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What's been recently read on my bookshelf:

The Serious Books
• The Fourth Turning, William Strauss and Neil Howe
• A Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
• A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
• The Discoverers, Daniel Boorstin
• A Distant Mirror (The Calamatous 14th Century), Barbara Tuchman
• 1215: The Year of Magna Carta by Danny Danziger and John Gillingham
• King John, W.L. Warren

Good Fiction
• The Name of The Rose, Umberto Ecco
• Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
• Angels in Iron, Nicholas Prata (About the Knights Hospitaler defense of malta against turkish invasion)
• The Sunne in Splendor, Sharon Kay Penman (About the life and times of Richard III)
• The Gates Of Fire, Steven Pressfield (About the Spartan defense at Thermoapolae)
• Augustus, A Novel by John Edward Williams
• The Agony and the Ecstasy, (Fictional account of the life of Michaelangelo)
• An Instance at the Finger Post, Ian Pears (Great novel about curious happenings in Oxford during Cromwell era)

Matthew Sharldlake Series by C. J. Sansom (Lawyer Solving Mysteries In Age of Henry VIII
• Dissolution
• Dark Fire
• Sovereign

Masters of Rome Series by Colleen McCollough. Don't worry about the author being a romance writer, these aren't romance novels but rather very well researched historical novels about the death of the Roman Republic. Many scary parallels to modern politics.
• The First Man In Rome (focus on the rise of Gaius Marius)
• The Grass Crown (Focus on the rise of Lucius Cornelius Sulla and his civil war with Marius)
• Furtunes Favorites (Focus on Sulla as dictator and the youth of Julius Caesar)
• Caesar's Women (About the maturing and early career of Julius Caesar
• Caesar (Focus on Caesar's Gallic Wars)
• The October Horse (Caesar's dictatorship and civil war)

My current favorite guitar, 1990 PRS Custom 24 10 top and razilian Rosewood fingerboard with abalone bird inlays. Sweet!