What is Everybody Reading?

[Amish Heart]

I've been reading since before I can remember. Loved books, had alot of them, still do, and would ride my bike the three miles to the library and get lost in there.
I met Ree Drummund, too Weedy. She was a hoot. Signed some cookbooks for myself and our daughters. My sister's aunt is an artist and just painted a portrait of her dad in law, the elderly Mr Drummund for Christmas. Turned out pretty nice.

 

[Weedygarden]

I've been reading since before I can remember. Loved books, had alot of them, still do, and would ride my bike the three miles to the library and get lost in there.
I met Ree Drummund, too Weedy. She was a hoot. Signed some cookbooks for myself and our daughters. My sister's aunt is an artist and just painted a portrait of her dad in law, the elderly Mr Drummund for Christmas. Turned out pretty nice.

Ree Drummond is a very driven woman. The Drummonds are in the top land owners in America. I can't find it now, but I think that at one time, I saw that they are 17th in land ownership. I can only find the top 10 now and they are not in that. I would like to know the history of how they acquired that land. I wondered if an ancestor was one of the homesteaders in Oklahoma, like we see in the movie with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, Far and Away.

When I went to see Ree Drummond, I had gone to work at 6 in the morning that day, and left at 6 in the evening, then went to see her, so I had only worked 12 hours that day, just half a day. The line to get books autographed was really long. I didn't stay to get a book autographed. I later found out that it would have been after midnight before I would have gotten to the front of the line. While I would have liked to have gotten her autograph, I was already exhausted. I believe it was a Thursday, and by the time the weekends hit, I would sleep for 12 hours a night to catch up, so I just couldn't stay that late.

 

[Amish Heart]

She came to a High School in Albuquerque, got on stage, and did a speech and slide show. Had alot of great photos of her dog in funny poses, asleep almost upside down with his lip flaps hanging and all that. I made sure I bought the kids book she wrote about her dog for our school library. There were only about 50 people there and I drug my husband along. We went up to the stage afterwards to say hello and for book signing. I pointed husband out to her, he was sitting way in the back looking bored out of his mind, and she stood up and waved wildly at him. Made me laugh. Love her cookbooks, I think I have most of them. Love her product line, too. She tells the story in her first book about how she met her husband, a cowboy, and her a country girl, and how she made the transition. But I don't know about his family history.

 

[Magus]

You know, if you read "Mein Kamph" and It takes a village" you start thinking Hillary is Hitler in drag.

Other than that, Anarchy comics, issues 1-4

 

[Weedygarden]

I didn't actually start reading much until I was almost out of HS. I am not a fast reader so they always put me in "slow" reading groups etc. I like to have to look up a word here and there. I think it was one of the Brontes that got me reading. I also like "old" rather than whatever is new and in style (and always have thus not liking what I was reading in school.)
Also, I have a history book from about 1905- ish. There is so much history that hadn't even happened yet so the history covered in the book is OLD.

Reading was one of the things I did as a child. I was one of the better readers, in the top reading group, and that actually got me into trouble in school, because I was often so far ahead that I had no idea where the rest of the class was.

I like older books, historical fiction, such as Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters. I like the movies that have been made from their books. I am fascinated by societal mores of different times and cultures.
mo·res/ˈmôrāz/
noun

1. the essential or characteristic customs and conventions of a community.
   "an offense against social mores"

She came to a High School in Albuquerque, got on stage, and did a speech and slide show. Had alot of great photos of her dog in funny poses, asleep almost upside down with his lip flaps hanging and all that. I made sure I bought the kids book she wrote about her dog for our school library. There were only about 50 people there and I drug my husband along. We went up to the stage afterwards to say hello and for book signing. I pointed husband out to her, he was sitting way in the back looking bored out of his mind, and she stood up and waved wildly at him. Made me laugh. Love her cookbooks, I think I have most of them. Love her product line, too. She tells the story in her first book about how she met her husband, a cowboy, and her a country girl, and how she made the transition. But I don't know about his family history.

Only about 50? I believe the line to see her was about 300 people long.
I first tuned into Ree Drummond in the 2000's. I was reading lots of blogs in those days and hers was one of the top 10 blogs to read. In her blog, she was writing the story of how she met her husband, and she parsed it out in episodes. That was later put into her book. She now puts so many photos into her blog posts that it is annoying to try to read it sometimes. I subscribe to her stuff, and I like her stuff, it is just too much for me. I would like to go to the store she started in Oklahoma, The Mercantile. The Drummonds have to be multi millionaires.

 

[Amish Heart]

Yep, I'd like to go there, too. I never watched daytime tv, but years back I had both knees done and was stuck home from work for three weeks. I tuned into her cooking show each day. Made me hungry. Bad to watch when I was inactive. I'd ask husband to bring me food! And I'd get a pbj. Nothing like what she'd make!

 

[Weedygarden]

Yep, I'd like to go there, too. I never watched daytime tv, but years back I had both knees done and was stuck home from work for three weeks. I tuned into her cooking show each day. Made me hungry. Bad to watch when I was inactive. I'd ask husband to bring me food! And I'd get a pbj. Nothing like what she'd make!

The girl can cook, no doubt about it! I have seen her cooking show a couple times, but I too do not watch daytime television. And currently am not watching any television.

 

[Double R]

Janet Evanovich’s Game on (tempting twenty eight)

 

[Weedygarden]

Janet Evanovich’s Game on (tempting twenty eight)

That is a prolific writer! I have never read any of her books, but I have gotten some in boxes that people were giving away. I used to pick up free books from people on Craigslist and sell them on Ebay and now on Amazon. I've made some good side money doing that over the years.

 

[Double R]

That is a prolific writer! I have never read any of her books, but I have gotten some in boxes that people were giving away. I used to pick up free books from people on Craigslist and sell them on Ebay and now on Amazon. I've made some good side money doing that over the years.

I recommend her Stephanie plum series. Love them. Have read them multiple times. She has a few others but I never really got into them. Read them and not felt the need to read them again.
That sounds like a great way to make some money!

 

[Weedygarden]

I recommend her Stephanie plum series. Love them. Have read them multiple times. She has a few others but I never really got into them. Read them and not felt the need to read them again.
That sounds like a great way to make some money!

I may have some of her books in the garage. I keep loading up boxes of books and hauling them away, but they seem to multiply in the garage!
She is 78 years old and has written 156 books. That is just amazing to me!

 

[Double R]

I may have some of her books in the garage. I keep loading up boxes of books and hauling them away, but they seem to multiply in the garage!
She is 78 years old and has written 156 books. That is just amazing to me!

I was given her first 3 books (1 book with 3 in it) of the series many years ago. Took a bit of book 1 but I was hooked pretty quick. I wait every November (it’s on the calendar ) every year for the release of the next book. Normally have it read by now but it’s just been one of those times I can’t seem to sit down and focus. They do make me laugh quite a bit though.
I had no idea she is 78!! Nor did I know she’s written that many books. May need to look up some others of hers.

 

[joel]

At All Costs by David Weber

 

[Morgan101]

I like the old references to get an insight into topics before ideas were whitewashed.

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I had the youngest granddaughter going through the encyclopedia Britannica on Saturday showing how we searched for information before Google.

There are at least 4 sets of encyclopedia on that shelf dating back to 1900 with a circa 1980 Britannica on that shelf. After that hard copies disappeared.

I think Eden (the younger granddaughter) enjoyed it.

Ben

We have a set of Colliers Encyclopedia. I takes up a nice spot on the book shelf in the living room; like a museum piece. They probably haven't been touched in 30 years. Does anybody else remember how to spell encyclopedia from the Jiminy Cricket song? A blast from the past:

 

[Morgan101]

My Mother was a voracious reader. My sister and I inherited that love of reading. Now my wife and I are both voracious readers. We go to the Library at least once a week. My wife is better than I am at searching things and ordering books from authors she likes. I just wander through the rows and see what looks interesting.

It will probably never happen but if we ever turned one room in our house into a library we would have a substantial and quite interesting collection.

Next visit I am going to look for some Longmire books.

 

[Weedygarden]

We have a set of Colliers Encyclopedia. I takes up a nice spot on the book shelf in the living room; like a museum piece. They probably haven't been touched in 30 years. Does anybody else remember how to spell encyclopedia from the Jiminy Cricket song? A blast from the past:

I didn't see Jiminy Cricket on cartoons, that I remember and I didn't see this cartoon. Children at school would talk about spelling encyclopedia. "Encyclopedia is a hard word to spell," and then they would spell it out. I learned to spell it when others were doing that, maybe in second grade.
I would think I would remember seeing Jiminy Cricket on cartoons, because I really loved him when I was younger. He was in the Golden Book version of Pinocchio, and he was Pinocchio's conscience, telling him to do the right thing. We had many discussions about him when I was really young. He did the right thing and wanted Pinocchio to do the right thing also.

 

[Mountain trapper]

Probably the best book I've ever read was Rascal by Sterling North. First time I read it was in high school, and have read it several times since. Another book I enjoyed as a kid was My Side of the Mountain. Can't remember the author. And finally Wildwood Wisdom. All 3 books had a big impact on my life growing up.

 

[Weedygarden]

Probably the best book I've ever read was Rascal by Sterling North. First time I read it was in high school, and have read it several times since. Another book I enjoyed as a kid was My Side of the Mountain. Can't remember the author. And finally Wildwood Wisdom. All 3 books had a big impact on my life growing up.

I have not read any of those. I have heard of My Side of the Mountain.
One of the best books I've read was "The Power of One," by Bryce Courtenay. I understand there is a film based on the book, but I don't think I've ever seen it. The story is about a child and goes through his life. He is white, father died before he was born, living in S. Africa, is sent to a cruel boarding school, and later is a boxer, a miner. I found it on Amazon Prime, so I will watch it, probably this evening.

 

[Tacitus]

I remember liking Rascal a lot when I read it as a kid. I kept the book on my shelf as I purged many others. Maybe I should look at it again...I barely remember the story.

 

[LadyLocust]

I remember liking Rascal a lot when I read it as a kid. I kept the book on my shelf as I purged many others. Maybe I should look at it again...I barely remember the story.

I remember that story.

 

[Tacitus]

At All Costs by David Weber

I like David Weber. His stuff gets a bit repetitive, but I still enjoy passing the time reading his stuff. His series are getting a bit long, though. I usually stop reading 10 books into a series, so I haven't finished the Honor Harrington series (or read the ancillary stuff). The Safehold series is kind of his culmination of his styles...but he seems to be having a hard time finishing it.

The Honor Harrington series is probably his most popular, but I like the Dahak series as my favorite (first two books...the third is really not a third, but a follow on story that is very different)...would love for them to make those into movies. Starfire and Empire of Man series are also good. Safehold kind of tries to put the best of all of his previous stories together into a new story...I am hoping he will finish it, as I have enjoyed it.

[This is all scifi, by the way.]

 

[Heartbroken]

I must have read My Side of the Mountain a dozen times when I was a kid, though I never ran across Rascal. Some other favorites from that elementary school time were The Witch Family, Flight of the White Wolf and Harriet the Spy. I had forgotten about them until I read these posts. Good memories.
I read the first few Evanovich books but they just got too coarse for my taste.
Currently working my way back through the Angela Marchmont mysteries. Had to cut back on my kindle book spending for a bit so I'm rereading some older ones.

 

[Haertig]

Had to cut back on my kindle book spending for a bit

I have pretty much stopped buying Kindle ebooks, and get them all from my library now. New releases usually have a wait, but older stuff is often times immediately available. Right from the comfort of your own home. The new release waiting can be cut down significantly if you routinely check your favorite authors websites for their upcoming releases. Many libraries list future releases months in advance and you can sign up on the wait list long before the book is even released. But you have to know to search for future-release books, which is where the authors websites come into play.

The problem with wait lists is that the book may come available when you're in the middle of another one and not ready yet. The "Overdrive" system that many libraries use now lets you reschedule books that come available when you're not ready, and keep your name at the top of the waiting list. Another problem is that the rental may expire before you have finished the book and you can't renew it because of an ongoing wait list. The solution to that is simple. Put your Kindle into "Airplane Mode" permanently. Never take it out of that. Then download your library rentals to your computer instead of your Kindle, and then "side load" them to your Kindle. Once you do that, the book will remain on your Kindle for as long as you need it, provided your Kindle never gets connected to the internet (which is why you leave it in airplane mode all the time). Another trick I used before switching to the airplane mode method, was to get on the wait list for the book at multiple libraries. Then when one library load expires and you can't renew, you bounce to a different library and check the book out from there until you finish reading. This technique requires you to be a member at multiple libraries. Not everybody has that luxury. But in my area, all the Denver-metro surrounding town libraries let you join their library even if you don't live in their district. All's you have to do is live anywhere in Colorado. I am currently a member of 8 different libraries. Used to be 10, but I dropped off of two of them due to poor selection and long waits or other hassles (like yearly membership renewals where you have to physically show up at their library).

Also, check out eReaderIQ | The Easier, Faster, Smarter Way to Kindle and Free Amazon Kindle Books, Nook Books, Apple Books & Kobo Books for cheap/free eBooks. There are often times good books hidden in there, but be warned that Freebooksy has a lot of romance (blech!) you have to scroll through, but who knows, you may like that stuff.

 

[montanabill]

I started reading because I couldn't see well enough to go out at recess and catch balls and things. I got glasses in third grade and then didn't get another pair till later. Now looking back it was partially no money in the family and the fact I could do most things OK. Anyway i read everything all the time and in jr high they were big on teaching "speed reading". It really did help speed up my reading and helped my comprehension.
I read a lot of sci fi, the hardy boys, stacks of readers digest books, many years of national geographic magazines etc. Michiner, and for our work on the navaho res i read all of Tony Hillerman's books.
With the times being what they are I have pulled off the shelf and reread Alas babylon, Patriots by james Wesly Rawles, Lucifers Hammer, and a few others.
We keep a good stock of books and I find myself every now and again buying a bag of books and stashing them for just in case the world shuts down.

 

[LadyLocust]

A question for any of the history buffs on here: Looking for farm life resource books from the early 19th cty. or earlier. Any suggestions? I would prefer from USA or England.
Thanks!

PS - (mini-rant) It's so frustrating to put a search into the browser and get nursery rhymes or Jane Austin or Farm Ballads or things from 1950's. Arg!

 

[SheepDog]

Have you ever looked at the Gutenberg online books?
You can find the resource HERE.
I suggest you bookmark it because older books on any topic can be found and downloaded for free.

 

[LadyLocust]

Have you ever looked at the Gutenberg online books?
You can find the resource HERE.
I suggest you bookmark it because older books on any topic can be found and downloaded for free.

Yep looked there. I might need to figure out a different search word(s).

 

[Just Cliff]

The Outrider Series.
https://survivalplus.com/outrider/cover1.htm

 

[Neb]

I started the audio book of The Silmarilian while working on seedlings this afternoon. This will be #2 or #3 times through the book.

Ben

 

[LadyLocust]

I'm still in the Little House series "Farmer Boy." I got gyped! I purchased the complete boxed set. Yes, it was a set of 8 and all 8 were there, but there are 9 books in the series! The one they chose to omit? Little House in the Big Woods - the first one. Grrr. I will have to find it so I have a real complete set.
Also listening to "Dori of the Mountains." About a gal who grew up and lived in the Appalachians long ago - interesting. It's on a weekly reading.