What book are you reading right now?
Jul 1, 2021 at 10:00 PM Post #5,116 of 5,354
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Crazy Horse and Custer, Stephen E. Ambrose 1975

The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories, Connie Willis 1993

War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East, Gershom Gorenberg 2021

Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs, Buddy Levy 2008

Fire Watch (Oxford Time Travel #0.5), Connie Willis, 1982
 
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Jul 9, 2021 at 11:23 AM Post #5,118 of 5,354
Finished the Harry Bosch series by Michael Connelly. The writer was costing me money (in a good way) because of all the music he had Bosch listening to. I learned quite a bit about jazz musicians ... here's the music list: https://www.michaelconnelly.com/extras/music/

Now it's on to Brad Thor's series with Scot Harvath as the main character.

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Jul 9, 2021 at 11:47 PM Post #5,120 of 5,354
Currently reading The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, Joanna Cannon 2016.

last ten:

American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett, Buddy Levy 2005
The Sixth Man (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell #5), David Baldacci 2011
Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert, John Barylick 2012
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall, Anna Funder 2003
Crazy Horse and Custer, Stephen E. Ambrose 1975
The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories, Connie Willis 1993
War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East, Gershom Gorenberg 2021
Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs, Buddy Levy 2008
Fire Watch (Oxford Time Travel #0.5), Connie Willis, 1982
To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel #2), Connie Willis 1998
 
Jul 31, 2021 at 4:11 PM Post #5,123 of 5,354
I need to start it back up, but two that I was reading for a while was The Divine Comedy and The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The Divine Comedy actually isn't as hard to read as I thought it would be, although the translator notes at the end of each canto helps a lot in that. The Complete Fiction is just how it sounds, all of the short stories that Lovecraft created in one book. As much as I love his work, I'll admit some of his stuff can be a bit slow and hard to stay invested in.
 
Aug 1, 2021 at 9:40 PM Post #5,125 of 5,354
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World, Laura Spinney 2017

introduction quotes:

In terms of single events causing major loss of life, it surpassed the First World War (17 million dead), the Second World War (60 million dead) and possibly both put together. It was the greatest tidal wave of death since the Black Death, perhaps in the whole of human history.

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Most of the death occurred in the thirteen weeks between mid-September and mid-December 1918.


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Sep 8, 2021 at 2:34 PM Post #5,129 of 5,354
I'm reading The Stand by Stephen King. A few years after it was published Mad Max II came out. They could've got the inspiration for the feral kid from this book :thinking:


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Read absolutely everything ever written by Stephen King and "The Stand" is my favorite hands down...I read it twice!
 
Sep 8, 2021 at 2:49 PM Post #5,130 of 5,354
Read absolutely everything ever written by Stephen King and "The Stand" is my favorite hands down...I read it twice!

I'm almost halfway through, not really a big King fan but this is really good hope the ending does it justice. Another book I read years ago which I enjoyed was The Talisman, I love the atmosphere and some of the characters.
 

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