Posted on 06/13/2018 11:56:53 AM PDT by MplsSteve
Years ago, I'd post a quarterly thread asking Freepers what they were reading now. I made mention of the fact that I thought Freepers had to have been some of the more well-read people on the 'Net. I have decided to resume that post.
What are you reading? It can be a best seller, a trashy pulp novel, a biography - heck even a technical journal. Just don't answer the post by saying "I'm Reading This Thread". It lost its originality a really long long time ago.
I'll start. I'm reading a classic biography from 1970. It's called "Huey Long" by T Harry Williams. It's a large and very well-documented bio about one of the more controversial figures in American politics. The author did extensive research and it shows in the book. I'd highly recommend it - and I'm only about 1/4 of the way thru it.
Well, what are you reading now?
“The Rifle in America” by Philip Sharpe
You asked so I will answer:
Michael Salla’s “Antarctica’s Hidden History”. :-)
The Knowledge by Martha Grimes, and, listing to The Khufra Run by Jack Higgins.
Just finished the Atlantis Code.
Attempting to write a book.
This thread.
Target : Italy : the secret war against Mussolini, 1940-1943 : the official history of SOE operations in fascist Italy / by Roderick Bailey.
Death and dying in central Appalachia : changing attitudes and practices / James K. Crissman.
The book of resting places : a personal history of where we lay the dead / Thomas Mira y Lopez.
This kind of war : the classic Korean War history / T.R. Fehrenbach.
Fields of battle : Pearl Harbor, the Rose Bowl, and the boys who went to war / Brian Curtis.
Invasion : the alternate history of the German invasion of England, July 1940 / by Kenneth Macksey.
Damn right it hurts! : a Virginia hillbilly becomes a World War II hero / Wade Gilley.
The right stuff / Tom Wolfe.
What am I reading now? Answer What am I reading now?
The Kennedy Curse
I found it rather interesting to learn how the Kennedys from the beginning (starting with Joe as ambassador to England) were manipulating the press. Nothing changes.
Korea:The First War We Lost, Alexander Bevin, third read.
P G Wodehouse’s “The Clicking of Cuthbert,” one of his collections of golf stories, which are hilarious.
I spend most of my free time reading on qanon.
Soldiers of the Sun by Susie Harries
“Soldiers of the Sun traces the origins of the Imperial Japanese Army back to its samurai roots in the nineteenth century to tell the story of the rise and fall of this extraordinary military force.”
Looking forward to the fifth revision next year as three people have already fallen to their deaths in Yosemite this year and it's early June.
Chappaquiddick: Power, Privilege, and the Ted Kennedy Cover-Up by Leo Damore.
Pretty good account of what happened at Chappaquiddick.
“Spinward Fringe” series by Randolph Lalonde.
“1637 Volga Rules” the latest in the 1632 series by Eric Flint.
Nash compiled it from Hoover's writings over the course of several decades, and it was eventually published in 2011. If this book is anything close to what I've heard, I think Hoover will go down as perhaps the smartest and most underrated U.S. president of all time.
After moving a few trailer loads of someone else’s books and putting them upstairs in many, many, many trips, I have 0 desire to even touch a book.
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