Posted on 01/08/2008 7:59:25 AM PST by MplsSteve
It's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" inquiry.
I'm always curious as to what Freepers are reading and what they're recommending to others.
It can be anything...a classic novel, a scientific journal, a magazine, a cheap pulp novel...anything.
Do not deface this thread with a smart-ass answer like "I'm Reading this Thread". It became very un-original a long time ago.
I'll start. I'm reading "The Great Deluge: Hurrican Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast" by Douglas Brinkley.
This is a full account of Katrina striking the Gulf Coast. The book starts 48 hours before landfall and finishes one week after landfall. It a very good book.
Trust me, no one comes out of this looking good. Ray Nagin doesn't. FEMA doesn't, etc.
Well, what are YOU reading now?
Reagan: A Life in Letters. Neat book, good to get from a library too, because you don’t have to read the whole thing. You can pick and choose the topics you are interested in and just read the letters Reagan wrote on that topic.
Taste of home annual recipes.
The ultimate Southern living cookbook / compiled and edited by Julie Fisher Gunter ; foreword by Kaye Mabry Adams.
Nightwatch / Sergei Lukyanenko
Wife is reading:The life and times of the Thunderbolt Kid / Bill Bryson.
Just finished: Definitely dead / Charlaine Harris.
The War Against the Weak - by Edwin R Black.
The Pirate’s Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Beck’s new book...An Inconvenient Book, also a Cesar Milan book on dog training.
Right now I’m reading “What are you reading right now?” on FreeRepublic...
Hope that helps...
Power vs. Force.
A World Lit Only By Fire, by William Manchester
The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright; about Al-Queda and how 9-11 came to happen. Just finished The Kite Runner - I absolutely loved it and couldn’t put it down.
Adam Bede/George Elliot.
I got a new sony ereader and got 100 classics for free, the things you had to read in college and high school.
I love them/haven’t had such a good time in a long time.
Hardtack and Coffee
by John B. Billings
A classic, mostly lighthearted look at the details of a union soldier’s life in the Civil War, by a soldier.
I’ve found it quite entertaining and interesting.
Do not deface this thread with a smart-ass answer like "I'm Reading this Thread". It became very un-original a long time ago.
Next after that is "Hard Corps" - another first person account about a gang thug who joined the Marines and became a war hero. Then "The Real Animal House" by a guy who lived in the fraternity that inspired the movie. A fraternity buddy of mine sent me that, and said it was like a trip down memory lane.
I am reading Douglas Botting’s biography of Gerald Durrell and Andrea Camilleri’s Montalbano mystery “The Scent of the Night.” While I watch TV, I am also dipping into and re-reading Wodehouse as a specific remedy for being exposed to so much political coverage.
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