What are y'all reading now?

[Ken Robb]

Leslie and I were prowling a used book store Monday. I found "On the Road" by Charles Kuralt on the $1 rack out front. It's a good read and perfect for just a couple of chapters in bed before turning out the lights. It is episodic so it's easy to pick up and put down but it all hangs together nicely. It's interesting now to read what he thought the future might hold back in 1980.

[csm]

Richard Nixon the Life. By John Farrell. A bit dry. Just finished the latest Jack Reacher book. Not bad.


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[Birddog]

"Killers of the Flower Moon". It is a true historical account of the Osage People and their wealth. It is a very disturbing account of how they were systematically murdered and how the FBI evolved. Read it before the movie starring DiCaprio ruins the story.
https://www.amazon.com/Killers-Flowe...the+flower+moo

[zlin]

Just finished The 100-year-old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared. Moved along at first then went on and on...was much better as a plane book than bedside read. link.

Now I'm reading Reality Is Not What It Seems by Carlo Rovelli. link

spokevalley - geo book sounds very interesting! Added to my wishlist!

[kevinvc]

Read both of Jenny Lawson's books recently, Let's Pretend this Never Happened, and Furiously Happy. Both were literally LOL funny with some really insightful descriptions of daily living with mental illness. Highly recommended.

I just started Kids of Appetite by David Arnold. It's a YA story that my 13 year old daughter insisted that I read. She had me read Mosquitoland by the same author last year. It was good for YA fiction. I liked that all the characters had levels of moral ambiguity. I really enjoy reading books that she likes and discussing them with her. Anything to advance her love of reading.

Now if I could only get my 14 year old son to crack a book. I'm amazed and saddened by how little reading is required in high school compared to when I was growing up.

[sc53]

If you like WWII history or fiction or both (think Herman Wouk, Winds of War) I think you will enjoy this book by a friend of mine, Sally Mott Freeman: The Jersey Brothers https://www.amazon.com/Jersey-Brothe...ersey+brothers a thriller of a tale about her dad and uncles' service in the US Navy in WWII. She did 10 yrs of research and came up with this book, which is a true story that reads like fiction--good fiction. I've gotten a few copies to give as Christmas presents to family members and friends with an interest in WWII in both history and fiction.

[sipmeister]

That Hideous Strength C.S. Lewis
A Man Called Thursday G. K. Chesterton
The Road to Serfdom F.A. Hayek
The Dictatorship of Relativism, Gediminas Jankunas
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

Making the most inroads on the first two and last book. Been reading a little bit of each for probably the last year. Have a hard time reading a few pages at night before becoming too groggy to retain what I'm reading.

[coffeecake]

The Secret History by Donna Tartt. The prose is quite nice but the plot kind of dragged in places. Also, the climax was unrealistic to me. But I don't read a lot of fiction, so I was pretty into it.

[jwd]

Just started a book on Charles Mingus.

Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus

[Bob Ross]

I am slowly, methodically, plodingly, slothishly making my way through Arnie Cox's Music & Embodied Cognition.

FML

[Anarchist]

The War That Ended Peace.

uncomfortable parallels to our world today.

[pitonpat]

Sea of Glory by Nathaniel Philbrick.

Story of the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842. Six U.S. Navy sailing ships that explored the seas, reaching Antarctica, rounding Cape Horn, and charting much of the island groups of the South Pacific and as far north as the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon Territory.

[William]

That time again...breaking out LOR. Happens every few years...





William

[livingminimal]

A book about Henry Miller's Paris years.

[zacstanley]

Originally Posted by jwd

Just started a book on Charles Mingus.

Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus

This book is insane - I was disappointed that it didn't focus much on his development as a musician/composer. It was an autobiography of sexual encounters and rage driven by some reasonable chemical imbalances.