What Are You Reading

[cw3pa]

Just finished rereading "Whose Body?" (1923) by Dorothy L. Sayers, which introduces Lord Peter Wimsey to the world, and the rest, as they say is history.

 

[cw3pa]

Finished "1356" by Bernard Cornwell last night. It's about the battle of Poitiers during the 100 years war. Cornwell reuses Thomas of Hookton from the Grail Quest series as the protagonist.

 

[jamespowers]

Dracula The Un-Dead "The Sequel to the Original Classic" by Dacre Stoker.

 

[wdw]

"Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow. I came across Hamilton's name whilst reading about the history of Manhattan and whilst visiting there. Given his obvious importance to early US and financial history and the fact that his name surely meant Scottish ancestry, I had to learn more.

It turns out his mother's husband (Hamilton) was indeed Scottish, but she also had a "special friend" (English) who bore an uncanny likeness to Hamilton. Despite not being of the ideal lineage, he's undoubtedly a fascinating and very significant character and well worth the read.

 

[Wally_Hood]

Just finished Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Dracula The Un-Dead "The Sequel to the Original Classic" by Dacre Stoker.

Without giving the plot away, it's the story Disney was meant to make into a film.

 

[jamespowers]

Without giving the plot away, it's the story Disney was meant to make into a film.

I don't think Disney could do well with the whole Bathory thing. It definitely couldn't be a cartoon. You know of course that it was written to be a screenplay. Go figure.

 

[Feraud]

I'm thrilled to have started The Lost One- A Life of Peter Lorre! This has been on my to-read list since it was released. I wish I could take a week off work to sit at home with my pup on my lap reading all day.

 

[AmateisGal]

Just finished The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. The story was incredible, as was the writing.

 

[Harp]

"Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow. I came across Hamilton's name whilst reading about the history of Manhattan and whilst visiting there. Given his obvious importance to early US and financial history and the fact that his name surely meant Scottish ancestry, I had to learn more.

... he's undoubtedly a fascinating and very significant character and well worth the read.

A curious post-Yorktown monarchical bias, and mercurial naivete singed Hamilton's otherwise pragmatic nature-
the latter perhaps most tragically accounts his fatal misperception of Aaron Burr.

Jon Meacham's Thomas Jefferson and The Art of Power offers Jefferson's candid assessment.

 

[AmateisGal]

Am tackling Richard Grunberger's The 12-Year Reich: A Social History of Nazi Germany.

The way he writes is wonderful. Here's one of my favorite lines so far:

"...yet any account of humour in the Third Reich would be incomplete without instances of the wit that flourished within the ranks of the death's-head (SS) formations - the gallows-humour of men who combined the conscience of troglodytes with science."

Troglodytes! Hahaha! Love it.

 

[WH1]

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant

Fascinating book about the circumstances surrounding a tiger attack in Siberia by an Amur Tiger.

 

[ButteMT61]

"As I Knew Him". Anne Serling - daughter of Rod Serling.
Just started.

 

[AmateisGal]

Finished Lauren Willig's The Ashford Affair. Really enjoyed it.

 

[Derek Cavin]

I just finished "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. I enjoyed it, but found I enjoyed it more after I finished it and started to think abou the book.

 

[Derek Cavin]

"As I Knew Him". Anne Serling - daughter of Rod Serling.


Sounds interesting. For some reason, that man has always fascinated me.

 

[BigFitz]

"In the Days of the Comet"- H.G. Wells, 1906


My interest in astronomy has been rekindled with predictions of Comet ISON's potential spectacular show this November, and I started looking for vintage sci fi books about comets. I just finished Jules Verne's "Off on a Comet".

 

[BigFitz]

"In the Days of the Comet"- H.G. Wells, 1906
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My interest in astronomy has been rekindled with predictions of Comet ISON's potential spectacular show this November, and I started looking for vintage sci fi books about comets. I just finished Jules Verne's "Off on a Comet".
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[DNO]

bogart by Sperber and Lax. A bit on the dry side.

 

[Tomasso]