[Billthedrill]

Finally got back to War and Decision by Douglas Feith. A bit dry but it's a glimpse into how we got where we got and a preview of how we got out of it.

The Pierce Chronicles: Personal Reminiscenses of E.D. Pierce - interesting if not altogether likeable fellow. Mexican War veteran, led a wagon train west, then helped "encourage" the settlement of Idaho and eastern Washington, notoriously at the expense of the Nez Perce people.

Fear God And Take Your Own Part by Theodore Roosevelt. Teddy's 1916 take as an ex-President on the policies and events leading up to America's being scooped out of its collective shell before WWI.

[SunkenCiv]

I've been catching up on my delinquent reading, mostly history books, such as "The Myth of the Great War" by John Mosier, along with a couple of books about the Roman towns buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD, and just finished this one, which I *very highly* recommend to all:

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The Bottomless Well: The Twilight Of Fuel, The Virtue Of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out Of Energy by Peter Huber and Mark P. Mills Basic Books, 2005 Manhattan Institute page Google

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[SunkenCiv]

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[cyborg]

Gulag Archipelago whenever I can’t stand to look at my nursing school books.

Yoga Journal... I used to read almost two-three books a week before I started nursing school. Can’t wait to be done.

[spyone]

Just finished “the road”...very good

reading now,
a short history of nearly everything
the chief...a bio of wm rand. hearst
the time travellers wife....novel.

[agrace]

The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

[stayathomemom]

I just finished reading two books on the 1918 flu pandemic: The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In History by John M. Barry, and Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic by Gina Kolata. Now I'm reading something lighter: Blue Smoke and Murder by ???

[Sawdring]

Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces. Podvig.

[bert]

Tony Hillerman...... The Skeleton man

I’ve been re reading the WEB Griffin Philadelphis PD series.

[P.O.E.]

Carl Sandburg’s biography of Lincoln. One of the best things I’ve ever read in my whole life.

[ThanhPhero]

The Tay Son Uprising: Society And Rebellion in Eighteenth-century Vietnam

[Bernard Marx]

“Samuel Pepys Diary,” for about the 5th time (Richard Le Galliene edition). It’s a remarkable document that lays human foibles bare. And it’s a first-person confession of how “public servants” can grow very rich while on the public payroll, something that has a direct connection with the current U.S. budget meltdown.

[George - the Other]

The discovery documents of the COPs I’m suing!

[Doohickey]

Here are the books I've read in the past three months (some based on recommendations in another thread - thanks!)

Six Frigates - Ian Toll
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
World Without End - Ken Follett
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
The Gypsy Morph - Terry Brooks

Currently reading:
Marley and Me - John Grogan

In the queue:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Silent War - John Pina Craven
The Surgeon - Tess Gerritsen

Looking forward to more good book recommendations!

[mountainbunny]

Sinclair Lewis is a favorite, so right now I'm re-reading Babbitt *pops*, by Sinclair Lewis *pops*.

To be followed by re=reading Elmer Gantry *pops*, also by Sinclair Lewis.

which will be followed by re-reading Arrowsmith *pops*, by Sinclair Lewis

I'll end the year by reading (for the first time) It Can't Happen Here *pops*, by (surprise!), Sinclair Lewis. It's about a fascist who is elected president of the United States.

I pray it remains the work of fiction it has always been.

[Old Student]

Anything I can lay my hand on by David Weber, John Ringo, David Drake, Eric Flint, and Steve Stirling, as well as Fundamentals of Machining, and various other things on machine tools and metalworking.

[HungarianGypsy]

Sarah Morgan The Diary of a Confederate Woman

[To Hell With Poverty]

I'm between Liberal Fascism and Basic Economics, but honestly I cannot tear myself off of FR right now. Up till 1 or 2 am every night hoping to read some hint of a miracle...

[Battle Axe]

Disorders of the Thyroid.

[baseballmom]

mark for later