What Are You Reading?

Vanity | June 27, 2014 | Tax-chick

[Tax-chick]

What are you reading? There used to be a quarterly "What are you reading?" thread, but I haven't seen it for a long time. I got a lot of good book suggestions that way, and I miss it.

So here's a thread! If you're reading something interesting you think others would like, or something boring you'd recommend we all avoid, jump in! If you have a ping list of FReepers who might be interested, ping them!

[americas.best.days...]

Life at the Bottom is good and confirms what I instinctively suspected about many of the poor.

I’m currently reading The Closer by Mariano Rivera. It’s beautifully written by a wonderful man. There can’t be many like him in professional sports.

[what's up]

I agree. It is excellent.

I read Penman's "Here Be Dragons" and "When Christ and His Saints Slept" years ago but "Lionheart" is my favorite.

Next I will read "The Sunne in Splendor".

[Salvation]

Can be ordered from Ignatius Press.

Fantastic reading about a REAL hero.

[NicknamedBob]

"I do most of my reading in FanFiction. I know, there's more than a little bit of dross out there, but much of it is written in earnest, and I find quite a few diamonds in the rough.

Oh, and I [ahem] write some myself."

I'd like to make the excuse that I just don't have much time for reading. But then I realize that I managed to find the time for Worm, and therefore I have more than enough time to read the things I should be reading.

Since it is unlikely that more reading will make me a better writer, I'm leaning on the excuse that what I should be doing is finishing up the projects I've already started, and more or less promised to complete.

But I still find myself reading more than writing, even the stories I've written myself.

[Silentgypsy]

You just go ahead and have fun! Maybe you’ll find some fun in completing one of the projects.

[1riot1ranger]

Love Louis L’amour Got into reading all the Zane Gray books some years back. Those were really interesting when viewed from the historical perspective of the era that he wrote them (early 1900’s) Made them even more interesting.

[Nepeta]

If you liked "Lionheart", you may also like "The Sunne In Splendour", which is a novelized biography of Richard III. Very good stuff.

A classic of the Richard III genre is Josephine Tey's Daughter of Time.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Mirror Sight by Kristen Britain - latest in her Green Rider series. Also re-reading all of the old John Grimes SF novels by A. Bertram Chandler.

[BlueLancer]

Yes, “Daughter of Time” is another good one, albeit as a mystery and not as historical fiction.

[aposiopetic]

Fr. Kapaun bump.

[Salvation]

Have you read it?

[aposiopetic]

Not yet. I have read secondary material online but not gotten hold of the book. That should happen.

[MamaB]

I have been re-reading for the umpteenth time The Out of the Ashes series by William W.Johnstone. I discovered his westerns back in the 1980’s and then found the Ashes books. I enjoy them.

[MamaB]

I read that years ago. He is a good author and I enjoyed it. May have to see if I can get it for my iPad. Thanks

[MamaB]

I really enjoyed Zane Gray books. I read my first one decades ago in junior high. Have a few on my iPad.

[GeronL]

Are they all free at the Gutenberg site?

[Tax-chick]

Did he do the Mountain Man series? I read some of those.

[Tax-chick]

Found it in the library.

[Monkey Face]

I’m glad you posted the link again because when I reformatted, I lost the book. Thanks!

[aquila48]

You’ll enjoy it and learn a lot. He dismantles the Darwinists the way a great prosecutor methodically takes down a guilty defendant.