What are you reading?

[HymanKaplan]

I found a hardbound copy of The Stories of John Cheever, at a used bookstore in Cynthiana last week.

He used to be hugely popular but I guess he/his writing fell out of fashion because hardly anyone mentions him anymore, even though he was a favorite of his contemporaries (Updike and O'Hara for example)

After Ring Lardner, he's probably my favorite short story author.

 

[GeraldV]

Right now, I'm almost finished with Tina by Niall Harbison, the dude who is saving all the dogs in Thailand.

Thinking like a wolf: lessons from the Yellowstone pack is the next book I am going to read. This is another one from the scientist who has spent all those years observing the wolf packs in the park and helped with their reintroduction as well.

 

[HymanKaplan]

Honestly, that sounds fascinating. Making a note👍 of that.

 

[GeraldV]

Honestly, that sounds fascinating. Making a note👍 of that.

If the wolf book interests you, he has four other books in the series. They are really neat, I think. Name is Rick Mcintyre. All of them have been great reads.

 

[Tannerdad]

The Lincoln Conspiracy

 

[BankerCat12]

If the wolf book interests you, he has four other books in the series. They are really neat, I think. Name is Rick Mcintyre. All of them have been great reads.

I remember this being brought up in another thread. I will need to add.

Reading Pete Rose An American Dilemma. Only about 1/4 of the way through but didnt realize he was open about his fondness for ladies while on the road and the wife was okay with it for the first 15-17years. I bought a couple years ago but thought it would be a good time to read now.

Just finished Devil in the White City which was really good and I highly recommend.

 

[Glenn's take]

This thread.

 

[GeraldV]

I remember this being brought up in another thread. I will need to add.

Reading Pete Rose An American Dilemma. Only about 1/4 of the way through but didnt realize he was open about his fondness for ladies while on the road and the wife was okay with it for the first 15-17years. I bought a couple years ago but thought it would be a good time to read now.

Just finished Devil in the White City which was really good and I highly recommend.

Not sure if you are just a Pete Rose fan, or a baseball fan in general, but if the latter, I have also ordered Skipper: Why Baseball Managers Matter and Always Will, about how managing has changed in the new data driven baseball world. I heard good things about it.

 

[cole854]

Goofus and Gallant
Spy vs. Spy

 

[PTI (pti)]

I mostly read non fiction and came across this one last week. It’s a great story.

https://www.amazon.com/Coffeeland-Mans-Empire-Making-Favorite/dp/0143110748/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MlPlBMqirVsjSf-IRzW1VvBaYwepn4iOem8C5unfgrlHjrITbKPSLL_AcZ9AHLllqjplc7dtD357kZwCmcaXy8luZ-BzMIlZVd4W0h8RRZQYS1VhTsZuqScxGnGXGw3Ec2GHLaHa4BGQpJ1Ea8W1BvyivyZGOhuoKHCJ_GxyKwpGWe05XMpj0JURI_kDb-WT.FOwhVl5bpAGzM81OfF_wSASiU7jdN2F7osU8NIUzMAI&dib_tag=se&hvbmt=%7BBidMatchType%7D&hvdev=m&keywords=coffeeland&qid=1749492501&s=books&sr=1-1

 

[Zakk Wyldcat]

I found a hardbound copy of The Stories of John Cheever, at a used bookstore in Cynthiana last week.

He used to be hugely popular but I guess he/his writing fell out of fashion because hardly anyone mentions him anymore, even though he was a favorite of his contemporaries (Updike and O'Hara for example)

After Ring Lardner, he's probably my favorite short story author.

I'm familiar with some of his writing

 

[the nail at the foul line]

Cops that pick up Teddy Bears by Hyman Kaplan.

 

[UK82]

Just finished The Boomerang by Robert Bailey. Just so-so. Can't recommend.

 

[bigbluedon]

Reading With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene Sledge. He was in The Pacific series that Hanks and Spielberg made. Just started and it is good so far. It is highly acclaimed.

 

[BankerCat12]

Not sure if you are just a Pete Rose fan, or a baseball fan in general, but if the latter, I have also ordered Skipper: Why Baseball Managers Matter and Always Will, about how managing has changed in the new data driven baseball world. I heard good things about it.

I used to be a big baseball fan but really havent followed in years. That being said, I was interested in Rose and his story leading up to what everyone knows of him today. So far, its a great read. Up to his first few years as a Red.

I read another baseball book a few years ago. It was really good and how hard it is to get into the majors. "Where Nobody Knows Your Name."

 

[UKWildcats1987]

Re reading Shelby Footes book 3 of a trilogy on the American Civil War.

Also reading fiction series by Johnathan Kellerman about a psychologist that helps consult on LAPD cases. It's the Alex Delaware series and a slow burn at times but if u like LA fiction crime settings and looking for something different it is solid.

 

[MegaBlue05]

I’m a huge wrestling nerd and have been reading two books at the same time.

1. Death of the Territories: Expansion, Betrayal and the War That Changed Pro Wrestling Forever - by Tim Hornbaker chronicles the fall of the regional territory system in the 1980s when Vince McMahon took his promotion national.

2. New Jack: A Memoir of a Pro Wrestling Extremest - short read, first person account of one of the craziest MFers to ever lace a pair of boots who also never worked in the “big leagues.”

“I’ve got a college education and a criminal record. I know how to make decisions” - New Jack

 

[HymanKaplan]

I mostly read non fiction and came across this one last week. It’s a great story.

https://www.amazon.com/Coffeeland-Mans-Empire-Making-Favorite/dp/0143110748/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MlPlBMqirVsjSf-IRzW1VvBaYwepn4iOem8C5unfgrlHjrITbKPSLL_AcZ9AHLllqjplc7dtD357kZwCmcaXy8luZ-BzMIlZVd4W0h8RRZQYS1VhTsZuqScxGnGXGw3Ec2GHLaHa4BGQpJ1Ea8W1BvyivyZGOhuoKHCJ_GxyKwpGWe05XMpj0JURI_kDb-WT.FOwhVl5bpAGzM81OfF_wSASiU7jdN2F7osU8NIUzMAI&dib_tag=se&hvbmt=%7BBidMatchType%7D&hvdev=m&keywords=coffeeland&qid=1749492501&s=books&sr=1-1

going to check that out.

 

[berniecarbo]

I found a hardbound copy of The Stories of John Cheever, at a used bookstore in Cynthiana last week.

He used to be hugely popular but I guess he/his writing fell out of fashion because hardly anyone mentions him anymore, even though he was a favorite of his contemporaries (Updike and O'Hara for example)

After Ring Lardner, he's probably my favorite short story author.

Not to hijack your thread, but did you hear about the clown who ran away with the circus? They made him bring it back.

 

[justa]

I mostly read non fiction and came across this one last week. It’s a great story.

https://www.amazon.com/Coffeeland-Mans-Empire-Making-Favorite/dp/0143110748/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MlPlBMqirVsjSf-IRzW1VvBaYwepn4iOem8C5unfgrlHjrITbKPSLL_AcZ9AHLllqjplc7dtD357kZwCmcaXy8luZ-BzMIlZVd4W0h8RRZQYS1VhTsZuqScxGnGXGw3Ec2GHLaHa4BGQpJ1Ea8W1BvyivyZGOhuoKHCJ_GxyKwpGWe05XMpj0JURI_kDb-WT.FOwhVl5bpAGzM81OfF_wSASiU7jdN2F7osU8NIUzMAI&dib_tag=se&hvbmt=%7BBidMatchType%7D&hvdev=m&keywords=coffeeland&qid=1749492501&s=books&sr=1-1

Def ordering this now, its my industry so i'm on board.

Got this one coming today, being from SouthWestern Va its a story I never heard about. Drug smuggler in VA that crashed his plane and hasn't been seen since. They are doing a doc about it and looks to be an interesting tale.
Chasing the Squirrel

 

[CorbinCatFan]

Just finished "Friction" by Sandra Brown (an oldy but goodie) and I'm about half way through "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens.

On deck is "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy and "I'm a Stranger Here Myself" by Bill Bryson.

 

[Blueisbest]

About 300 pages into Never Flinch by Stepehen King. Entertaining read. Not as good as classic King but I like it.

 

[IB4UK]

I found a hardbound copy of The Stories of John Cheever, at a used bookstore in Cynthiana last week.

He used to be hugely popular but I guess he/his writing fell out of fashion because hardly anyone mentions him anymore, even though he was a favorite of his contemporaries (Updike and O'Hara for example)

After Ring Lardner, he's probably my favorite short story author.

Charles Bukowski~Ham on Rye

 

[Blue-ish]

If you are a Christian whom believes in the spiritual realm of God, angels and demons this book will get your attention. I have read it twice and will likely read it again next year. The author explains how various gods of mythology in different cultures are the product of demons who are on earth to corrupt mankind.

The Return of the Gods

Is it possible that the gods lie behind everything from what appears on our computer monitors, our televisions and movie screens; to the lessons given in our classrooms; to the breakdown of the family; to wokism; to the occult; to our addictions; to the Supreme Court; to cancel culture; to children's cartoons; to every force and factor that has transformed the parameters of gender; to that which appears in our stores, on our T-shirts, and on our coffee mugs—to that which is, at this very moment, transforming America and much of the world? Is it possible that behind all these things are ancient mysteries that go back to the Middle East and ancient Mesopotamia? This and so much more, most of which we can't even reveal in this description, will be uncovered.

 

[Blue-ish]

Follow the Science: How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails

Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author Sharyl Attkisson exposes the corruption that has ruled the pharmaceutical industry for decades.

Through blatant lies, deep cover-ups, and high-level collusion with government and media, Big Pharma has continuously put profits over people with dangerous results. Now, with her signature investigative rigor and uncompromising commitment to the facts, Sharyl Attkisson takes readers on an shocking journey through the dark underbelly of the pharmaceutical industry.

Follow the Science recounts, in exacting detail, how far the pharmaceutical industry and its supporters in medicine, media, and government will go to protect their profits. Attkisson provides shocking examples that reveal the disturbing callousness our government, public health officials, and top researchers are capable of when it comes to the most vulnerable among us. And she explains, in a graphic sense, how some of the most trusted within our society are willing to commit life-threatening ethics violations. When caught, they circle the wagons and marshal forces to defend their bad acts and take steps to cruelly silence the injured and smear those who would expose them.

This book includes exclusive, eye-opening evidence including:

• Financial ties between well-known vaccine promoters and the vaccine industry
• Outrageous collusion between the news media and Big Pharma
• How Big Pharma teaches slanted information to med students and doctors
• Government officials secretly admitting vaccines caused some cases of autism
• The first child seriously injured by Covid vaccines while in Pfizer's study
• The secretive money backing seemingly independent studies and nonprofits

Follow the Science will challenge your assumptions, open your eyes, and inspire you to take action. With its powerful message of truth and justice, this book is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of our healthcare system and their own family's health.

 

[HymanKaplan]

Getting ready to read The Astonishing General

It's the story of Sir Isaac Brock. He was brilliant military leader that fought for the British in the War of 1812, where he teamed up with Tecumseh. Each admired the other immensely it would seem.

 

[DoubleSecretProbation]

Halfway through Tower of Midnight which is book 13 in the Wheel of Time series. Read it when it initially came out and decided to reread to prep for the Amazon series which of course just got canceled.

Sign of the times: very vague references in the books (which were written in 90s and 00s) to same sex encounters but nothing substantial. Of course the tv series creates several of them and puts them front and center.

 

[Hank Camacho]

Def ordering this now, its my industry so i'm on board.

Got this one coming today, being from SouthWestern Va its a story I never heard about. Drug smuggler in VA that crashed his plane and hasn't been seen since. They are doing a doc about it and looks to be an interesting tale.
Chasing the Squirrel

Let me know how that goes. Might like to read it if good.

 

[justa]

Will do, looks to be a quick read. The print is very large and spaced.

 

[JDHoss]

Def ordering this now, its my industry so i'm on board.

Got this one coming today, being from SouthWestern Va its a story I never heard about. Drug smuggler in VA that crashed his plane and hasn't been seen since. They are doing a doc about it and looks to be an interesting tale.
Chasing the Squirrel

Let us know how it is. I love that sort of stuff.

 

[JDHoss]

I'm almost finished with The Stand by Stephen King...for the 6th time. I dust it off every few years. I hope to live long enough for HBO/Netflix/Prime/Apple to produce an epic adaptation of it that spans several seasons.

 

[LordEggForgotHisPassword]

Recently finished The Wager by David Grann which was great.

Also Rubicon by Tom Holland. Also great.

 

[Xmayor]

I have worked my Audible way through both New Mexico mystery authors I've encountered. The Tony Hillerman books are an older series and a glimpse into the Navajo culture. Sometimes called the "Leaphorn and Chee" series.

And the books by author Michael McGarrity aka the Kevin Kerney series, mostly mystery or police procedurals but three of the books are historical fiction of the fictional Kerney family and the american frontier in New Mexico. Very descriptive of the geography of New Mexico too.

Harvard Business Review's "10 Best Reads on Change" was free with my audible membership and I'm listening to apply any private sector lessons to dealing with the overwhelming changes to "the best college town in America". So far it's not the book. Looking for more applicable books.

 

[Rockford]

Reading "Prequel"... about the fascist movement in the United States in the 1930's....... some wild shit in there. Very well written.

For a long while we were much more worried about the commies..... then Hitler invaded Poland and the worm started to turn.

Lot more antisemitism in the US than I thought.

Also, people forget that because of the depression, a lot of people were souring on democracy and were searching for something hopefully better.

 

[*CatinIL*]

Weapons Grade. A Jack Ryan Jr. novel (Clancy) written by Don Bentley.

 

[Ron Mehico]

just finished a couple of books I really enjoyed:
- the psychology of money: super easy read that just talks about how to view money and investing and just various short stories about it. Really really enjoyed

- The rational optimist: deep dive into the history of civilization and what caused them to fall and the common links of success

 

[Blue-ish]

Reading "Prequel"... about the fascist movement in the United States in the 1930's....... some wild shit in there. Very well written.

For a long while we were much more worried about the commies..... then Hitler invaded Poland and the worm started to turn.

Lot more antisemitism in the US than I thought.

Also, people forget that because of the depression, a lot of people were souring on democracy and were searching for something hopefully better.

Your feedback had me interested. Then I read that the author is Rachel Maddow. Do you feel her political leaning may have influenced the slant of the story?

 

[UK82]

Recently finished The Wager by David Grann which was great.

Also Rubicon by Tom Holland. Also great.

I read The Wager in March. Highly recommended.

 

[Rockford]

Your feedback had me interested. Then I read that the author is Rachel Maddow. Do you feel her political leaning may have influenced the slant of the story?

Nope.

 

[Blue-ish]

Nope.

I am going to give a read. Thanks.