What are You Reading Now?

[warren99]

Sad to hear that Paul Auster passed away on Tuesday at 77 from lung cancer.

 

[ssjones]

New Stephen Hunter, three Swagger novellas. First one is pretty good, set in the late 1930's.



This one was reviewed well, but written in a odd style, I bailed out.

 

[renfield]

“At The Edge Of Space, The X-15 Flight Program” by Milt Thompson.

The fascinating story of the X-15 research program written by one of the pilots. 5/5

 

[DesertDan]

The UFO Experience - J. Allen Hynek

 

[jaingorenard]

Sad to hear that Paul Auster passed away on Tuesday at 77 from lung cancer.

I've only ever read Leviathan, but really enjoyed it. I'll have to pick up a copy of the New York Trilogy. A real loss.

 

[Roach1]

Starting The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

 

[warren99]

I've only ever read Leviathan, but really enjoyed it. I'll have to pick up a copy of the New York Trilogy. A real loss.

New York Trilogy is definitely worth the read.

 

[Speak Easy]

Just started in on this one. He just so happens to be my 5th great grandfather as well. Figured I’d study up.

 

[carlomarx]

 

[kcghost]

Now I am reading the latest book by Magda Alexander "Murder at a Funeral". It's the ninth book in a series featuring Kitty Worthington. With her wedding day to CDI Robert Crawford Sinclair mere weeks away, Kitty Worthington is thrilled beyond words. But first there’s a sad duty that must be performed—the reinterment of Robert’s birth mother at Castle Rutledge who is to be buried alongside her husband, the former marquis. And then the murders start happening and Kitty must investigate. These mysteries are usually set in the 1920's.

These are usually a pleasant read with little violence in them.

4/5

 

[huntertrw]

Michigan - A History by Bruce Catton. Mr. Catton (1899 - 1978), a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, was (in my estimation) a brilliant journalist and historian (he was the founding editor of American Heritage magazine). He is perhaps best known for his Civil War trilogy: Mr. Lincoln's Army, Glory Road, and A Stillness at Appomattox.

A native of Michigan (born in Petosky and raised in Benzonia), he was an ideal choice to write this delightfully engaging book which was part of The States and the Nation series of histories of each of our 50 states. I recommend it highly.

 

[makhorkasmoker]

A book about flannery O’Conner, walker percy, Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day. Highly recommended for those interested in these writers

 

[warren99]

Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy.

 

[JOHN72]

Lately I am again reviewing some books, which I have read and re-read. Spinoza, Plato, Dante, the Divine Comedy, and the Canticles and poems of St. John of the Cross.

 

[brian64]

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-bride-of-the-lamb-sergius-bulgakov/12563523?ean=9780802839152

 

[cityslicker]

Common Stock and Uncommon Profits by Philip Fisher

 

[lupy1234]

Reaper's Gale book 7 of the Malazan Series. Fantasy.

 

[BingBong]

Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy.

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His turn of phrase can stay with me - in History of Western Philosophy, he introduces Spinoza as the most gentle, lovely bloke who "as a natural consequence" was reviled by all for centuries

 

[newbroom]

The Big Burn by Timothy Egan, appropriate title for we pipers.

The Big Burn — timothy egan

www.timothyeganbooks.com

 

[dottlejockey]

My Lady Nicotine, by James Matthew Barrie (my copy has illustrations by M.B. Prendergast). This will be the 3rd trip though these pages over a span of 15 years. Hilariously entertaining read.



Cheap paperback editions are out there, too, as it's no longer under copyright. I'd recommend this to any pipe smoker who can appreciate British humor.