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Summer reading recommendations -- What are you reading?
July 13, 2009 | ChocChipCookie

Posted on 07/13/2009 11:59:07 AM PDT by ChocChipCookie

I haven't seen a good summer reading thread, so I thought I'd start one. What books have you read so far this summer, what are you currently reading, and what is in your book stack?

I just started reading The Doomsday Key by James Rollins. So far it has an interesting premise, genetically altered foods, but I am only about 1/8 of the way through.

I will probably read Glenn Beck's Common Sense and maybe Dred Scott's Revenge by Judge Napolitano.

I love hearing what everyone else is reading!


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: bookclub; bookreview; books; godsgravesglyphs; pages; reading; readinglist
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To: ChocChipCookie

I’m reading Michener’s “The Source”. Great story founded on great research that extends over the past 11,000 years. Excellent history of the Middle East, too.


81 posted on 07/13/2009 12:57:51 PM PDT by KamperKen
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To: iceskater
So, the Kindle is looking more and more inviting all the time. :)

We've literally run out of shelf space and the books are piling up on the floor. The Kindle is a godsend. The only downside is that it's just too easy to buy a book. See an interesting review, find the book with the Kindle, push a couple of keys and you've bought it. My reading queue is growing faster than my reading speed!

82 posted on 07/13/2009 1:00:38 PM PDT by jalisco555 ("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
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To: ChocChipCookie

“The Phaselock Code” by Roger Hart

Roger was on the very first attempt at summiting Everest without oxygen in 1962 and has a glacier named after him in Antartica. (Hart Glacier) Excellent read.


83 posted on 07/13/2009 1:02:20 PM PDT by Birdsbane ("Onward through the fog!" ... Oat Willie)
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To: ChocChipCookie

“A War Like No Other” by Victor Davis Hanson
“Alexandria” by Lindsay Davis

“First Things” and “American Cowboy” magazines.


84 posted on 07/13/2009 1:19:13 PM PDT by Tax-chick (In addition to living on the Riviera, the Goths ...)
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To: jalisco555

I’m on the library reserve list for “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.” I was #68 when I signed up; don’t know where I am now. Maybe we’ll have it by October!


85 posted on 07/13/2009 1:21:37 PM PDT by Tax-chick (In addition to living on the Riviera, the Goths ...)
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To: Disambiguator

After reading Liberty and Tyranny, and after finding out Levin IS NOT ON ATLANTA A.M. RADIO except for 1 hour at 11:00 PM, I DL’ed all of his podcasts from 2009. After those are gone, I think I’ll start on Jeff Shaara’s WWII trilogy.
Where would we be without audio books?


86 posted on 07/13/2009 1:31:24 PM PDT by ForMyChildren
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To: ChocChipCookie

Artisan Bread in Five Monutes a Day.
Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois


87 posted on 07/13/2009 1:34:12 PM PDT by kalee (01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
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To: ChocChipCookie
Just realized I began every paragraph of my post with “I”. It’s all about me, I guess. :o)

Why yes, it is all about chocolate chip cookies.

BTW, just finished Atlas Shrugged; looking for something else. Enjoyed the Harry Potter series. It appeals to ages 10 through pedophile.

The Caine Mutiny is good. I'm the only guy I know who likes it, but Marjorie Morningstar was a good read. Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word and The Right Stuff are good. The Right Stuff is great for the first half, but bogs down a lot in the second half. I didn't like Divine Secrets of the YahYah Sisterhood. Too much sisterhood and not enough yayah.

88 posted on 07/13/2009 1:35:53 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: kalee

Monutes is supposed to be Minutes


89 posted on 07/13/2009 1:36:13 PM PDT by kalee (01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
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To: bunster

yeah - enjoyed Outliers too. Thanks!


90 posted on 07/13/2009 1:47:13 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: Dansong

Gods and Generals was my favorite of that trilogy.


91 posted on 07/13/2009 2:05:51 PM PDT by kalee (01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
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To: Le Chien Rouge

Maybe I should get out the old Snoopy comic book I have, KIK I’m baking, (and eating), bread. lol

Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day.
Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois


92 posted on 07/13/2009 2:17:58 PM PDT by kalee (01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
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To: ChocChipCookie

Just read Outliers by Gladwell. Now reading Freakonomics by Levitt. Outliers was enlightening, explaining many prodigies and other outlier situations in a well-researched book and also posits the 10,000-hour rule. Levitt asks some interesting social economics questions, and most notably correlates Roe v. Wade to a decline in crime.

Next up is The Tipping Point by Gladwell. These are the first books I have read on the Kindle, and very much enjoy how easy it is to read with the variable font size. And, with my Kindle app for iPhone, I have my books with me wherever I am, whether I have the Kindle or not. I could have read a lot more books if we’d had this technology sooner!


93 posted on 07/13/2009 2:20:57 PM PDT by Ag88 (Fast is fine, but accuracy is final. - Wyatt Earp)
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To: ChocChipCookie

Here’s a quick read: “Horse Soldiers” by Doug Stanton.

It tells the story of the incident that Obama is having investigated right now, the events surrounding how a large number of Taliban got to be dead after having “surrendered” to the Northern Alliance.

It is a remarkable story, and the event in question is not the major part of the story, but it helps to read the real story.

Read about how our Special Forces soldiers took the fight to the Taliban shortly after 9/11, when we defined war as killing the enemy and not arresting, Mirandizing and releasing him.


94 posted on 07/13/2009 2:23:42 PM PDT by jimcarroll
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To: ChocChipCookie

Atlas Shrugged, again.


95 posted on 07/13/2009 2:25:09 PM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: ChocChipCookie; jla

Yeah! Another book thread!

Right now I’m on a Peter Jenkins kick. In the past two weeks I’ve read “A Walk Across America,” “The Walk West,” “The Unseen Road” “ and “Along the Edge of America.”


96 posted on 07/13/2009 5:29:04 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl
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97 posted on 07/13/2009 5:50:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: ChocChipCookie

Improvised Explosive Devices FM 3-21

Why?


98 posted on 07/13/2009 5:55:39 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 174 of our national holiday from reality.)
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To: ChocChipCookie
Just realized I began every paragraph of my post with “I”. It’s all about me, I guess. :o)

[best spanish accent] I, I, I, I I

99 posted on 07/13/2009 5:56:41 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 174 of our national holiday from reality.)
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To: ChocChipCookie

Just got done re-reading The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, by R.A. Heinlein. I had forgotten how good it was, and how well Heinlein put forth his ideas of freedom and liberty. TANSTAAFL!


100 posted on 07/13/2009 5:58:09 PM PDT by tarawa
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