Posted on 05/19/2015 6:48:49 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
Oh yeah forgot... Krauthammer, Things that Matter; The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Jefferson Davis; and muddling through the Quran.... when I am at a loss of what to read next.
Still Pending:
No Higher Honor, Condoleeza Rice
Reading Law, Antonin Scalia
Gray Ghosts, Joseph Sackett
Thomas Jefferson's Creme Brulee. Another pretty good book.
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. Also good.
The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants. Very good. In fact, one of the best.
Primitive Wilderness Living & Survival Skills: Naked into the Wilderness. Meh. Might have been because I already knew so much of the stuff or it might have been the way it was written.
The Cat Sitter's Cradle: A Dixie Hemingway Mystery. Rarely has a book so turned me off in the first chapter.
The Silence of the Library (Cat in the Stacks Mystery) Fun read. Especially if you read any of the series mysteries as a child.
War Maid's Choice. Not bad but predictable.
The Darling Dahlias and the Confederate Rose. Pretty good except for the liberalism that creeps in occasionally.
Empire Rising. Not as good as his first book but better then most prehistory stuff.
Operation Paperclip, by Annie Jacobsen.
From the first word it is no-nonsense. I wished she’d have footnoted as she went along. The work done here is amazing, and new. In the first three chapters, you get a look at how the V1 and V2 rocket programs were run. Chilling stuff, and it puts Von Braun in a whole new light.
Not out yet but I can’t wait:
Hi Lurkina! Thanks for the plug! I really appreciate it.
I read old-fashioned books. I got a Kindle for Christmas two years ago and promptly forgot my password. I don’t know how to fix that, so it’s an expensive paper weight at this point.
I love your system. I think I’ll try it, too!
((Hugs)) for the inspiration ;-)
What a great idea.
Call amazon kindle and request they take off your password or reset it. Worth it. If you read the classics, they are often free.
The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions that Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815 (The Penguin History of Europe). European history from the end of the Thirty Years' War to Waterloo. Great stuff.
Don John of Austria - the life of one of the most romantic European heroes that nobody's ever heard of. Victor of the Battle of Lepanto, Philip II of Spain's beloved illegitimate little brother, ridiculous swashbuckling. Unbelievable historical connections to practically everyone important in the 16th century.
Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918 World War I and Its Violent Climax. One-half hour before the end of WWI, a French General ordered an offensive. The men (who knew about the armistice) had to go anyway, including a detachment of Americans under his command. Imagine surviving four years in the mud and gas and rats of the trenches and having to make a useless attack into the machine guns thirty minutes before the peace. This one will make your blood boil.
Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America - research for a book Publius and I are finishing about the Federalist Papers. This one's about how the war redirected the lives of the men and women involved.
I finished CLINTON CASH and recommend it. Also recently read two books both titled 13 HOURS, both interesting. One is about Benghazi by those who were there, the other is an award winning thriller by Dion Meyer.
It was fascinating to see how the machine of tyranny grinds people up and then spits them out. The protagonist went from being a hero of the revolution to an enemy of the state. He was denounced just as he had denounced others in the past. A very sobering read. I recommend it.
I have about 300 items on my Kindle with likely half of those being free samples. I find the sample usage to be very cool, and I have gotten a lot out of them. The longest sample that I have read so far was Rick Atkinson's ‘An Army at Dawn’ which had to be well over 100 pages. I intend to read the entire trilogy on my next vacation. I have not had a real one of those in years.
I do mix between paperback and hardcover as well though. Once you adjust to the E Books, that tactile experience of holding an actual book seems to me to diminish some, though for some reason, certain books fit the Kindle easier. The WEB Griffin books are great on Kindle as I whiz through those in just a two days or so typically.
This week, I am reading the Clinton Cash book which most of it really is unsurprising, but I love the details which are footnoted.
I carry my Kindle everywhere, but mostly now I use the IPAD or cellphone to actually read my books. My Kindle is my back up following the initial download.
The free books on Kindle are abundant and I have a lot of those. Occasionally there are discounts where you can get a relatively new book for very short dough or even free.
I would say that currently, I have about 15 books started not including the samples. Some I likely will never finish, but most I expect to complete. I have been reading several books at a time for most of my adult life.
"Jesus on Every Page" by David Murray.
The son trudges uphill, bearing wood for his own sacrifice; his father has decided to give him up to death. What biblical event does this bring to mind? Is it Abraham and Isaac in Genesis 22, or Christ’s passion in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John? The kinship between these two stories is deeper than mere coincidence. Christ is present in the story of Abraham and Isaac. In fact, he is present on every page of the Old Testament. Christians seem to have forgotten that the Old Testament has everything to do with Jesus Christ. In Jesus on Every Page, David Murray guides the reader down his own Road to Emmaus, describing how the Scriptures were opened to him, revealing Jesus from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22. Dr. Murray’s ten simple ways to seek and find Christ in the Old Testament unveil the face of Christ in the creation, the law, the psalms, the prophets, and the proverbs. Recognizing Jesus in the full breadth of Scripture is important for every Christian. Whether you are preaching Jesus through Old Testament readings or just beginning to discover the reality of Christ in the Old Testament, Jesus on Every Page provides an accessible guide to the increasingly popular subject of Jesus in the Old Testament books. Have your own Road to Emmaus experience and know the Old Testament for what it truly is: full of Jesus.
Doesn’t Hillary have a new children’s book called “Green Eggs and Sham”?
Catholics in the Movies by Colleen McDannell
Altered Genes, Twisted Truth by Stephen Druker
Hope by Gina deJesus, et al.
Finding Me by Michelle Knight
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Day of Wrath by Wm. Fortschen
One of them is Harlan Coben's "Miss You." Close to the end he has this speech about how terrific gay love is. It wasn't relevant to the plot. Others have also commented on this.Maybe he is gay and got carried away with his one fantasies. Somebody wondered if there is a requirement to include a gay person in mysteries.
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