What is everone reading ?

“The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. It's a book about soldiers in Vietnam. I thought some of the Fuego TTers might enjoy this quote from the book:

"Henry Dobbins was a good man. In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his belly, slow of foot but always plodding along, always there when you needed him, a believer in the virtues of simplicity and directness and hard labor. Like his country, too, Dobbins was drawn toward sentimentality."”

“Finishing up "The Magician's Nephew" by C.S. Lewis.
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“Stalingrad”

“A website on how to distill my own spirits. lol...”

“You plannin on doing that out behind the house?”

“It's in my blood, my great-granddaddy was a moonshiner...

Nah, mostly I just want to make some applejack. I'm looking up freeze distillation methods.”

“bit, did i plant a seed on the other thread? LOL”

“Which one?”

“I've got two books in the hopper right now.

HOME FROM NOWHERE: REMAKING OUR EVERYDAY WORLD FOR THE 21ST CENTURY by James Howard Kunstler

Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update by Donella H. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows

Both highly recommended.
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“the foxfire one, i was talking about homebrew”

“Eye of The World, by Robert Jordan. Also, 23 Classic Hikes of The World, by Peter Potterfield.”

“Oh yah. I've done homebrew before; I've got some in the fridge now. I popped open a bottle the other night of the last decent batch I made, 12 years ago. Still pretty darn good, but wasn't my best effort by a long shot.”

“bit now can i put my book up?”

“"The Ideas that Conquered the World" by Michael Mandlebaum
"The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman
Lonely Planet's Jamaica guidebook”

“Yes you may.”

“hahaha


ok i am rereading Capitan Blood”

“yay, maple posted on the right thread!!! ;)”

“Got "The Things They Carried" from ebay with two other Vietnam books: "We Were Soldiers" and i can't remember the name of the other one...i loved the movie We Were Soldiers so I can't wait to read the book, been putting it off though...it's over 700 pages!!!”

“David Balducci's Last Man Standing. So far, so good.”

“I'm on a Nicholas Evans kick. Did not read "The Horse Whisperer," but of course saw the movie.

Purchased "Smoke Jumper"... so so.

Just read "The Loop." Better.....

And now I am the first person at our local library to check out his latest, "The Divide." Looking forward to it!”

“The Poet of Tolstoy Park
-and-
The Philosophy of Shopenhauer (this one puts me to sleep...or makes me roll my eyes lol)”

“Just finished "Reason for Living" by George Pessotti. A heck of a story by an impressive man.”

“Beyond backpacking - Guide to Lightweight hiking. - Ray Jardine. It's an easy read and has a great section on winter and snow.”

“Just finished Dean Koontz's Frankenstein Part II and now I'm reading Patterson's "Lifeguard". Then I'll probably continue on with reading the Janet Evonvitch books she wrote in a series about a bounty hunter. I'm ready for book #5.

Then there's always Stuart Woods who has an old dectective series of which I read book one, "NY dead" unless something new comes out by someone else.”

“Just finished Angles and Demons and The Da Vinci Code. Up next is Robert Jordan's new book.”

“Hunter s. Thompson”

“Hitting the classics again. To see if I understand something in them or see things differently now than I did when it was required reading.

Beowulf and
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight are the ones I just finished.


Trek on. www.mytrekkingpoles.com”

“The Da Vinci Code was good, but I listened to it on a cd during one of my long car trips to go camping.”

“My credit card bills, ouch”

“I do hope someone is reading Maria Sandoz”

“Playboy. GREAT articles.”

“Eldest by Paolini”

“Book I, The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches, Robert Stanek”

“The Odyssey, Homer”

“Les Miserables (in the original French)”

“By Day:


By Night (to my kids):
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“I'm reading Wicked by Gregory Maguire, the life and times of the wicked witch of the west.

It makes me want to watch the Wizard of Oz again.....”

“Just finished Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and Race for Empire in Central Asia by Meyer and Brysac.

Currently reading From Beruit to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman”

“Reading Edwrd Abbey Desert Solitaire.


Have never read it before.”

“lee - that's been on my to-do list for a while too. I need to read it soon. How is it so far? Some of these books with the big reps haven't impressed me. John Muir, Sand County Almanac, etc.
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“I need a new book...”

“'What evolution is' by Ernst Mayr

and a whole heck of alot of papers, mostly on ammonoids and embryos, thrillig stuff really.....want to pick up a junk book for light reading...something along the lines of "The Secret Lives of the Divine Oprah's book club"

:)”

“On my list, too, Lee.

OK, just finished Nicholas Evans' "The Divide." I recommend it. I can see that book becoming a movie. And speaking of Abbey, it's got an ecoterrorist story line as part of its overall theme.”

“"Hamlet's Mother and Other Women", Carolyn G. Heilbrun

I'm on her essay "Marriage Perceived: English Literature 1873-1944".”

“The Rainbow Covenant: Torah and the Seven Universal Laws

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“Winnie-the-Pooh
A. A. Milne
Methuen & Co., London 1926
Contents - 10 Stories
In Which We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees, and the Stories Begin
In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets Into a Tight Place
In Which Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting and Nearly Catch a Woozle
In Which Eeyore Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One
In Which Piglet Meets a Heffalump
In Which Eeyore Has a Birthday and Gets Two Presents
In Which Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest, and Piglet Has a Bath
In Which Christopher Robin Leads an Expotition to the North Pole
In Which Piglet is Entirely Surrounded by Water
In Which Christopher Robin Gives a Pooh Party, and We Say Goodbye


I was cleaning out a bookshelf this weekend and found this little hardback I had bought years ago to give as a baby gift then misplaced it. Knocked the dust off and sat down to read a bit.

Such wonderfull stories. Made me smile.

Highly recommended reading for all the old grumpy people of all ages.”

“The Bible.”

“I am FINALLY reading "Touching the Void." I'm about 3 chapters in. So far, so good.”

“I am FINALLY reading "Touching the Void." I'm about 3 chapters in. So far, so good.”

Excellent book!!”