What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Review

4/05/10 | MplsSteve

[MplsSteve]

Hello everyone! It's time again for my quarterly "What Are You reading Now?" thread.

I consider Freepers to be some of the more well-read people on the Internet and I'm always curious as to what you're all reading.

In short, it can be anything - a classic novel, a NY Times best seller, a trashy pulp novel, a technical journal...in short, anything.

Please do not defile this thread by posting something inane like "I'm reading this thread". It became really unfunny a long time ago.

I'll start. I'm about 65 pages into "War Like The Thunderbolt: The Battle and Burning of Atlanta" by Russell S Bonds. So far, so good. I can't complain.

Well, what are you reading now?

[Loud Mime]

Wow...you must be a slow reader! ;^)

I’m back to Martin Gross’ “National Suicide.”

Find it, read the first chapter....then try not to get mad....I dare ya’.

[EdReform]

Agreed. It was recommended by one of the IIT’s at the last Appleseed shoot I attended.

[Cindy]

I am reading the Bible, reports, news articles, job ads, tea party updates and sites of interest.

[Let's Roll]

“Friday Night Lights”.

I received it as a gift because I’m a fan of the tv series. Hesitated over the book as I assumed it would be more like the movie which I didn’t like nearly as much as the tv version.

Book is very different - more of a documentary. Too much racial/sociology crap - seems dated, but it is 20 years old.

[Brasil]

Now reading Courage and Consequence and am waiting for new thrillers by Daniel Silva, Brad Thor and Christopher Reich.

[Quix]

In addition to Scripture . . .

Paola Harris’

CONNECTING THE DOTS . . . Making Sense of the UFO Phenomenon.

And after that one, her last one.

I don’t think the folks she interviews have it all figured out. I think they have been deluded by the enemy’s forces. However she covers a lot of territory and is a top flight interviewer.

Just read most of the novel GRAVITY CAN BE YOUR FRIEND (It can also get you killed)

A novel about police training in space.

Just finished Henry Wright’s

FEARS OVERSHADOWING YOUR LIFE—a very excellent book I’d buy for everyone, if I could.

There are some others but those are the ones I’m remembering off the top of my head.

by Remote Viewer Lyn Buchanan.

[EdReform]

Thanks for the recommendation; I’ll put it on my reading list.

[what's up]

"Walking the Bible" by Bruce Feiler.

Written in an engaging style. Fun and educational.

[fidelis]

“Be A Man” by Fr. Larry Richards, a book on masculine spirituality. Not for the thin-skinned.

[Pelham]

I don’t know what an IIT or an Appleseed shoot is, but they did recommend a good book.

[kindredspirit]

I am reading Radical Son by David Horowitz. In the last year I have read Witness by Whitaker Chambers and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, recommended by similar thread that asked people to recommend the 10 Must Read Books.
Thank you for asking the question. I now have many new books to add to my Reading List. First up is Starve the Monkeys by Tom Baugh and Conflict of Vision by Thomas Sowell. I think I need a speed reading course!

[AUsome Joy]

I really enjoyed Son of Hamas. There was so much to learn from that book.

I am finishing up Prince of Darkness by Robert Novak on Kindle. I wish he were alive today to be writing about Obama. He writes about his life and experiences with the reporters and politicians he met during his life. Well worth the read.

Today I bought Karl Rove’s book from WalMart for about $16. The first several chapters were really good. He had a really difficult life growing up. I have a new appreciation for him. Looking forward to finishing it.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Finished “Baseball’s Natural: the Story of Eddie Waitkus” and “I Can’t Believe I’m Sitting Next to a Republican: A Survival Guide for Conservatives Marooned Among the Angry, Smug, and Terminally Self-Righteous” by Harry Stein - well into “The Sellout” by Charles Gasparino, “Intellectuals and Society” by Thomas Sowell, and “Not With a Bang But a Whimper” by Theodore Dalrymple.....

[onyx]

Nazi Officer’s Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust

by Edith H. Beer

[Auntie Mame]

“36 Yalta Boulevard,” by Olen Steinhauer.

I read his book, “Bridge of Sighs,” which is a tour de force, in my opinion, and plan to read everything he’s written.

[elli1]

Just finished Great Cases in Psychotherapy (Wedding & Corsini).

Before that, John McPhee's Coming Into the Country, an excellent book on his travels in Alaska.

Just starting Up Country- Voices From the Midwestern Wilderness.

[Iron Munro]

1. - Patriots by James Wesley Rawles

2. - In The Gravest Extreme: The Role Of The Firearm In Personal Protection by Massad Ayoob

3. - The Winner by David Baldacci

[rogue yam]

I just finished “Pops”, Terry Teachout’s recent biography of Louis Armstrong.

It is a very nice book about an amazing man. I really feel like I understand him now.

[Lurkus Maximus]

“Live Free or Die” by John Ringo (A SF novel)

Just finished this myself. I really enjoy Ringo. I’ve read the entire Alldenata series and was thrilled when he started a new series. Great read.

[oldplayer]

1. “Lost in a Good Book” a sequel to the “Eyre Affair” by British author Jasper Fforde. (Literary mysteries)

2. Sarah Palin’s autobiography.

3. Cycle World magazine (Motorcycles)

4. Velo-News (Bicycles)

Just finished: “Attention All Shipping,” a humorous and informative semi-travelogue of modern Great Britain.

Recently: “My Grandfather's Son” by Justice Clarence Thomas. Great book as said above. Rips Joe Biden in the most effective way . . . telling the truth about the low-life SOB.

Oldplayer