What Are You Reading?

[David G]

I've been cleaning off my desk area today. Next up is the about-to-topple stack of books that I'm reading, re-reading, about to read, should read, or am keeping handy for reference.

Here's my list - do you have a similar pile?

Letter In A Woodpile - NPR essays, Ed Cullen

Freakonomics, Levitt & Dubner

Double Cross - the true story of the D-day spies, Macintyre

The Sailmaker's Apprentice, Marino

Voyage Of A Summer Sun, Robin Cody

World Woods In Color, Lincoln

The Land Where the Blues Began - Alan Lomax (thanks to Jimmy W for the tip)

The Conscience of a Liberal, Krugman

GLASS: Frank Lloyd Wright at a glance, Erlich

The Onion Book of Known Knowledge

Building Classic Small Craft, Gardner

Willamette Week's Beer Guide

Water: A view from Japan

A Splintered History of Wood, Spike Carlson (much recommended if you love wood)

The Woodbook, Taschen

Sailboat Design, Gougeon & Knoy

Waterline, Joe Soucheray

Smuggler Nation: how illicit trade made America, Peter Andreas

Skene's Elements of Yacht Design

Sensible Cruising Designs, Herreshoff

[skuthorp]

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John Welsford's Backyard Boat buildr and Rag and Bone by Peter Manseau, a book about holy relics, their providence or lack of it and their effects on the faithful of many religions.

[George Jung]

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Duty/Robt. Gates

The Geography of Bliss/ Eric Weiner

[Keith Wilson]

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The Angel's Game, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Mi Pais Inventado, Isabel Allende

[Chip-skiff]

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The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, a rather intricate whodunit set in Hokitika, NZ during the gold rush— won the Booker Prize last year.

Traditional Boats of Ireland: History, Folklore, and Construction by Críostór MacCárthaigh.

Light on Water: The Life of Te Mära O'Slattery Smith, a novel that I wrote and am now editing (which counts as reading, I guess).

[David G]

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Chip - your title makes it sound like non-fiction? And therefore not a novel??

[Flying Orca]

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The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert. A relatively light romp through the Anthropocene mass extinction.

[David G]

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Either you galoots are a schmeck of a lot tidier and more disciplined than I... or you're not describing the WHOLE pile...

[PeterSibley]

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The Story of the Human Body , Evolution, health and Disease ... Daniel Lieberman. Human evolution with the last half of the book being a reference to our current ''livestyles'' and diets and our bodies, the matches and mismatches.

The Far Side of the World, Patrick O'Brain.

Death of Kings, Bernard Cornwell.

[Paul Pless]

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United States Department of Agriculture Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service Animal Welfare Act Animal Care Regulations, November 2013

More commonly referred to as the USDA APHIS Blue Book. Its pretty dry, I can't say that I can really recommend it. I'm teaching a course on it and hosting and participating in a few institutional and animal use ethics meetings in the next month, so I thought I'd reread it for the dozenth or so time, especially since its been re-edited last year. . .

[Keith Wilson]

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United States Department of Agriculture Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service Animal Welfare Act Animal Care Regulations, November 2013

Needing a cure for insomnia?

[Sky Blue]

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William Manchester's The Last Lion, Vol. 1, and the quarterly, Sea History, which arrived with my latest copy of WB.

[Arizona Bay]

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The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert. A relatively light romp through the Anthropocene mass extinction.

That sounds interesting and I see another one of hers that looks good, Field Notes From a Catastrophe.

On the table now (reading and rereading)

The First Salute and The Guns of August - Thuchman
Sea of Glory- Philbrick
All the Brave Fellows - Nelson
Annals of the Former World - McPhee

[Chip-skiff]

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Chip - your title makes it sound like non-fiction? And therefore not a novel??

It's a fictional autobiography. Found this photo while doing research and was so intrigued that I made up a great big sprawling story.

[Ian McColgin]

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I like to read and I usually have up to a dozen books going in any given week.

This week:

"Light of the World", James Lee Burke - latest Bobicheaux novel.

"The Sea and Civilization", Lincoln Paine - major new text

"The Story of Music", Howard Goodall - very cool and different approach to music history

"Uncharted", J.B. Chicoine - a WBF favorite

"Little Green", Walter Mosley - Easy Rawlins makes it to the summer of love

"Front Porch Politics", Michael Stewart Foley - community activism in the 70's and 80's - personal note: This is like how when Nixon's enemies list was published and my name wasn't on it - none of my stuff in three states is even hinted at in this book.

"The Burglary", Betty Medsger - Getting the files from that FBI office.

"Gods of Aberdeen", Micah Nathan - novel of alchemy and such at elite Connecticut college

"Tudors", Peter Ackroyd - Pleasantly readable history

"Whose God Rules?" - an anthology of legal arguments, including a chapter by my brother.

"Guantanamo", Joseph Margulies - expose of our crimes.