What Are You Reading

[Horace Debussy Jones]

"A Worldly Art". A very informative book about art and society in the Dutch Republic from 1585 to 1718. Explains many of the visual allegories seen in paintings from the era. Great illustrations too.

 

[wahine]

Just started my second try on Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck. Some books sit for years in my shelf until I'm finally in the right mood. But I'm not sure if I'll really warm up to Steinbeck.

 

[Mickey85]

A year or two ago, I was entranced by the cover of a book called "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children." I liked the setup - the guy went to flea markets and garage sales and found interesting and trick photographs that were mostly very vintage, then built a story about superhuman kids around them (a girl that's lighter than air, another with bees living in his stomach, another that's invisible, etc). Yesterday, I saw that the sequel had come out, so I picked it up. It's just as good as the first, and thankfully unlike many series, doesn't have a recap at the beginning of the second novel to catch people up to speed - it's called "Hollow City"

 

[Locrian]

Just finished reading Free Fall by William Golding. Great book! Picks up aspects of British life just before and after WWII that I knew little about, such as the pervasive Bolshevism. This featured in my own family since my great grandfather was a dedicated English Bolshevik, who managed to inculcate it in my grandmother, who, as a result, would never hear a bad word said about Communist Russia. But the book is terrific -- and the interrogation of the main character by the Gestapo is one of the most chilling that I've ever read. Just wish I knew more about Golding himself and whether he was ever captured and interrogated. Wikipedia is not detailed on this issue.

 

[Nobert]

The Larousse Encyclopedia of Ancient and Medieval History. Trying to make up for those Western Civ. classes I never took.

 

[Horace Debussy Jones]

"The Restorer's Handbook of Easel Painting",...title says it all. Quite informative.
Also reading "Van Eyck in Detail". Some awesome closeup pics of his work that most of us will never see in person.

 

[hatguy1]

I'm on my 2nd Philip Marlowe novel, "Farewell, My Lovely." (1st was "The Big Sleep.") Gotta admit. I enjoy ol' PM....

 

[Nobert]

I'm on my 2nd Philip Marlowe novel, "Farewell, My Lovely." (1st was "The Big Sleep.") Gotta admit. I enjoy ol' PM....

That was my favorite of the two or three that I read.

 

[Harp]

The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by John Addington Symonds

 

[Touchofevil]

I'm on my 2nd Philip Marlowe novel, "Farewell, My Lovely." (1st was "The Big Sleep.") Gotta admit. I enjoy ol' PM....

Be on the lookout for Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer novels, they're just as good if not better.

 

[Old Rogue]

Currently reading Star Soldiers, a science fiction novel by Andre Norton.

I have As Time Goes By, which is a sequel to Casablanca written about 17 years ago by Michael Walsh, in my queue to read soon. This won't be my first reading, about once a year I like to watch the movie and then read the novel.

 

[cw3pa]

Rereading more from the Conan saga. Have not had these out since high school. The Frazetta cover art matches the story line.

 

[scottyrocks]

The Original Amos 'N' Andy; Freeman Cosden, Charles Correll and the 1928 - 1943 Radio Serial (2005); by Elizabeth McLeod

 

[Horace Debussy Jones]

Have you tried, "Of Mice and Men" ? It's a short book really, but very thought provoking. A true classic about how people are really not quite what they might seem to be on the surface. Takes only a few hours to read at most. Can be read in one evening.

Just started my second try on Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck. Some books sit for years in my shelf until I'm finally in the right mood. But I'm not sure if I'll really warm up to Steinbeck.

 

[HadleyH]

"The Sokolov Investigation" (only for hard die followers, like me, of the Romanov tragedy)


I am absolutely obsessed by the murder of the Tzar and his family in 1918 in the cellar of that Ipatiev house in Siberia .....that is all that occupies my mind lately ..... how the bolcheviques disposed of their bodies in the forest, pouring sulfuric acid on them chopping them.....then burning them...

you know ...it was all quite horrific....sad end for such beautiful family.


there are the Grand Duchesses when they were younger.... all were slaughtered in the most terrible way

 

[Smithy]

"We Were One" by Patrick K. O'Donnell. The author was embedded with a USMC unit during November 2004's Operation Phantom Fury to take Fallujah. To say this is an intense read would be a gross understatement.

 

[Touchofevil]

Rereading more from the Conan saga. Have not had these out since high school. The Frazetta cover art matches the story line.

Had those as a kid. Karl Edward Wagner was another author along the same vein as Howard. Unfortunately, he too passed on way too soon.

 

[dh66]

The Frazetta cover art matches the story line.

I think the one on the left matches an old Molly Hatchet album cover too.

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[Boyo]

Can anyone recommend The book "Dominion" by CJ Sansom, I've heard some high praise for it, but I've yet to check it out. the plot is apparently about Germany winning the war, takes place in Britain in the 1950's

 

[DNO]

Can anyone recommend The book "Dominion" by CJ Sansom, I've heard some high praise for it, but I've yet to check it out. the plot is apparently about Germany winning the war, takes place in Britain in the 1950's

Haven't read Dominion, but I've read all of Sansom's 'Shardlake' series. Well written with interesting plots...good reads.