OK all, what book(s) are you reading now or have you read in the last 6 months?

19 May 2015 | US Navy Vet

[JustaCowgirl]

I need to try that trick then, because my reading concentration has taken a bit of a hit as well.

And The Hobbit is one of my all-time favorites.

[LibertarianLiz]

I have Kindle Unlimited. If you read quite a bit it is well worth the $10.00 a month

My hubby is a big fan of the 99-cent books that you can download on Kindle.

[pops88]

Methodical Illusion by Rebekah Roth

http://www.methodicalillusion.com/

About 9/11. I couldn’t put it down. “Written as a novel, Methodical Illusion has been excruciatingly researched from an insider’s perspective, utilizing proprietary knowledge of airplanes, universal FAA protocols, standardized fight crew procedures and all hijacking policies. The results are the never before revealed answers to the daunting questions everyone has had, but few had dared ask aloud for fear of the repercussions that undoubtedly follow. Rebekah Roth is right on target with her mind blowing research which is guaranteed to open your eyes.”

Practicing the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence

[MHGinTN]

Red Matt 24 and Mark 13, then read Luke 21. A careful reading will discover that Luke has Jesus saying ‘but before these things, while Matthew and Mark have Jesus saying THEN. Also, the Olivet discourse is found in Mark and Matthew as a private discourse by Jesus to Peter, James, John, and Andrew, on the mount of Olives. While Luke’s passage in Luke 21 is Jeus speaking to ‘his followers’ in the Temple. This should clue you in that there is not only a subtle difference in audeince but the message to each of the audiences. It happens that the discourse given by Jesus in the Temple, given to us by Luke, gave the listeners enough clues to escape Jersualem when the Roman armies paused outside of Jerusalem for nine months while Vespasian wen tback to Rome. The disciples had a better handle on the teachings afterThe Holy Spirit came at Pentecost.

[central_va]

Basic Plumbing Techniques.

[day10]

Got and quickly finished “The Stranger” by Harlan Coben. Not his best, but fun.

[Oratam]

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, a 2012 biography of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas by Tom Reiss revealing how Dumas's son – author Alexandre Dumas –  incorporated elements of his remarkable father into his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.

BLACK AJAX is an historical novel, by British author George MacDonald Fraser of Flashman series fame, set during the first two decades of the nineteenth century, mostly in England. It is the story of Tom Molineaux, a black slave who becomes a great boxer. Fraser’s story opens in Louisiana, where Molineaux is shown in his first boxing match, against another slave. His master promises him his freedom if he wins, and then sends him off to England to be trained as a champion boxer.

Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season, by Nick Heil. On May 15, 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit. A week later, Lincoln Hall, a seasoned Australian climber, was left for dead near the same spot. Hall’s death was reported around the world, but the next day he was found alive after spending the night on the upper mountain with no food and no shelter.

[MHGinTN]

Been meaning to get a copy of Roth’s novel through the local library. As a flight attendant for 30 years, she understands where the script written for the passengers of the ill-fated flights was in error, leading her to find some startling things about 911. Many pilots and radar people have helpto verify the things she came to suspect.

[fungoking]

Finished:
Unbroken
Facing your Giants-Max Lucado
Current
James Macdonald act like a man

[zot]

I am reading “Albion’s Seed” by David Hackett Fischer. It the well-researched story of four British folkways in America, starting with the Pilgrims.

[discostu]

I’ve been on a Jo Nesbo Norwegian noir kick lately. Just wrapping up The Son.

[Jane Long]

Love your bookmarks!!

I find myself thinking the same thing on political books - it’s all been properly discussed, on FR ;)

[Lucas McCain]

I very recently finished Ben Coes’ latest, Eye For
An Eye. He is an outstanding author in the anti-terrorist/special ops/CIA thriller genre.

[bunnie911]

Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro’s Gulag by Armando Valladares 1984. Reagan read it and appointed Valladares to serve as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Obama ought to read, too.

[left that other site]

Using this particular technique, I am able to read the entire Bible in a year, the Torah Twice, the Gospels about five times, and Acts and Revelation 12 TIMES!

I am thinking about putting an additional bookmark in Isaiah, because, once I get to Daniel, I start REALLY missing the old guy!

[Prospero]

MÉMOIRES D'OUTRE-TOMBE - François-René de Chateaubriand

Thankfully, all his works, excepting collections of his letters and more obscure columns, were translated into English and are today readily available beyond the reach of the Jacobin librarians (for the moment) through archive.org, HERE; included among these are his extraordinarily influential "The Genius of Christianity," for example; a work largely responsible for reintroducing the Faith into an age every bit as godless as our own.

His equally influential Memoirs, as translated by Kline in 2005, are found in two other locations, including HERE.

An incredibly entertaining and informative read, in an easy style fresher than most books published today.

[Prospero]

Krakatoa, the day... was an excellent book, not only describing the event in detail (west, not "East," of Java), but the influence of the first natural catastrophe and its aftermath reported on worldwide, as it happened, because of the recent completion of undersea telegraphy.

Good book, good choice.

[Sam Gamgee]

Guns of August - which I actually wasn't impressed by. The Big Short by Michael Lewis.

As for fiction; Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind. The Haj by Leon Uris - so far so good - he paints an ugly picture of Arab life.

[Cliff Dweller]

Between Rock and a Hard Place - Autobiography of Pat Benatar; The Line in the Sand, the Anglo French Struggle for the Middle East 1914-1918; A Peace to End All Peace, The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East; Dark Sun, the Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, Richard Rhodes; And the Good News Is... , Dana Perino; Enterprise Risk Management; Surviving the Zombie Outbreak; Nuclear Weapons Effects, Glasstone and Dolan; Killing Patton, OReilly/Dugard

[Prospero]

With a pronounced preference for bound pages, true "Books," I've been taking full advantage of the astounding wealth of online books in HTML at Gutenburg and free Adobe Reader (pdf) scans of the ancien and venerable stacks at archive.org.

Who needs Kindle?

With quality alone as the criteria, I could easily read only the free works at these two sources and the remainder of my lifetime would not be sufficient to run out of material.

Metaphorically speaking, who would have predicted only a few decades ago that a veritable "Library of Congress," indeed the libraries of the Western world, would be at my fingertips, with the only thing missing from the latter source being the "feel" and "smell" of the original works themselves?