The Soulforge - Weis
The Shadow Rising - Jordan
I read several books at once:
Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden
Vince Flynn, Memorial Day
Donald Miller, Father Fiction: Chapters for a Fatherless Generation
Waiting in the wings:
Matthew Algeo, Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip
David Cloud and Greg Jaffe, Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army
Dennis Prager, Happiness is a Serious Problem
Stieg Larrson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Several light reading novels that catch my fancy on a given day.
“Out of Range,” mystery novel by CJ Box...I’ve gotten hooked on him (I rarely read fiction). The novels are about Joe Pickett, game warden in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming, who keeps stumbling across mysterious murders.
I got hooked because as a kid, I spent a lot of time in the Bighorns, then once I got started, I realized that CJ can really spin a yarn.
This thread.
American Bloomsbury : Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau : their lives, their loves, their work / Susan Cheever.
Pretty good read. I was amazed to find all these great authors were basically sponging off Emerson who inherited money.
Also: The sandbox : a novel / David Zimmerman. Fictional work about the War in Iraq. Very good read.
OOh I love this thread.
I started “The Red Convertible And Other Stories,” but won’t finish it. The first short story is compelling and worthwhile; the following several were meh.
I have been skimming “An Incomplete Education,” which is full of very interesting factoids and investigations into basic humanities information. A good casual read, and a nice supplement for the high schooler or even college student. It starts out with Jonathan Edwards! Nice touch.
I am starting “Lark and Termite” and “A Quiet Adjustment,” but can’t feedback on either one of them now.
Does anyone on this thread use shelfari? If so, pm me if you want to be friends. That way we can peruse one another’s bookshelves.
autobiography by Ben Franklin
Dug Down Deep by Joshua Harris
“Trunk Music” by Michael Connelly
Both are novels, based in history & Ruark's knowledge of & love for Kenya. They portray Kenya during the period leading up to 'independence;(Uhuru), with the focal point being the 'insurgency'(Mau Mau).
Our current president's grandfather was imprisoned as Mau Mau, and his father was probably involved, but not documented.
Mau Mau was brutality designed to appeal to the stone-age tribalism of the majority Kikuyu tribe, including Obaumau's family, resulting in horrific terrorism inflicted upon white settlers in post-colonial Kenya.
Obaumau is two, possibly one, generations removed from this savagery. "Something of Value" and "Uhuru" help us understand what drives our leader....and it ain't pretty.
Read Anthem since your last survey.
Still working on Atlas Shrugged. Up to about page 510.
Got fed up with continual trips to the library to renew so I bought a paperback copy.
Temporarily have put Ayn aside to read Tad Williams’ Shadowrise
the 3rd volume in his Shadowmarch series.
Just finished reading Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith. Tim Burton is going to do the movie.
Now reading Seth Grahame-Smith’s previous book, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
I was just heading out to our library which sells second hand paper backs for 50 cents and books for $1.00. I can usually pick up the latest bestseller within a month of issue for a buck. Can’t resist.
It details how prestigious revisionist Marxist "historians" have doctored events since the 1930s to make Communists here and abroad seem to be the "good guys," have destroyed reputations of anti-Communists like Joe McCarthy and have otherwise furthered the slow destruction of the American ideal.
It's a terribly important book but of course very few will read it or act on its message.
It's mostly a sickening expose of cowardice, arrogance and incompetence at the SEC.
I’m reading a vanity posted to News/Activism without a link asking me what I am reading. :-)
The Dresden Files by James Butcher. I’m currently reading Book 5, having completed books 1-4.