What are you reading?

We’ve got a small tower of gift jigsaw puzzles, plus 3 or 4 craft projects. All unopened.

Daughter got me a Spirograph kit. I opened the box and looked at it. But I prefer freehand…



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I think MY WIFE plays a variation on your little switcheroo.

Lately, I put my wallet in my left front hip pocket as I have done for decades; and later in the day, I pull out wallet and finds that cash I am sure was in there yesterday has vanished. !?!

 

On hold.
#16 on 5 copies @ my local library.
Thanks for the tip!

I haven't seen the movie but will probably watch it after reading the book.
I missed being a Veet-Nam vet by a scant few months.

For years, I thought that this was BAD luck....
- for benefits, of course - NOT the combat pay or the travel opportunity.

 

Fitting for VET'S DAY....I am finding We Were Soldiers a fascinating book. Not really much of a military book fan, I prefer escapism but...

I am putting it up with Caputo's A Rumor of War
A Rumor of War (40th Anniversary Edition) by Philip Caputo, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®

 

Still waiting for WWSOAY.

Re-reading Hornfischer's 'The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors.'

 

it's been a while since i've enjoyed a good book, it must be me

 

Try 'Arry Potter, govner. Serious. I am re-reading them
kris

 

thanks kris, i may have to. even though i've read them 3 times, along with lord of the rings, the hobbit, even star wars.
always good reads and something new.

 

Rowling (according to some sources) is the third most published author in known human history.
I guess I'm not sophisticated enough to 'get' 'The Hobbit' which is to say I also am not much of a fan of the Potter series either, which to me seems to be 'Hobbit 2.0."

See also:
'Star Wars' after Disney got involved.
I've also freely admitted before that I also 'don't get' much of anything written by Ms. Jane Austen - although I might re-tackle 'Emma."
maybe even next....

I once pulled a "display" copy of P&P off of my baby girl's living room shelf and nearly credibly recited that famous first line...from memory.
(Once you get to " It is a truth universally acknowledged..." nobody much remembers anything beyond that verbatim, except it has to do with a wife and a fortune....)
...I've tried to read and read about Ms. Austen THAT many times!

Yes.
I think I will give "Emma" another toss.

 

i liked a couple of austin and bronte stories. read 'summer' by edith wharton, seemed like a copy to me, except for the shocking end, which i did not enjoy.
i don't see the similarities between hobbit and potter, except they both have dragons

 

I'm definitely the wrong person to ask!

I have a 'one chapter rule' when it comes to off-genre books that so far I have failed with the Hobbit, Margaret Atwood's horrible book, and whatever the first Potter book was (I have them all in my digital library.)

I've gotten further with Jane's books but thus far I haven't finished one of them.

I even tried to get through THIS:

 

i can't stand margaret atwood. tried two books and a short story. i didn't get it, but that's why there are a lot of books.

 

Ursula LeGuin and Barbara Kingsolver are seen as writing with some similarity to M. Atwood.

 

i agree. read one barbara kingsolver book, that was enough.made myself finish it.

there seem to be 'mens books' and womens books'. sometimes they cross over, or maybe it's the target audience they are shooting for.
i love agatha christy for instance. love the potter series but nothing else from rowling.

 

I went through a string of Pat Barker books about a decade back; good reads. First one was Union Street.

 

Seeing as you folks seem open to female authors and subjects that break stereotypes of male car enthusiasts, might check out Jane Kirkpatrick. She writes mostly fiction about the West in the 1800s. She also wrote about trying to make a go of living on a remote part of the Snake River in Oregon. Her battles with rattlesnakes....

Or there are the true life books of the Woodswoman. You folks may enjoy Anne's works about living alone in the woods even more than Jane's titles.

Have to admit, my life and career drew a great deal from The Woodswoman. Her books were among my father's faves.

The Woodswoman:

Anne LaBastille - Wikipedia

Jane Kirkpatrick:
https://jkbooks.com/product/this-road-we-traveled/#:~:text=With her signature attention to,pioneer in all of us.

kris

 

^ Thanks!!!
Author noted.

I have a road trip next week and just about enough time to sock away a few library books.

 

I read Anne's Woodswoman books several years ago. Mostly remember she was a big fan of German shepherd dogs. Seems sad an accomplished outdoors person died in a nursing home.

Will have to read her again.

 

if you want to read about people living in the woods:

this-russian-family-lived-alone-in-the-siberian-wilderness-for-40-years-unaware-of-world-war-ii-or-the-moon-landing-7354256

i haven't read the book, but the story was fascinating

 

A book that absolutely and unreservedly needs to be READ.

Third in a great Camino Island trilogy and one of the many books in my Audible library - for now.
I say 'for now' because Audible has a policy of allowing people to 'return a title' that they do not like.
SO.
I do not believe that somebody can 'un-read' a book, and I have not ACTUALLY read Camino Ghosts - nor the two preceding books.
I've LISTENED to all of Grisham's books and highly recommend all of his fiction titles!

I bought Camino Ghosts with Audible and was very pleased to learn that John used Whoopi Goldberg to perform this title.
I SAY 'perform' because as any grandparent or many Bible study participants KNOW - here is a stark difference between reading a book and narration.
(Sometimes called 'audiodrama')

I was appalled to find that a very talented and accomplished Ms Goldberg is a completely HORRIBLE audio book performer - and I didn't make it past Chapter Three.
I probably will finish this book but it will require a long road trip, putting my phone in airplane mode and a blood oath to not upload anything else until I slog my way through it.

I get it.
Bibliophiles generally look down on people who listen to audio books - as something that 'truckers and beer drinkers' resort to because they cannot get past a chapter or two without their lip muscles wearing out- but I have been a 'constant reader' using this format since they called them 'books on tape.'

Either way?
You've been warned.

READ this book.