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?
Spidey loses the wedding ring
TDS Metrocom | 01/10/2008 | David Colton
Posted on 01/10/2008 3:33:03 PM EST by pgyanke
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1951611/posts
Book Smarts Lacking On Gender Equality [barf alert]
Washington Post | Tuesday, January 15, 2008; Page HE01 | Laura Sessions Stepp
Posted on 01/15/2008 5:48:14 PM EST by fgoodwin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1954264/posts
Got three books out of the library (despite the backlog of unread here) and got a book on WWI “Miracle at Belleau Wood: The Birth of the Modern U.S. Marine Corps” by Alan Axelrod, “Shakespeare and Co” by Stanley Wells, and “Shakespeare the Thinker” by A.D. Nuttall, and have been reading them in that order. Around Christmas I read “Pompey the Great” by John Leach, and of course have a goodly pile of other stuff I haven’t quite finished for a long while.
Frankenstein
book of Acts (bible)
Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio by Terry Ryan
it is the author’s account of how her mother raised 10 kids
(1950’s) on chicken scratch earned by chancing into prize money earned in various
box top/coupon contests. Mostly her mom wrote jingles and slogans. Really terrific book.
The Last Battle of Cabin Creek ~ Steve Warren.
Ironic trio...
I am reading Frankenstein right now and recently read
Chrichton’s NEXT, and I am reading a Range Magazine article about genetic engineering.
The nightmare is the same in all three reads.
And funny I didn’t plan this trio of “life engineering”
reading— just happened that way.
Next: NO ORDINARY TIME / Doris Kearns Goodwin
LOL! Nice!
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