What are you reading today?

[globalrider]

Again.

Confessions Of An Economic Hitman by John Perkins.
A best seller that sheds some light on dirty politics (what else is new) and probably explains the cause of our present problems.

Shop Class As Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford.
A best seller, and with motorcycle content.

 

[bernie]

Hitler's Pre-Emptive War
The Battle for Norway 1939

 

[WalterK75]

Shop class as soulcraft : an inquiry into the value of work by Matthew B. Crawford

Sport riding techniques : How to develop real world skills for speed, safety and confidence on the street and track by Nick Ienatsch

 

[gf72]

RESILIENCE by Eric Greitens

 

[leehopp]

Anything by John McPhee -
Currently reading "Uncommon Carriers".

 

[weschmann]

Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty.

 

[SeabeckS]

Anything by John McPhee -
Currently reading "Uncommon Carriers".

McPhee is one of the best..."Oranges", "The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed", "Basin and Range", etc, etc.

 

[SeabeckS]

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown - True story of eight man crew from the University of Washington in their quest for the gold metal in the 1936 Berlin Winter Olympics. One of the best books I've ever read.

Only a few pages in...but an excellent read!

 

[akbeemer]

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

 

[Wkoppa]

Stick by Elmore Leonard

Some Florida and Michigan content with interesting characters and surprising turns of plot.

Wayne Koppa
Grayling, MI
#71,449 Life

 

[Omega Man]

Anything by John McPhee -
Currently reading "Uncommon Carriers".

Friend of mine just gave me that book.
OM

 

[WalterK75]

The violence of organized forgetting: thinking beyond America's disimagination machine by Henry A. Giroux

 

[themayer]

Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty.

Heavy going. I tip my hat to you, sir. I should but probably won't.

 

[na1g]

Stephen King's "Bag Of Bones" (on my Nook)

 

[bob_m]

Flashman and the Mountain of Light by George MacDonald Frasier

Funny but historically accurate fiction about the English campaign in Northern India (now Pakistan)

 

[barryg]

'EISENHOWER In War And Peace' Jean Edward Smith 2012 I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can. Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

[Subman]

"Fast and Able - Life Stories of Great Gloucester Fishing Vessels" by Gordon Thomas
"Neptune's Inferno - The US Navy at Guadalcanal" by James Hornfischer

 

[WalterK75]

Wages of Rebellion by Chris Hedges

 

[xlarry]

Anything written by Lee Child, feathering his kick ass guy Jack Reacher

Read the entire series, love all the Reacher books.

Just read "Gathering Prey" by John Sanford. I have read all the Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers series. Highly recommended.

 

[royce]

Several by Leonard Mlodinow:
- Euclid's Window
- Feynman's Rainbow
- A Briefer History of Time (with Stephen Hawking)
- The Drunkard's Walk
- The Grand Design (with Hawking)
- Subliminal

Yes, I know, they are all weird. But I'm on a kick to better understand the world around me, how stuff works, and why I am the way I am.