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What Are You Reading?
Vanity | June 27, 2014 | Tax-chick

Posted on 06/27/2014 8:33:15 AM PDT by 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!


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat; Hobbies; Poetry
KEYWORDS: bookclub; books; literature; reading
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To: Tax-chick

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.


221 posted on 06/27/2014 5:07:25 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( I think we can now say that they are behind us.)
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To: firebrand
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".

222 posted on 06/27/2014 5:08:57 PM PDT by what's up
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To: Tax-chick
Can be ordered from Ignatius Press.

Fantastic reading about a REAL hero.

223 posted on 06/27/2014 5:33:14 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Nepeta; COBOL2Java; Tax-chick; Monkey Face; Silentgypsy
"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.

224 posted on 06/27/2014 5:33:34 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (Will all of you people who keep "fixing" things please stop? Making them work again is killing me.)
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To: NicknamedBob

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


225 posted on 06/27/2014 5:42:32 PM PDT by Silentgypsy (Mind your atomic bonds.)
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To: latina4dubya

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.


226 posted on 06/27/2014 5:43:00 PM PDT by 1riot1ranger
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To: BlueLancer
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.
227 posted on 06/27/2014 5:43:12 PM PDT by Nepeta
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To: Tax-chick

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.


228 posted on 06/27/2014 6:50:19 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Nepeta

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


229 posted on 06/27/2014 8:41:21 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Pachelbel --- The original one-hit wonder.)
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To: Salvation

Fr. Kapaun bump.


230 posted on 06/27/2014 8:44:52 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: aposiopetic

Have you read it?


231 posted on 06/27/2014 8:56:28 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

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


232 posted on 06/27/2014 9:09:40 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: Tax-chick

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.


233 posted on 06/27/2014 9:17:37 PM PDT by MamaB
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To: Leaning Right

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


234 posted on 06/27/2014 9:19:50 PM PDT by MamaB
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To: 1riot1ranger

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


235 posted on 06/27/2014 9:31:25 PM PDT by MamaB
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To: MamaB

Are they all free at the Gutenberg site?


236 posted on 06/27/2014 9:33:48 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: MamaB

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


237 posted on 06/28/2014 3:12:52 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Let the storm rage on ... the cold never bothered me anyway.)
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To: Salvation

Found it in the library.


238 posted on 06/28/2014 3:18:54 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Let the storm rage on ... the cold never bothered me anyway.)
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To: NicknamedBob

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


239 posted on 06/28/2014 5:57:43 AM PDT by Monkey Face (The biggest lie I tell myself is, "I don't need to write that down. I'll remember it."- Aunty Acid)
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To: Tax-chick

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


240 posted on 06/28/2014 8:17:16 AM PDT by aquila48
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