What Are You Reading

[Renault]

To me Hunter was more sincere in his writing. And Bell was out to sell a book. JMHO!
There was an instance in Hunter when I felt that the author was alluding to Bell in one passage. I don't think it could have been anyone else. You got the impression that their phylosophies were a bit different..... LOL!

Both books are still in print thru the Safari Press.

 

[AmateisGal]

On Friday, I picked up Soldier from the War Returning: The Greatest Generation's Troubled Homecoming from World War II by Thomas Childers. I read it in one day - that's rare for me (the book has to be REALLY good). This book was such an eye-opener.

 

[DNO]

Thomas Berger's Little Big Man.

 

[Widebrim]

On Friday, I picked up Soldier from the War Returning: The Greatest Generation's Troubled Homecoming from World War II by Thomas Childers. I read it in one day - that's rare for me (the book has to be REALLY good). This book was such an eye-opener.

I need to pick up a copy of that. Although the general public expected WWII servicemen--like veterans of other wars--to pretty much pick up where they left off, we know that quite a few could not. (Films like The Blue Dahlia and The Best Years of Our Lives touch upon this theme, but popular culture generally embraced the former theory.)

 

[Miss Golightly]

I just received a 1925 copy of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes which I've been wanting to read for years.

Inside it has a sticker which states "Property of Robert S. Cummings, The Chimneys, Ottawa Hills, Toledo, Ohio. I looked up the name and this came up:

http://www.historic-woodlawn.com/attic/cummings_r_s.html

I wonder if it's the same person?

 

[AmateisGal]

I need to pick up a copy of that. Although the general public expected WWII servicemen--like veterans of other wars--to pretty much pick up where they left off, we know that quite a few could not. (Films like The Blue Dahlia and The Best Years of Our Lives touch upon this theme, but popular culture generally embraced the former theory.)

You will not be disappointed. It reads like a novel which makes it that much better. It's a must read for anyone studying about WW2 (or really, the Golden Era!).

 

[Edward]

Just started reading Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Killer. Jolly good.

 

[MisterCairo]

I've started a biograph of Beatrix Potter:

http://www.amazon.com/Beatrix-Potter-Nature-Linda-Lear/dp/0312369344

I love reading her stories to my little girls, and this bio is amazing. I knew HBP was a great conservationist, farmer and artist, but had no idea she was a serious amateur mycologist (biologist studying fungi) who studied at Kew Garden, and worked on theories that proved to be correct and were only proven in the last thirty years. A LOT MORE to her than bunnies and hedgehogs!

 

[davidraphael]

Currently treading When we were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

Set in Shanghai and England in the 1930s, I can highly recommend it for frequenters of this site.

 

[DNO]

Just started reading Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Killer. Jolly good.

Thoroughly enjoyable! Try Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by the same author.

 

[Widebrim]

I just received a 1925 copy of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes which I've been wanting to read for years.

Inside it has a sticker which states "Property of Robert S. Cummings, The Chimneys, Ottawa Hills, Toledo, Ohio. I looked up the name and this came up:

http://www.historic-woodlawn.com/attic/cummings_r_s.html

I wonder if it's the same person?

Wow, it appears to be the same person. Tragic how he ended his own life.

 

[Antje]

I just finished a compilation of short dutch fantasy story's I really liked it,
now I'm again reading in Gone with the Wind, I like to read it al year long and just pick it up when I like

 

[Antje]

I've started a biograph of Beatrix Potter:

http://www.amazon.com/Beatrix-Potter-Nature-Linda-Lear/dp/0312369344

I love reading her stories to my little girls, and this bio is amazing. I knew HBP was a great conservationist, farmer and artist, but had no idea she was a serious amateur mycologist (biologist studying fungi) who studied at Kew Garden, and worked on theories that proved to be correct and were only proven in the last thirty years. A LOT MORE to her than bunnies and hedgehogs!

It sounds interesting I receintly watched the movie Miss Potter about her live, I really loved it

 

[Widebrim]

I just finished a compilation of short dutch fantasy story's I really liked it,

I prefer tall dutch fantasy myself...

 

[Aristaeus]

The Black Dahlia Avenger.
By Steve Hodel.
Harper Paperbacks.
Revised edition
(July 25, 2006)

In 1947, California’s infamous Black Dahlia murder inspired the largest manhunt in Los Angeles history. Despite an unprecedented allocation of money and manpower, police investigators failed to identify the psychopath responsible for the sadistic murder and mutilation of beautiful twenty-two-year old Elizabeth Short. Decades later, former LAPD homicide detective turned private investigator Steve Hodel launched his own investigation into the grisly unsolved crime—and it led him to a shockingly unexpected perpetrator: Hodel’s own father.

http://www.stevehodel.com/

 

[Widebrim]

^^That was quite a book. The author makes a strong case for his conclusion, but what inner turmoil he must have gone through.

 

[frank nitte]

i'm reading the rubaiyat of omar khayyam perrsian poetry
is very nice

 

[Vintage Rose]

There are so many good ideas for books to read here. I'm reading a book called We are at War compiled by Simon Garfield. It's some of the journal entries from Britain's mass observation project from just before the war was official until 1941. It's like opening a time capsule. I had to order it from amazon because I don't think it's printed in the states at all. It was shipped from the UK. I have another one by him called Our Hidden Lives which deals with more entries, but from after the war.

 

[Harp]

Back issue of The Standard-
"On Becoming G.K." by J.C. Chalberg.
Book review of William Oddie's Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy.

 

[DNO]

Harold Coyle, Until the End. Seems a tad maudlin at this point.