What are you reading?

[jww]

Just finished William Manchester's dual volume biography on Winston Churchill - The Last Lion - Visions of Glory and Alone. Outstanding reading -- and well worth the 1600+ pages over the 2 volumes.

Now I decided to go light -- so I picked up a Steve Berry's The Third Secret just for fun. When I finish that, I am going to probably read Jane Austin's Emma (love that book).

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Wendell

Resident Wool Fat Evangelist & anglophile. Have you hugged a sheep today?

[Kyle76]

[Kyle76]

[Bob]

The Quincunx by Charles Palliser

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--Bob--

[stagger]

The Federalist Papers

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Regards,
Mark - TABAC and TOBS Rose

[merkri]

I have a tradition of reading horror and gothic-themed literature during October in anticipation of Halloween. I try to read different authors every year, although that doesn't work out all the time because I have favorites, etc.

This year I've been reading Ray Bradbury's collection of stories, The October Country, and just got the Library of America Shirley Jackson collection.

[jthomas60506]

Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas
The Blooming of a Lotus by Thich Nhat Hanh

[Hawkeye5]

My wife just completed two weeks in hospital, so I had time to read:

The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson.

Cormac McCarthy's All The Pretty Horses; The Crossing; Cities of the Plain; and No Country for Old Men.

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John

[jww]

Finished The 3rd Secret this morning and started Emma right away. The 3rd Secret was only so-so. Emma, on the other hand, is wonderfully written, and very entertaining.

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Wendell

Resident Wool Fat Evangelist & anglophile. Have you hugged a sheep today?

[fallingwickets]

we should change this to a BOTD sticky

Im plowing through burning bright by ron rash. great stories

clive

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de gustibus non est disputandum

[wenestvedt]

I am reading "Soccernomics" and "American Terroir." Oh, and the database book "Oracle Essentials" so I can talk to the DBAs who work for me. :7)

- Will

[Rufus]

Just finished Rudyard Kipling's "Captains Courageous" and started Tony Blair's " A Journey, My Political Life" this afternoon. Once I'm well into Blair's book I'll be cracking Charles Cruickshank's "The German Occupation of the Channel Islands".

[jww]

[Squire]

My reading consists of books on CD which I listen while driving. Some time back I bought a rocking chair and footstool along with a floor lamp for the main office so I could take a break and read. The only thing that has occupied that chair for the last couple years is a bunch of fly fishing books.

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Squire

[Messa]

I was thinking about an audio book for a change, currently reading Boneshaker by Cherie Priest which im finding hard to get into, next book will be the Scar by China Mieville.

[jww]

[Kyle76]

My favorite fall book is The Old Man and the Boy by Robert Ruark, about his adventures hunting and fishing with his grandfather around the small fishing village of Southport, NC, where my grandparents retired nearly 50 years ago. Always gets me in the mood for fall hunting.

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Jim

[rsp1202]

Fade-Out has turned out to be my favorite sci-fi book. It's of a time, the Cold War '70s. I reread it every couple years. From it, I've taken the following (paraphrased) section. My sense is that it comes from a real Scandinavian text, though I've never tracked down the author's source:

Far in the North Land lies a mountain 100 miles high and 100 miles wide.
Every 10,000 years a little bird flies to its top to sharpen its beak.
When the bird has worn away the mountain to nothing,
One second of eternity will have passed.

(Yes, that's a bird with excellent longevity and high-altitude skills. Perhaps it's a family tradition.) The characters are rich and the plotline entertaining; a good read.

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Ron

[ThePossum]

[GA Russell]