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What are you reading?

This week I am catching up on my magazine reading.

Harvard Business Review has an article on Branding and Social Media.

Men's Journel is reviewing some nice gadgets I don't need.

In the Autumn Issue of The Quarterly Journel of Military History there a nice read about Lawrence of Arabia........Betrayed...........Why the Middle - East is such a mess. The same issue has another article about the Battle of Britain called Spitfire Summer. BTW I am very interested in the post war airfields that turned into race tracks.

I just completed a CME ( Continuing Medical Education ) course on Diagnosing and Managing Headaches...........36 pages of academia and now I have a headache. ;)
 
Just finished reading "Rules of Betrayal" by Christopher Reich. That makes 40 for the year and I am retired. My wife works and usually reads over a hundred a year.
 
I’m about 1/3rd of the way through Room. It’s an interesting look at individual perspectives, but not for the faint of heart.

I just finished the first two volumes of Stieg Larsson's trilogy. The first two were very well written.

Anyone reading Unbroken?


Easy :german
 
Glad to see lots of book readers, I work at a book printer/binder.

finished - Traffic, Why we drive the way we do. :thumb Next time I see a "lane closed ahead" sign, I'm waiting till the last foot of clear pavement to merge.

working on - 13 Bankers, The Wall Street takeover and the next financial meltdown. By Simon Johnson and James Kwak. It don't look good......
 
Just finished:
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming, Mike Brown
The Confession, John Grisham

Now reading:
Parallel Worlds, Michio Kaku
Dead or Alive, Tom Clancy Grant Blackwood
 
I recently finished James Patterson's latest Alex Cross novel, Cross Fire - first book I've read on my e-reader BTW. I've started on a collection of short stories by John Connolly, Nocturnes, but they're VERY dark and I'm not really in the mood right now. Waiting for Christmas morning to see which new reads I get! I keep a running list of books that interest me on my desk, and my kids know that's the 'go to' spot if they need a gift idea. There's almost NOTHING I love more than books!
 
I'm not a big reader of novels / books but I am just getting close to finishing Ghost Rider by Neil Peart.

It's an interesting journey, his trip, life and reading the book. I'm in the section now where he's basically reprinting/recounting second party letters he wrote to various friends during and after his trip. Some of it is tough to follow because it's hard to tell whether he's in the first person or second person.

Like a rough section in a washed out road though I'm determined to get through it!

Happy Holidays!

RobStar
 
Jane Eyre. Great story and not what I expected.

Also burned through Sh*t My Dad Says. Funny stuff to relate to. Extremely easy read, both Dad and I read it today.

Currently reading 101 Biggest Bastards and Gulag Archipelago - CREEPY!
 
Mark Twain's Autobiography . . .

From Wikipedia:

Autobiography of Mark Twain or Mark TwainÔÇÖs Autobiography refers to a lengthy set of reminiscences, dictated, for the most part, in the last few years of American author Mark Twain's life and left in typescript and manuscript at his death. The Autobiography comprises a rambling collection of anecdotes and ruminations rather than a conventional autobiography.

BIG book. I'll have to wait 25 years for Volume 2 . . .

Voni
sMiling
 
Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda

I recently read a lenghty article about him now I have an extensive biography. There is an interesting podcast on Amazon about the work here.

I always admired his love of motorcycling. Even in the 1920-30's he rode 500 mile days in England and on one of my all time favorite motorcycles, the Brough Superior.
 
Just finished Liberty And Tyranny by Mark Levin. Now reading Contempoary Europe A History. By H. Stuart Hughes It's European history from 1914-1970.
 
Just finished Liberty And Tyranny by Mark Levin. Now reading Contempoary Europe A History. By H. Stuart Hughes It's European history from 1914-1970.

Along those lines I would recommend The Guns of August. Pretty interesting read on how WWI changed the european political landscape, which ultimately led to WWII.
 
Shadows In The Jungle: The Alamo Scouts Behind Japanese Lines in WW II, by Larry Alexander.

The stories are worth telling but the writer Isn't a historian, he's a newspaper writer. The book reads like he didn't have an editor. There are too frequent grammatical errors and I often had to read for what he meant as opposed to what he said.

Other than a "Selected Bibliography" of eight books, there is no demonstration of scholarly effort. I don't expect the voluminous notes section of a Rick Atkinson work, but there were statements of fact that needed to be cited.

Now for the tough decision of what to read next from my stack of unread books.
 
10-4 Criminalbydesign. Just studying the rise of socialism, fasism, communism, and national socialism. And the results of those isms on Europe and the rest of the world.
 
10-4 Criminalbydesign. Just studying the rise of socialism, fasism, communism, and national socialism. And the results of those isms on Europe and the rest of the world.

To do that, you have to start with a real read of Adam Smith. The talk show Cliffs Notes version is a bit flawed.
 
I Am My Father's Son, by Dan Hill (One of my Christmas books). Not too far in yet, but interesting so far.
 
Zen

I just finished, for the first time, "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance". Never knew it was a philosophy text. I was much more interested in the "throwback" details of the ride than how to define quality, but it also made a lot of sense. When you're over 40 you already understand a lot of his ramblings. So my college philosophy prof said many, many years ago...

Have fun,
Jer
 
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