in the middle of this:
with this on deck:
Rereading Thomas Carlyle’s “The French Revolution.”
For later.
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.
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
First in a trilogy, set around WW1.
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.
‘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.
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.
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!
"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...
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?
The Pale Horse, by Agatha Christie
The Man Who Was Thursday, by G. K. Chesterton
Life among the Lutherans, by Garrison Keillor
Vince Flynn (any title that can be begged/borrowed)
PS: keep him in your thoughts as he is being treated for cancer
Oh yay, I love this thread.
Just finished, I kid you not, “Gates of Fire,” which I’m sure was on my list from a previous book thread on FR.
That was a doozy. Not my usual genre. Very violent. But really a superlative book, I think I got myself an education, and I believe I know a lot more about Greek history, Sparta, and particularly Thermopolaye now.
Atlas Shrugged
(5th-6th time - I’m losing track...)
I found “The Agony and the Ecstasy” in a used book store and am reading that one.