What Are You Reading

[AmateisGal]

Another great autobiography:

'Tis Herself by Maureen O'Hara

 

[Marlowe P.]

book from the Golden Era that hits close to the modern world

After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
by Jean Rhys

 

[classyguy]

At this point I am reading "Hour Game" by David Balldacci--great author.

I am also reading a James Dean biography.

 

[Bama Mike]

Currently reading Charlie Wilson's War. I loved the movie and the book goes into greater detail, of course.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

All of these:
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
The Insidious Dr Fu Manchu by Sax Roehmer
S is for Silence by Sue Grafton
Harlequin by Morris West, a re-read
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

 

[J.A. Daub]

Fiction-
The Two-Space War, Dave Grossman & Leo Frankowski
Prince of Sparta, Jerry Pournelle & S.M. Stirling
Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
A Confederation of Valor, Tanya Huff
All re-reads and why, oh why, can't Hollywood do a book adaptation without totally fouling it up beyond repair?

Non-
Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe, Richard Kaeuper
Germania, Tacitus
Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe, Bert Hall
The Battle of the Golden Spurs; Courtrai, 11 July 1302, J.F. Verbruggen
and the German school fechtbuchs, Paulus Kal, Wallerstein, Hans Talhoffer

Really, they are more interesting than they sound.

 

[rcinlv]

The Professor and the Madman... the story of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Cheers,

RC

 

[Feraud]

The Professor and the Madman... the story of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Cheers,

RC

I like this book but it was too short!



Has anyone read The Road by McCarthy?
Any thoughts?

 

[imoldfashioned]

Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

I love these--reminds me of The Prisoner of Zenda too. I should read those again, I'm in the mood for something mindless and fun.

 

[jake_fink]

Has anyone read The Road by McCarthy?
Any thoughts?

For good or ill, it's no Blood Meridian.

Not as unhinged, but tense and even scary throughout.

Very much worth reading.

Anyone read Tree of Smoke, the new Denis Johnson?

 

[RockBottom]

The American Way of Strategy by Michael Lind

The Changing Face of War by Martin van Creveld

Iraq and the Evolution of American Strategy by Steven Metz

 

[SamMarlowPI]

The Blue Arena by Bob Spurdle and The High Window by Raymond Chandler...
Smithy! Blue Arena is fantastic! and i'm not even half way through! thanks so much for the recommendation...

 

[Dr Doran]

From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire by Pierre Briant.

Fantastic book.

 

[Cherry_Bombb]

I love biographies so right now I'm reading "Magda's Daughter". It's about a girl who was in hiding during WW2, but talks more about her life afterwards. Things you don't think about after the where stories usually end.

 

[K.D. Lightner]

I am reading The Vampire of New York, by Lee Hunt. It's pretty good, not as good as The Historian, but not as long, either.

Interesting to read about life in New York City in the mid-19th century; some places still intact today, some long gone. And if I thought NYC was grimy when I lived there from 1969 to 1983, boy, it was a cesspool in 1863.

karol

 

[Harp]

News and Events, magazine of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Hopper and Homer arrive next month.

 

[CharlesB]

William Pitt the Younger by WIlliam Hague

 

[K.D. Lightner]

Finished The Vampire of New York, which was a decent read, am now starting a book called People of the Book, a new hardcover that follows the perilous journey of a Haggadah from its creation in the 15th century to the modern era, where it is being evaluated and preserved by an expert in the field.

It is a book of fiction, but is based on some real events; there are lots of stories of people who risked their lives to save the book, hiding it from those who would destroy it, or smuggling it out of some war-torn city or country.

I am learning not only about the Haggadah but about modern techniques of book preservation and historical research.

Fascinating so far.

karol

 

[carebear]

Went on a sci-fi binge with Christmas gift cards.

SM Stirling

- The Sunrise Lands
- The Sky People
- Ice, Iron and Gold

John Ringo

- Sister Time
- Vorpal Blade
- Yellow Eyes

 

[Patrick Murtha]

I'm still working on Charles Dickens's great Martin Chuzzlewit, getting closer to the end. I've completed nine books in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, with four to go (next up: The Slippery Slope). My non-fiction reading at the moment is Louis Menand's excellent The Metaphysical Club.