What are you reading right now?

[jafo2010]

Just finished Daniel Silva's first book, The Unlikely Spy.  First 75 pages jump back and forth in time, which I thought could have been edited better.  But I thought it was a good spy flick.  Well worth reading.

[Gefn]

“Becoming Trader Joe”, by Joe Coulombe

The man who started the grocery store chain Trader Joe’s describes how he did it. I’m liking it because I enjoy shopping at TJ’s, but I’d recommend it for anyone who is in business school as well.

[Cyber Liberty]

“Becoming Trader Joe”, by Joe Coulombe

The man who started the grocery store chain Trader Joe’s describes how he did it. I’m liking it because I enjoy shopping at TJ’s, but I’d recommend it for anyone who is in business school as well.

Nearest one to me is a 4-hour drive.    

[sneakypete]

W.E.B Griffin,"The Enemy of My Enemy".

BIG W.E.B Griffin fan.

[thackney]

BIG W.E.B Griffin fan.

+1

[Restored]

Since I am growing weed this summer
Pot Farm by Matthew Frank      It's about a guy who worked on a farm growing medical marijuana.

[Smokin Joe]

Nearest one to me is a 4-hour drive.   

That's close. My nearest is over 600 miles away. I think the ice cream might melt on the way home...

[Gefn]

That's close. My nearest is over 600 miles away. I think the ice cream might melt on the way home...

Their ice cream is the bomb. Up until a few years ago, I’d have to go to another state to shop at TJ’s.

[roamer_1]

That's close. My nearest is over 600 miles away. I think the ice cream might melt on the way home...

Well there's one over in Spokane... Maybe something to check out next time I go over for the hot rod show... 

[verga]

Working on book #3 of the Isaac Bell series by Clive Cussler. Fast moving and interesting historical fiction.

[sneakypete]

Working on book #3 of the Isaac Bell series by Clive Cussler. Fast moving and interesting historical fiction.

@verga

You can count me in as one of the many,many,Clive Cussler fans.

[Smokin Joe]

Their ice cream is the bomb. Up until a few years ago, I’d have to go to another state to shop at TJ’s.

Well, the closest is only one state over--in Minnesota. That's still over 600 miles from here.

[Cyber Liberty]

I think there's one in Sedona, and we're going there on business at the late August...

[jafo2010]

TJ's is about 8 miles away for me.  We shop there.

And W.E.B. Griffin, he is a definite favorite.  When his books come out, I am reading them the same day.  Problem is, he hasn't published in two years.  I really enjoyed his characters.  Killer McCoy was a great character, along with the father of his good friend, who owned the shipping line.  I felt cheated when he jumped from 1942 to the Korean War.  He could have wrote several books about the balance of WWII. 

[verga]

@verga

You can count me in as one of the many,many,Clive Cussler fans.

@sneakypete His son Dirk haws taken over the reins and is releasing a new on November 2nd.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0593419642/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[Bigun]

W. E. B. Griffin and Clive Cussler are good, but Tom Clancey was the absolute master of this genre IMHO.

[verga]

W. E. B. Griffin and Clive Cussler are good, but Tom Clancey was the absolute master of this genre IMHO.

I view Clancy as Technofiction, and Cussler's Isaac Bell as Historical fiction.
Loved Clancy, some of the people that picked up his characters are better than others. 

[mountaineer]

I've recently discovered Julia Keller, a WV native whose novels are set in a fictional southern WV town beset with poverty (resulting from the death of the coal industry), drugs and hopelessness. Very, very true to life. Her character development is excellent. The protagonist of her books is a female county prosecutor. Thus far, I've read 4 of what I believe are 8 books. Doesn't look like my library has 2 of them, so I may have to proceed a little out of order.

J.D. Vance's description of Appalachia was very accurate in his book "Appalachian Elegy." Keller's is at least as well done.

[sneakypete]

W. E. B. Griffin and Clive Cussler are good, but Tom Clancey was the absolute master of this genre IMHO.

@Bigun

You obviously haven't read W.E.B Griffins early books,like The Corps,and  The Brotherhood of War. Both start immediately prior to WW-2. Right up there with Louis L'Amour as the best stuff I ever read.

[Bigun]

@Bigun

You obviously haven't read W.E.B Griffins early books,like The Corps,and  The Brotherhood of War. Both start immediately prior to WW-2. Right up there with Louis L'Amour as the best stuff I ever read.

I have read both of those and many other of his works as well and agree that he was one of the best but still stand by my original statement. 

[jafo2010]

Can't go wrong with Clancy or W.E.B. Griffin.  Both are favorite writers for me.  When a new book comes out, I gobble it up right away.

[libertybele]

"The Founders' Second Amendment Origins of the Right to Bear Arms"   - Stephen Halbrook

[Gefn]

I’m reading a very good book about the Theranos company, called “Bad Blood”, by John Carryou.

[Bigun]

I'm not reading anything right now. Instead, I'm sitting her mourning the needless loss of 13 American lives who were sacrificed by the idiot in the WH and the rainbow people surrounding him.

[Fishrrman]

Currently reading "Afterlight", the sequel to "Last Light", by Alex Scarrow.
These deal with the collapse of humanity in Britain after a catastrosphic end to the "oil economy".
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Light-Alex-Scarrow/dp/0752893270
https://www.amazon.com/Afterlight-Alex-Scarrow/dp/1409103064

[rustynail]

George Klass remembers..ALTERED COUPE/SEDANS & COMPETITION COUPE/SEDANS

http://georgeklass.net/altereds.html

[BassWrangler]

"The Split (Kelly Turnbull Book 6)" by Kurt Schlichter.

[Gefn]

“The Viking Heart” by Arthur Herman.

Good history book, even though the title makes you think of a book in the Romance genre

[sneakypete]

Just finished a WEB Griffin Brotherhood of War book that I somehow missed when I read the series about the USMC.

[jafo2010]

Lee Child just came out with a new book this past week.  I need a good dose of Jack Reacher about now!

Has anyone read any books by Jeff Abbott?  New name for me, but I will most likely begin reading him soon.  If you have read him, do you have preferences in his series?

[verga]

Just watched "Dune" going to pick up a couple of copies of the series from Amazon

[mountaineer]

Just finished "Atlas Shrugged." Resting my brain for a few days.

[jafo2010]

Funny, I haven't picked up a book for a month or so.  Working, tired at the end of the day, etc.  Not like me to go so long without reading, but I just haven't had the energy.

[verga]

Just got James Golden's "Rush on the Radio" yesterday.
I am in the middle of "The Devil's Sea" by Dirk Cussler. He took the series over from his father. So far it is a pretty good read.

[deb]

Just starting “The Dying Citizen” by Victor Davis Hanson.

[Fishrrman]

Currently reading "Things Will Never Be the Same: A Howard Waldrop Reader".

A collection of science-fiction short stories.
It's ok...

[sneakypete]

Any of you ever read/subscribe to "Issac Asimov's Science Fiction and Fact" magazine?

[verga]

Any of you ever read/subscribe to "Issac Asimov's Science Fiction and Fact" magazine?

I read it years (20+) ago. I thought the quality went down a little after he passed.

[sneakypete]

I read it years (20+) ago. I thought the quality went down a little after he passed.

@verga

I am embarrassed to admit I subscribed to their digital version,and then never got around to downloading any issues to my Kindle.

Mostly because I never use the Kindle. I am a geezer,and love the smell and feel of actual books/magazines.

[godblessRonaldReagan]

I'm halfway through the first (of 3) volumes of Steven Ambrose's biography of Richard Nixon. Immense amount of detail and very readable even though you can tell Ambrose does not care for Nixon.

Also working through The Federalist Papers In Modern Language. How we have gone astray!!!

[verga]

@verga

I am embarrassed to admit I subscribed to their digital version,and then never got around to downloading any issues to my Kindle.

Mostly because I never use the Kindle. I am a geezer,and love the smell and feel of actual books/magazines.

I agree, there is just something about the feel and smell of a book. The Kindle is nice and portable for a hundred books or so, but you just can't beat a book.

[roamer_1]

I agree, there is just something about the feel and smell of a book. The Kindle is nice and portable for a hundred books or so, but you just can't beat a book.

I am that way... My Biblical library has all been converted to electronic, and I like it for the searching capability... All I need is to recall a partial phrase and I can search my whole library for instances -  such a convenience, and so good for discovery - I have found things that I never had a chance of finding searching old skool books. And I love that I can adjust font and type - I never have to find my danged ol glasses.

But that is for study. For readings sake, for pleasure, I need the smell and feel... I need to turn the page. 

[libertybele]

I'm all for turning pages as well.  I haven't had a chance to read in awhile (that and my neck and shoulders crink up  )

[Smokin Joe]

Any of you ever read/subscribe to "Issac Asimov's Science Fiction and Fact" magazine?

Not since the 70s.

[verga]

I am that way... My Biblical library has all been converted to electronic, and I like it for the searching capability... All I need is to recall a partial phrase and I can search my whole library for instances -  such a convenience, and so good for discovery - I have found things that I never had a chance of finding searching old skool books. And I love that I can adjust font and type - I never have to find my danged ol glasses.

But that is for study. For readings sake, for pleasure, I need the smell and feel... I need to turn the page. 

I don't know if you are familiar with "CCEL" Christian Classic Ethereal Library. They have been converting the writings of the great thinkers to digital. They are faithful translations from the original text of some of the greatest theological literature of history.

[roamer_1]

I don't know if you are familiar with "CCEL" Christian Classic Ethereal Library. They have been converting the writings of the great thinkers to digital. They are faithful translations from the original text of some of the greatest theological literature of history.

Yes, I am familiar... Albeit that I only know of the online resource... If they have software I am unaware. A good site, nonetheless, and it is in my bookmarks. 

[verga]

Yes, I am familiar... Albeit that I only know of the online resource... If they have software I am unaware. A good site, nonetheless, and it is in my bookmarks. 

I purchased a CD from them years(20+) ago. IO just checked the site, but did not see that it was still available.

[Elderberry]

For some reason Carlos Castaneda's books popped in my head the other day(must of been a flashback). And I found there's a book of his I haven't read. I'll get a copy tomorrow, "The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life Death And The Universe"

[Fishrrman]

Currently reading "Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse" by James Wesley Rawles, about people struggling to keep going after a massive economic collapse.

It was published in 2011, but reads like it could be describing events today.

More here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriots_(novel_series)#Survivors:_A_Novel_of_the_Coming_Collapse

[mountaineer]

I just finished "The Escape," by David Baldacci. It's about an Air Force Major, framed and wrongfully convicted of espionage. He escapes from the maximum security prison at Leavenworth when someone sends in an assassin to kill him. Couldn't put it down, but it takes a rather frightening look at all of the gazillion competing intelligence agencies in the U.S. government and just how bloated, redundant and possibly corrupt they are. Pretty scary stuff, but a good book. Now I have to go back and find the two previous books in this 4-book series.