What is Everybody Reading?

[LadyLocust]

Went to an estate sale Sunday on my way home from church. Not much there but did find a few books/pamphlets, all for $4.
Not pictured: Natural Healing Encyclopedia by Mark Stengler - would suggest checking it out from the library rather than purchasing. I might not keep it.
A couple in the photos are from the 40's and 50's and look promising.

 

[Wingnut]

Don't tell me that AMISH GARDENING SECRETS is full of Monsanto chemical compounds, lol.

Just finished THE ADVENTURES OF COMANCHE JOHN, by Dan Cushman. Pretty funny Western, ol' John is a real character, lol. "Share and share alike!!!" My kinda bandit...

 

[Mel]

I'm still reading the First Time Gardener.

 

[Magus]

A boy and his dog.
the movie did NOT do it justice.

 

[Mel]

A boy and his dog.
the movie did NOT do it justice.

That's the way it usually happens, isn't it? I think One Second After would make a great movie but some director or someone would screw it up.

 

[Magus]

Loved that book, never could find the sequel.

 

[Chaosdawn]

 

[Bacpacker]

Loved that book, never could find the sequel.

Amazon has the trilogy as a set. They also have the single books as well

One Second After Trilogy (One Second After, One Year After, The Final Day): William R. Forstchen: Amazon.com: Books

 

[Magus]

I don't buy online.

 

[LadyLocust]

Don't tell me that AMISH GARDENING SECRETS is full of Monsanto chemical compounds, lol.

Just finished THE ADVENTURES OF COMANCHE JOHN, by Dan Cushman. Pretty funny Western, ol' John is a real character, lol. "Share and share alike!!!" My kinda bandit...

Haven't read it yet. I'll have to let you know. I glanced through it and it does appear to have more than just garden info which I thought was a little odd, but I actually thought of @Amish Heart when she said once the gardens get messy and are producing well, they pull it so I expect them to say, "Once the plants start producing, pull them."

 

[Amish Heart]

Ha. They'd never admit it. My neighbor Kathy, the mom of the little girl I drive to amish school each morning, has church at their place this upcoming Sunday. So she pulled her garden last week so it wouldn't look messy. Her daughter said she pulled the sweet potatoes, too, and I asked if they were good, and she said that they were tiny. So my favorite cousin's farm has church (for the other district) the week after. Her daughter pulled the garden as part of the clean everything that they do before church. It's really an obssesive thing around here, that things can't look messy. Maybe in your book they'll talk about mulching. It is a big deal here, mulching everything. I'm not much of a mulcher, and after two years here, I think the ladies have given up on me. Kansas winds blow off all the mulch in the spring anyway, I don't see the point. But I am throwing continual rabbit poop mixed with straw in the garden around the plants, so maybe that counts. I am the go to person for plant starts and for peppers, so it seems. And I plan to keep a garden growing, even if it's in the greenhouse for as long as possible. Hopefully thru Christmas with the greens, carrots, and cabbage at least. Right now my sweet potato vines are growing insanely all over and blooming like crazy. No one else gets blooms, and two ladies have come to look at them. Maybe it's the rabbit poop.

 

[ABR]

Just received a new copy of All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot. Had one a long time ago but it got lost in the last decade of moves. Amazon had it on half off the other day so I added it to another order. I've been looking for a new bedside book for a few minutes of light reading before lights out each night

 

[Tacitus]

Just received a new copy of All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot. Had one a long time ago but it got lost in the last decade of moves. Amazon had it on half off the other day so I added it to another order. I've been looking for a new bedside book for a few minutes of light reading before lights out each night

The whole series is great. I read it as a teen, I think? Don't remember when, but I remember loving every page.

 

[LadyLocust]

Started in on Amish Gardening Secrets. Evidently they aren’t going to tell . I’ve read 2 chapters (both short) and no mention of the garden yet. I think chapter 3 might be the one.

 

[Wingnut]

Just finished TRUMPETS IN THE DAWN, by Charles N. Heckelmann. A "historical novel" featuring U.S. Cavalry troops under Custer... not a bad read, and the author did some research on events leading up to the massacre of Custer and his troops. It's common knowledge that Custer was ambitious, but not as many folks know about the trouble he had after testifying against President Grant's brother, who was some corrupt POS involved in the BIA & post trading scams of the day. I think Custer felt he had to "redeem himself" in the eyes of the American Public by scoring a great victory against the Sioux and their allies, but I still don't know why he split his command... whatever the reason, it was his downfall. Even Reno's troops had a hard time, and they might have fallen as well if it weren't for Gibbons and his column. Also, I wonder how Custer and his men would've fared if they'd had the three Gatling guns and heaps of ammunition they left behind, lol. Meh, his fall was probably due to bad karma after the massacre of Black Kettle and the Southern Cheyenne on the Washita... while the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, Arapaho et al were tired of broken promises and worthless treaties.

 

[Amish Heart]

The secret here is to go get Hog radish seed and start planting it where the garden was (that was pulled out too early). Those radishes will grow as big as your arm, then you let them rot in the ground and till them into the ground in the spring. True amish secret. Ha.

 

[Morgan101]

I just picked up James Baldacci's latest. He is one of my favorite authors.

 

[Shawn Burkett]

My brother and I are Baldacci fans too.

 

[Magpie]

Have several essays and two books on the go for college; but for when I need to step away - lined up for the weekend is Victoria Hislop's 'One August Night' a follow-up to 'the Island' which was interested (about a Greek island where lepers were sent to during the war) and just began The man who quit money, by Mark Sundeen. Two chapters in, he has me...
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Quit...sprefix=the+man+who+quit+money,aps,186&sr=8-1

 

[MoBookworm1957]

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.

You would love the military library at our little Veterans Memorial building library.
Along with all items on the walls.

 

[Magus]

Researching for my book....

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Knitting machine manual KH230, now that I will have time again.
Maybe?
Murder by the Book-don't know the author.
But it reminds me of someone I have read before.

 

[LadyLocust]

Ha. They'd never admit it. My neighbor Kathy, the mom of the little girl I drive to amish school each morning, has church at their place this upcoming Sunday. So she pulled her garden last week so it wouldn't look messy. Her daughter said she pulled the sweet potatoes, too, and I asked if they were good, and she said that they were tiny. So my favorite cousin's farm has church (for the other district) the week after. Her daughter pulled the garden as part of the clean everything that they do before church. It's really an obssesive thing around here, that things can't look messy. Maybe in your book they'll talk about mulching. It is a big deal here, mulching everything. I'm not much of a mulcher, and after two years here, I think the ladies have given up on me. Kansas winds blow off all the mulch in the spring anyway, I don't see the point. But I am throwing continual rabbit poop mixed with straw in the garden around the plants, so maybe that counts. I am the go to person for plant starts and for peppers, so it seems. And I plan to keep a garden growing, even if it's in the greenhouse for as long as possible. Hopefully thru Christmas with the greens, carrots, and cabbage at least. Right now my sweet potato vines are growing insanely all over and blooming like crazy. No one else gets blooms, and two ladies have come to look at them. Maybe it's the rabbit poop.

The Amish Gardening Secrets book is a joke. It should be called "I met an Amish woman so decided to put some words together and call it a book." The "secrets" are tips like: It's easier to weed the garden after it rains. There is no organization to the book, and though some of it involves a garden topic, much doesn't. I think the title was an effort to sell books off the subject only. I do not recommend it & will be donating it my next trip.
On to a different book.

 

[Amish Heart]

Ha Ha. I've seen alot of stupid supposedly amish stuff at the gift stores. My cousin's daughter says she could slap a different label on a bottle of water, call it amish water, and sell it for big bucks.
But on the other hand, the amish pay big bucks for Shacklee, Amway, and Essential Oils, along with other "health" products.

 

[Haertig]

I finished Dust, the third and final book in Hugh Howey's Silo trilogy a little while back.

Now I am reading - of all things - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (the first book of the series, and I have read none of them).

I read for fun these days. My days of reading technical stuff to learn new technologies - the type of stuff I read during my working years - are over for the most part. Nowadays, I enjoy reading for fun and escape. Even young adult stuff sometimes, like Harry Potter. The other day I thumbed through one of my tomes - a programming book on C++. And I was thinking, "Why would I want to brush up on this and become a guru on it again? I'm never going to write another C++ program in my life!" Back to Harry Potter...

 

[Mel]

Sorry I've not been on since Thursday. We built a sifter for the compost. Then today and Friday I worked. I said something in an attempt to help someone and they got mad. I guess some people don't want help or don't know how to say, "I know you mean well, but no," or, "I'll think about it," or "thank you." And my new fitness tracker arrived and it seems to be working so I have something to replace the one that started going out.

 

[sonya123]

Thomas Perry " The old man" , pretty good, started reading it this morning at 4 am when the puppy decided he needed to go out and I couldn't go back to sleep

Heartig: I love all the Harry Potter books , kids and myself read them all when they came out , we have all the movies too

 

[Wingnut]

I read WINTER OF THE COUP last night, by Carter Travis Young. I don't know if this author is related to Gordon Young in some way, but the book was entertaining. Another Western, of course, that's my preferred genre nowadays. In the story, a down-on-his-luck cowboy joins an expedition to recover the body of a Lakota Sioux war chief, so some greedy Eastern entrepreneur can put the chief's head on display back East and over in England. However, the war chief's brother seeks revenge, and the Eastern dude ultimately gets shot & scalped for his trouble, lol. Not a bad read, and I have another library book by the same author, titled GUNS OF DARKNESS. I'll read that one next... but I'm also gonna be on the scout for more Gordon Young books next time I hit the library, I know there are a bunch of 'Red Clark' novels on the shelf (I remember seeing 8 or 10 of 'em, lol). Related or not, both authors get my thumbs up, lol...

 

[Wingnut]

Last night I read GUNS OF DARKNESS, by Carter Travis Young, and I enjoyed it... it's a classic Western tale about a dangerous case of mistaken identity. A cowboy rides into a town and finds himself under assault, as the townsfolk think he is a hired gun who has come to kill one of their own. Great story, and the "target" of the actual 'hired killer' is gradually outed as a complete scumbag, lol. I recommend the two books I mentioned by Carter Travis Young, I will definitely be checking out more of this author's work from our local library. I still don't know if this author is any relation to Gordon Young, who also writes good Westerns---I'm gonna check out more of the RED CLARK O' TULLUCO series next time I hit the library, those books are very entertaining. These 'large print' Westerns are easy for me to read, and I can usually read one cover to cover before I crash for the night... when I'm in the mood to read a book, that is. Hey, it's free entertainment, and y'all know I'm a cheap b@stard, lol. Anyway, you Western lovers check out these books, they're great for reading and relaxing... not terribly complicated plot-wise either, so ya don't rack your brain trying to figure out what's going on, lol.

P.S. We had more rain here in Alamo & the Tularosa Basin, and it looks like we might get even more, so I'm gonna go read another book... let that big lunch settle, lol. For some reason, lunch has been the biggest meal of my day recently, I dunno why, as it's usually dinner. But I already knocked out some chores, and I plan on trimming the bud spears off that last weed plant sometime later this afternoon or evening. That plant has been "hanging around" my master bathroom long enough, lol. I'll trim the buds and put 'em in a covered glass bowl for now, later they'll go into a large Zip-Loc bag in the fridge to keep 'em fresh for the holidays. What I'll do is pull the bag outta the fridge whenever I want some weed, then wrap and seal the bag and put it back in storage. Works for me! Okay, now y'all catch a break, I'm off to get horizontal and read a Western... probably CALL OF THE RANGE, by Arthur Henry Gooden, it looks interesting. I'm too full to drink beer and watch a flick, and I'm certainly not ruling out the possibility of a nap, lol.

 

[Magus]

Meditating...I'm starting to look like Buddha.the fat one!
Isn't there a Buddha with a hot babe and an assault rifle?

Oh well. a stack of FM-military manuals.