What is Everybody Reading?

[ifbbathena]

The Bear and The Nightingale. It's the first of a 3 book series. I'm meh about it so far. I may have to get something else from the library when I'm in town next week.

I love reading. I prefer it over tv.

 

[Weedygarden]

The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood, by Julian Rubinstein



Ruby Wayward
5.0 out of 5 stars An important read for all Denverites
Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2021

Brilliant reporting of a neighborhood I called home for several years, 2016-2019. I lived a block off of Holly Street, and smack dab between The Holly & District 2 Police Station. We absolutely loved our neighbors and their kids, who were all born and raised in NE Park Hill. It was the only neighborhood in Denver where I felt like it was a real community that looked out for one another. I was so sad to move away from our street, despite shootings happening every week only a few blocks away.
We knew the neighborhood had a history and I had always wanted to learn about it, but I also knew it was too complicated and too deep to just ask a neighbor. This book lays it all out in perfect detail. I could see all the location's in my mind, and I appreciated the respect the author gave to residents of Park Hill, no matter their age, race, or affiliation. I also greatly respect all the truth being brought about DPD, the real thugs in Park Hill's story. I am so thankful for this book and all the work the author did to present The Holly and Terrance's story in the sentimental light they deserve. I will definitely recommend this book to anyone who wants to know why NE Park Hill is the way it is, and all the obstacles that come when you try to save the neighborhood you love.

 

[LadyLocust]

It's me again Margaret (If you don't know that humor, I'm sorry.)

I found another source for books / titles. I'm sure you've figured out I'm old at heart so I like old lit. preferably non-fiction, how they did things in the past. At times I hit road blocks in finding new material. I recently went looking for Mr. Beeton's Book of Garden Mgt. I found Forgotten Books You can click on a topic to explore an area of interest, or look for a specific book. They are of course trying to sell the PDF, but what I like is you can read a certain number of pages so know if the book is actually something you want to read in its entirety. I don't like reading on a screen so will probably order a hard copy of the book. (I haven't decided yet.)

 

[Caribou]

"The Long Roll Home" book 2, by Diana E. Anderson.

 

[joel]

seed catalog

 

[LadyLocust]

I have a few going since I found a couple at estate sales this past weekend.
The New England Buttry Shelf Almanac : April (it's laid out by month.)
Foxgloves & Hedgehog Days - this is my reader at the moment, only a few chapters in but so far so good.
Thought Vibration - essentially the power of positive thinking.
Household Manual c. 1879 - Funny to see opium listed as the proper treatment for an ailment & other fun things. This is a resource book from the time.
That's all I'm digging into at the moment. Won't let myself open another until I finish one of these.

 

[Amish Heart]

I liked The Long Roll Home. Good book from one of our own
Am reading, "The Blessings of Freedom" by Steven C Smith
and am skimming "The Self Sufficient Backyard"

 

[Morgan101]

I just finished the latest CJ Box, Joe Pickett novel. I think it was one of his best. I am in the middle of a new Harlan Coben that is very good.

 

[Neb]

My copy of "The Book of Enoch" was delivered today. I will be starting it soon.

Ben

 

[TeeJ]

I'm taking a whack at the Bhagavad Gita - a hindu text that's fascinating, but tricky for me because much of it is so foreign to how we westerners think

Just finishing a re-read of my favorite scifi book "Voice of the Whirlwind" by Walter Jon Williams - it's from the 80's and its interesting how much future he predicted correctly (usb thumb drives, rise to power of NGOs, etc.) but how wrong some things are as well - for example non billionaires aren't going to space anytime soon...

and Heavy Metals Detox by James Lilley - I'm really interested in the subject, thinking it may be part of the cause of my autoimmune issues, but the book seems to just skim the surface of every topic and hasn't given me much meat to chew on yet. Hoping it gets there in the end.

 

[backlash]

I downloaded 100 books you must read before you die volume 1 then downloaded 100 books you must read before you die volume 2. Looks like I will never be able to die.
I have started with the first book titled Little Women. It's not really my type of book so it may take me awhile to read that.
OK to be totally honest I will never read it.
I'm back to reading WW2 books.

 

[sonya123]

I'm taking a whack at the Bhagavad Gita - a hindu text that's fascinating, but tricky for me because much of it is so foreign to how we westerners think

So I am not the only weird one that read that...
Funny story: I wanted to buy it from a hotel in India ( it was in English) and they didn't want to sell it to me! I ended up buying it on Amazon
Imagine someone asking to buy a Bible in a hotel in the U.S. They would GIVE it to them, and add a few more most likely

I am currently reading a German murder mystery my friend that works at the library gave me

 

[rice paddy daddy]

I just got in the mail from Amazon a 605 page biography of General George C Marshall, who in WWII was hugely responsible for our success, and also the Marshall Plan for the rebuilding of Europe after the war.
Soldier, strategist, statesman, he served our country for over 50 years.
“George Marshall, Defender of the Republic” by David L. Roll, Dutton Caliber, 2019.

I’m a WWII geek, been studying it for over 65 years now.
I don’t “do” Kindle, and since I only read 30-45 minutes each night before bed, and may be reading from several books at a time, the library doesn’t work for me either.
A 30+ year relationship with the Military Book Club combined with Amazon keeps my own library constantly growing.
Patton, Eisenhower, Bradley, Marshall, Hap Arnold, these are the men who shaped our world as it is today.

 

[randyt]

I'm reading this one. Mostly because I knew the author. The author is from east Tennessee. He and his family has-been looking for silver in the Unakas for years. He is also a heck of a gunsmith and has fixed a few guns of mine. I read the original manuscript 14 years ago. After my parents passed I lost touch with him. Last time I seen him was at the Jonesboro tenn flea market. I heard the Fed's nabbed him at Red Fork falls with some silver.
He showed my dad a big turtle that someone had pecked into the topic a big flat rock. A native american symbol. We could not find it.

Anyhoo, it's a good book too

 

[Neb]

The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden

This will be a longggggg read.

Ben

 

[Neb]

The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden

This will be a longggggg read.

Ben

Just passed 1/5 of the way through.

Some Mary stories.
Jesus as a youth including a story of Joseph dragging him home by the ear at one point.
Narratives about behind the scenes events of Christ's resurrection, events in hell, and those that were asleep in death.
Fragments of letters to from Paul.

Including all of these lost books would make the new testament longer than the old.

Ben

 

[LadyLocust]

I downloaded 100 books you must read before you die volume 1 then downloaded 100 books you must read before you die volume 2. Looks like I will never be able to die.
I have started with the first book titled Little Women. It's not really my type of book so it may take me awhile to read that.
OK to be totally honest I will never read it.
I'm back to reading WW2 books.

Did you ever see the Friends episode where Joey & Rachel swap books? He has to read Little Women and she has to read The Shining.
This is a clip - not the whole episode.

 

[LadyLocust]

I think one more chapter of Foxgloves and Hedgehog Days. Finished Thought Vibration. Still not starting anything new since I've not had tons of reading time. Will finish F&HD before the next book is opened. I did zip by an estate sale today and picked up Great Expectations, The Glass Menagerie which I read about a hundred years ago so don't remember, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. All 3 probably on @backlash 's list.

 

[jishinsjourney]

Rereading Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Homescale Permaculture, by Toby Hemenway. I’ve got How (Not) to be Secular by James K. A. Smith in progress from my library. In the queue are Homegrown Pantry by Barbara Pleasant, and The Legend of Luke by Brian Jacques. Redwall novels are my go-to for traveling, which we will be doing soon.

Just finished: for light reading (very light ) The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life, v. 6, by Usata Notohara.

 

[LadyLocust]

Decided to open Eric Sloan’s “Once Upon a Time: The Way America Was”. It’s a pretty simplistic read but wish I would have read it when it came out (1982).
Have a few other books waiting but haven’t had much reading time. Decided today was a good rainy day to read a little.

 

[Wingnut]

Just finished JOE PEPPER by Elmer Kelton, that is a classic Western... hilarious in many parts, and the ending leaves the reader smiling. Just when ya thought ol' Joe was about to get his neck stretched... lol.

Picked up a slew of good books today, including works by Conrad, Haggard, London, Shute, and Stevenson. I intend to do some reading as I pick up where I left off with the interior home rehab work. Heat outdoors is becoming oppressive...

With all the negative cr@p going on in the world today (and fuel prices continually rising), I reckon my summer will be spent finishing the interior of my home and catching up on some reading. Good thing I already have materials for home rehab.

Gotta get the thumper out of the shed and clean 'er up, if I go to the mountains at all this summer it'll probably be aboard the motorbike, that'll keep the goldurned fuel costs down... I do wanna go to Silver Lake and Ruidoso Downs.

I'm also looking forward to a couple of rodeos, one here in Alamogordo and the other on the Mescalero Reservation. Like the Navajo, the Mescalero Apache tribe has some good riders... don't ever let anybody tell ya otherwise.

 

[Caribou]

"The Long Roll Home #2" by Diana Anderson. I've been saving this book for an emergency. Today the cable was cut in Canada and the whole town lost internet for 10 or 12 hours. When I go shopping this week I'll ask if the card readers were down.

 

[Wingnut]

Read these two lately:

A TOWN LIKE ALICE
by Nevil Shute

TREASURE ISLAND
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Now I'm working on an old friend:

THE SEA-WOLF
by Jack London

Good books, and it has been a while since I read any of them... so I'm a happy camper. None of the modern cr@p can touch the old classics, there's just no comparison.

Authors had better descriptive powers in those days, before the advent of TV and modern devices. An author couldn't just toss in a link or paste a photo, he had to use words to describe EVERYTHING...

Seems like literature is a dying art... whenever I pick up a library book by a modern author and read the introduction, it just doesn't hold me like the old stuff, and I wind up replacing it on the shelf. I want REAL writing, not weak watery BS.

Just my $.02, guess I'm old school, and no modern author is gonna teach this old dawg new tricks, lol. I'll stick to the classic tales of adventure, they keep me turning pages... I like the old school authors.

 

[LadyLocust]

By the Shores Of Silver Lake LIWilder

 

[Haertig]

"Pandemonium" by Warren Fahy (this is the second book in the Fragment series) ... Pandemonium by Warren Fahy

But read the first one in the series before the one above. "Fragment" ... Fragment by Warren Fahy

 

[Neb]

Just passed 1/5 of the way through.

Some Mary stories.
Jesus as a youth including a story of Joseph dragging him home by the ear at one point.
Narratives about behind the scenes events of Christ's resurrection, events in hell, and those that were asleep in death.
Fragments of letters to from Paul.

Including all of these lost books would make the new testament longer than the old.

Ben

Finished it.

It was an interesting read but I don't see myself studying it. Next up is "The Forgotten Books of Eden".

Ben

 

[Magpie]

Just finished Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis- enjoyed it. Next up is some poetry for college reading.

 

[Wyatt]

 

[Tacitus]

I've been using the library more. I just read two books in a series of 4...and then found out the local library only had those two books, and never bothered to buy the other 2. Alas, I had to place an order on Amazon.

 

[CalicoKatie]

I've been doing a lot of reading this summer like going back through all of Kathy in FL's stories. She's having some issues with the other sites she has posted on so is in the process of moving everything to the member stories section of Timebomb 2000. If it's not okay to put a link to that page, let me know and I"ll remove it.
https://www.timebomb2000.com/xf/index.php?forums/member-stories.86/
My favorite genre is murder-detective-intrigue and I enjoy David Baldacci's books. A lot of the audiobooks are free online and I've just started his Amos Decker series. Really, really enjoying these. Here's a list of the books in that series in order and a link to a page you can access the audiobooks free online. You do need to read them in order just so you know the story of what happened to Amos Decker.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/150209-amos-decker
https://goldenaudiobooks.com/Author/david-baldacci/