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What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Thread
7/07/11 | MplsSteve

Posted on 07/07/2011 12:57:12 PM PDT by MplsSteve

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To: MplsSteve

The Complete Jack the Ripper~Donald Rumbelow.


181 posted on 07/08/2011 9:53:15 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: MplsSteve

“Confederates in the Attic” - Tony Horwitz
“The Great Cat Massacre” - Robert Darnton


182 posted on 07/08/2011 11:17:25 PM PDT by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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To: MplsSteve

The Happiest Baby on the Block. Hope it works for the FReeperette we are expecting next month.


183 posted on 07/08/2011 11:31:26 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: mbynack

Omgosh, when my son and I read Swiss Family Robinson, and we are both kinda Swiss, we laughed our heads off all the time. You can tell it was written on cold Swiss days inside by a fire where the author had some nature books and made up everything not in the books. The snake walking up the path erect! The fact that Of Course a Swiss on a tropical island would find some “wild potatoes” growing that could form the base of their diet. Enjoy! It’s sweet.


184 posted on 07/08/2011 11:36:40 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Shadowstrike

How are you liking the Coulter book? I think it is her best one so far.


185 posted on 07/08/2011 11:38:46 PM PDT by firebrand (It's a scandal that we have not yet impeached Obama.)
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To: MplsSteve
Tell me about “The Real George Washington”. What is the gist of the book?

It's mostly a straight biography -- very little interpretation or commentary -- that tells much of the story in GW's own words (from letters, diaries, etc.).

It's a very positive view of his life -- none of that "the founders were greedy and trashy individuals" spin here. He's presented as one who deserved the sobriquet "father of his country," and that's backed up with facts. He was truly one in a million.

The second part of the book (about a quarter) is a collection of Washington's writings arranged by subject; it's a good reference.

I'm enjoying the book. It's a fairly quick and pleasant read, although historians might consider it somewhat shallow...

186 posted on 07/08/2011 11:59:28 PM PDT by umbagi
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To: Sawdring

Yep-—note there’s a difference btw global warming and “man-made” global warming

I was at a conference last Feb and it looks like they have a big boo boo with their global warming models. They were treating water vapor incorrectly and the catastrophic warming is no longer in the cards.


187 posted on 07/09/2011 3:56:08 AM PDT by The Raven
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To: Melian
I’m really going to miss discussing the Harry Potter books with my now grown children.

My grown daughter is still at home. My grown son is not into the books, but his wife is, so we all have some good discussions when we get together. My son and his wife are busy this weekend with a "Disc World" convention that they helped organize. May be one of Terry Pratchett's last conventions. DIL is a huge Terry Pratchett fan. She loaned us some of the books, so that we'd be familiar with his work, too. I enjoyed Night Watch the most, of the 5-6 she loaned us.

188 posted on 07/09/2011 6:16:01 AM PDT by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
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To: MplsSteve

Our Culture, What’s Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses-

Theodore Dalrymple


189 posted on 07/09/2011 9:31:29 AM PDT by Pride_of_the_Bluegrass
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To: Tax-chick

I could not put down “Empire of the Summer Moon”. Easily my favorite Indian read; plus no white guilt. The author bought history alive; I felt I was on the Southern plains riding with the Commanche or the Texas Ranger.


190 posted on 07/09/2011 11:11:36 AM PDT by Archie Bunker on steroids (The fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom (Psalm 111:10))
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To: Archie Bunker on steroids

I’m almost finished it. It’s wait-listed at the library, so I have a deadline! I hope to be done by Monday.

You’re right: no white guilt!


191 posted on 07/09/2011 11:19:58 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("This is a revolution, damn it! We're going to have to offend somebody!" ~ John Adams)
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To: firebrand

This is the first book of hers I’ve had a chance to read. But, Lord what she didn’t say in just the first two chapters! Haven’t gotten too far into it, but I’m loving it.

She has hit it right center target!


192 posted on 07/09/2011 7:35:04 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: MplsSteve

I just finished “The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood”


193 posted on 07/10/2011 5:02:42 PM PDT by YankeeMagic
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To: MplsSteve

The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times
Susan E. Tifft (Author), Alex S. Jones (Author)


194 posted on 07/10/2011 5:11:55 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: Yaelle
Swiss on a tropical island would find some “wild potatoes” growing that could form the base of their diet. Enjoy!

I have to roll my eyes at some of the things in the book. As a graduate of AF Survival School, I've spent days trying to find something other than bugs to eat. These folks just stumble into lobsters, potatoes, wild birds, turtle eggs, coconuts, and pineapples. Everything they find is ripe.

195 posted on 07/11/2011 5:22:56 AM PDT by mbynack (Retired USAF SMSgt)
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He seemed to be hungry while writing that book! They ate like kings! I cold just picture this shut in Swiss guy at the turn of the century, dreaming of his warm tropical paradise. I believe he also roped ostriches from the island and used them as horses. It’s soooo funny.

We had to reread the parts about the snake slithering upright like a human several times to gales of laughter each time!


196 posted on 07/11/2011 8:49:57 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: submarinerswife

5 is the one that came out today, there are going to be 2 more. i think there’s one spot were Jon’s mother is mentioned, by name, but there’s no real detail. you get a little more if you watch the series on HBO, but it’s still very vague.

because ned’s so closed mouthed about it, i’ve heard tons of speculation.


197 posted on 07/12/2011 10:45:57 AM PDT by absolootezer0 (2x divorced tattooed pierced harley hatin meghan mccain luvin' REAL beer drinkin' smoker ..what?)
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To: absolootezer0

So you are on book 5 and it (John’s real Mother) isn’t mentioned in any of the books through book 4?

I thought that John’s real parents were Ned’s sister Leanna and King Robert. He has that black hair. What are some other theories?

I am really enjoying the audio books, although, the narrator sucks, the story has me hooked. I am on book 2 about 1/2 done.


198 posted on 07/12/2011 1:39:43 PM PDT by submarinerswife (Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
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To: submarinerswife

only her name.
other theories include rhaegar/lyanna; there’s a reference to some royal that killed herself not long after eddard left her castle; a nameless maid; one suggests brandon and one of the targaryns (long shot, he’d have had to be a little older than he is, but it’s possible); and there’s a couple others i forget.

not robert though, john has the same hair as eddard and arya- one of katlyn’s biggest problems with him is he looks more like eddard than any of her sons- plus the link to the wolves.


199 posted on 07/12/2011 2:32:52 PM PDT by absolootezer0 (2x divorced tattooed pierced harley hatin meghan mccain luvin' REAL beer drinkin' smoker ..what?)
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To: MplsSteve

Today I’m going to the library to pick up Mark Levin’s “Rescuing Sprite: a Dog Lover’s Story of Joy and Anguish.”

I’m not really a dog lover, but I’m looking forward to taking a break from politics.


200 posted on 07/16/2011 7:07:28 AM PDT by Atlantan
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