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What Are You Reading Now?

Thursday, 14 January 2021, 12:36 BFH Uncategorized 125

This post is inspired by MildredLucille who suggested in the comments that we should all discuss what we are reading.

Great idea.

125 Comments on What Are You Reading Now?

  6. Repeat readings of
    American Assassin
    I am Legend
    and the second book in the great Pacific Naval War of WWll trilogy by Ian W Toll-it’s so exciting I’m losing sleep reading it.

    Over the summer I reread all 26(?) books of the Tarl Cabot Gor series-wow-no way would the shit going down here would fly on Gor-NO Fucking Way, probably why I’ve loved them since I was 18.

    If the SMOD doesn’t show, maybe I can get kidnapped by The Others and taken to Gor?

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  14. I tried reading Silas Marner but that was a slog. I hate books where periods must have cost $100 per use so the author has sentences that are a page long.

    I have been thinking I should pick up a book. I’ll put that on my To Do list. I have some ebooks on my iPad but most of them tend to be non-fiction.

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  19. Recent reads: Matthew McConaughey’s new autobiography. Arguably egotistic but interesting and very motivating.
    Also, Wim Hof Method. Really interesting now that medical researchers are studying the effect of his breathing and cold exercises.

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  20. Russka by Michener.

    Fascinating how the Soviet Communists evolve into paranoid scheming manipulating envious destroyers of individual persons, families, towns, regions, countries….

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  27. Thankyou for sharing, so much upheaval in our culture has me thinking eternally more than ever before.

    THE EUCHARIST,Mystery of Presence, Sacrifice and Communion by Lawrence Feingold

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  34. I am reading Trump Rules but just ordered a few of David Limaugh’s books on Jesus, the old testament, etc. I feel I need to transcend to higher consciousness to get through the upcoming darkness.

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  36. Been listening to audio books while I work. Recently: “A Christmas Carol”, “Anne of Green Gables”, “Pride and Prejudice”, “Sense and Sensibility”

    (But most of my free time is spent watching “Paint Life” (the Idaho Painter) on YT. Can’t get enough of it.)

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  37. Alternating several books

    (1) Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World by Patrick J. Buchanan

    (2) Frederick The Great The Art of War by Jay Luvaas

    (3) The Tragedy of Patton A Soldier’s Date With Destiny by Robert Orlando

    (4) fluff cozy mystery set in Canada
    Killer in the Kiwis (Lovely Lethal Gardens Book 11) by Dale Mayer

    Just finished:
    Through the Whirlpool: Swept Up in the Nazi Apocalypse by Karl Koerber written by a friend about the life of his parents. His father was a Afrika Korps POW at some the same British and American POW camps as my maternal grandfather

    fluff cozy murder mystery Knit One Murder Two: A Knitorious Murder Mystery Book 1 by Reagan Davis

    Helmets and Lipstick: An Army Nurse in World War Two Kindle Edition
    by Ruth G. Haskell (Author) – a US nurse who served in North Africa. This is still 99 cents for Kindle if anyone is interested.

    David Fraser’s Knight’s Cross on the Life of Erwin Rommel

    I go through about 3-5 books a week. Patton, Prussia, the North Africa Campaign, Axis memoirs, other aspects of the war in Europe.
    Book nerd!

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  39. Awesome! Can we do ‘book club’ from time to time, with lists of forever favorites, and/or various categories (politics, inspiration, biography, fiction, fluff, etc.)? As we are hunkering down, I am spending less time online and more time with books and would love targeted recommendations from this crowd!

    Also, I would like to suggest alibiris.com as a great place to shop online for older/odder books if you don’t have a local favorite. It’s lots of independent bookstores in one search.

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  41. The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene. I highly recommend Charles Todd books if you like British who-done-its. He’s written around 40 books with two different characters. They don’t have any politics written into the plots. Pure fun.

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  43. @efemdy
    is the the ‘Hitler’s War’ written by David Irving? I have been trying to get a copy but they are insanely hard to find and very expensive. I did find PDF’s of Signal at an Axis forum, however, most are in Italian. I know it was printed in many languages. I am trying to find the ones in German which I can read.

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  44. A Strange and Blighted Land: Gettysburg The Aftermath of a Battle.

    Great (and gory) book about the horrific cleanup in the days and weeks after the battle of Gettysburg.

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  46. I am reading “Prince of Shadows,” volume three of the Covenant Chronicles. It’s set in an alternate universe where GOD and the lesser gods take an active roll in this realm, choosing people to represent/serve them. The adventures of a team of operators are chronicled by their leader Luke as they battle the forces of evil, natural and supernatural. Typical good versus evil stuff, well written by Kai Wai Cheah.

    I just finished “Terra Nova: The Wars of Liberation” by Tom Kratman, which is set in his Carrerra universe. This is a great series, very well written, an alternate universe, FTL space travel, etc. Parallels the events happening today in this universe.

    I completed “Only Jesus” by John MacArthur, self explanatory. I have started “Bearing God’s Name: Why Sinai Still Matters” by Carmen Joy Imes.

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  47. God Rides a Yamaha: Musings on Poetry, Pain, and Pop Culture by Kathy Shaidle

    True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World by Anthony Haden-Guest
    (I’m not liking it as much as I did Boom by Michael Shnayerson)

    The Case for Trump by VDH

    And, next in the stack:
    Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy
    Resisting Throwaway Culture: How a Consistent Life Ethic Can Unite a Fractured People Paperback by Charles C. Camosy
    The Art of Burning Bridges: A Life of John O’Hara by Geoffrey Wolfe

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  50. What Abigail said. A Christmas Carol is a better read than the films.
    The trial, animal farm, the wind and the willows, all of Dostoevsky books Ave available at Guttenberg. Org and can be downloaded to kindle

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  51. Listening to Vince Flynn’s, “Term Limits”, while cutting and splitting firewood. It’s been years since the first read but it’s been on my mind lately. For the few who may not have read it, a group of very trained military guys who decide American’s leaders should be held accountable for their broken promises and corruption.

    “We sleep soundly in our beds, because rough men stand ready in the night to do violence on those who would harm us”, is a quote attributed to George Orwell. In flights of fancy, I wonder if there are such men with us today. Approaching 71, I’m reasonably fit but certainly not your “Huckleberry.”

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  57. Just finished “Brave New World”. Getting ready to begin “Animal Farm”, then “1984”. I haven’t read them since my late teens/early 20’s so I thought I’d read them again.

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  60. Iron Man JANUARY 14, 2021 AT 12:41 PM

    If you like Capstick’s stuff and can get copies of what’s below you’ll like it…

    Just finished
    Months of the Sun Ian Nyschens

    These were good also.
    Fiction that got him barred from the country he wrote about…
    Something of Value and Uhuru by Robert Ruark

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  63. Not sure what’s next from the mini library at daughter’s house. Watching here for ideas…

    But I digress…

    Used to be my “cigar house” and she took it from me. Let me keep the run of the basement (loading benches) and the “gun room” if I keep stuff in good running order. White glove inspection conducted without notice.

    Bell, Capstick, Corbett, J.A.Hunter, Ruark Selous and others from the Africa vein…
    Safari Press, bring money!

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  65. RadioMattM
    JANUARY 14, 2021 AT 12:50 PM
    “I tried reading Silas Marner but that was a slog. I hate books where periods must have cost $100 per use so the author has sentences that are a page long.”

    …that’s why I don’t write a book. It would be like that, because once I start a thought, I never know when to stop.

    …as you may have noticed…

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  73. I’m reading my recipes today and the internet everyday. I do genealogy so I’m reading local history books all the time, mostly (but not always) online books. Many moons ago I read fiction, but that was long, long ago. Last book I read was several years ago by Mark Shaw, it is about the death of Dorothy Kilgallen and her research into the assassination of JFK.

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  76. Just finished The Crime at Black Dudley and then started Mystery Mile, both by Magery Allingham. She introduces Albert Campion in the first as a side character and the second is the first book of many featuring him as the main detective. Using detective loosely there.

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  78. JDHasty

    Even Ruark’s stuff can sometimes be hard to come by…

    Buy most of them from used book sellers, although the “Months of the Sun” was a Christmas present from the daughter. Offer still stands on some back and forth if you want to ask Mr. Big for my e-mail…

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  80. I’m exploring the bookshelves in la casa.
    I read “The Florence King Reader”. I discovered that I have several of her other books. Love me some Florence King!
    Still trying to decide which one is the next read!

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  85. I am currently reading The True Believer by Eric Hoffer, just finished The Space Merchants by Frederick Pohl and will pass that off to a friend who likes classic sci fi as much as I do. Lil Morphin Annie, I agree with you about Alibris.com, they have lots of older books that are hard to find and Better World Books is also a good place to find old books as well. I try to read TS Eliot as often as possible, CS Lewis, GK Chesterton, any good older history book especially by British historian Paul Johnson that I can find. I want to reread Job, A Comedy of Justice by Robert A Heinlein. I sent my daughter and son in law in Nashville all 3 volumes of The Gulag Archipelago, Victor Frankl’s book Man’s Search For Meaning and some other books. A copy of some children’s stories (very well used and colored on by me when I was a little kid) including Little Black Sambo for my granddaughter Esther. Way too many books and far more that I could mention, for me it’s he who dies with the most books wins. We may have to become living books (Fahrenheit 451) or like the Irish monks who saved civilization (Thomas Cahill) in order to pass literacy onto our progeny because the left sure as hell won’t. I’ve got a list of well over a hundred or more books that my book club has read over the past 13 years or so and next week is our annual poetry night, woo hoo, I’ve got a lot of good poems for them again this year, I may read parts of Choruses from The Rock by TS Eliot, it’s one of my favorite poems. Michael D O’Brien, a Canadian Catholic author is also another good author to look up.

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  86. During My Morning Constitutional in the Porcelain Storage Area…I’m finishing

    Eric Huffer’s True Believer…In the Afternoon on My Front Porch…Excuse Me.

    On My Veranda (sounds like I got Money) I usually do a Mystery…Just finished

    a John Dunning “Bookman” Novel…Now tearing into a James Elroy …Might be a

    bit Dark for Me….Love Murder Mysteries….From the Cops View…not the

    Killers.

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  88. I even like reading Mickey Spillane (Mike Hammer) novels, they are a guilty pleasure and are absolutely totally politically incorrect. We used to call him Mucky Spleen. Start with I, The Jury and work your way from there.

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  89. Sapper Chris
    JANUARY 14, 2021 AT 3:42 PM
    “@SNS- intumescent paint is a fireproofing paint.”

    …thank you, always happy to learn. Sounds a bit like the refractory concrete we put around the burner for our steam generators.

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  97. geoff the aardvark JANUARY 14, 2021 AT 4:12 PM

    May I recomend “Billy Whiskers Autobiography of a Goat”

    Beleive it was the first one in the series from 1902. Not at home to look it up in the bookcase. Was my father’s book as a child and aunt (his sister) used to read it to me when I was a little guy.

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  98. Aaron Burr- Well, my ex stole one of my first edition comics.
    You know, sometimes when it’s rainy and gloomy out I just sit by the window and wonder if we’ll ever meet again.

    I So I can rip his large intestine through his left nostril.

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  102. On Desperate Ground – US Marines fighting their way out of the Chosin Reservoir area of Korea during the Korean War.

    Also, The Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant. This is no page turner…every page is difficult to understand. Philosophy was never written for low IQ intellects like me. But I’ll keep hacking away at it. After a few pages, I can’t stand any more and switch over to the Marine book – much more interesting.

    Upcoming – Darwin Devolves, by Michael Behe. This guy is nailing Darwinism into its coffin.

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  106. The Splendid and the Vile.By Eric Larson.
    It is about Churchill and the machinations of war with Hitler.
    Extremely interesting,any of Larson’s history books are pure entertainment and you get to learn a lot.

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  107. Still working on “The Machiavellians” by John Burnham. I intend to re-read the “Dune” series again this winter and John La Carrie “Karla” series. I’m waiting on Stephen Kotkin to finish the final book of his “Stalin” series. It was suppose to be out in November.

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  109. Atlas Shrugged. It’s how I am feeling these daze…

    And my moms old recipes, written in HER hand. The penmanship is effing awesome. She attended school in 1928.

    @Sapper Chris – what is the fire rating you want to achieve? That is directly related to the applied thickness…One hour fire rating? Two hour?

    And YES very expensive shit and messy…

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  110. A Christmas Carol (the annual reading).

    And Joseph Loconte’s “A Hobbit, A Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-1918”. Incredibly enlightening about two of my favorite authors, and tons of things I never knew about WWI. Explained so much…

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  116. @Huron

    I know the area the regiment came from, southwestern Ontario.

    You may know about a place on Lake Huron called Ipperwash. It was the site of a Provincial Park and an Army Cadet training camp. My older brother spent the summer there as a cadet in 1959, while the rest of the family camped in the park for a few days.

    I read about it a couple of years ago and the local Indian natives got mad and reclaimed the area for their tribe. Neither the cadet camp nor the park are there anymore, and no one but natives can get in the area. It’s sad, Ipperwash was a neat park for camping.

    But north of it is another park called the Pinery, which we camped at in later years. And when I was a kid, Grand Bend was a great place for a lot of fun things to do, like bumper cars, trampolines, etc.

    I still remember, 60 years later, seeing lots of posters for a Rock & Roll group called Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks, who toured around the area a lot. Some guys in that group later on formed The Band.

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  119. TimBuktu My Grandfather was a Sergeant Major Warrant officer Scottish Essex. Dieppe,Normandy all kinds of hell until the war ended while he was in Holland. He passed in 1976. As for Ipperwash I know more than I care to about that fiasco,people on both sides,dead and alive,just a mess.The Pinery and Grand Bend lots of fun blurred memories,Quite the little party town.

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