I Know What You’re Reading This Summer

Townhall.com ^ | June 5, 2017 | Katie Kieffer

[TomGuy]

I haven’t noticed it so much recently, but a few years ago it seemed that every store I went into had customers blocking aisles and shelves while talking on their cellphones. They were too dense to recognize the strong glares coming from other customers trying to maneuver around them.

[cgbg]

Science fiction (as usual for me)--goal is to finish all six volumes of the novels that were the basis for the SF Channel Expanse series. Hopefully that will be done in time for the seventh book to come out in the fall.

https://www.amazon.com/The-Expanse-5-Book-Series/dp/B00ZQWOSG4

[Big Red Clay]

Just finished:
The Order of the Albatross by J. Clark Halvin (my wifes cousin)
Alas Babylon by Pat Frank (read originally in high school. What a classic)

Now reading:
Split Second by Douglas Richards (just started, pretty good so far)

[Jane Austen]

I loved the Little House on the Prairie series. As a child I also read one about a Sheriff, not nearly as good as the Little House series, but each book progressed to a higher reading level. It was a good series to develop reading skills.

I enjoy mystery novels. In the past few years most of the mystery novels I have read contain at least one nice gay guy. Often he appears in only one or a few scenes and is totally irrelevant to the plot. Maybe it is just a coincidence since the novels have been by different authors and publishers. But it does seem almost like a "requirement".

[Lisbon1940]

When you read books on a device, the NSA knows what you are reading.

[Tax-chick]

We have a WSJ subscription. “Sultan Knish” is Daniel Greenfield; his articles are often posted here. I don’t care what others think about NRO. They have a variety of writers who cover many topics with different points of view.

[Tax-chick]

I’m having trouble finding time to sit down with books right now. For my five minutes before I fall asleep at night, I have “Journey to Zion,” first-person accounts of the Mormon migration to Utah; “Nightingales,” about Florence Nightingale and her quirky family; and something by Bishop N.T. Wright.

[Little Ray]

We read the Little House to our kids.
Mostly we were of the opinion that the Father was nuts - he almost got his family killed on several occasions; the worst was when they nearly starved to death during the great blizzard.
As soon as he and his family got established anywhere, he’d pull up stakes and move on into some other wild situation. Completely nuts.

[SVTCobra03]

I am reading the Bible.

[goodnesswins]

Ooohhhh boy...now you’ve gone and done it...added to my reading list....just finished Rands “Fountainhead”...not going there again...in the midst of “The Genius of Birds”, by Ackerman, and decided to add in “The Little Guide to Your Well Read Life” by Ledeen.

[Kaslin]

I know who Daniel Greenfield is.

[Tax-chick]

He’s an outstanding analyst and commentator.

[Flick Lives]

Best novel ever written by a teenager. Next year is the 200th anniversary of its publication.

I didn't realize she published "Frankenstein A Modern Prometheus" when she was so young. It is an amazingly out-there story for the early 19th century, well before the publication of sci-fi-fi novels of Jules Verne or H.G. Wells.

[Graybeard58]

I am reading the Bible.

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OK. I won’t tell you how it ends. (Just kidding)

[SaraJohnson]

I saw a mom and her two daughters all with their noses in their phones the whole meal. They did not say a word to each other, ate, paid the bill and left. It was sickening.