What is Everybody Reading?

[Amish Heart]

Husband likes Baldacci, too. Check out my sis's books: CM Sutter. Her series is similar

 

[Amish Heart]

Or a shameless plug for my nephew, EH Reinhard.
Both are crime dramas
CM Sutter is his mama.

 

[Amish Heart]

Ha lastly another sis of mine, KJ North, but I didn't like her books. Oh well.

 

[CalicoKatie]

The book I was listening to on golden audio books, The Last Mile, just ended abruptly without the last few chapters so I don't know what happened. I've listened to other books on their site without a problem. I just checked tokybook.com and they have it on their site so I'll finish it there.
https://tokybook.com/?s=david+baldacci

 

[Wingnut]

I'm reading BISCUIT-SHOOTER, by Clifton Adams... it's a pretty funny Western. I picked up a nice stack of Westerns at the library today, so I'll slowly work my way through the lot.

 

[joel]

I bought the first elven Sharpe books, about a brit soldier that works his way up the ranks in the war against Napoleon's France.
They have not arrived yet.

 

[LadyLocust]

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Is/was this any good? Helpful?

 

[joel]

Got Bernard Cornwell Sharpe-1 thu 11 today.

 

[Wingnut]

I recently finished PANHANDLE PIONEER, by Bradford Scott. Pretty good Western, and somewhat educational too, especially the part about "bone pickers"---folks who collected buffalo bones from the prairies and sold them to outfits which ground 'em up for use as fertilizer. I recall me dear departed mum using "bone meal" in her gardens, I suppose that's a related product. Millions of buffalo were killed back in the day, so their bones littered the ground, especially in areas where mass shootings took place.

Now I'm reading THE COWPUNCHER, also by Bradford Scott. He was a prolific author, penning over 250 Western novels in his time.

 

[bkt]

I'm a couple hours into this - The Psychology of Totalitarianism by Mattias Desmet. This will make you think. Best book I've read (or listened to) in a long while.

 

[CalicoKatie]

I'm listening to the audiobook Dry by Neal Shusterman. The premise is that due to a catastrophic drought all water lines that supply southern California are shut off.

“Arizona and Nevada just backed out of the reservoir relief deal,” Mom tells him. “They’ve shut the floodgates on all the dams, saying they need the water themselves.” Which means that the Colorado River won’t even reach California anymore.

Here's the audiobook link. Each section is just over an hour long and then stops. You'll have to click the little white arrow on the left side of each line to listen to the next chapters.
https://fulllengthaudiobooks.com/neal-shusterman-dry-audiobook/
If you prefer to read it yourself, here is the book free to read online.
https://sevies.weebly.com/uploads/2/4/3/1/24317847/dry_by_neal_shusterman-pdfread.net.pdf
I'm less than 3 hours into this one but it's moving past grim to grimmer and soon will at the grimmest.

 

[Magus]

Being housebound for all of this time, and coming to the realization that television is really pretty bad I have started to go back into my library, and find things of interest. My library is focused on historical non fiction from the period of 1850 - 1900. I am a huge fan of the Old West.

It was heartbreaking to me when the Library closed, and admittedly that caught me very much by surprise. I used to go to the library every week. My wife and I are both voracious readers.

Has anybody else increased their reading? Any favorite genres or authors?

TV is nothing but commie broadcasting and brainwashing, even the family friendly and "Christian" stuff is garbage. Some of the best movies you never heard of are on YouTube!
I hit the library of congress for some really great reads, but then I write my own as well.

 

[Magpie]

Catching up on my college reading list, so I have a few on the go - Raymond Carvers short stories, poems by Elizabeth Bishop, and part of my own research, the Hedge grow handbook by Adele Nozedar

 

[Magpie]

Just finished Anything is Possible, by Elizabeth Stout. My first time reading this author.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show...arch=true&from_srp=true&qid=vfQS4x21He&rank=1
Now moving on to 'Hag' Forgotten Folk Tales retold
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show...arch=true&from_srp=true&qid=ktp2qVNCiK&rank=3
Trying to ignore the last two books in my college reading list; both started; both were disliked. On the positive side, smashed my Goodreads challenge this year- 28 books read this year should have left work years ago lol, thank god for public libraries

 

[Morgan101]

I just picked up the latest John Grisham and Brad Thor. I love both authors, so I'm sure it will be a quick read. Magpie, I couldn't agree more. Thank God for public libraries.

 

[Magus]

You're going to trip.
Yeah mickey, screen shot it for the boss!
Bible stories for teenagers by Marvel comics!

 

[Amish Heart]

"Total Power", by Vince Flynn

 

[Sourdough]

I just finished "MEMORIES of OLD SUNRISE", great read, especially if you live in Sunrise, Alaska. It was my third reading of that book. If one reads carefully there is a lot of information about life in Alaska in the 1890's.

Interestingly the author was born in 1868 and lived into the 1960's. What a great period to have lived.

 

[Amish Heart]

That's about the same time my great grandfather Shem lived. I think it was an interesting time to be alive.

 

[Magus]

Some of mosquitomountain's PDF files. He could spin a good yarn!

 

[Griz78]

I dont get as much time to read as id like. But ive been reading the Prose Edda lately.

 

[Magus]

I'll bet nobody here but us know what the Eddas are.
I have the British Eddas. It was a gift from a scholar.

 

[Griz78]

I'll bet nobody here but us know what the Eddas are.
I have the British Eddas. It was a gift from a scholar.

There might be one other person. Assuming their screen name is indicative of them actually being a heathen.

 

[Magus]

There's quite a few pagan types in here, I'm the only one who brags about it though.

 

[Magus]

I noticed none of my folks hit like. afraid mickey will tell daddy on you?

 

[Griz78]

There's quite a few pagan types in here, I'm the only one who brags about it though.

I understand. I don't tend to brag about my path. Though understand those who do. I've been on this path to some degree or another for almost twenty years. Though have only started to seriously study it within the last five years.

 

[Patchouli]

For nonfiction I’ve been reading a foraging book. Fiction is Holy Chow by David Rosenfelt. Enjoying his sense of humor, east coast attitude.

 

[Magus]

I understand. I don't tend to brag about my path. Though understand those who do. I've been on this path to some degree or another for almost twenty years. Though have only started to seriously study it within the last five years.

About the same here. I kind of was born to it though. I sort of inherited it from a grandfather I never met, crazy crescent birthmark on my left foot and all. A lot of race history goes with it, study too much or talk too much idiots accuse a person of things. We're not allowed to be proud and white where "civilized" people can see us.

 

[Mel]

Oh great, I'm so glad we have this here. I just finished reading the Half Acre Homestead. I can't remember the author's name. I just started the First Time Gardener by Jessica Sowards. Yes I watch her on YouTube but she wrote the book while she was still in Arkansas.

I feel like YouTube is a mixed bag. There is good information out there to sort out. I also have to find what works for me here.

 

[Wingnut]

Just finished THE LONG WIRE, by Barry Cord (pen name, no doubt). It's a Western about rival telegraph companies trying to keep or steal a contract. Interesting glimpse of the whole wire-stringing operation: usually the telegraph wire followed the railroads, but not always... sometimes there was no rail line to follow, so the company involved put up poles and strung wire along dirt roads or across the land. This Western also has an unusual twist: one of the bad guys uses a bamboo blowgun and curare-tipped darts to knock off unsuspecting victims, lol. Fastest blowgun in the West!!! Yikes!!!

Hey, Magus! This 'Cord' author has a novel titled LAST STAGE TO GOMORRAH!!! Boy, that must have been one helluva ride, not to mention the destination, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!