What are you reading... ?

[Spin_Drift]

I've recently finnished the Girl With A Dragon Tattoo. WHAT A PAGE TURNER. Couldn't put it down. What an interesting heroine. Saw the movie after. OK, but not nearly as good as the book.

What are you reading or have recently read?

[skuthorp]

Read part of that Spinner but put it down and didn't go back. Anne had it as a book club read. I do not have much interest in fiction. Reading a book called The Party Theives, about the last Aussie election and the lead up where both major party leaders were usurped before the poll by arguably less able rivals. Next book is Slow Boats to China by Gavin Young, published in 1981 so it's not new.

[varadero]

I read the lot last summer, sad to think there will be no more. Right now I am ploughing through Follet´s " Fall Of Giants". His books allow me to dip into another dimension.

[Ron Williamson]

Four years on The Great Lakes,1813-1816 The Journal of Lt.David Wingfield RN, Don Bamford and Paul Carroll

How to Trim Sails, Peter Schweer

Annapurna, Maurice Herzog

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[Donn]

Decision Points. I picked it up at Costco yesterday, and I'll start it on the next rainy day.

[Tom Montgomery]

I just finished reading:
The Last Duel by Eric Jager
Tom Horn: Blood on the Moon by Chip Carlson
Packing Iron by Richard C Rattenbury

I am about to begin reading:
Only the Ball was White by Robert Peterson

[BrianW]

"The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century"

It's a compilations of stories, some better than others. All the "best" of course.

[Paul Pless]

Heretics of Dune

A re-read for me, I read the original series in high school and college; now I want to read the new books by Herbert's son and I thought I'd start fresh from the beginning.

[Captain Intrepid]

Just finished reading The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks and Neuromancer. A bit of contrast there eh? :P I haven't decided what to read next, possibly some Sherlock Holmes.

[LeeG]

The Good Fight by Walter Mondale

[paladin]

Doing a re-read for the 3rd or fourth time in 40 years....Trachtenburg Speed System of Modern Mathematics......and Gold Code Sequence Generators......

[BrianW]

Heretics of Dune

A re-read for me, I read the original series in high school and college; now I want to read the new books by Herbert's son and I thought I'd start fresh from the beginning.

I read a few of those a couple winters ago, but can't remember which ones, so I doubt I'll try to finish them.

[Kevin G]

Just finished THE GOOD SOLDIERS. No matter what side of the Iraqi/Afghanistan debate you are on, I think it is good for all to read.

Keving

[Ed Harrow]

I'm reading up on the times of buncha greats back grand pappie Richard Eyre. It looks like I'm not going to find him by name in this book The Hundred Years War by Edouard Perroy. (He wrote the book in occupied France while hiding from the Gestapo!) Talk about soap opera and financial boondoggles.

In line: The Last Stand by Nathaniel Philbrick, Young Men and Fire by Norman MaClean, and, if I get to it in time (meaning I've actually started it, but need to send it off to our past 'temp' who's headed there shortly, but for whom I await an APO address) Afghanistan by J Bruce Amstutz (and a VERY BIG thank you to Chuck P on this one).

[yesiam]

Finally got around to reading Atlas Shrugged....even THE speech. Sure wish they would get on with the movie or docu-drama version.

[Flying Orca]

Icehenge, rounding out my Kim Stanley Robinson back catalogue project. Also Ezra Levant's Ethical Oil and Dean H. King's Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealed.

[TomF]

With my son? East, by Edith Pattou. The book's titled "North Child" in the UK and Australia.

With my wife? Various books about caring for aging parents ... esp. when the relationship is "difficult."

For some work influences? Good to Great, by Jim Collins.

For fun? Sissinghurst: Portrait of a Garden by Jane Brown.

[BETTY-B]

I just finished re-reading The Last Grain Race. A must read for it's pretty much the end of commercial sail.

And I just started The Story of Ocean Falls Rain People. which has started off great with a full account written by Captain Vancouver of their first arrival to the secluded area now called Ocean Falls inside on the BC coast. North of Vancouver Island. Alex Mackenzie just missed him. Which is a good question to go with the Lewis and Clark thread. What were Mackenzie's boats like when he came across Canada in the late 1700s?

And Crime and Punishment keeps getting a couple pages at a time out of me. I dont think it's going to happen this time either though...

[Paul Pless]

And Crime and Punishment keeps getting a couple pages at a time out of me. I dont think it's going to happen this time either though...

rofl

[Canoeyawl]

I don't get much liesure time these days but a recent cross country flight allowed me time to read "The Big Short"

[rbgarr]

"Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in his Own Words"

A compilation of his speeches and closing arguments. Man, could that guy string words and images together, drawing an audience along with him!

[htom]

Just finished David Weber's In Fury Born, a military science fiction novel with a heroine I'd like to read more of. (The book, itself, is a greatly enlarged version of The Path of Fury, IIRC.)

Just finished: John Lash's "The Yin of Tai-Chi", tying philosophical taoism to tai chi chuan, in the classroom and in the world.

Slowly rereading, for the fifth or sixth time, a utopian novel by Austin Tappan Wright, Islandia. This world so draws me in, so many of my dreams wander there. Lots of boats, too, and time on the water. And adventure.

Next up: Elizabeth Bear's Carnival; got no idea what it's about.

[sailboy3]

I just finished Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene.

[Black-Jack]

Recently read Peter Matthiesen's Shadow Country - a bit long winded at over 900 pages but I think the guy is a consumate story teller. I recommend it to anyone that likes historic type novels and adventure on coastal waters. Good reading.

heres an interview with Charlie Rose of matthiesen on the book

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/9104

[bamamick]

I just finished 'the Wolves of Andover'. I liked it a lot.

Mickey Lake

[ahp]

Micky, "The Wolves of Andover? Which Andover? I lived in Andover Massachusetts for 34 years, and never heard of any wolves, but there are 18 other Andovers in the US.

[Canoez]

I've recently finnished the Girl With A Dragon Tattoo. WHAT A PAGE TURNER. Couldn't put it down. What an interesting heroine. Saw the movie after. OK, but not nearly as good as the book.

What are you reading or have recently read?

Just finished Steig Larsson's Dragon Tattoo trilogy - good read.

I am now working on A Man Walks Into a Pub : A Sociable History of Beer by Pete Brown. A little dry in spots, but I guess you just have to whet your whistle while you read.

[ahp]

Now I am reading "Rubicon" by Steven Saylor. He writes detective stories set in Rome at the time Julius Caesar. They are told in the first person by Gordanus the Finder, a self employed detective. The author writes well and know his Roman history.

I am also reading the histories by Will and Ariel Durant. I am on the last volume, the eleventh, for the second time. (Brag, Brag)

[Paul Pless]

Just finished Steig Larsson's Dragon Tattoo trilogy - good read.

I thought they were good too, didn't you watch the movies recently (at least the first two)?

Kat and I watched them on Friday and Saturday night. Pretty good. They're sure to be remade for the American audience given the success of the books. Wonder how that will work out.

[Canoez]

I haven't watched them yet, but will soon. I've been exhausted lately and don't know if I could handle 2 hours of sub-titles without being asleep. I gather that they are being remade for English-speaking audiences right now. Rooney Mara is to play Salander and Daniel Craig will be playing Blomkvist - I'm definitely looking forward to that.

We signed up for a Netflix account and SWMBO was sitting in bed with her iPod Touch watching The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo once she discovered that she could run it. Now that she has the Neflix App, she may not surface until Spring.

[Tobago]

Just started Djibouti by Elmore Leonard. Good book, lots of boats and ships.

[Y Bar Ranch]

Next to the bed is The Book of Not Knowing by Peter Ralston. A guided tour of your consciousness.

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

on my iPad

[Canoez]

on my iPad

[paul oman]

Travels with Charlie ---- john steinbeck. rereading an old friend.

[bamamick]

Andover, Mass, circa 1690. Lots o' wolves, and other dangers, apparently.

Mickey Lake

[Spin_Drift]

Just finished The Girl Who Played With Fire and can hardly wait to read the third book, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest. Salander is an interesting heroine. I wonder if she and Blomkvist get together in the end.?.

For health, reading "Enter The Zone", a dietary road map to "resetting your genetic code, losing weight permanently, preventing disease, achieving maximum physical performance, enhancing mental productivity". It tells you how to eat so your insulin levels stays even through out the day. (insulin is also a fat storing hormone)

For pleasure reading "The Ocean Almanac" Being a Copious Compendium on Sea Creatures, Nautical Lore & Legend, Master Mariners, Naval Disasters, and Myriad Mysteries of the Deep, by Robert Hendrickson.

[AnalogKid]

I usually have 2 books on the go, a novel (often sci-fi) and a large format non-fiction for browsing in briefly at breakfast or if there's a few minutes spare before dinner.

The last one of these browsers I had was a biography of Mark Rothko with plenty of large full colour plates, many of which I hadn't seen before. My current large format book is Gary Dierking's Building Outrigger Sailing Canoes, I know I haven't got the space for one, but I can't help being drawn to traditional proas.

I don't have a novel on the go at the moment, but I'm reading Hurricane: Victor of the Battle of Britain by Leo McKinstry. I finished the section on the Battle of Britain last night, so I'm looking forward to the bits about the North Africa Campaign, about which I know very little.

[bob winter]

Slowly rereading, for the fifth or sixth time, a utopian novel by Austin Tappan Wright, Islandia. This world so draws me in, so many of my dreams wander there. Lots of boats, too, and time on the water. And adventure.

Islandia was a great book. Read it 30 odd years ago. Must look for it and re-read it. About to start Volume 1 of Mark Twain's autobiography as well as biography of Leonard Cohen.

[Flying Orca]

With my wife?

Oh yeah, good point. I'm reading The River Why to Oystagirl.

Slowly rereading, for the fifth or sixth time, a utopian novel by Austin Tappan Wright, Islandia. This world so draws me in, so many of my dreams wander there. Lots of boats, too, and time on the water. And adventure.

I remember that one... haven't seen a copy in years, but it was good.

[John Meachen]

Just finished "Colossus-Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret".Currently reading Samuel Pepys diary for 1665 having read the preceding volumes over previous winters.Actually found it quite amusing to read of his exasperation with the battle to house train a puppy and then to see Ozzy Osborne having much the same conversation with his wife during a television programme in the twenty-first century.

[Black-Jack]

yeah I could see Ms Osborne having a real battle attempting to house train her hubby

[Native son]

Hey Dutchy do you still have your big colection of archie comix?

[Old Dryfoot]

Currently reading the Dalai Lama's Little Book of Wisdom - The Essential Teachings, also reading Iain Oughtred A Life in Wooden Boats and The Sailmaker's Apprentice. For fiction I am on what is likely to a 25th-ish reread of The Lord of the Rings, it use to be a yearly tradition but I have fallen behind since the movies were release... shame on me. Soon to be reading The Dobsonian Telescope - A Practical Manual for Building Large Aperture Telescopes. For me books are like peanuts, reading one at a time one is never enough.

[PhaseLockedLoop]

Our Kind of Traitor -- le Carré

[oznabrag]

Travels with Charlie ---- john steinbeck. rereading an old friend.

Have you read 'The Log From the Sea of Cortez'?

I have a high opinion of that book.

I've been reading 'How the Irish Saved Civilization' by Thomas Cahill.

Noice.

[AnalogKid]

Islandia was a great book. Read it 30 odd years ago. Must look for it and re-read it.

Sounds interesting but a search of the library catalogue has sadly drawn a blank. It looks a big book to pay shipping on.

[pingree8]

Just bought a new stuffed chair; tomorrow, I start "The Memory of Running"

[raycon]

The Big Burn -- Tim Egan
1421 --Gavin Menzies
In cue
The Millennial Project -- Marshall Savage

[katey]

Just finished "Brilliant--The Evolution of Artificial Light."