Whatcha reading?
Also - for the e-reader crowd: do you find yourself starting a new book when you're still in the middle of others more often now that you can purchase a new book whilst laying on you a$$ on the sofa? I've always read more than one book at a time, but recently it's gotten out of hand:
Currently Reading
Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future
Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense
The Essential Canon of Classical Music
Culture Counts
On Deck
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Thames: The Biography
Reading now:
Quite Ugly One Morning - by Christopher Brookmyre (Paralabane series)
Havana Bay - by Martin Cruz Smith (Renko series)
Recently finished reading:
Jack Reacher series - by Lee Child
Stone Barrington series - by Stuart Woods
Harry's Game - by Gerald Seymour (re-reading)
Someone on here recommended the book “Longitude”, I’m just about finished and have really enjoyed it. I usually read 3 or 4 books at a time and that’s what I like about ereaders. Before they were invented I spent more time looking for the books than I did reading.
Just finished, still reading or on deck:
The Rainmaker – John Grisham
The Testament – John Grisham
Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf - William C. Davis
The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream - H. W. Brands
Pineapple Grenade (Serge Storms Series #15) - Tim Dorsey
Never Sniff A Gift Fish - Patrick F. McManus
Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs - Buddy Levy
Conquistador was especially interesting to me in as much as we were taught in grade school these men were great heroes and adventurers and explorers. We weren’t told these heroes were murderers, rapists and pillagers also. Oops let’s not forget the forced Christianity, venereal disease and small pox.
Have a great Sunday!B-)
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes. A followup to The Making of the Atomic Bomb, a book I read 3 times in a row because it's such a great story and in an effort to better grasp the nuclear physics concepts described.
> Never Sniff A Gift Fish - Patrick F. McManus
IMHO from their inception until the mid 80's (or so) both Field & Stream and Sports Afield had some of the best magazine writing of their time. I constantly find myself re-reading Gene Hill.
I just bought Canada by Richard Ford at a bookstore in Campbell. Whenever we travel, bookstores are a major attraction for me. And, of course, you can't leave a bookstore without buying a book. I came back from our recent trip to San Jose and the coast with seven new books.
Here's the thing regarding ebooks, though: when I saw Canada, I knew I'd heard about it and, from reading the jacket, it sounded very good and even familiar. My wife said that it sounded familiar to her as well and didn't I already have it? Ha! I would certainly know if I already owned it, wouldn't I?
As it turns out, no, I wouldn't. I bought the ebook a couple of months ago and never got around to it. It wasn't laying around the house so I never saw it and soon forgot about it. That's O.K., I'll enjoy the hard copy more. I still love the feel of a real book and knowing where you are in it by looking at the bookmark; little things like that. Anyway...
Currently reading:
The Cat's Table
One Night at the Call Center
Coming up:
Canada
Independence Day
Flashman and the Redskins - I've never read a Flashman book; they seem fun.
Don
I was eating dinner at the bar at an Outback with my dad a few years before he passed away and complaining about the stress of my job. I'll never forget his response "When you've been on your back, on a dolly, adjusting some instrumentation, a mile below the Nevada desert, and the device is armed - then you can talk to me about stress".
Reading now:
The Magic by Rhonda Byrne
(And I do the homework in the book!! B-) )
I also read some magazines. Do those count?? :-S
Currently rereading Land in California written in the late 1940s by W.W. Robinson, a Titleman.
I found it years ago in a used bookstore in Hyannis, Mass.
He is a good story teller and the book isn't highly technical but it does have footnoted case cites and history books.
Rhumb Lines and Map Wars by Mark Monmonier
World in the Balance by Robert P. Crease
Full Meridian of Glory by Paul Murdin
Spies - The rise and fall of the KGB in America by Haynes, Kiehr, & Vassiliev
Weekly Standard
National Review
Wall Street Journal
Baton Rouge Advocate
Most Gun magazines in print
Currently actively reading The Secret Passage by Fergus Hume. Just finished The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by the same author. The story of how he came to write that one and the outcome is just hilarious. Note: The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is being edited for errors by Project Gutenberg so don't download it just yet - I gave them a list of five pages of typos. Certainly one of the longest lists yet. So far The Secret Passage has zero typos.
I look at the PG site every day to download any interesting just published books, and usually find a fascinating one. They are starting to accumulate in my Kindle, but it has plenty of room.
I usually have three or four books currently open, depending on my mood. I'm thinking of reading The Wrong Box again because it is so funny. I think I read it three times in the last two years.
Just Finished: Antifragile: The Things that Gain from Disorder
The New Evolution Diet: What Our Paleolithic Ancestors can Teach Us about Weight Loss, Fitness, and Aging
The Third Bullet
Currently reading: The Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Debt: The First 5000 Years
The World Until Yesterday: What We Can Learn from Traditional Societies
Just finished:
"Maybe I Should Just Shut Up and Go Away" by Neal Boortz
"The Go-Getter" by Peter B. Kyne
"Killing Kennedy" by Bill O'Reilly
"Entreleadership" by Dave Ramsey
Currently reading:
"360 Degree Leader" by John Maxwell
"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey
"Indescribable: Encountering the Glory of God in the Beauty of the Universe" by Louie Giglio and Matt Redman
On deck:
"The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
"The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein
Eat paleo Mr. Shepp?
I do about 80% of the time
Currently Reading:
The Bible (Mark to be exact)
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Studying:
National Association of Sports Medicine - Certified Personal Trainer
I read mostly Professional magazines.
Two or three of each:
Land Surveying
Erosion and Sediment Control
Commercial Fishing
Books
Currently reading: none
On deck: none
Recently read:
No Easy Day Mark Owen
American Sniper Chris Kyle May He Rest In Peace
Hooked Pirates Poaching and the Perfect Fish G. Bruce Knecht
The Doryman's Reflection A Fisherman's Life Paul Molyneaux
I try to. Sometimes my sweet tooth and my love of ice cream gets in the way.
Yeah...I call that HAVING FUN...lol.
Not reading anything at the moment, but I read both of the Rhodes books when I took a class with a professor named James Fleming.
I will pick up a book when I get through a couple of projects that have consumed my time.
Beer Leg Book Club - hijack
Are you two cross-fitters? That's how I learned about the Paleo way of eating. I ended up with a "frozen shoulder" which took a while to heal. It's hard to start back after you've stopped 🙁 (both paleo and crossfit)
