So, What Are You Reading?

Discussion in 'Off-Topic Discussions' started by Ted Heiks, Jul 27, 2013.

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  1. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    My current library haul:

    Walden (& Civil Disobedience), Henry David Thorough - I've picked up Walden many times but got distracted and kept putting down. This time, MC finishes what he started.

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain - Another one of those "it's about freaking time you read this" books for me.

    The Believing Brain, Michael Shermer - Might be the most important thing I read all summer.

    Injustices, Ian Milhiser - The rest of the title is: "The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted". Exactly what it says on the tin.
     
  2. Tireman 44444

    Tireman 44444 Well-Known Member

    Having to reread (as per my dissertation chair..ughh..LOL)
    The Dream and the Deal- Mangione
    Portrait of America-Hirsch
    Writers, Plumbers and Anarchists- Bold

    Oh, I did read two books just last week

    Issac's Storm-Larson and The Promise- Weisgarber..the first is about the 1900 Storm in Galveston. The second is set within the Storm in Galveston.
     
  3. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    I'm trying to get done with reading a few books here. I recently finished reading Rousseau in the Great Books edition and now I'm trying to read Montesquieu. I've also read about half of Plato in the Great Books edition and I'm not sure when I'll have the time to finish it.
     
  4. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    Book Haul!!!!

    :Eyecrazy:

    I have no idea quite when I will actually get around to reading them all, but over the past week, I was fortunate enough to find a number of interesting books from thrift shops in my area and some others given away for free at my library.

    Among my most notable captures were:

    History of the World by J.M.Roberts - 921 pages and I plan to read every single one of them.

    The 9/11 Commission Report - Yet another "It's about time you read it!" book.

    Maria's Tambourine - An anthology of Jewish folklore.

    Linguistics: Introduction to Language and Communication - A pretty thick introductory textbook. Most of it will probably be just a review for me, but I'm excited about what else I might learn.


    Other than that, I picked up non-fiction books on astronomy, statistics, human genome and some others. All in all, I now own 10 'new' books (including some huge reference and text books) for a total price of $17. Not bad, eh? :banana:
     
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  5. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    MC: "Walden (& Civil Disobedience), Henry David Thorough - I've picked up Walden many times but got distracted and kept putting down. This time, MC finishes what he started.

    JB: That's why we call him MC Thorough.
     
  6. AV8R

    AV8R Active Member

     
  7. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member


    :pat: That spelling error of mine almost went unnoticed.
     
  8. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Well, half a year is gone. I've read eight out of ten books on Reconstruction in Alabama and two out of ten books on Reconstruction in Mississippi. Presently, I've been attempting to read (if my cats will let me) W. C. Harris' Day of the Carpetbagger: Republican Reconstruction in Mississippi and the Baron Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws.
     
  9. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Finished reading William C. Harris' Day of the Carpetbagger: Republican Reconstruction in Mississippi
     
  10. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    I've long been intrigued by the Free State of Jones. I see on Imdb that the Matthew McConaughey film of that title will be released next March.
     
  11. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    You read more than any 5 book nerds I know combined. I'm in awe!

    How well can you remember what you have read? If you pulled out a book from 5 years ago, would you still be able to recall the main points or any specifics?

    I generally have a very good memory, but there are plenty of times where I look back at a book I've read and not a word of it looks familiar, as if I had never read it at all.
     
  12. RacerBoy

    RacerBoy New Member

    Reading a great story "Ant and the Grasshopper" by William Somerset Mom.
     
  13. Tireman 44444

    Tireman 44444 Well-Known Member

    In addition to writing and rereading research material...I am reading, for fun, The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel. So far so good..
     
  14. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

    When you're done with that you should read some of the other versions. The basic story has been adapted numerous times, sometimes with conflicting moral lessons. Try the James Joyce version at some point.
     
  15. RacerBoy

    RacerBoy New Member

    Okey! Thank for your suggestion. I'll keep this in my mind. LOL!
     
  16. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read William Warren Rogers' Confederate Home Front: Montgomery During the Civil War.
     
  17. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read Arthur W. Bergeron's Confederate Mobile.
     
  18. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read Rudy H. Leverett's Legend of the Free State of Jones.
     
  19. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read Sally Jenkins' and John Stauffer's The State of Jones: The Small Southern County That Seceded from the Confederacy
     
  20. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read Noralee Frankel's Freedom's Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi
     

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