What Are You Reading Today?

**cruiser348** · 27th April 12, 05:43 PM

I finally got my copy of "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" back from my father in law and had to reread it. I've read it several times already, but couldn't help myself since the 75th Anniversary reunion was held at the Air Force Museum near me at Wright Patterson AFB. It's hard not to be inspired to read it when I got to see over 2 dozen B-25 bombers fly over my home one day on their way to the event.

**sailortats** · 27th April 12, 06:06 PM

My reading would appear to be quite different from the others listed in this thread. I finished "The Hidden Tombs of Memphis" by G.T. Martin on Wednesday and am now reading "Pharaohs and Mortals" by Torgny Save-Soderbergh.
I am continually reading books on Ancient Egypt as I find that civilization fascinating.

**Macman** · 27th April 12, 06:31 PM

I like threads like these; it's wonderful to see the different tastes of our members. I finally took Cajunscot's excellent advice and am reading "Quartered Safe Out Here" by George MacDonald Fraser. It's about his experiences in the Burma campaign.

**opositive** · 27th April 12, 06:43 PM

dance with dragons--book 5 of a song of ice and fire--and purposely taking my time. i blasted through the first 4 and likely will reread now that i am in a work lull.

preceding that was the hunger games trilogy--except that only took a longish weekend.

**Peter Crowe** · 27th April 12, 09:26 PM

Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography: My favourite of America's founding fathers for his wit and sagacious aphorisms.

**EagleJCS** · 28th April 12, 12:57 AM

Finishing up Dante's Divine Comedy (I'm in the midst of Paradiso now). Read that as a break from Churchill's series on WWII. Next volume in that set is The Hinge of Fate (1942).

Waiting on the last - book 14 - of the Wheel of Time series started by Robert Jordan, due to come out this fall. (The last four books have actually been written by Brandon Sanderson based on RJ's notes, since RJ passed away in 2007.)

I also enjoy re-reading the works of Alexandre Dumas, R. L. Stevenson, Jules Verne, Robert Ludlum, and Morgan Llywelyn - among others - from time to time.

**Joshua** · 28th April 12, 03:39 AM

Tobus - Just pace yourself, else you end up like myself.... I've read the entire Song of Ice and Fire and now am going to have to wait at least another year or two for the next book, and another year or two for the last one.

If the show didn't exist there would be a chance I would read them again.

I've got the Hunger Games books downloaded through Kindle, and I have more travelling to do in the near future (Airplanes are the only places I can ever get any reading done). Maybe I'll start on those before I run off to see the movie.

**English Bloke** · 28th April 12, 03:53 AM

I recently finished "Helmet for My Pillow" by Robert Leckie. A gripping account of the author's experiences with the 1st Marine Division during the Pacific of WW2. It was also one of the books that was, in part adapted for the HBO series "Pacific".

I'm currently reading "Pigs might fly" by Mark Blake which is a biography of the legend that is Pink Floyd. Also a fascinating read, if you like that sort of thing, all be it in a completely different way.