What Books Are You Reading? (2018)

[hoosierpipeguy]

Recently finished the latest by DeMille, Child, Flynn and Grisham. Reading Fifty Fifty by Pattersonat the moment. Read The Origin by Brown not long ago. What a treat, wish he published more often.

 

[thomasw]

THOMASW- How are you liking The Monsters and the Critics? I have meant to get it but have never got around?

I found it very insightful. I consider it must reading for anyone who wishes to think seriously about Beowulf and the perilous Faërie realm.

 

[coyja]

I'm making an umptheeth run through the Howard Conan series... still holds up so well...

 

[bassbug]

Just finished re reading my favorite Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, just started my favorite Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men and have Nabakov's Pnin on deck.

 

[mahew]

A coworker of mine once asked me why I was reading a dictionary. After I informed him that it wasn’t a dictionary, but the complete works of Shakespeare. He replied, “good lord, that’s even worse!”
I was once told that this very gentleman was a cousin to Spencer Tracy. I can not confirm this as fact, but I believe it was true. Due to the similarities in appearance and the shared last name.
The Taming of the Shrew, one of my favorites.

 

[jaytex1969]

You remind me, mahew, that I have a complete works of Edgar Allan Poe, still in the wrap.
I need to make time for that.

 

[jguss]

A Gentleman in Moscow

 

[sablebrush52]

City Of Nets, then on to Hitler In L.A..

 

[josephcross]

Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley.

 

[warren]

The War in the Pacific: The Journal of General George Kenney, Commander of the Fifth U.S. Air Force
Patton and His Third Army by Brenton G. Wallace
Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Court's Wittiest, Most Outspoken Justice by Scalia and Ring
Just finished The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero by Timothy Egan

 

[brian64]

Just finished I heard You Paint Houses. Its about the Irishman.......

I haven’t read the book but I listened to an in-depth interview with the author a couple of years ago...seemed like he made a pretty compelling case for what really happened to Hoffa, but I’ve forgotten most of the details. Definitely looking forward to the movie...Scorsese, Pacino, DeNiro, Pesci, Keitel...what a line-up.

 

[ssjones]

"The Ways of Wolfe", the last in the Wolfe (Border Noir) series by Carlos Blake.
https://www.amazon.com/Ways-Wolfe-Border-Noir/dp/0802125778
I just finished "Chalk Man".

 

[pitchfork]

I rarely read books anymore, but seeing Pnin mentioned might inspire me to read that again. If you like Pnin, you might also like Pale Fire -- it's a novel in the form of a long poem with footnotes, so it's formally a little unsettling/weird, but a great book.

 

[tom12]

I read several books at a time, currently going through:
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke

The Patriot Chiefs: A Chronicle of American Indian Resistance, Alvin M. Josephy Jr.

Nazi Terror, Eric A. Johnson

The Haunting of Sam Cabot, Mark Edward Hall

Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd

 

[derekflint]

Has anyone read "The Perfect Smoke" by Fred Hanna?

 

[mawnansmiff]

One of my current reads is "London 1945: Life In The Debris Of War" by Maureen Waller. A fascinating account of how London and indeed Britain was almost brought to its knees by the German V1 and V2 rockets.
She has clearly done much research on the subject, and her writing is so fluid. I would certainly recommend it to anyone interested in UK social history.
Regards,
Jay.

 

[tuold]

Probably only of interest if you are somehow involved in Anglican choral singing, but Byrd by Kerry McCarthy is interesting reading for me. William Byrd was a complex man living in complex times. That he managed to compose such wonderful music without losing his head is something we should all appreciate.

 

[keith929]

One of my guilty pleasures is detective novels so I currently reading book #4 of Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole series Nemesis.

 

[mawnansmiff]

Prompted by something I read elsewhere, I decided to order the book "Longitude: The True Story Of A Lone Genius Who Solved The Greatest Scientific Problem Of His Time" by American writer Dava Sobel.
It is the story of English clockmaker John Harrison (1693 - 1776) who invented the marine chronometer which enabled mariners to work out their location whilst at sea.
I bought the book secondhand via Amazon and got a pleasant surprise when I opened the (mint condition) book, it is an autographed copy! For the price of a pint in my local I think I got me a bargain!
Regards,
Jay.

 

[tbradsim1]

Finished Iwo Jima, the place where Marines gave all, so many stories, it makes you humble and in awe of human sacrifice, I served and my part was nil compared to them.