What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Inquiry

1/08/08 | MplsSteve

[faloi]

I just got finished reading what there is so far of Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera series. And I can’t stop reading whatever books I can get based around Warhammer or Warhammer 40k. Yeah, my reading tends to be on the very light side. Life is serious enough for me most of the time that I don’t need to read about it too.

[Verloona Ti]

I typically have 3 or 4 books being read at the same time; here's what's on the night stand right now: Mary M Luke's Gloriana . Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens. The Naked Heart by Peter Gay. And Werner Jaeger's Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture.

[Philistone]

And it’s been a VERY long time indeed since I took instructions from anonymous posters on a web forum! ;-)

[vikingd00d]

Ptolemy’s Almagest

[mjp]

Scorpion Down by Ed Offley

I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter

[Poser]

The unedited version of Stranger in a Strange Land

[NeoCaveman]

I’m going to Barnes & Noble this week with my gift cards and I’m picking up Jonah Goldberg’s new book “Liberal Fascism”

[joebuck]

Confessions - St. Augustine

[ConservativeDude]

Fellowship of the Ring (outloud to youngsters), Pride and Prejudice, Brothers K., various treatises related to hobbies and would-be hobbies. Just finished some Shakespearean tragedies. Some good, contemporary American poetry.

[kalee]

Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom by Cahan

Heresies and How to Avoid Them: Why It Matters What Christians Believe by Stanley Hauerwas

[abb]

Press and America, The: An Interpretive History of the Mass Media (Third Edition)
by Michael Emery (Author), Edwin Emery (Author), Nancy L. Roberts (Author)

This book continues my study of how the DriveBy Media evolved and became what it is today and how we can combat it. This is apparently a standard text used in J-schools.

[ConservativeDude]

Werner Jaeger’s Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture.”

Recommend or not?

[Lou L]

American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic, by Joseph J. Ellis

I'm just starting this, but the premise is interesting.

[ConservativeDude]

Ptolemy’s Almagest”

Do you have to be an expert to read this?

[stayathomemom]

I just finished To Set the Record Straight and am now half way through My Grandfather's Son.

[constant]

Cesar Millan’s “Be The Pack Leader”

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Empire, by Orson Scott Card.

[catman67]

Can’t go wrong with Bob Heinlen. Try “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” if you haven’t read it already.

BTW, just finished “Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors”.

I highly recommend it!

[ConservativeDude]

Confessions - St. Augustine”

Take your time. Don’t rush it. Savor it. Could be life-changing.

[AppyPappy]

BTW, just finished “Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors”.

Great book!