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What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Thread
7/07/11 | MplsSteve

Posted on 07/07/2011 12:57:12 PM PDT by MplsSteve

Hi everyone! I hope your 4th of July was a good one.

it's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" thread. As you know, I consider Freepers to be among the most well-read of those of us on the Internet and I like to see what other Freepers are reading these days.

It can be anything - a classic novel, a trashy pulp romance, a technical journal, etc. Please do not deile this thread by posting "I'm reading this thread". it became very unfunny a long time ago.

I'll start. I'm just finishing "Chancellorsville 1863: The Souls of the Brave" by Ernest Furgurson. It's OK. Nothing to rave about though.

Well, what are you reading now? Let's hear about it!


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: booklist; books; godsgravesglyphs; literature; magazines; pages; reading; readinglist
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To: MplsSteve

here are the top items of my current list:

1) Halfway through James Calvell’s Asian Saga novels, in time setting sequence (in Gai-Jin right now);
2) Starting “Empire of the Summer Moon” by S.C. Gwynne (a gift from my wife);
3) “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant” by U.S. Grant;
4) “From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America” by James Longstreet;
5) “The Delight Makers” by Adolph Bandelier;
6) “Dog Sense: How the New Science of Behavior Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet” by John Bradshaw;
7) and getting ready to start my annual trek through Tolkien’s War of the Rings Trilogy...

Love my Kindle!!


81 posted on 07/07/2011 1:51:46 PM PDT by LaRueLaDue
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To: MplsSteve

“The Big Sky” by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.


82 posted on 07/07/2011 1:53:37 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." -- G.K. Chesterton)
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To: MplsSteve

Bruce Catton’s Civil War histories, “Stillness at Appomattox” and such. My favorite so far is “This Hallowed Ground”, a single-volume overview of the Northern victory. Catton seems to, as I do, respect Grant both for his straightforward generalship, and for the way he treated the vanquished Lee.


83 posted on 07/07/2011 1:54:32 PM PDT by flowerplough (Bammy: It frustrates me when people talk about government jobs as if somehow those are worth less.)
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To: MplsSteve

Rereading Thomas Carlyle’s “The French Revolution.”


84 posted on 07/07/2011 1:55:04 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: MplsSteve
My Antonia, by Willa Cather. I don't know why I haven't read her before; it is a charming story, and well-written.
85 posted on 07/07/2011 1:59:05 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (It should be illegal for illegals to play with matches... just sayin'...)
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To: TheMom

For later.


86 posted on 07/07/2011 1:59:13 PM PDT by TheMom (I wish mosquitoes sucked fat instead of blood.)
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To: MplsSteve

Just finished “Nelson’s Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World” by Roy Adkins. Excellent, The best account of the battle I have yet read.

Haven’t decided on the next book. Will decide tonight. Lots to choose from.


87 posted on 07/07/2011 2:00:08 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: MplsSteve

Inside of a Dog
What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
Alexadra Horowitz

Modern China
Rana Mitter

What’s so Great About Christianity
Dinesh D’Souza


88 posted on 07/07/2011 2:01:54 PM PDT by DManA
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To: florida red

“The Spy” ostensibly by Clive Cussler (”with” his collaborator on the Isaac Bell series, whose name escapes me)


89 posted on 07/07/2011 2:04:03 PM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: MplsSteve
Just finished "Now God Be Thanked" by John Masters.

First in a trilogy, set around WW1.

90 posted on 07/07/2011 2:04:18 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/01...NEVER FORGET.)
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To: MplsSteve
finished these three books the past month:



in the middle of this:



with this on deck:


91 posted on 07/07/2011 2:04:33 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5million pay no federal income tax then vote demoKrat)
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To: MplsSteve

I finished re-reading the core Ender series by Orson Scott Card, and am moving on to all the sequels and related books and short stories that were written since the original. I figured I’d take in the whole Ender universe at once.


92 posted on 07/07/2011 2:11:00 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: MplsSteve

‘Criminological Theory”, “Criminology Today”, “Handbook of Criminology”, “The General Theory of Crime”, and Woodward’s “Obama’s War”

Teaching a new class in, you’ll never guess, criminology, and I have to pick the textbook. I also have to start getting ready for my comps next Spring.

I do hope to fit in “Moonwalking with Einstein” and “The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture” by David Mamet before the summer ends as well as several technical books on malware.


93 posted on 07/07/2011 2:15:40 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: MplsSteve

I’m reading “The deliberate Dumbing Down Of America” by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt.

It’s free to read online in PDF at: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=the+deliberate+dumbing+down+of+america+pdf&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

It documents the actions, papers, methods, books and names, over many decades, of those who used “Progressive Education” to teach Americans to stop thinking.


94 posted on 07/07/2011 2:19:03 PM PDT by RoadTest (Organized religion is no substitute for the relationship the living God wants with you.)
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To: MplsSteve
Screwtape Proposes a Toast, by C.S. Lewis. A critique of anti-intellectualism, anti-elitism, and egalitarianism in American public education, prophetically written long before cultural Marxism turned education into nothing but Leftist indoctrination.
95 posted on 07/07/2011 2:24:52 PM PDT by hellbender
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To: SueRae
I’m now reading “The Land of the Painted Caves”, the last installment of the “Clan of the Cave Bear” series by Jean Auel,and the first in about six years.

I did NOT know she'd come out with another installment! I'd say it's been more than six years.....unless there was one that I missed in the meantime.

Oh lordy, so many great suggestions on this thread and so little time.

96 posted on 07/07/2011 2:27:31 PM PDT by prairiebreeze
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To: MplsSteve

Reading Game of Thrones, by George R.R.Martin, again, after watching the HBO series. Actually, it’s being read to me by Roy Dotrice, a masterful narrator. Helps greatly in making Atlanta traffic disappear!


97 posted on 07/07/2011 2:27:31 PM PDT by ForMyChildren (Irrigation help appreciated)
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To: OB1kNOb

I think I actually may have heard it about it for the first time on the last “What are you reading?” thread. :)

Anyway. I have to confess I have yet to check out the Freeper Book Club. But if there’s a way there to discuss books some of us are reading, I sure would like to get people’s thoughts on TFT.


98 posted on 07/07/2011 2:37:37 PM PDT by fightinJAG (TAXPAYERS OF THE WORLD UNITE.)
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To: MplsSteve
"The Black Dove" - Steve Hockensmith. One of a series; hilarious mysteries set in the 1890's West.

"Bad Science" - Ben Goldacre. Brilliant debunking of quackery and pseudoscience.

"The Armada" - Garrett Mattingly. This one comes around in my re-read queue every few years. One of the best histories ever written.

In the on deck circle is "Quartered Safe Out Here" by George MacDonald Fraser. I have been loath to crack the cover on this one because it is the only book by GMF I have never read, and when I reach the last page there will be no more. Ave atque vale...

99 posted on 07/07/2011 2:39:48 PM PDT by Notary Sojac (I have not heard a single Michele or Cain backer threaten to stay home if Palin is nominated.)
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To: MplsSteve
I'm almost done with Jonah Goldberg's “Liberal Fascism”. An excellent history of liberalism/progressivism/marxism/fascism. Much of it confirms what I already knew but I've learned quite a bit as well.

For insance, there is an instructive quote from President Woodrow Wilson responding to criticism that there was no national interest in our entry into WWI -- he said, (paraphrase) "There is also no selfishness in it." To me, this explains a lot. To a liberal, national interest in war is "selfish"; while no national interest is "noble". See how it works?

100 posted on 07/07/2011 2:41:41 PM PDT by Da Bilge Troll (Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
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