Posted on 01/08/2008 7:59:25 AM PST by MplsSteve
It's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" inquiry.
I'm always curious as to what Freepers are reading and what they're recommending to others.
It can be anything...a classic novel, a scientific journal, a magazine, a cheap pulp novel...anything.
Do not deface this thread with a smart-ass answer like "I'm Reading this Thread". It became very un-original a long time ago.
I'll start. I'm reading "The Great Deluge: Hurrican Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast" by Douglas Brinkley.
This is a full account of Katrina striking the Gulf Coast. The book starts 48 hours before landfall and finishes one week after landfall. It a very good book.
Trust me, no one comes out of this looking good. Ray Nagin doesn't. FEMA doesn't, etc.
Well, what are YOU reading now?
Before that I was reading a Buffy the Vampire Slayer book (okay, don't laugh) that I picked up from a library sale solely because it was co-written by Josepha Sherman, whom I've met at science-fiction conventions and who is a heck of a (verbal as well as written) storyteller.
Before that was "The Feckin' Book of All Things Irish", which was strictly for the laughs!
Currently, FR.
It's part of her series of historical novels about the fall of the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC.
I am rereading: In God We Trust All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd and The Godfather Returns (I can’t remember the Author’s name, I’m at work), I just finished reading Minor Wife by Christopher G. Moore. I have a stack of books in the living room I received as gifts for Christmas, I just haven’t dove in yet. Semper Fidelis.
Just finished the Book of Galations in the New Testament. Very inspiring.
Galations 5:1 (NIV) “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened by a yoke of slavery.”
IMHO, it is very important in these trying times.
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
EVERY SINGLE ISSUE of Mad Magazine between 1952-2005 is on DVD right now. I barely even have time to FReep. :)
Hi Steve—
I am reading Mark Levin’s “Rescuing Sprite”. It’s a very short book that I would probably read in an afternoon, but I am savoring it one chapter at a time before bed.
Happy New Year! GG
In the car: “Mother- Sir!” by Tats Blain. Fun book about a Navy wife in occupation Japan. True story.
On my Sony Reader: a whole slew of cheezy hot romance novels I’m too embarrassed to name.
Next up: Liza Picard’s newest book, “Victoria’s London”. Should be arriving in the mail today, and can’t wait to devour it. She’s written a number of popular histories: “Johnson’s London”, “Elizabeth’s London”. They’re entertaining, and don’t look down at the culture of the time. I highly reccomend reading “Johnson’s London” concurrently with Bruce Alexander’s excellent Sir John Fielding mysteries.
I also was very impressed with the book Into the Wilds and the movie and,unlike lots of conservatives,do not condemn this young man for his quest,misguided as it often was.He did WORK for much of his money and wasn’t out there grubbing off of society.He saw something intrinsically wrong with modern society and it resonated very much with tied down with bills and responsiblities me.
Its also very well written.
My break from reading all the political coverage right now is “The Diana Chronicles,” by Tina Brown. Sort of a real-life, dark side of the Wodehouse world (British upper classes and their many follies).
Where did you hook the Mad Magazine DVD collection up at?
Have you ever read Stepgenson’s very first book “The Big U”?
It’s very unlike his later novels.
I read that a few years ago. I cannot understand why anyone would put themselves through that agony.
I am reading “Zodiac,” by Robert Graysmith since I recently saw the movie based on this book.
Hey guy, you beat me to it with this author. I posted before I read all the comments. I highly recommend Into the Wild by same author. This is the best book I have read in a few years. I have traveled in all states and been to Yakutat Alaska 3 times for fishing and continuing education courses. After reading Into the Wild I am headed back to travel the wilds of the interior this coming summer.
Nazi Germany by Klaus Fischer -- also a reread.
Atlas Shrugged
The Reagan Diaries
The Bible (not often enough though...as evidenced by the fact that it is third on the list! yikes)
Laura Ingraham’s latest book (Power to the People); rereading Dennis Prager’s Happiness is a Choice; Leanne Payne’s Crisis in Masculinity; and Hugh Hewitt’s A Mormon in the WhiteHouse. I majored in English, we always read many books simultaneously/ starting with the ending. hahah.
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