So, What Are You Reading?

Read Wallace K. Ferguson's Facets of the Renaissance.

 

Rabbi Samuel Sandmel, A Jewish Understanding of the New Testament.

 

Quite a few years ago I read John LeCarre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and fell in love with George Smiley. I was delight to discover that he had written a sequel, Smiley's People, and it did not disappoint. Now I've discovered that after all these years LeCarre has written yet another in the series, A Legacy of Spies. Amazon and the USPS has just deposited this book on my doorstep and I expect to be up until the wee hours checking up on the lads from "the Circus."

 

Most Likely to Succeed by Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith
Just started the second half. I love a good sheeple rant on education.

 

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by A. Applebaum

 

Well, I bought this one, for 90 cents at the Thrift Store. I'd be overstating things to say I'm actually reading it. Might be counterproductive to do that.

Unix For the Impatient, Paul W. Abrahams, Bruce R. Larson - I bought it because I fit the profile - impatient. This is a very old text - the first edition; the second was published in 1995! 500 pages of text, NOT ONE diagram or screenshot! Even when discussing graphic apps (then in their infancy) or the then-hot, new XWindows system! Not for today ... if you still want Unix - you should probably look at workalike Linux instead. Lots of free distros and plenty of good, up-to-date books. If you're still dying to get Unix - or at least something that's closer to it than Linux - download a free distro of BSD (Berkeley System Distribution) and there's lots of modern material out there to read. This book has some historical value, I suppose . . . what more can you expect from a computer text 25 years old?

 

Read Phil Sheridan's Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan. First edition, no less.

 

And now back to Niccolo Machiavelli's The History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy from Earliest Times to the Death of Lorenzo the Magnificent.

 

Just finished reading Niccolo Machiavelli's The History of Florence and the Affairs of Italy from Earliest Times to the Death of Lorenzo the Magnificent.

 

Math, Better Explained - Kalid Azad.
It is.

 

Read Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years.

 

Read Lewis W. Spitz' The Reformation: Basic Interpretations.

 

Read Graham Phillips' King Arthur - The True Story.

 

A comic book store opened nearby recently and so I've been catching up on the exploits of Nico Minoru and the Runaways.

 

Read Gildas' The Ruin of Britain.

 

Re-reading Mark Twain's Roughing It.

 

Two more mint-shape thrift-shop finds. Another dollar-plus I don't mind parting with . . .

(1) Saskatchewan - A Celebration - Menno Fieguth (Great photographer!)
(2) The Dream Carvers - Joan Clark. 11th Century. A Norse boy is captured in the New World by Beothuk natives. As time passes, he adapts and flourishes as one of them.

 

Looking for something to read?

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I have 3 books going right now: Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser, Fail U - the false promise of higher education by Charles Sykes, and Salt by Mark Kurlansky

 

I bought this book: Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Tim Ferriss. I've started to read it and even excited to dig for more pages.