What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Survey

1/06/09 | MplsSteve

[MamaB]

Sleeping with the Angels about the fire that hit the Catholic school in Chicago in 58. Next, is The Fire that will not Die about the life after the fire for one survivor. That school fire could have easily have happened at my high school which did burn in 73 but no one was at it at that time. Schools like that were fire traps.

[saganite]

Just finished THe Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly.

[VR-21]

The Forsaken by Tim Tzouliadis. It's about Americans who migrated to the USSR during the Great Depression and ended up in the Gulag.

[Xenophon450]

The Freedom Outlaw's Handbook: 179 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution - Claire Wolfe

The Odyssey - Homer

Liberalism - Ludwig von Mises

God's Demon - Wayne Barlow.

[kinsman redeemer]

Galatians

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I'm chewing through Adobe Photoshop's latest edition so I can get more out of my Canon 20D.
Otherwise, I did renew my subscription to Classic Bike monthly from the UK.

[Flycatcher]

The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka, of course.

Every few years, I have to return to some Kafka...

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Just finished the Count of Monte Cristo - 1400 pages and you’re sorry when it ends. I’ll probably read it again someday.

[Bean Counter]

Currently, “Eaters of the Dead” by Michael Crichton...

[BoneHead]

Ken Follet's sequel to Pillars of the Earth, that is World without end a story about the same town two century's later. The Black Death. 1100 pages.

[Sawdring]

“Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life” by John Lee Anderson.

[ASOC]

Book 4 polseen series by Johnny RIngo (SciFi) Callys War. and book III of the starfist series by Sherman/Cragg.

Call it research.

[Dante3]

P.D. James, "The Private Patient."

Plan to get Ann Coulter's "Guilty."

[FMBass]

“Unknown Quantity - A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra”

by John Derbyshire

[ZX12R]

“The Character of Physical Law” by Richard Feynmen.

[I Buried My Guns]

"Lights Out", an apocalyptic novel about an EMP burst that cripples the country, and how a hardy group of Texans in a subdivision band together to fight lawlessness and protect their loved ones from an ever-increasing level of violence and anarchy.

It's a free online novel.

http://www.survivalmonkey.com/SF%20books/LightsOut!/LightsOut-Current.pdf

[Peanut Gallery]

Thomas Jefferson Education Home Companion, Breaking Dawn, Holiday Knits, Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines, and The Peters Colony of Texas. I started Kite Runner, but am not getting into it so much. My son and I are reading together The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Recent reads: Escape, Skipping Christmas, and the first three books of Twilight series.

To read: Lots of book on the “to read” list, but the one I plan on reading next is The Forgotten by Faye Kellerman

[TChris]

Sword of Shannara trilogy

[OB1kNOb]

Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki. About half way through. Interesting comparison between the way the rich and the not rich think about and handle money.

[Paine in the Neck]

New Deal or Raw Deal...Burton Folsom, Jr., a fast-reading dynamiting of the FDR New Deal myth -- very timely.

The Founders' Second Amendment...Stephen Holbrook. Just starting on this one.

The Comedians...Graham Greene, for diversion, so my head doesn't blow up.