I am curious, what are folks reading right now?

College:
The Gospel Of John, Believe And Live by Elmer Towns
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Marriage:
Fighting For Your Marriage 2nd edition
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Fun:
The Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich (audiobooks)
I am in book 13 of the 19 book series
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Livin’ Life From The Blindside

THIS post... oh, and my RI Auction catalogs!! :-D

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M&P40c/15-22/SD9VE/Mossy500

Treasure Island on my IPad w/ the Kindle app at the moment.

I love the classics!

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Molon Labe!

"The Phoenix Program" by Doug Valentine.
I'm into my light reading phase now.

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Forum consigliere

Couple of oldies, a Modesty Blaise one and one by Wilbur Smith.

"Dragon's Claw" and , "A Time to Die."

And I may soon re-read Smith's latest, "Those in Peril."

I need to check Barnes & Noble soon to see if John Sandford may have a new one.

The Hobbit... for the 17th time. Literally.

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- The Federalist #46 -

Ellery Queen. He wrote 37. I just finished # 20 - Ten Days' Wonder. Will start 21 - Cat of Many Tails tomorrow.

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I always take precautions

A friend loaned me a copy of Gen. Marcel Bigeard's book: Pour une Parcelle de Gloire. I haven't read much French for a while and am plowing through it slowly, mostly from behind gun show tables. He was a private in the Maginot Line in 1939, captured, escaped, got with a Resistance Unit, sent to Britain for training, jumped back into France, cleaned house in the department where he was stationed. He was commissioned somewhere along the line. Did three two-year tours in Indochina, the last one at Dien Bien Phu as a Lieutenant Colonel; when it fell, the Viet Minh came looking for him by name. Was finally released from captivity and wound up in Algeria. Although he was a Para he wasn't in the 1st Parachute Regiment and thus escaped without being tainted by their mutiny. His praise for DeGaulle is somewhat muted, but he really liked Leclerc). Haven't read any farther, but he retired as a General ( don't know which rank), became a member of the Chamber of Deputies (at the extreme droit) and later Minister of Defense. He died in 2009 and wanted his ashes spread over Dien Bien Phu. Vietnam refused, but knowing the people surrounding him , I wouldnt be surprised if it happened as he desired.

The Bible (perpetually) and Jeremy Wade's book that has a little more detail and background than his TV show. I need to do some more 'serious' reading because I've been reading light for some time and spend maybe a disproportionate time in my gun stuff. (Is that so bad?)

Foundations of U.S. International Taxation (BNA)
Kimberly Clark v. Commissioner of Revenue
Why Did the Allies Win?

Concurrently, The Maine Woods, Henry David Thoreau's account of his excursions into the then pretty much still wilds of Maine, and, Arizona Wildlife, The Territorial Years --- 1863-1912, an account of wildlife surveys &tc. before statehood, and coincidentally, a chronology of the developing sciences we now collectively call "ecology", edited by my friend and mentor, David E. Brown, perhaps the foremost wildlife biologist in the southwest. My place is bookmarked in Mark Twain's, Roughing It, to which I occasionally refer, in serial fashion.

Just finished the unabridged version of Heinlein's Red Planet and William R. Burkett's 1964 novel, Sleeping Planet and now I'm rereading Heinlein's Glory Road for about the 30th (or more) time. In Red Planet, Heinlein's editor didn't like his description of teenagers wearing sidearms and tried to edit it out (that was 1949). But Heinlein prevailed and won that argument although he still had to give in to a lot of the editor's blue pencil.

CW

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The Bible. Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville. Virtues of Leadership - William J. Bennett.

Looking forward to this one on April 16th: Leadershift: A Call for Americans to Finally Stand Up and Lead - Orrin Woodward and Oliver DeMille. Available at Amazon and B&N.

The Night Gardener, George Pelecanos
The Tumbler, and Nails, a couple of Peter Bowen's Gabriel DuPre mysteries, set in eastern Montana.
The Ditched Blonde, and The Ice Pick Artist, Carl Wilcox mysteries by Harold Adams, set in South Dakota during the Depression.
The Angel's Game, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Girl Who Played Go, Shan Sa

"Empire of the Summer Moon", just finished. It's about the Indian wars & the last of the Comanches, West Texas in the mid 1800's. It also includes maybe the most famous abduction of a settler child, taken at 9 years old.

I thought it was pretty good. Before that it was 'American Sniper'.

American Sniper and True Grit.

Killing Kennedy by Bill O'Reilly

"Detroit: An American Autopsy".

Los de Abajo........Mariano Azuela original in Spanish- (the english translation is titled "The Underdogs")
The Gift of Fear....Gavin de Becker (required reading)
A Mosque in Munich.....Ian Johnson (origin of Muslim Brotherhood)

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Halfway and one more step

The next to the last book based in "Posadas County, NM", a police/mystery series of 18 books by Steven Havill. (If you like Tony Hillerman, you will probably like these.)

Slugging through the Federalist Papers, with the Anti-Federalist waiting in the wings.

Love Company, a dogface's view of World War II. (Another memoir from WW2.)

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SWCA #680 SWHF #446

About this time, most years, I re-read some books on trout fishing.
(Michigan's general trout season opens on the last Saturday of April).

Just finished "Montana Time" by John Barsness.
Before that it was "Trout Madness" by Robert Traver.

I may start on another one today as it is snowing and cold here
again.

About an hour after I wrote the lines above, I started on "Crazy For Rivers" by Bill Barich.

Just in to the part about the World War 2 bodies coming home in “On Hallowed Ground!"

Very interesting book, I knew that Arlington was Robert E Lee’s home/plantation and the Feds took it and made it into a cemetery. With that said I had no clue how simple that explanation was, the full story had more twist and turns than a Tom Clancy novel(one of my favorite writers BTW). I have read a lot about the Civil War but was just amazed how much I have just learned about that cemetery, and I have a way to go in finishing the book!

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14 S&W Revs none with locks!

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"It Didn't Have To Be This Way" - Harry C. Veryser.

This details the "boom and bust" cycles of economies. It's a primer for why we need to adhere to the Austrian School of economics.

Admittedly not a page turner, but a fascinating history of economics, and how the Austrian School forecast the current problems in today's economy.

Peter Jenkins, "Along The Edge Of America."

Rereading Exodus after reading Battle Cry.

Someone in another thread suggested this, which I received just a few days ago.

Once I complete my current read I will jump into this one.



Not part of the book, just added for affect.

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"The life of Pi" again in anticipation of viewing the movie on Blueray.
"Hot sour salty sweet, a culinary journey through south east Asia"for the authentic recipes,amazing photos and extensive travelog.
"The house of Mr Biswas".A throwback to my youth when this was required reading.
"Going Clear" Scientology.... nuff said.

"Skeletons On The Zahara" by Dean King -- the incredible and riveting story of Capt. James Riley and the crew of the "Commerce", shipwrecked off the coast of North Africa in 1815 -- a great read thus far

"Highlander - The History of the Legendary Highland Soldier" by
Tim Newark -- an excellent history of the famed Highland regiments,
the Black Watch, the Gordon Highlanders, the Cameron Highlanders, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders --

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Gunner, Sabot Up!

"American Sniper"
God Bless Chris Kyle and his family.

Gessen, Masha (not "Marsha"), The Man Without A Face: The Unlikely Rise Of Vladimir Putin. Gessen is a Russian journalist with good sources and steady nerves. I'm not too far into the book yet, but it's fascinating so far.

Just finished "Theodore Rex".

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US Army '72-'95

"IPv6 Fundamentals: A Straightforward Approach to Understanding IPv6"
by Rick Graziani.

It's a great cure for insomnia.

Russ

On the Sublime - Longinus
Scivias - Hildegard von Bingen
Jacobus Arminius, Aquinas, Julian of Norwich

Light reading - Most Evil - Steve Hodel (about he Black Dahlia murder)
And a selection of ghosty and supernatural things called "Dark" which contains mostly classics.

Some children's literature.

Chopin's letters.

And some fart cartoons.

I always have several things in process. I have books everywhere...school, church office, in the car, at home....

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Soli Deo Gloria

Just finished rereading Winston Churchill's "history of WWII". Slow going but good.

Working on Aquinas' commentaries on Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics. No PC BS there.

"The Marauders", by Charleton Ogburn. CBI, Burma, WWII. Another worthwhile reread.

What the author learned: "It is this. Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always make do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen..."

If I have any money I buy books. If I have a bit more money I buy components. If I have any money left after that I buy food.

Just finished: Mars by Ben Bova

Current: The Last Patriot by Brad Thor

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Hold my beer and watch this!

Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles.

Before starting The Martian Chronicles, I finished a collection of some of Heinlein's early future histories. Its title is the same as a novella included in the collection, The Man Who Sold the Moon.

I really like old SciFi that I read as a kid or wanted to read or should have wanted to read, but didn't get around to.

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1st Signal Brigade, RVN '70

I keep Farenheit 451 in the car. The Halloween Tree is one of Bradbury's sweetest books and I love it too.

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Soli Deo Gloria

Peter Capsticks Africa: A Return to the Long Grass: Peter Hathaway Capstick

Next

The Horn of the Hunter: Robert Ruark.

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John 3:16 .

"1776" by David McCullough, listening to "American Sniper", up next on the IPOD is "John Adams" by McCullough, next book is "The Gun" by C.J. Chivers. Lots of books in the pending pile also...

Lone Survivor
Seal of Honor
American Sniper

Bill O'Reilly's "Culture Warrior."

Just finished rereading the Hobbit/Lord of the Rings. It was a different read this time, probably my perspective rather than anything else. I've been reading the Saxon Tales by Bernard Cornwell.

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Even older, even crankier....

Do Audible books count?

I just finished Water For Elephant by. Sara Gruen. With the recent death of my grandfather it was quite a good "listen".

Now I am listening to. Lord of the Flies.

My most recent "eye opening" (re)-read was 1984. Amazing how that book seems to be coming true now only 30yrs off.

Time to hunt by Stephen Hunter.

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Living a dream - S&WCA #2364

The complete Master and Commander series by Patrick O'Brian, I love the action scenes but at times am a bit bored by the filler. By the time you've read the second installment you have pretty good sailing vocabulary, I appreciate the way he explains many sailing terms by having members of the crew explain things to the uninitiated.
I'm having it downloaded onto my Kindle and find it very useful when needing to kill time waiting around for other people to get stuff taken care of, I don't have a cell phone yet and really enjoy the Kindle.