Currently reading Nos4a2 but mixed on it.
Love most books by Douglas e. Richards. Check out the Nick Hall trio. The first and 3rd are excellent.
Trying to decide what to read next. An older book I never made it to, or a new one...
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture by Marvin Harris.
Black Mask 1: Doors in the Dark - and Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine
I really liked, “The Long Haul: A Trucker’s Tales of Life on the Road,” by Finn Murphy
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Haul-Truckers-Tales-Life/dp/0393608719/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1548726561&sr=1-1
And “Educated,” by Tara Westover was quite interesting.
https://www.amazon.com/Educated-Memoir-Tara-Westover/dp/0399590501/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1548726652&sr=1-3
I give both of them 5 stars out of 5 stars
Just finished the definitive biography on Wm. J. Donovan by Richard Dunlop. I have never heard of any other American with even half his energy and important accomplishments.
Fearless guy, and one who kept running into bureaucrats wherever he went and whatever he did. He busted through them though.
I am reading “Licensed to Lie” by Sidney Powell.
To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign, by Stephen Sears.
“The Three Musketeers” and “The Man in the Iron Mask,” by Dumas.
The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico - edited from the only exact copy of the orignal by Bernal Diaz del Castillo
Valiant Ambition - George Washington, Benedict Arnold, Fate of the Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes - 37 stories and one novel as printed in The Strand Magazine by Arthur Conan Doyle.
“The Alienist” by Caleb Carr.
I only read blogs.
A Nefarious Plot by Steve Deace. For the 3rd time. Gets more real each time.
First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps by Victor H. Krulak.
Book full of, like it says, insider info on the Corps. Good stories of some of the real characters that made the Corps work, the quirks and weirdness.
It also covers the transition of the Corps from a couple Brigades to multiple divisions in WW2, as well as the cost of the draw down post WW2 and the compromises required to meet Korea manpower needs.
Based on his life story....escapes an Aussie jail, becomes an unsanctioned doctor in an Indian Slum. And that is just the start.
What a story.
Currently reading Pyrates by George Macdonald Fraser(his Flashman series is hilarious). A comedy swashbuckler.
Currently reading the Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.
I don’t recommend you get it. LOL
Worthy books ...
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.
The Bell Curve
Shattered Sword (a history of the war in the Pacific, especially the Battle of Midway)
Anthem, by Ayn Rand
I just got: “Stars Upstream. Life Along an Ozark River” by Leonard Hall,from 1958. Great reading.