Posted on 07/29/2009 7:23:00 AM PDT by MplsSteve
Well, it's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" thread.
I do this thread to gauge what other Freepers are reading. As all of you know, Freepers are probably some of the more well-read individuals on the Internet and I'm always curious as to what we're reading.
It can be anything, a classic work of fiction, a NY Times bestseller, a technical journal, a trashy pulp novel...in short anything.
Please do not ruin this thread by replying "I'm reading this thread". It become un-funny a long time ago.
I'll start. I'm about halfway thru "The Horrid Pit: The Battle Of The Crater" by Alan Axelrod. It's a great book that concentrates on one of the more controversial and bloody battles of the Civil War.
Well, what are YOU reading now?
“Childhood’s End” -— Arthur C. Clarke
Just finished Mark Levin’s “Liberty & Tyrrany” and Glenn Beck’s “Common Sense”. Now reading “Nebula Award Winners of 1941” (edited by Asimov & Greenberg).
Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer’s by Lauren Kessler
I highly recommend it.
Dig it out and read it again in the new light of this new "dust storm".
It rings true.
It's lot's of fun too.
Lines like "..ain't big enough to plug a ants a$$!".
Just finished for the third time “Atlas Shrugged”. I get something new and meaningful every time I read it.
Wonderful piece. I have never heard of anyone else reading this novella before. We are a select few. I’ve read that work two times.
Atlas Shrugged.
So timeless!
Sarah and Rebekah, two of the books in Orson Scott Card's "Women of Genesis" series.
Just Do Something, by Kevin DeYoung (a biblical approach to decision making).
Japan: An Illustrated History, by Shelton Woods.
Next in the queue:
Most likely Liberty and Tyranny, by Mark Levin.
re-reading ‘Sarum’ for lack of anything else to read. I have no TV and so read in the evenings a lot. Have run out of things that take my imagination lately.
Re: Nebula Award Winners -— will try to get it on Amazon. Sci-Fi from that period was wonderful.
Re: Grapes of Wrath -— pretty good. Depictions of Okies were, I think, inaccurate, they seemed more like English working-class people. ‘Mice And Men’ is the best.
I REALLY really recommend ‘Forsaken’. Amazing research about a l;ittle-known episode.
Just started “Democracy in America” by Alexis de Tocqueville.
p.s. thanks for posting this. Sometimes I think conservatives have not much concern for the arts. Can’t blame people, however, considering the state of modern art in all disciplines.
Midnight Falcon- David Gemmel... great fantasy
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
and, Volume 3 of Douglas Southall Freeman's biography of Robert E. Lee (again).
T. R. : the last romantic / H.W. Brands.
Teddy Roosevelt
The haunted wood : Soviet espionage in America— the Stalin era / Allen Weinstein, Alexander Vassiliev.
The Blue Ridge Parkway by foot : a park ranger’s memoir / Tim Pegram.
Blue Ridge Mountain memories : the true story of a mountain girl at the turn of the century / by Alice McGuire Hamilton.
Seekers of scenery : travel writing from southern Appalachia, 1840-1900 / edited by Kevin E. O’Donnell and Helen Hollingsworth.
Rabbi Moshe Weiner, The Divine Code
Shakespeare, The Tempest
Thanks alot!
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