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What are you reading?

Fight Doctor

Good book if you're interested in Muhammad Ali's career or professional boxing in general - by his fight doctor, Ferdie Pacheco. Picked it up on Amazon for my Kindle. Humorous, insightful, hard to put it down.
 
"Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus". Written by Nabeel Qureshi.

It's the story of how Nabeel came to Christ as a devout Muslim. It talks of the struggles he had accepting that Mohamed wasn't who he had been told he was all the years he was growing up. And about how in the end, he couldn't help but to accept that the Jesus of the Bible was true.

I picked it up from the library in ebook format. I'm putting it on my Christmas list to put into my library. It is that good.

Chris
 
Read that earlier in the year and recently finshed the next book in the series, No Mans Land.

Now I'm reading The Fix. The is a Amos Decker series also written by Baldacci.

A friend gave me several of his novels. I tend to get into books by an author and then read all of his/her books that I can get my hands on.
 
Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus by Nabeel Qureshi.

From Amazon's description:
Nabeel Qureshi describes his dramatic journey from Islam to Christianity, complete with friendships, investigations, and supernatural dreams along the way.

Providing an intimate window into a loving Muslim home, Qureshi shares how he developed a passion for Islam before discovering, almost against his will, evidence that Jesus rose from the dead and claimed to be God. Unable to deny the arguments but not wanting to deny his family, Qureshi struggled with an inner turmoil that will challenge Christians, Muslims, and all those who are interested in the world’s greatest religions.

Engaging and thought-provoking, Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus tells a powerful story of the clash between Islam and Christianity in one man’s heart—and of the peace he eventually found in Jesus.

I found it extremely thought provoking.
 
The BMW MOA Forums. A compelling mystery story with many plot lines, hidden messages, fascinating character conflicts, occasional moments of truth, a large measure of fantasy and paranoia and fleeting moments of truth. Could be a contender for a Nobel prize in the Fiction category. :wave

Friedle
 
reading

Zero below zero. All winter commuting in Duluth MN on a studded tired electric motorcycle. Book came as a free gift with last order from Aerostich.

Has me seriously looking at a second motorcycle being an electric for local errands and commuting. I really like the thought of (almost) zero maintenance.
 
Winter Ride

Followed the blog that winter as they were doing the commuting back and forth it was interesting something that might be fun once. Snow and slush roads with potholes darkness dealing with traffic and hills one time and I could check that off my bucket list.
 
"Churchill; A Life" by Martin Gilbert, "Grant" by Jean Edward Smith, "Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: All Volumes" Ulysses S. Grant, "The Great Divorce" C.S. Lewis. These I've all finished second read within the last month or so, second read as I typically will read a book twice to glean what I missed in my haste to finish the first time through.

Churchill was a rather interesting chap, larger than life really, the only thing I disliked was his insistence on socialism solving societies ill's. Driven, courageous quite a person.

Grant was a man built for his place in time, much as we all are i guess, very under appreciated figure in American history a true national treasure.

I think you'll enjoy them all.
 
Books

I just finished:

Freakonomics: by Levitt and Dubner

I found it extremely interesting and thought provoking. Especially Chapter 4.

The book is a collection of 'economic' articles written by Levitt, an expert who has already gained a reputation for applying economic theory to diverse subjects not usually covered by "traditional" economists; he does, however, accept the standard neoclassical microeconomic model of rational utility-maximization. In Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner argue that economics is, at root, the study of incentives. The book's chapters cover:

Chapter 1: Discovering cheating as applied to teachers and sumo wrestlers, as well as a typical Washington DC area bagel business and its customers
Chapter 2: Information control as applied to the Ku Klux Klan and real-estate agents
Chapter 3: The economics of drug dealing, including the surprisingly low earnings and abject working conditions of crack cocaine dealers
Chapter 4: The role legalized abortion has played in reducing crime, contrasted with the policies and downfall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu (Levitt explored this topic in an earlier paper entitled "The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime," written with John Donohue.)
Chapter 5: The negligible effects of good parenting on education
Chapter 6: The socioeconomic patterns of naming children (nominative determinism)

RPGR90s
 
The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing

I just finished Melissa Holbrook Pierson's "The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing". I found it interesting but bordering on a little bit of brown-nosing at the skills of the long distance rider's.

Part of that is my fault. I can knock out 800 mile days if needed, but rarely feel the need, so I tend to slow down, take the roads less traveled and have learned to enjoy the beauty, the interesting people one meets along the way.

I still think people doing 1000 mile days, back to back to back, are missing something so essential to riding, but the book DOES reinforce the mental and athletic skill needed to do that kind of riding, so I am impressed with that. And I do acknowledge that there are many, many facets of being a motorcylist, so my view might be tainted. :)

Overall, I would give the book 3/5 stars. 2/5, if you're not a motorcyclist.
 
Anyone done the Alienist and/or the sequel The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr?

Late 1800's New York City crime drama with Teddy Roosevelt as one of the characters.

Was binge watching the TV series and wondered if I should bother with the books.

Just finished re-reading all my books by Robert B Parker. Penned the Spencer series (think Spenser for Hire tv movies), the Jesse Stone series (think the Tom Sellek tv movies) and the Virgil Cole series - Appaloosa, Resolution, Brimstone and The Blue Eyed Devil.

SS
 
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