Finished Wellington.....on to modern stuff......From the Shadows by Robert M. Gates.......ex-director CIA, Secretary of Defence under both Bush and Obama.....but the book is copyrighted 1996, so is all about CIA. Interesting.
What's Everyone Reading?
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Ah, another reader of biographies? That one's on my list of things to do too. Just finished Philip Ziegler's biography of Louis Mountbatten, called, sensibly enough, Mountbatten, and Carolly Erickson's biography of Henry VIII called Great Harry. I'm moving on now to the memoirs of Eugene Forsey, A Life on the Fringe. I find as I get older that fiction fails to move me as it once did. I seem to have evolved a preference for real stories as opposed to made up stories, though I did recently re-read one of my favourite fictional works, Walter M. Miller's excellent post-nuclear holocaust novel called A Canticle for Liebowitz. That and Pat Frank's Alas, Babylon, both published in the late 1950s, I think are the absolute best explorations of that theme I've ever read.
What's Everone Reading?
It's just too nasty to go and do to much outside...going to have to shortly though.
-A couple of Day's ago I finnished "Map of Bones" by James Rollins.
-This morning I finnished "Black Order" by James Rollins.
-This morning I started "The Judas Strain" by James Rollins.
These are all books of Fiction blending Religion & Science...with lots of gun fights
and chases around the globe, tie'n past to present (bouncing back and forth in time).
Right now in Regina it's -44c with that North wind factored in (that's -51F). A good
time to curl up with many good books.
It's just too nasty to go and do to much outside...going to have to shortly though.
-A couple of Day's ago I finnished "Map of Bones" by James Rollins.
-This morning I finnished "Black Order" by James Rollins.
-This morning I started "The Judas Strain" by James Rollins.
These are all books of Fiction blending Religion & Science...with lots of gun fights
and chases around the globe, tie'n past to present (bouncing back and forth in time).
Right now in Regina it's -44c with that North wind factored in (that's -51F). A good
time to curl up with many good books.
Taking a break from Richard Dawkins "The God Delusion", and reading "Twilight". Still reading the Science, Nat Geo, SciAm, journals, New Scientist, etc. magazines.
I read that book many many moons ago. Dale Carnegie was a very astute man. Right now I'm reading "Family Business" by Anna Murdoch. Not a bad book.
So I started reading the Andromeda Strain, and it's really quite good so far. You can read a bit here if you haven't seen the movie or read the book already. Michael Crichton- The Andromeda Strain
I'm currently reading Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neil and just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
not reading anything, I don't read much at all, except the news paper.
can't sit around and be still that long. Being on the computer is about
the most I can sit still, or watch a hockey game, and maybe a movie once
in a while, I am a mover, not a sitter, a long walk by the river for me, takes
the place of the quietness of a book, I don't even sew much anymore, as it
took up too much time, kept me planted in one place too long.
I used to read long ago, couldn't put the book down, don't want to do that any
more.
I love biographys, so I find them on the TV, just an hour, then gone again.
Enjoy your books.
can't sit around and be still that long. Being on the computer is about
the most I can sit still, or watch a hockey game, and maybe a movie once
in a while, I am a mover, not a sitter, a long walk by the river for me, takes
the place of the quietness of a book, I don't even sew much anymore, as it
took up too much time, kept me planted in one place too long.
I used to read long ago, couldn't put the book down, don't want to do that any
more.
I love biographys, so I find them on the TV, just an hour, then gone again.
Enjoy your books.
Just finished: The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway. This is a book that has had a lot of press admiration and well deserved.
For a review: The Cellist of Sarajevo - Book Review
For a review: The Cellist of Sarajevo - Book Review
I'm reading Sharpe's Fury by Cornwell!
I flipping LOVE his books! I read Stonehenge last and I have the first in his Saxon Novels lined up.
I've read all the Sharpe ones, the Starbuck Chronicles (wish he'd write another), Redcoat.
Are the King Arthur novels good?
"Attack Poodles and other Media Mutants - The Looting of the News in a Time of Terror"
It's hilarious and extremely well written. Makes my top 10 list
I'm into satire
It's hilarious and extremely well written. Makes my top 10 list
I'm into satire
I've read almost everything he's published. The King Arthur series is particularly good. All his books are page turners.
