So... what are you reading?

[Slider]

Books from two of my interests at the moment:

The Dark Side of the Moon, The Making of the Pink Floyd masterpiece, John Harris

and

Mapping Trophy Bucks, Brad Herndon

[bluebonnet]

I'm reading about a distant relative, Sir James Douglas, the fur trade and the women who made it all happen. It's called, Many Tender Ties by Sylvia Van Kirk. The HBC does have a lovely set of records for anyone doing research for the families. The collection is housed in Winnipeg now. My other on-the-go book is about Mary Schaffer Warren and her mapping out the Maligne Lake area of Banff National Park in the pre-WWI period. It's called, No Ordinary Woman.

[JonathanB]

I'm really chuffed at having brought this thread back to life. I'm half way through The Bride of Lammermoor. Shall I read Quinten Durward next or get into Dickens with Little Dorrit? (One of the good things about reading dear Sir Walter, is that it make me realise how wonderful Dickens is.)

[Hopper250]

As perviously noted I'm working through Burns. I just finished The Mirror Cracked From Side to Side, Cristie is a favorite author, and I have started a very short booklet Zen Buddhism and its relation to Art by Arthur Waley. I am also reading through World War Z (1st time) and The Last of the Mohicans (for the 3rd or 4th time).

[Silk]

I'm reading a few books.
"The Somme" by Martin Gilbert, "The Return" by William Shatner, and I just picked up "Crime and Punishmemt" by Dostoyevsky, a classic that I've never read before.

The Somme sounds fascinating, I'm a big fan of WWI and WWII history! Plus I like William Shatner too. I've read Crime and Punishment before, was pretty good.

Silk

[adempsey10]

The Somme sounds fascinating, I'm a big fan of WWI and WWII history! Plus I like William Shatner too. I've read Crime and Punishment before, was pretty good.

Silk

Shatner is one of my personal heroes but have you ever read the Tek Wars series..... Bloody awful.

[bluebonnet]

The Somme sounds fascinating, I'm a big fan of WWI and WWII history! Plus I like William Shatner too. I've read Crime and Punishment before, was pretty good.

Silk

Silk: You'd like most of Peter Paret's authorship. My fav is: Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age - excellent book.

[Silk]

As perviously noted I'm working through Burns. I just finished The Mirror Cracked From Side to Side, Cristie is a favorite author, and I have started a very short booklet Zen Buddhism and its relation to Art by Arthur Waley. I am also reading through World War Z (1st time) and The Last of the Mohicans (for the 3rd or 4th time).

I like James Fenimore Cooper too! I haven't read any of his stuff since I attempted it in grade 7? though and I had looked up like 100 new words in the first chapter or two so my English teacher (who was Scottish by the way) told me to try a different book. lol But I could probably do well to try it again. He was quite the writer and it's my understanding that he started his writing career after telling someone that he could do a better job writing a book than an author he had just read and the rest is history...

Silk

[Silk]

Silk: You'd like most of Peter Paret's authorship. My fav is: Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age - excellent book.

The only thing is I need a book that is not too textbook-like or my attention drifts. But I have been reading up on the old wars since I was about 12.

Silk

[SorenMacTavish]

Finally broke down and took a friend's advice to read some altered history fiction by Harry Turtledove...and am as a result reading "How Few Remain"....definitely interesting. And I also just finished "Child of Vengeance" by David Kirk...was a phenomenal historical fiction approach to the life of famous samurai Musashi Miyamoto.