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What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Inquiry
7/03/08 | MplsSteve

Posted on 07/03/2008 8:40:03 AM PDT by MplsSteve

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To: fightinJAG
Yes I should look into that. This book was one from my fathers bookcase. A reference collection of Washington Irving. Thomas Crowell and Company.

I have also put off a trip to the Opthamologist for my next set of glasses. Guess I should really schedule that.

181 posted on 07/03/2008 1:05:30 PM PDT by BoneHead (Don't we live in a great country or what?)
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To: MplsSteve
Finished recently:

Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean. Stunningly good.

White Jazz by James Ellroy. Wrapping up a re-read of the L.A. Quartet. For those of us who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing we really like.

Currently reading:

Citizens by Simon Schama. Shaping up to be as good a history book as I have read in a number of years (and I read a lot of them).

182 posted on 07/03/2008 1:09:15 PM PDT by Notary Sojac (My grandkids will ask-Was there really a time when I could get on a plane without removing my shoes?)
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To: mathluv

Start with “Lions of Lucerne”...The Thors are are best in order (I own a used bookstore as well!)...magritte


183 posted on 07/03/2008 1:18:50 PM PDT by magritte (If a problem comes along, you must whip it.)
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To: MplsSteve
Reading and chuckling my way through “Venus on the Half Shell” by fellow Peorian, Phillip Jose Farmer under the nom de plume, “Kilgore Trout”, a character created by Kurt Vonnegut.

I'm also reading “How Mathematicians Think” by William Byers. Quite good at explaining the creative and ambiguous side of mathematics.

184 posted on 07/03/2008 1:22:56 PM PDT by Forgiven_Sinner (For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son that whosoever believes in Him should not die)
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To: mathluv

I keep Audible.com in business. You can download the audiobooks to your computer and then to an MP3 player or on to a CD. It’s slightly cheaper then buying the CDs. I really love them. They just added a bunch of either James Patterson or Dean Koontz (I can’t remember which).


185 posted on 07/03/2008 1:23:44 PM PDT by retrokitten
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To: MplsSteve

Oh, I forgot: I’m reading “Lean 6 Sigma” as well, and I completed the biography of James Polk.


186 posted on 07/03/2008 1:24:14 PM PDT by Forgiven_Sinner (For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son that whosoever believes in Him should not die)
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To: magritte

Thanks! I went to FantasticFiction site to get the complete list.


187 posted on 07/03/2008 1:27:39 PM PDT by mathluv
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To: retrokitten

I will look them up. Many of mine I get from my used book store, which has them at half-price. Some I rent from the library (it is hard to find anything good there), or from one of our book stores that has a rental section.


188 posted on 07/03/2008 1:29:37 PM PDT by mathluv
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To: gate2wire

“The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan.”

Wow! If this is your first time through, you’ve got quite a treat ahead—12 books, 10,000 pages, 2400 characters, hundreds of plot lines, prophecies, battles, good, evil, humor.

As well as hundreds of pages of unnecessary description. But what do you expect from a man who loved Dickens?


189 posted on 07/03/2008 1:31:26 PM PDT by Forgiven_Sinner (For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son that whosoever believes in Him should not die)
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To: MplsSteve

Thanks for doing this. I always enjoy them.

Just finished

Pied Piper by Nevil Chute
Sapphira and the Slave girl by Willa Cather

meandering my way through the letters of CS Lewis

I’m putting together a reading list based on what he recommends to people in his letters.

I’ll start Bleak House by Dickens soon because Lewis said it was his favorite of the Dickens novels.

I’ll start A Certain Justice by PD James tonight.


190 posted on 07/03/2008 1:35:35 PM PDT by henrygreen
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To: MplsSteve
The Forgotten 500

The Chilling Stars
191 posted on 07/03/2008 1:37:26 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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To: Former War Criminal

Do you like Faulkner?

Last year, I read “Old Man” and I found Fulkner’s writing style to be dense and at the same time wandering.

He was not an easy author to follow - at least my my standards.


192 posted on 07/03/2008 2:14:03 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: MplsSteve

The Bird in the Tree, a novel by Elizabeth Goudge

Screwtape Letters, by CS Lewis with reading group

Just finished Russell Kirk’s American Cause; about to start Politics of Prudence

Bible


193 posted on 07/03/2008 2:20:52 PM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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To: MplsSteve
The Church in the Dark Agesby Henri Daniel-Rops. (Rereading-I have all 10 volumes of this history, and I highly recommend vols I-VIII.)

The Faith Explained by Leo Trese.(Ditto rereading, dated but very informative.)

Sacred Prey Vivian Schilling. (Despite the title, it's dark fantasy/horror, not another religious book.)

When I ride my exercise bike, I read paperbacks by FBI profilers like Douglas , Keppel, Reppler, Hazelwood, etc.

194 posted on 07/03/2008 2:50:32 PM PDT by Verloona Ti
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To: MplsSteve

Just finished Molon Labe by Boston T. Party. Currently reading American Zone by L. Neil Smith.


195 posted on 07/03/2008 2:56:21 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: Tanniker Smith

Just finished reading: The War in the Air: the RAF in WW II edited by Gavin Lyall

Next up: Bnd of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
to be followed by The Women Who Wrote the War by Nancy Caldwell Sorell, followed by The Jungle War by Gerald Astor ( excelent military writer)...

Love this periodic ‘What are you reading now?’...like to see what others are reading too...Good work Mr Smith


196 posted on 07/03/2008 4:17:35 PM PDT by billmor (The American Voter--the Sleeping Tiger. Kicked in the back end.)
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To: Forgiven_Sinner

“Wow! If this is your first time through, you’ve got quite a treat ahead...”

Yes. My first time through. My father speaks highly of the series, so I thought I’d give it a shot. So far, so good.


197 posted on 07/03/2008 4:26:18 PM PDT by gate2wire
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To: MplsSteve
I am reading a novel called "The Lost Constitution" by William Martin.

It is a story of,ironically, after last weeks Heller decision, about a so called lost original draft of the Bill of Rights with notes in the margins from the Founding Fathers. The fight is a Dem congresswomen who introduces an Amendment to repeal the 2nd Amendment. A rare book collector is on the run looking for this original draft to see if the FF really thought that the RKBA was an individual right.

I am only half way through and I really can't tell if it is being told from a conservative point of view, or liberal but either way it is really engaging. I can't wait to find out what the Founding Fathers "really" wanted HA HA.

198 posted on 07/03/2008 4:41:42 PM PDT by codercpc
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To: MplsSteve
Just finished Sail by James Patterson and Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich and now working my way through Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.

Love the thread.

199 posted on 07/03/2008 5:20:02 PM PDT by Brasil (Dem motto: Demagoguery trumps truth.)
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To: Marie2
The No. One Ladies Detective Agency.

I'll second that one. I've gone through most of the series on audiobook. The reader is a South African and her accent and pronunciation of the Tswana words seems authentic.

200 posted on 07/03/2008 5:43:27 PM PDT by mollynme (cogito, ergo freepum)
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