What are You Reading Now?

[Wellington]

Currently reading How Green Was My Valley, just finished Death Be Not Proud recently. I tend to stick to late 19th/early 20th century works, so I’ve tackled a lot of Steinbeck and H.G. Wells this year, too.

I don't read often and books don't often stick with me, but Death Be Not Proud really hit me. It's been probably 12 years since I read it.

 

[mso489]

The Eighty Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts, about a Dutch immigrant who comes to the U.S. with his wife to start a life after war ravaged WWII Holland. He's a horseman who discovers a horse in the slaughter house trailer that looks like it might make a training horse for a girl's school where he works. He has limited hopes but bonds with the horse as a fellow survivor and later discovers its remarkable talents as a jumper that he rides to dual championships at the National Horse Show. This is non-fiction and also a portrait of horse culture in the U.S. after the big war. Maybe the most spectacular scenes are when the horse reveals its powerful talents escaping to re-join his human friend after he's sold off to neighbor-farmer.

 

[Steddy]

Just finished the Sackett series by Louis L’Amour.
Sixteen books, most of which were like an easy to be around, solid, and trusted friend.
I also think I am more of a man now.
Kind of like how I am more of a kung fu fighter after watching a Bruce Lee movie. ?

 

[brooklynpiper]

Philip Roth, Goodbye Columbus
Getting around to reading the stories, had read the titular novella a few times before

 

[StringBEan]

I don't read often and books don't often stick with me, but Death Be Not Proud really hit me. It's been probably 12 years since I read it.

It was a good one for sure. I made the mistake of reading it on a slow day at work and had to go walk the block.

 

[autumnfog]

Hollywood by Charles Bukowski.

 

[ukbob]

The Third Reich At War- (how the nazis led Germany from conquest to disaster)
by Richard J.Evans. The final book of the trilogy.

 

[crashthegrey]

Neuromancer by William Gibson.

 

[brooklynpiper]

Denis Johnson, Seek

 

[krizzose]

A couple of books ago I read the Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman, which prompted me to revisit her A Distant Mirror.

 

[brooklynpiper]

Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler’s List

 

[brooklynpiper]

Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler’s List is a collection of short stories set around Indiana.
It is by Michael Martone - I forgot to put him in yesterday’s post.

 

[WhiteDevilPress]

The Redneck Manifesto by Jim Goad

Excellent read, especially in these times.

 

[WhiteDevilPress]

 

[brooklynpiper]

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
A great book of short stories

 

[ChonkyTonks]

Tobacco by Iain Gately

 

[brooklynpiper]

Augustus by John Williams

 

[Kobold]

 

[huntertrw]

Burton Lowell Spiller's More Grouse Feathers, an upland bird-hunting classic.

 

[carlomarx]

Just finished "Some Sort of Epic Grandeur", Mathew Buccoli, an F. Scot Fitzgerald Biography and reading "Life of Billy Dixon, Olive K. Dixon.