Posted on 05/19/2015 6:48:49 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
I use both the Nook and the Kindle as well as paperback and hardbound.
And why?
They (Kindle and Nook) are both good quality, good battery life, easy to read, no external light source needed, therefore good for in-bed reading with the wife, an almost unlimited library.
One drawback to the e-readers is the inability to look back and skip ahead...something I am prone to do with print books.
Bad habit, but I've done it all my life and enjoy doing it, although I also enjoy NOT being able to do so with the e-readers.
I still read paperback and hardbound, as much as I can get my hands on.
I am a voracious reader.
I average two novels, weekly, sometimes four if they are smaller, along with several gun mags, knife mags, auto mags, motorcycle mags, how-to-do-it mags, the internet and TV news.
I am a book addict and information junkie...and there is no cure.
And I retain the information, educational and entertainment value of everything I read.
Reading is, in my opinion, the single best thing one can do to improve mental acuity and awareness of the world we live in, be it fact or fiction.
No, Paul did not say ‘soon’. He would not lie about something like this. What he did say was ‘to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord, and even so them also who sleep in Christ will GOD bring with Him when He comes for the Bride, The Body of Christ. And the dead in Christ shall rise first, then we who are alive and remian shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. This catchingaway is an exclusive event for His Bride, including all who are His bride from any nation kindredandtongue. The events in the Tribulation are directed mostly for Israel and there will be Tribulation saints, differentiated from Raptured ‘saints’. ... Okay, I’ll shut up and sit down now ...
Loved The Boys in the Boat. Am reading The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, the first mystery novel ever written (1868).
“Campaigning with Grant” <[>
Horace Porter was a staff officer for U.S. Grant during the overland campaign until the end of the war. During that time he took copious notes which he used to write this memoir. It is without a doubt the best civil war memoir written (and there’s lots of strong competition) and the best portrait of Grant as a General ever written. I’m just finishing it up for about the 6th time.
Lately I’ve been hooked on African safari books from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. So far the best one has been “In Africa - Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country” by John McCutcheon. These guys had GIANT brass ones. Most of the books from this era can be read for free on Amazon or other sites.
Currently reading “The Winter At Valley Forge,” by F. Van Wick Mason published in 1953 for kids...(I collect old textbooks and kids books). Already read Bel Canto by Patchett (OK)...Killing Patton by Dugar and O’Reilly (very good) ..In the Garden of Beasts by Larson (good account of Berlin in Hitler’s run-up to war) and How Adam Smith Can change Your Life by Roberts (OK).
Sure have! He was one of the Senators who blocked an investigation of the Bobby Baker affair, a major scandal during the Johnson administration. Nine years later, with a Republican in the White House, he pursued a probe of the Watergate scandal with gusto.
A girl I knew who made campaign buttons and sold them at Republican gatherings got a lot of sales with a button that read, "Inouye: Remember Bobby Baker!"
What do you think, did Patton die in a “Traffic Accident” or was he the victim of “Other” “Thing(s)”?
Founding Myths ISBN 978-4-56731-886-9
JEFFERSON ON FREEDOM ISBN-13: 978-1-60671-179-8
“The Harbinger”
M4L
I’m rereading two books:
Starfarers of Coramonde
The Witcher: The Last Wish
Two other books recently finished are The Mystery of the Shemitah (follow up to The Harbinger) and What Stands in a Storm (story of the April 27, 2011 tornado outbreak in Alabama).
“Decision Points”
Torah.
William C Davis, “Look Away: A History Of The Confederate States Of America”
Andrew Levy, “Huck Finn’s America: Mark Twain And The Era That Shaped His Masterpiece”
John actually.
Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.
—1 John 2:18
It was Jesus who said this generation would not pass away before the the Second Coming.
Mt 24
The Coming of the Son of Man
29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken; 30 then will appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory; 31 and he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
The Lesson of the Fig Tree
32 “From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near. 33 So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates. 34 Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away till all these things take place.
I stick with the old-fashioned paper books. There’s just nothing like them! I like the way they smell and feel. I like being able to flip back and forth.
I haven't read Lloyd Douglas' The Robe, but I read his follow-up novel, The Big Fisherman (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948), which concerns Peter the Apostle. although it's a good story, its biblical and historical inaccuracy disappointed me.
I was very disappointed in the movie. The book never gets old, at least not for me.
Enemies: A History of the FBI - Good history of the domestic surveillance and anti-espionage work of the Bureau, from WW I to the present. Well-balanced and not slavishly sycophantic.
The Fifth Gospel - Fiction about Vatican intrigue and the Shroud of Turin. Promising and interesting for about the first 350 pages; extremely disappointing in the last 50.
After Apollo: Richard Nixon and the American Space Program - Detailed but interesting story of the aimlessness of the American space program after the achievement of the Moon landing. Colored significantly by author's obvious Democrat bias.
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