Posted on 01/16/2007 8:38:52 AM PST by Tanniker Smith
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This week's topic: What's on your Reading List for 2007?
Any "Must Reads" or "Hope to Get To's""?
After two and a half years of textbooks, God's Word is the first on my list, too.
Currently - "The Truth About Muhammad" by Robert Spencer.
Next - "How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization" by Thomas Woods.
Hugs!!!
I'm in the middle of "Thomas Paine" by Craig Nelson. If you're the least bit interested in the the story of the birth of America, this is a must. Even if you've alredy read "Founding Brothers" or bios of Washington or Adams or Jefferson or Franklin, you'll definitely want to read this one too.
last year
Hillary's Secret War
The Clinton Conspiracy to Muzzle
Internet Journalists
by Richard Poe
Foreword by Jim Robinson
Warlord: No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy
by Ilario Pantano and Malcolm McConnell
Ann Coulter's most controversial (and entertaining) book ever: a withering assault on the established
"Church of Liberalism" and its false prophet, Darwin
Godless: The Church of Liberalism
by Ann Coulter
Reread Atlas Shrugged
By Ayn Rand
Maybe 100 more books for entertainment mostly western, adventure and science fiction
Too many to list
Now reading
The Tyranny of Tolerance
A Sitting Judge Breaks the Code of Silence to Expose the Liberal Judicial Assault
Written by Robert H. Dierker, Jr.
Hopefully in todays mail will be,
Three years among the Comanches
and,
Scalp Dance: Indian Warfare on the High Plains 1865-1879
After that (if they're available at the library yet) I'll read either The Broker or The Innocent Man both by John Grisham.
I just started "The Last Jihad" by Joel Rosenberg.
After that, "Next" by Michael Crichton.
After that, I'm not sure....too many books piled up.
Most excellent!
I will read the Potter book as well. :) I have discovered two other children or juvenile genre authors that I really like as well. Cornelia Funke(Inkheart, Inkspell author) and Christopher Paolini(author of Eragon and Eldest). Both of them have books in the works for this year also.
Interesting list...thanks
Since I sell books for a living, and am at my Library weekly (if not more) it's never been a problem to find lots of books to read! Glad to get your ping again. :)
Currently in my library queue:
Postcards from Mars (photography of The Red Planet)
Morning Foods: Breakfasts, Brunches & More
America Alone (I'm finally 2nd!)
Crochet Squared
Eat, Pray, Love
Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story
The Sidewalk Artist
I read OPB's (Other People's Books) from the thrift stores. I just read "The Life of St. Paul" by James Stalker.
Although I believed it to be Catholic breathed, I wanted to learn more about the Apostle Paul. Why would a man make such a vast turnabout in his life? Especially, when he knew he would be persecuted, as he had once done to others.
I thoroughly enjoyed the book, which was reprinted in 1983. Prof. Stalker died in 1927. This is not a novel. It required great research.
It is a part of his trilogy. The other two books are "The Life of Christ" and "The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ", which I am looking for right now. "The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ" does not appear to be in print any more.
Currently finishing up George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones
On the list for me to read:
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogal
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis (reread)
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lawrey
This will take me through April
I have a great book suggestion for when you're done reading Timothy: Abraham Paix's Subtle Is the Lord, a world-class biography of Albert Einstein, including the history of his thought. I'm about a third of the way though it. It is simply magnificent!
Thanks again, kevmo, for your very kind words!
Now that's planning. I used to stack them up, but I never seemed to read them in the order that I stacked them. And I'd find new things along the way and bump others down a bit.
I once brought him 18 books, walked out with 6, which I later returned a couple months later, and walked out with 2 more.
Sadly, he closed up shop. I wonder how much he sold, and how much were just traded. Two nice things about him: he once offered me a part-time job (which I had to decline, but it was nice of him to offer), and I found a Doc Savage omnibus for 50 cents that I could have (but didn't) sell on eBay for between 10 and 20 bucks.
TS
Oh, and with all the rambling, I forget to mention: thanks for the link!
Currently:
Finishing off Hemingway's short stories.
Started Jack London's short stories.
Started "Never Come Morning" by Nelson Algren, after Christmas. A great book about the tough life in the neighborhoods of Chicago in the 1940's.
"Images of 66" by David Wickline. A book of photos and brief texts detailing the history of Route 66 and the businesses and attractions, past and present, along its path.
I saw "Glory" last night, so I'm probably going to pick up something new on the War Between the States.
The Bible in the KJV.
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