Posted on 06/17/2005 10:47:19 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith
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Today's topic: what's on your summer reading list? Whether you are going on vacation, sitting on the beach or just hanging out on your front porch, there's usually a good novel nearby. Any particular plans or will it be a more serendipitous approach?
The other books I'm currently reading are:
The Dead Sea Scrolls (Michael Wise, Martin Abegg, Jr., & Edward Cook)
Another Gospel (Ruth A. Tucker)
Why I Left Jihad (Walid Shoebat)
Men In Black (Mark R. Levin)
and then, just for fun I'm re-reading Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series.
I can't just have one book at a time going (which drives my wife nuts). I like to have a variety going so if I don't feel like reading something that requires a lot of concentration, I can pick up one of the lighter reads.
Look Homeward Angel Thomas Wolfe. Of Time and River, Thomas Wolfe
Summer is when I read true crime books. "Auto Focus - The Murder of Bob Crane" is a paperback that came out in 2002 when the Greg Kinnear film was released. Since I remember watching Hogan's Heroes in the late 60's, I found this book about that era very interesting.
Whatever military history titles I can get my hands on from Osprey at Historicon. They're nothing if not prolific and heck, there is a book on Japanese air defenses of the Home Islands in '45 that I really wanna read. (Sure, it was mostly a futile effort, but seeing as how I am getting into air wargaming in the Pacific theater, I thought to myself just how in the world did the Japanese manage to shoot down ANY of the B-29s?)
The new John Ringo Aldanta series book, it's co-written with Tom Krathenauer?(sp?) who wrote State of Disobediance I also have to read the Ringo/Weber "March to the Sea" series. Prince Rodger sounds like fun.
I am also looking for other titles on the defense of the Philipines 1941-42. I read Corrigador by Eric Morris and the offical history (Have them both) but I am also hoping to find some other works as well.
I've just discovered E.M. Forster. Finished reading Room with a View and am now in the middle of Passage to India. What an insightful, subtle writer.
For you armchair summer travelers, I recommend Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days.
Once I move and get our old books unpacked, I plan to re-read the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. Having seen the movies (several times, extended version), I want to re-connect with the way the story was WRITTEN. Plus, answer some questions my wife had about some of the stuff iin the movie that I can't remember.
Also, probably the "true history" version of Seattle's story, "Sons of the Profits", by Bill Speidel.
That's cool! Thanks so much! :)
"I agree. Freakenomics was a disappointment."
Thanks. I'll take it off my Library List and switch to "What the Numbers Say," instead. :)
"Anything written by James Lee Burke."
One of my favorites, too. Just ready to crack "Bitterroot." I'm behind on my Burke, I know, LOL!
"Home Business Tax Deductions" - Stephen Fishman (Zzzzzzzzzz...)
"Lost in the Forest" the new Sue Miller
"Fay" - Larry Brown (Female serial killer...with a heart of gold? LOL!)
"The Two Income Trap" - Elizabeth Warren & her daughter
"Orchard" - Larry Watson - (Love triangle; sort of an "Andrew Wyeth-esque" tale by a TERRIFIC Wisconsin writer ("Montana, 1984" & "White Crosses" are also by Larry)
"Traces of Wisdom " - complied by Louise Stoltzfus (Wise words from Amish women about being happy with what you have, enjoying the Simple Things, etc.) "Enough is as good as a feast." - Katherine Tynan, 1919
MODERN PHYSICS AND ANCIENT FAITH by Stephen Barr. It argues that discoveries during the 20th Century discredit the materialist belief system. The author is a physicist at the University of Delaware's research lab.
Is that the company that has a basic review book on every facet of military history imaginable? Borders has a shelf of them: one book on each topic, such as Alexander the Great, the Yom Kippur War or Pirates of the Golden Age of Sail. Most interesting.
Right Turns: Unconventional Lessons from a Controversial Life by Michael Medved
Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money--That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
by Robert T. Kiyosaki
No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn Brodie
Slander, Treason, and Red Star over Hollywood came in for Father's Day so that's what I'm reading. Just started Red Star over Hollywood.
Just finished "The Kite Runner", a terrific first novel about betrayal and redemption in Afghanistan.
I'll be starting "As I Lay Dying", my first Faulkner book.
"Made To Count" by Bob Reccord.
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The Hamlet - Faulkner (reading now)
The Last of the Mohicans - Cooper (on deck)
Glad to know I'm not the only one who does this. My record is 4. Which is currently my number. Don't tell your wife there are others of us out there. Don't want to upset her further. :)
Red
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