Posted on 01/08/2008 7:59:25 AM PST by MplsSteve
Blacklisted by History, M. Stanton Evans on the non-fiction side. Just finished the Posleen War series (SF) by John Ringo. Current commuter paperback is The Golden Buddha, Clive Cussler.
My mom was also a stay at home mom till I was 15 and I loved it.
Then times got hard at the household and she had to get out in the working world.
She just turned 90 last week so I guess she did something right!
This book is the inside story of the Swift Boat Veterans and the new media in the 2004 election, and it is also timely now because it documents the typical and continuing tactics of the vast left-wing conspiracy by the Democrats and the old media. Highly recommended.
That’s the Mitford sisters. I put ‘mitford sisters’ into the search on amazon books, and it pulled up several titles; are you thinking of The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters by Charlotte Mosley,The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell , or some other title?Unity was the nazi sympathizer. I haven’t read any of the books on them, but maybe some FReeper who has will recognize the titles and post a review.
It was “The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters” by Charlotte Mosley. Saw it at the bookstore, but $39.95 was a bit too rich to buy without a reccommendation. I see it’s cheaper on Amazon. Unfortunately, the Amazon search also led me to a collection of Noel Coward’s letters which shall have to go on the buy list, so any savings will be a wash.
Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho’s House.
That’s the third from Caro. One more volume to come after this, on LBJ’s Presidency.
I saw “Blacklisted By History” at Barnes & Noble last week.
I almost bought it. But I wanted to see what other people thought of it.
What’s your take on the book? Does it partially vindicate McCarthy? Or no?
Thanks. I think that’s where I stopped. For some reason I’d thought there would only be three.
I will be 61 in July but am in pretty decent shape except for the scars and weakness from six years of battling melanoma plus taking meds for my atrial fibrillation.
Yet I work out at the gym everyday and hold down one full time and one part time job so I ain’t dead yet!
Summer of 2009 a possibility?
I recently picked up an anthology of H.G. Wells novels at Barnes and Noble. I never read any of his stuff before and for $12.95, I thought, “why not?” I read “The Time Machine” and am just finishing up “The Island of Dr. Moreau”. There’s another 4 or 5 of his novels in this anthology. “The Invisible Man” is one I remember - it’s at home so I can’t check the contents.
Once I’m done with this one, I’m on to an anthology of Jane Austen. I can’t believe I never ready any of these books before either.
Read Vince Flynn’s latest right before Christmas.
“Spurgeon’s Sermons on Christmas and Easter”
May I ask a question of the forum?
Why do most of us read books that in general affirm our conservative politics?I do too because it is humannature to want to know we aren’t alone in the world
But how many of us also read Leftist material?Chomsky,Cornel West,Rolling Stone,The Nation,etc?I do because I like intellectual stimulation of any kind.I remember a black friend of mine who read The Bell Curve a few years ago.When other blacks saw he was reading it they attacked him as an Uncle Tom even though none of THEM had ever read the book!
I notice whenever I am browsing through a liberal’s bookshelf,almost all his or her books are ones that support his views.Same with conservatives.I guess its more comfortable for most people to fall into that tendency.
Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker is one I just started and it is a good historical narrative biography by an author who has previously done a good amount of study on TR.
I recently finished the Prince of Darkness the autobigraphical book by Novak and the 50th anniversary reprinting of Witness by Whitaker Chambers.
For those of you who haven't ever read Witness, one of the best autobiographies of the twentieth century, the time is now. Don't put it off for years like I did. It was a great gap in my reading that I hadn't read but small excerts over the years. I have to say it is haunting and compelling beyond description.
All of Ann Coulter’s columns.
All of Bob Novak’s columns.
All of William Bennett’s columns.
Most of Newt’s columns.
“World War IV” by Norman Podhoretz
“The Heritage Guide to the Constitution” from the Heritage Foundation
“The Conservative Mind from Burke to Eliot” by Russell Kirk
Just finished “Inside The Third Reich” (Albert Speer), and I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to get around to it.
I just finished NEXT by Michael Chriton last night. Excellent book! I would recommend it.
Until Proven Innocent. The Duke “rape” case. It will make your blood boil, and turn off MSNBC and the likes of Nancy Grace, Wendy Murphy and “Banjo Boy” Joe Scarborough.
This book shows you what happens when the left wingnuts get a little power.
I don’t know, I read for fun. It’s not a lot of fun to read stuff I don’t like. If it’s promoting a liberal agenda, I don’t like it.
I love this thread and am writing down books on my list that I keep in my wallet. I consult this list when I go to the library (for those complaining about the cost of whatever at Amazon, get thee to the library! Why spend all that money!)
I just borrowed The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer. I got it because Mailer just died and I had never read any of his books. I haven’t started it yet, so hopefully it’s good. Perhaps it has a liberal slant! I just read a couple by Truman Capote. He was no right winger.
I did - that's what prompted me to buy and read the book!
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