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

19 May 2015 | US Navy Vet

[SamAdams76]

Reading the Richard Evans trilogy on World War Two:

- Coming of the Third Reich
- Third Reich in Power
- Third Reich at War

Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it.

[apocalypto]

I also read Attkisson’s STONEWALLED, a good read.

[apocalypto]

I found both Lord of the Rings and Gulag Archipelago engrossing.

Just saw on Hannity, Michelle Malkin, plan to read her book WHO BUILD THAT That next. It's just published.

[firebrand]

I have noticed that too. Extramarital sex has been de rigueur for a long time, but the adorable gay people are a new development. One of the reasons I like the C. J. Box books is that the hero is a faithfully married man. Swoon.

When the first novel appears in which the gay person is the murderer, then we will know they have arrived.

[firebrand]

Have read a few Ace Atkins recently. He is good and knows his people and area well. He’s similar to Elmore Leonard but not as beautifully spare in his prose. More colorful, though, a richer, more descriptive mode. I feel as if I’ve been in Mississippi when I finish one of his novels and know all the right things to eat and drink, a nice refreshing change from the health-conscious Upper West Side of Manhattan.

[huldah1776]

Was thinking this morning about the sandstone condition we are in when I saw Jay Sekulow has a new book out, too. “Undemocratic: How Unelected Officials Steal Freedom” is the title. So the judicial system is corrupt, the executive branch is corrupt, “Sekulow says that the federal bureaucracy has become the fourth and largest branch of the government, and it’s the only branch not in the U.S. Constitution,” and Congress? oy.

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/2015/May/Undemocratic-How-Unelected-Bureaucrats-Steal-Freedom/

[Jane Austen]

Thanks.

[Jane Austen]

I agree its news. The first time I came across the "lovable" gay was in P.D. James's "The Private Patient," probably around 2008. Toward the end there was a section on the rape of a lesbian. It had absolutely nothing to do with the plot, and the people involved had nothing to do with the plot. I wondered how the editor could have missed it.

The other novels I have come across all included males, and several times they provide food for the protagonist. Harlan Coben's mystery novel has been the most extensive, some saying it sounds almost like recruiting. That novel was the first one I've read by him, so I don't know if he includes the "adorable gay" in all of them or if he just "came out."

[firebrand]

P.D. James is a strange writer. Not only is she not formulaic, she seems to be begging people to enjoy her for her writing alone, not the plot.

I once read one of hers where the murderer enters the plot at the end of the book, having just arrived from another country and having never been mentioned before.

[firebrand]

Patricia Cornwell has had a main character with a lesbian niece for years. Recently there was a book about a group of people vacationing together in Spain and two of the male characters were partners and hoping for an adoption to come through. Can’t remember the title or the author, but the New York Times went gaga over it.

[Skooz]

My last 3:

“Augustus: First Emperor of Rome”
by Adrian Goldsworthy

“Timmy Failure”
by Stephen Pastis

“The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors”
by Dan Jones (currently reading and enjoying very much).

I highly recommend all three.

[Skooz]

Excellent choises.

I read the first one and have the other two on the bookshelf, ready.

[Jane Austen]

Yes. I had forgotten about Patricia Cornwell. I must be at least ten years since I last read her books.

[Jane Austen]

I have read just a couple of her books. I liked an early one, but then there was one that went on and on describing a building.