[Tanniker Smith]

Starting things off: obviously, 2007 was the year of the Harry Potter finale. I enjoyed that one, and it was the best book I read last yeat. Considering all of the theories that were spun on the web, it wasn't the book that I thought it might be, but I won't hold that against Rowlings. She wrote a good book and a good finale (although that epilogue . . . ).

The other book that I enjoyed last year was "Knights of Dark Renown" by David Gemmel, who is always fun to read.

On the disappointing side of things: "Category 7" by Bill Evans, a NYC meteorologist who needed a better co-author, and "Forty Thousand in Gehenna" by C. J. Cherryh, a sci-fi novel, which seemed to ramble on pointlessly.

What was everyone else reading?

[Tanniker Smith]

FR Book Club Ping

[submarinerswife]

"Lone Survivor" ~ by Marcus Lattrell

[Borges]

‘The Rest is Noise’ - Alex Ross. Great survey of 20th century music.

[Greg F]

“Orthodoxy” by G.K. Chesterton. Amazing, brilliant work. Written long ago but he nails most of the relativist approaches that are taking over our schools and discourse today writing 100 years ago.

[Greg F]

ping to self for later read . . .

[theDentist]

I’m still reading The Reagan Diaries.....

[Cincinnatus]

1920: The Year of the Six Presidents, by David Pietrusza. Great read, even if you’re not into presidential politics.

[Joe 6-pack]

William T. Sherman's Memoirs.

[matthew fuller]

America Alone- Mark Steyn

[jim from nebraska]

Atlas Shrugged long but good

[squarebarb]

Stormy Weather -— about the Depression years in north Texas.

[wyowolf]

I would go with “kite runner” and “thousand splendid suns” and Lone Survivor, all of these were incredible books, could not put them down !!

Frank

[ex-snook]

“Day of Reckoning” Patrick Buchanan.
- [How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed are Tearing America Apart]

If you want to see America’s future on today’s track, read Buchanan as immigration, Iraq, and trade play out today.

[LS]

Oddly enough, Gary Taubes, "Good Calories, Bad Calories," a detailed, scientific analysis of the calorie wars culminating in a defense of the Atkins Diet.

BTW, I went on this---was convinced by the book---and promptly dropped FAT like crazy, even while eating more total calories. I'm now down about 2 pants sizes.

[YOUGOTIT]

Simon Scarrow’s “The Eagle’s Prophecy”

And Conn Iggulden’s “The Field of Sworda”

[Phantom Lord]

Semi-Automatic Card Tricks volume 6 & 7 by Steve Beam

[stainlessbanner]

Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War by Edwin C Bearss, Chief Historian Emeritus.
He signed my copy "Friend and Veteran Campaigner"

[untenured]

The Siege of Mecca, by Yaroslav Trofimov, a great investigative account of the 1979 takeover of the Grand Mosque in Mecca by the ancestors of Al Qaeda. There are a lot of myths surrounding the event that the author dispatches (French troops, for example, were not involved in the assault on the mosque itself), and one gets chills reading about what these people metastasized into, as well as the phenomenal corruption and indolence of the Saudi monarchy.

Indian Summer, about the Indian independence movement, was also pretty good. I learned, among other things, that the thoroughly Anglicized Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, once ran for a seat in Parliament in the UK as a Labor candidate, but was rejected because he was too much of a dandy. Some of the things about Gandhi (for example, his refusal to countenance the providing of then-new antibiotics to his dying wife because of his ascetic fanaticism) were also enlightening.

[CRBDeuce]

“To Set the Record Straight”, ‘How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs, and the NEW MEDIA defeated John Kerry’, by Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler.

nuff said....Priceless info for the ‘08 campaigns, obviously required reading for veterans!

[MoochPooch]

KITE RUNNER. I couldn’t put it down.