation for oct 2011 testing. is that daryl moistner's photo on the back cover?
new book
The BLM manual I saw featured one of Daryl's shots. I thought it was on the cover but maybe those were early ones. I just saw the paperback version that was before they went to print.
"Shirley" by Charlotte Bronte. Pretty obscure.
