So, What Are You Reading?

Just finished and thoroughly enjoyed Terry Pratchett's final novel, "Dodger." We shall miss him.

 

I came across my old hardcover copy of Tom Clancy's Patriot Games, and only intended to flip through it, but it's drawn me back in completely.

 

Jack Ryan has my vote for President.

 

Good choice. I'm sure we can overlook the fact that in movies, he's already served his two terms.

But if for any reason he can't serve in the US, perhaps around 2020 we could elect him Prime Minister of Canada.

Both our countries have now elected the son of a former leader. Hmmm. :frown: And back a few years, the US elected a former movie actor.
We've never tried that, so... Dan Aykroyd? Mike Myers? Donald Sutherland? Naah! WILLIAM SHATNER!

J.

 

Or, better yet, (way better, in visual terms) Emmanuelle Chriqui!

Emmanuelle Chriqui - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

J.

 

i am reading PHP book ..

 

Read Lisa Tendrich Frank's The Civilian War: Confederate Women and Union Soldiers During Sherman's March

 

Read Kathryn Reinhart Schuler's Women in Public Affairs in Louisiana During Reconstruction.

 

Started reading Joseph Gregoire de Raoulhac Hamilton's Reconstruction in North Carolina. This is a great big hairy 700 page book.

 

What are thy reading in the Ivies? According to the Open Syllabus Project there is a difference

Want an Ivy League education? Read these books. - CSMonitor.com

 

Read Joseph Gregoire de Roulhac Hamilton's Reconstruction in North Carolina, to page 106.

 

Read Joseph Gregoire de Roulhac Hamilton's Reconstruction in North Carolina, to page 206.

 

Read Joseph Gregoire de Roulhac Hamilton's Reconstruction in North Carolina, to page 326.

 

Read Joseph Gregoire de Roulhac Hamilton's Reconstruction in North Carolina, to page 426.

 

Read Joseph Gregoire de Roulhac Hamilton's Reconstruction in North Carolina, to page 533.

 

Read Joseph Gregoire de Roulhac Hamilton's Reconstruction in North Carolina, to page 608.

 

Read Joseph Gregoire de Roulhac Hamilton's Reconstruction in North Carolina, to page 667. Finis.

 

Right now I'm going back to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series. I LOVE IT

 

Once upon a time I got hooked on the "Travis McGee" novels by John D. McDonald. You know, the ones that all have a color in the title? I read them all, in the order they were written. It was interesting because the character aged as the series progressed. I think the books were written over a period of 20 years (or something like that). It was sad because McDonald died before he finished the last book. I hoped for a while that someone would finish it for him but I don't think it ever happened. So it really was . . .

http://www.amazon.com/Deep-Good-By-Travis-McGee-Mysteries/dp/1491513489