What Are You Reading

[MissMeraRose]

I just finished "Night of the Iguana" by good old Tennessee Williams.

 

[AmateisGal]

Wings of Morning: The Story of the Last American Bomber Shot Down over Germany in World War II by Thomas Childers
Decision Points by George W. Bush

 

[Stray Cat]

Currently, I've put myself on a task of reading through 3 parts of "gender and sexuality" series of educational book. Written by a doctor (PhD in psychology) in 1950s. I'm having unbelievable fun!

 

[Doc Average]

I always have a few books on the go at one time. Currently reading:

Doc Savage, His Apocalyptic Life, by Philip Jose Farmer
The Battle For Spain, by Anthony Beevor
Raffles, by E. W. Hornung
I'm also re-reading Anno Dracula, by Kim Newman, in it's new revised edition.

All highly recommended.

 

[Stray Cat]

Anno Dracula, by Kim Newman,

Good book!

 

[Doc Average]

Good book!

Yes it is! Mr Newman is a clever chappy. I'm a big fan of all his work.

 

[Stray Cat]

Unfortunately, that is the ONLY book from Mr, Newman I managed to get my hands on.. there are no others here. And, NO, we do not have the blessing of Amazon.com.

 

[John Boyer]

"W.C. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes" by Robert L. Taylor and;

"This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly" by Carmen M. Reinhart

 

[Stray Cat]

Title: The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture
Author: Helen Follett Stevans

It's wise:
"But, alas! how few of us have come into the understanding of correct living! It is woman's impulse—so I have found—to buy a jar of cream and expect a miracle to be worked on a bad complexion in one brief night."

And this made me smile:
"here is nothing in the world which works swifter toward a clear, glowing, fine-textured and beautiful complexion than a simple, natural diet of grains and nuts and fruits. But you women—oh! it positively pains me to think of the broiled lobsters, the deviled crabs with tartar sauce, the pickles, and the conglomerate nightmare-lunches that you consume. And yet you're forever fussing over leathery skins, dark-circled eyes and a lack of rosy pink cheeks. Oh, woman! woman! why aren't you wise?"

I got it from The Project Gutenberg. Free download. Legal.

 

[DNO]

E. B. Sledge, With the Old Breed. I've been wanting to read this since watching The Pacific.

 

[Black Dahlia]

Mystery at the Moss Covered Mansion. A Nancy Drew book.
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[St.Ignatz]

"The Origins of totalitarianism" Hannah Arendt
Tom D.

 

[The Private Eye]

Somerset Maugham's "Up at the villa". I like a lot the film with Sean Penn and Kristin Scott-Thomas.

 

[Derek Cavin]

Wild Blue - Stephen Ambrose (I find his books informative, but his writing to be bland)

 

[Widebrim]

"The Origins of totalitarianism" Hannah Arendt
Tom D.

Interesting that she concentrates mostly on Nazism and Stalinism, rather than Italian Fascism.

 

[Isis]

I'm currently re-reading Dorothy L Sayers crime novels about Lord Peter Wimsey in chronological order. At the moment I'm on <i>Clouds of Witness</i>. I love those books!

 

[Harp]

Interesting that she concentrates mostly on Nazism and Stalinism, rather than Italian Fascism.

Arendt; similar to her contemporary Simone Weil, often biased, conflicted, naive,
yet possessing a remarkable prescience. Both Arendt and Weil seem disoriented toward
their racial/culture heritage within historic context-Weil the more so; however Arendt
cannot be philosophically pegged and avoids certain definition.

 

[High Pockets]

Bottled in Blonde by Hugh Cave.....my favorite pulp-master.

 

[Nanny Ogg]

"Anansi Boys" by Neil Gaiman.

 

[DesertDan]

Hard Magic - Larry Corriea (the author of Monster Hunter International)
An alternate history set in the 1930's in which many humans have developed paranormal powers.