Posted on 06/27/2007 6:56:19 AM PDT by MplsSteve
Well, it's time again for my quarterly inquiry for "What Are You Reading Now?".
It can be anything. A classic novel. A technical journal. A trashy pulp novel. A best-seller. Please DO NOT defile this thread with a unfunny reply such as "I'm Reading This Thread".
I'll start. I'm reading "Backlash: The Killing of the New Deal" by Robert Shogan. A interesting and easy read about how Roosevelt's court-packing scheme as well as labor union troubles helped to derail his plans for explanding the New Deal.
Well, what are you reading right now?
“Jewels” by Victoria Finlay, a nonfiction book about the history of gems.
“Set Sail for Murder,” by Carolyn G. Hart, a mystery novel.
“Hardcore Troubadour: The Life and Near Death of Steve Earle,” by Lauren St. John.
Right now I'm reading Middlemarch by George Eliot.
Antichrist: Islam’s Awaited Messiah by Joel Richardson
I haven’t paid list price for a book in years. Join a book-swap club; several were reviewed in the Wall Street Journal recently. We belong to www.paperbackswap.com which is a misnomer because many, if not most, of the books available there are hardback. You post books that you are willing to give up, and mail them to people who request them. You build up one credit for each book you send which, in turn, allows you to request one book. The cost is the postage (currently about $2.50 per book) plus the 10 or 15 minutes it takes to prepare and send a book. It has worked flawlessly for us since we joined about a year ago.
Just finished “1491” by Charles C. Mann and currently going back and forth between “1421” by Gavin Menzies and “The Great Transformation” by Karen Armstrong
Working Group I Report “The Physical Science Basis”
They have used book stores and you can also likely find people to trade with.
I’m finally getting around to reading “A Patriot’s History of the United States”... written by a fellow Freeper, LS.
I just started ‘Albion’s Seed’ by David Fischer.
I’m reading “Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed.” by Ben Rich and Leo Janos.
I just finished “The Autobiography of Roy Cohn.”
I am reading Lean Mean Thirteen, by Janet Evanovich - doesn’t take an intellectual giant to read her books, but it is pretty funny and I laugh out loud while reading.
Gulliver’s Travels/A Tale of a Tub/The Battle of The Books by Swift
My Annual Conference has a “book exchange” where you can take your used books and pick up as many as you wish for a “donation”. There was literally thousands of books there. I brought home a box full; some like new. Picked up some for other people, knowing their tastes in books.
Very interesting look at the big picture of energy use.
I found it fascinating, and, in a way, quite metaphysical.
I started reading “Wicked” last week, but it was icky, and I put it down. I’m still plowing my way through a John C. Maxwell book, “The 21 Most Important Minutes in a Leader’s Day,” or something like that. Don’t have it in front of me. All his books are good. I’ve never read a Harry Potter book and may give one of those a try the next time I’m at the library.
Many years after my college course on Twain, I’m reading again “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”. I love it, and I’m probably going to start plowing through Twain’s works again. Also just started “The Dubliners” by James Joyce; “Sunset Sketches of a Little Town” by Stephen Butler Leacock; and I’m continuing working through the P.G. Wodehouse short stories.
Moneyball was a very enjoyable book. I am not a devotee of stat-ball as it simply doesn’t take into consideration things like heart, leadership and other intangibles that you cannot measure but you need in order to win.
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