So, What Are You Reading?

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  1. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read John Rose Ficklen's History of Reconstruction in Louisiana Through 1868.
     
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  2. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read Ella Lonn's Reconstruction in Louisiana After 1868.
     
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  3. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    (1) "Yo! Blacken This!" - Hell's Kitchen meets French Quarter
    (2) "The Great Mathematicians" - Flood and Wilson
    (3) "The Urban Gardener" - Sonia Day
    (4) "Something About the Blues" - Al Young, Poet Laureate of California
    (5) "Gangsters - Outside the Law" - M. Newton (lots of pictures - all my favourites :smile: )
    (6) "The Glass Rainbow" - James Lee Burke (one of his Cajun Detective - Dave Robicheaux novels)

    Johann
     
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  4. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read Stuart O. Landry's The Battle of Liberty Place.
     
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  5. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read Garnie W. McGinty's Louisiana Redeemed.
     
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  6. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read James Harvey Kidd's Riding with Custer.
     
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  7. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read James Harvey Kidd's Riding with Custer.
     
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  8. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read Frank Cunningham's General Stand Watie and His Confederate Indians.
     
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  9. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read Walter Earl Pittman's New Mexico and the Civil War.
     
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  10. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    "When I Left Home" - Buddy Guy (& David Ritz)

    Great memoir by a great Bluesman. Got the book yesterday evening (birthday present) .. so there went today! I've been a fan for about 50 years and went to see him with Junior Wells a few times. Records? Got lots and hey -- even his guitar teaching video. :smile:

    Johann
     
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  11. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read Edward G. Longacre's Army of Amateurs: General Benjamin F. Butler and the Army of the James, 1863-1865.
     
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  12. japhy4529

    japhy4529 House Bassist

    I've just started reading "Harry Potter en de Steen der Wijzen" (Dutch eBook edition of the first HP book) by J. K. Rowling.

    My goal is to improve my Dutch reading skills and what better way to go about it then by reading Harry Potter. I've also downloaded the audio book, also in Dutch. I'm hoping for a 2-for-1 deal whereby I improve both my reading and understanding of the language.

    Proost,
     
  13. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    En kunt u toverspreuken maken? :smile: (Can you cast any spells yet?)

    Johann
     
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  14. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read M. Thomas Bailey's Reconstruction in Indian Territory.
     
  15. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    Currently reading:

    1) Haynes Honda Civic & CRV Repair Manual (2001-2010))


    I LOVE these books. I can't imagine owning a car without one. I'm pretty much reading the thing cover-to cover. I'm going to replace several parts, wear items, filters and fluids tomorrow and am debating whether I should change the timing belt myself one of these coming months or just pay the $700 or so dollars to someone who actually knows what he/she is doing.

    I really, really distrust mechanics. I prefer to do all the maintenance and most of the repairs myself. I couldn't live without the manual! I'm even thinking of learning to fix transmissions JUST so I can do my own and not have some schmoe shop charge me half what I paid for the car just to tighten a bolt or replace a washer.

    2) Gutenberg and the Art of Printing

    What would the world have been like if someone didn't come along and build a contraption to make information mass-producible? This should be a good read :)
     
  16. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Just finished re-reading The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. I hope the third and final book in that series comes out before too long, although I'd rather he took his time and did it right than rush it and have a less than stellar outcome.
     
  17. AV8R

    AV8R Active Member

    Currently reading: Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses

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  18. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    Dunno - pretty dull, I guess. But there are still people nowadays who have made such things possible. Maybe you should ask Bill Gates, Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, Sergey Brin an' all them creative types. :smile: The late Steve Jobs would have been a good person to ask. I'm sure you'd have been told in no uncertain terms just how badly-off the world would have been without his creations! :smile:

    Johann
     
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  19. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    So do I - but I trust myself even less!

    Johann
     
  20. Ian Anderson

    Ian Anderson Active Member

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