What Are You Reading

[esteban68]

just finished re reading a Viking Vagrant by Peter Freuchen...simply outstanding book!
http://www.amazon.com/Vagrant-Viking-My-life-adventures/dp/B0007DNDCC

 

[Harp]

The Monuments Men, Robert M Edsel with Bret Witter

 

[Stray Cat]

I'm curently reading Brigitte Schwaiger's Wie kommt das Salz ins Meer? ("(How does the Salt get into the Sea") from 1977.

The heavily autobiographical first-person story tells of the monotony of everyday married life and of unsuccessful attempts to flee this world.

 

[jamespowers]

I'm curently reading Brigitte Schwaiger's Wie kommt das Salz ins Meer? ("(How does the Salt get into the Sea") from 1977.

Sounds like a book for children. I am reading Gentian Hill by Elizabeth Goudge. About half way through The Sea portion. JK Rowling credits her works with influencing her writing of Harry Potter.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

3) Three musketeers (never read it) early translation

I hope you enjoy it; it's a romp from start to finish. Don't forget to read the sequels afterwards: Twenty Years After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, both of which are excellent, particularly Twenty Years After, which is in my opinion superior to The Three Musketeers, Dumas seemingly taking more time to edit than he did on Three Musketeers.

 

[dnjan]

3) Three musketeers (never read it) early translation

The whole series (as recommended above) is good.
And I like the older publications - I think it was Collins (or Collier - something like that) who published some translations in the early 1900's.

I have continued on with Dumas's historical fiction stories from that period, and am currently reading The Whites and the Blues, which takes up not long after the be-heading of the royal family, and introduces Napoleon when he was commander of an artillery unit.

 

[Sylvesterd]

"White Fire " the latest Lincoln Child & Douglass Preston


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[vintageTink]

I finished "The Green Mile" for the third or fourth time.

 

[LizzieMaine]

"Girl Around The World," newspaperwoman Dorothy Kilgallen's 1937 memoir of her round-the-world stunt trip. Going by zeppelin, commercial airliner, train, and ship, Kilgallen competed against two male reporters in a race around the globe using only methods available to the general public and completed her trip in 24 1/2 days -- beating Nellie Bly's old record by over a month. Yet another Golden Era woman who wasn't chained to a washboard.

 

[jamespowers]

I finished "The Green Mile" for the third or fourth time.

That would be three or four miles.

 

[DNO]

With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge.

 

[Hercule]

"Girl Around The World," newspaperwoman Dorothy Kilgallen's 1937 memoir of her round-the-world stunt trip. ...

Sounds really interesting and entertaining. Just ordered a copy.

Only two books on the burner right now:

No parachute: a fighter pilot in World War I : letters written in 1917 by A.S.G. Lee
The mathematical tourist : new and updated snapshots of modern mathematics / Ivars Peterson

 

[wahine]

These days I'm browsing thru the 1975 edition of "The MGM story", a true doorstopper that I bought at the remarkable "Fine books" at Palma de Mallorca. It covers 1.705 MGM movies of 50 years, all with pictures and information on story line, actors, makers. This'll keep me busy for quite some time...
(and make me sad that so many of these movies are unavailable around here)

 

[Alex Oviatt]

Don't Tell Alfred and Life of Pi

 

[HadleyH]

I am reading now Rasputin: The Last Word by Edvard Radzinsky

He had so much power over the Tzar and Tzarina....unbelievable!!! he did manage to heal in some way their hemophilic and beautiful son and heir...


this is him



but he was killed along with the family too, Rasputin was killed first.... it's a very interesting story. All were killed.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Yes, Rasputin was poisoned, shot and dumped in a river and yet it was drowning that finally did him in.

 

[Smithy]

No parachute: a fighter pilot in World War I : letters written in 1917 by A.S.G. Lee

That's a magnificent read Hercule. I see it has recently been rereleased, I unfortunately had to pay a large sum back in the day for it

If you haven't already read it, may I suggest "Winged Victory" by V.M. Yeates which are his experiences as a Camel pilot which he wrote in novel form. It's simply incredible, one of the best accounts of war in the air there is IMHO.

 

[jamespowers]

The Flames of Time by Kendrick.

 

[Harp]

Cowboys Full; The Story of Poker, James McManus

Also found a vintage edition of a favorite, Herbert O. Yardley's The Education of a Poker Player

 

[Historyteach24]

Currently reading the art of manliness by Brett McKay