Time for another "what book are you reading?" thread...

[jamespowers]

Gee, I thought I was the only person around here interested in Hillerman. Looks like I opened the NDN can of worms.
I have not noticed Hillerman getting tired of the series at all. In fact, my wife recently commented to me how much better he is getting at writing the series. The Legendary Lieutenant is always at the top of his game and is like a native Sherlock Holmes with his ever present maps. Wailing Wind was great to showcase that.
I also actually like Chee. His character has developed and he is getting more confidence. No one could fill the shoes of Leaphorn though. I have to read Skeleton Man to find out if Bernie actually did what she said she was going to do to Chee's "home."

Regards to all,

J

 

[scotrace]

J-j-j-j-j...

Jimmy Stewart, Bomber Pilot. Not a great read, but interesting.

 

[Twitch]

Latest is Hitler's 2nd Book - Yes he did consider the USA an enemy even in 1928.

 

[jamespowers]

Latest is Hitler's 2nd Book - Yes he did consider the USA an enemy even in 1928.

I have heard about that book. How is it? Many revelations in it?

Regards,

J

 

[Feraud]

All Quite on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

2nd volume of Churchill's 2nd world war books.

And an apparel arts "best of" book.

bk

 

[Steve]

I working through David McCullough's 1776.

 

[Mycroft]

Hiya,

This is my first post to this section of the forum. I'm currently "Honor Killing" by David E. Stannard, about the the Massie scandal that took place in Hawaii in 1931. The writing is a touch lacking, but the story and its details are so apalling that I can't help but be engrossed.

Prior to this I read Phillip Roth's "Plot Against America", which was fantastic, just the finest modern book I've read. The writing is wonderful and though it's a bit of historical fiction, it's eerily convincing.

...and before these two I started reading Edgar Rice Burrough's "Tarzan" series.

I liked Plot Against America, but I felt Roth didn;t follow threw, and I thin the Honor Killing looks good, I don't get what it is about?

 

[jamespowers]

I am going to reread F.A. Hayek's Road to Serfdom and Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. Perhaps de Tocqueville first. His thinking from essentially the 1830s about America's problems still translates today. Quite prescient for the time. And yes, I know he was French. :arated:

Regards to all,

J

 

[Jay]

And now I'm rereading "John Dillinger" by Dary Matera since I don't have enough cash right now to buy "Playback". The Dillinger book is great. It always fills my head with all the wrong ideas, though.

 

[mysterygal]

just finished up Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler now I want to move on to some more of his other works

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

"Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck. Great one night read. Skimming through "The Officer's Guide" 1942 edition, kinda dry but educational. "The Art of the Flight Jacket" , fun and mostly for visual inspiration and referance.

 

[CWetherby]

"Mere Christianity" by CS Lewis
(a classic that I'm just now getting to...)

"Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression" by David E. Kyvig
(absolutely fascinating)

I recently finished:
"Our Mother's War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II" by Emily Yellin
(very, very good!)

Tamara

 

[Feraud]

I finished All Quiet on the Western Front. I started Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer. A well written and fascinating book. It is one of those books that are hard to put down!

 

[mysterygal]

I'm currently reading 'The High Window' by Raymond Chandler.....great book so far:arated:

 

[cherrypinupgal]

The Secret Life of Lobsters by Trevor Corson. Yes, it is actually about lobsters. :icon_smil

Psycho-Cybernetics 2000 by Maxwell Maltz/Bobbe Sommer

Grimms' Fairy Tales by J.L.C. & W.C. Grimm

 

[Sinatra]

"Opal" A Life of Enchantment, Mystery, and Madness
by Katherine Beck

 

[CWetherby]

Good choice. I loved Jane Eyre.

I just finished "Not Sll Soldiers Wore Pants", memoirs of a WAAC, and it was really good! Don't let the title distract you, it wasn't feminist propoganda at all! OH! And I'm so proud of myself! I just finished reading the New Testament!

Now I'm on to "Anne of Windy Poplars" by my favorite author, LM Montgomery. And I'm workin' my way through the Old Testament. Although Monty Python has installed their characters in my brain and now all the stories have the voice of John Cleese and his collegues.

I loved all the "Anne" books! But I think maybe you should see someone about the Pythons in your brain--surely there's a specialist for that somewhere...

And now for something completely different...

Oh, great, now I'm doing it, too! ha ha

 

[Thursby]

Just finished Prisoner of Vandam Street by Kinky Friedman, and just started Paper Doll by Robert B. Parker.

 

[mysterygal]

just finished, 'The High Window' today by Raymond Chandler...now I'm going to start on another book of his, 'The Simple Art of Murder' ...hope you don't mind MK that the wife let me borrow it!