Posted on 03/28/2008 6:52:40 AM PDT by MplsSteve
OK everyone, it's time for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now" post.
I like to get a feel for what Freepers are reading these days. It can be anything...a best seller, a literary classic, a trashy pulp novel, a scientific journal, etc.
Do not demean this thread with posts like "I'm reading this Thread right now". It became un-funny a long time ago.
I'll start. I've just started "One Square Mile Of Hell: The Battle For Tarawa" by John Wukovitz.
Rather than a minute by minute account of the battle, it takes a more personalized view of the battle by interviewing a few combatants and the families of those who died in the battle. I wasn't sure I'd like this format at first - but am really starting to get into this book.
Well...what are YOU reading right now?
DEAD HEAT - Dick Francis
ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL (again) - James Herriot
LIBERAL FASCISM - Jonah Goldberg
MY GRANDFATHER’S SON - Clarence Thomas
“Summer of 1787” by David O. Stewart.
I am a True Crime Buff and below is a list of books I read in March and link to my Blog book reviews of same.
The Michigan Murders
http://patfish.blogspot.com/2008/02/tv-american-idol-08-miami-and-omaha.html
The Doctor, The Murder, The Mystery” by Barbara Damato.
http://patfish.blogspot.com/2008/02/tv-final-amer-idol-traveling-tryouts.html
Kiss Me, Kill Me....by Ann Rule
http://patfish.blogspot.com/2008/02/guest-writer-michelle-writes-of-strange.html
Dark Sun, by Richard Rhodes. I bought this book years ago after reading Rhodes’ riveting story of the making of the atom bomb (which won him a Pulitzer). I never could get into it then, but now that I am retired with “time on my hands” I am deep into it. Fantastic book — history, science, espionage, and all true. Rhodes is a gifted writer, and for anyone interested in the “atomic era” I highly recommend these books.
I’m reading The Hobbit to my daughter.
One of my all time fave books.
The Expositor’s Study Bible.
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ by John Owen
Heavy, dude!
I'll have to take another swing at that sometime. I was in the middle that a couple years ago when I got waylayed by some work related study, and lost track of his argumentation.
Liberal Fascism
“The Secret History of the American Left
from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”
by Jonah Goldberg
Liberal Fascism (apparently this one is hot right now!)
Darwin’s Black Box by Behe
2.) THE CHURCH AND THE MARKET
A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy
by Thomas E. Woods Jr.
3.) Prince Caspian
(Book 2 in the Chronicles of Narnia)
These may take a while. But I DO finish books I start. I recently finished:
VIENNA & CHICAGO
Friends or Foes? By Mark Skousen
FLASHMAN
ROYAL FLASH
and FLASH FOR FREEDOM.
The man gets more action than James Bond, Mike Hammer, and Mick Jagger combined. Oh, and the tales are hilarious and outrageously politically incorrect!
Finishing “Confessions” by St. Augustine
then starting “Liberal Fascism” by Jonah Goldberg.
Silent Victory The 2 volume set by Clay Blair,jr
Currently reading “A farewell to Arms” and various essays on Urban Political Economy.
Hemingway ROCKS.... the UPE essays, not so much.
Kay Arthur is very good. Just don’t listen to her on the topic of sex within marriage.
The Biblical Doctrine of Inspiration
Basil Manly, Jr
“1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI—the Untold Story” - Peter Lance
“The Torment of Others” by Val McDermid
“The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One: The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time Chosen by the Members of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SF Hall of Fame)” - by Robert Silverberg
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