National Book Lovers Day – August 9, 2024 (What Are You Reading?)

National Day Blog ^ | August 9, 2024 | National Day Staff

[Diana in Wisconsin]

We LOVE all the ‘Reacher’ books! And, FWIW, Tom Cruise is NOT Jack Reacher!

‘The Killing Floor’ just blew me away and I had to read all of the books about Reacher then, for sure. Hadn’t felt that way about a character since I discovered Dave Robicheaux in James Lee Burke’s books.

I’ll check out the Joe Ledger books, thanks!

[fidelis]

Just downloaded a bunch of Zane Gray and Louis L’Amour books from the public library for my Kindle e-book. Light easy reading that should keep me occupied in my downtimes for a while. Except for reference books for preparing my Bible studies, I’m loathe to buy physical books anymore. I don’t have the space.

[Lizavetta]

I willingly and freely admit that I love rereading the books that were so good the first time, that being:

Gangland by Howard Blum (the Gotti takedown)
Gombatta by Cummings/Volkman
Catherine the Queen by Mary M. Luke (Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife)
Little Gloria, Happy at Last by Barbara Goldsmith (Gloria Vanderbilt family history/custody trial) - fascinating read.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks DiW. I was reading a book about ancient Greek Thebes, but I managed to lose track of it, probably in the car under a pile of mail or something. When I cleared out my old car prior to junking it, I found a great big bio of Bismarck that technically I'm reading but had lost under, well, a pile of mail. I like to have my current book in my car for when I'm waiting somewhere (restaurant, doctor's office, other app'ts). I don't read enough.

[ComputerGuy]

Ulysses! I knew it would be on the list. It’s on all the lists. I’ve never made it past page ten. No one I know has ever actually finished it. Pure torture is what it is.

[Libloather]

Does FR count?

[Texan5]

I’ve been an avid book reader ever since I learned to read-I’ve read the kid’s books on the list, the science fiction and risque books also-but the rest didn’t appeal...

[Texan5]

I like Scott Turow’s books-”Presumed Innocent” is a fav-also shared a liking of Joseph Wambaugh’s books with MrT5. I just finished Thomas Sowell’s “Social Justice Fallacies”-not fiction, but thought provoking-and am about to begin “Bad Dirt” a collection of stories by Annie Proulx that I got from Amazon because it looks like an entertaining read...

[Monkey Face]

Currently, I’m reading “Gulag,” by Anne Applebaum (purchased at Heathrow in 2004), “Ivan’s War,” by Catherine Merridale and “The 900 Days, [The Siege of Leningrad]” by Harrison E Salisbury. The middle one is the only one I’ve never read.

I’m getting ready to give them all to my FD and her hubby so I can make room in my bookshelves for new models!

[Monkey Face]

I’ve read about a third of the ones on that list. I never had a desire to read some of them.

[SunkenCiv]

:^)

[Monkey Face]

...I am NOT above reading the current James Patterson thriller, either. ;)

I read Patterson when he first began writing, and still love his Alex Cross novels. Once he began to use "co-authors" I lost interest. Until "Eruption," with Michael Chrichton. When I saw that his widow was holding the manuscript for the right writer.... I'll get to it soon! We'll see how Patterson does for the late author.

[ABN 505]

Have no interest in most black authors,most are overrated and I think is probably a deterence to people reading because they are assigned mandatory reading for high school kids and it turns them off from reading. Give me a good adventure story like Ivanhoe,Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe or any H. Rider Haggard or H.G. Wells story and most young men will read it. Give them a feminist story and force them to read and you are fighting against human nature, most young men are bored at what they are forced to read in school.

[ABN 505]

Just finished it. Good at the start but petered out at the end, disappointed.

[Texan5]

Professor of Economics Thomas Sowell is a sane libertarian/conservative from California who just happens to be black-his books are about economics and how that works-and what doesn’t work, like social justice and communism. Well worth reading-as are the books of Justice Clarence Thomas-especially his most recent-his autobiography written with Michael Pack and Mark Paoletta. Sensible people come from all ethnic groups, just like overrated ones do...

I’m female but not into those rape and lace romance novels, or most books geared only towards women-I like Bernard Cornwell’s novels-good swashbucklers/adventure-mostly correct on the historical facts/people, does not give any group an excuse for bad behavior like brutality, etc-and definitely not written for the romance lovers. If a book does not grab attention or incite curiosity, it probably is not worth reading...

[M Kehoe]

What am I reading?

“The Anarchist Cookbook.”

Also U. S. Army FM 13.

Why do you ask?

5.56mm

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"I like to have my current book in my car for when I'm waiting somewhere (restaurant, doctor's office, other app'ts). I don't read enough."

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Does FR count?”

Absolutely! :)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

‘The Thomas Sowell Reader’ is on my nightstand. Highly recommended. :)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I LOVED me some Field Manuals back in the day! I also hold some sort of INSANE record for doing a ridiculous amount of correspondence courses (forgot what they’re called) through the Army.

I had two additional MOSs thanks to those courses.

Primary was Admin, then Supply, then Field Cook; I LOVE to cook for a crowd to this day. :)