What Are You Reading?
Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2023 11:11 am
Since this question seems to have fallen to me and I haven't done it for awhile.
I like to read a lot of books at the same time-but I went a little overboard lately and I can't even really begin to count the books I am currently reading-but here is a try.
EBooks
1) The Sound and the Fury-as mentioned here earlier-I am about 2/3 of the way through.
I set aside 3 other Ebooks I have been on for awhile (I read a chapter of one then a chapter of the next etc)
2) A Book on the battle of Saipan-which was the climactic battle in my favorite WW2 novel "Battle Cry." I finally watched the movie and I was pleased with how it followed the book -Leon Uris wrote both the book and the screenplay so that is to be expected. Any changes made sense in the interest of time-including the absence of some favorite characters.
3) Book 7(I think) of the Casca (the eternal mercenary series) by Barry Sadler.
4) "Saints"-Orson Scott Cards novel on Mormon history.
Real Books
I usually read 2 at a time-4 pages of one then 4 pages of the other.
1) "We'll Meet Again"-#4 in Bartle Bull's Anton Rider series. This is a fairly quick read and jumped ahead of 2 other ones that I am working on.
2) "One Matchless Time-A Life of William Faulkner"-I have paged through this many times but I started reading it in conjuction with "The Sound and the Fury"-may not have been the best decision as it is kind of confusing to keep the 2 straight.
3) "War Along the Wabash-The Ohio Indian Confederacy's Destruction of the US Army in 1791"
My work pickup book
1) A book on flags by Tim Marshall-"Worth Dying For:-Marshall is known for writing about the persistence of geography in geopolitcs.
My good pickup book
1) "1917" by Warren Carroll-Catholic focus on the events of 1917.
Just finished a short trilogy on WW2 in East Asia with a focus on the China front.
Contemplating re-reading this winter the Shelby Foote Civil War trilogy.
First read these following the Ken Burn Civil War doc that drew heavily from Foote-but that has been a 1/3 of a century so a re-reading might be in order.
I like to read a lot of books at the same time-but I went a little overboard lately and I can't even really begin to count the books I am currently reading-but here is a try.
EBooks
1) The Sound and the Fury-as mentioned here earlier-I am about 2/3 of the way through.
I set aside 3 other Ebooks I have been on for awhile (I read a chapter of one then a chapter of the next etc)
2) A Book on the battle of Saipan-which was the climactic battle in my favorite WW2 novel "Battle Cry." I finally watched the movie and I was pleased with how it followed the book -Leon Uris wrote both the book and the screenplay so that is to be expected. Any changes made sense in the interest of time-including the absence of some favorite characters.
3) Book 7(I think) of the Casca (the eternal mercenary series) by Barry Sadler.
4) "Saints"-Orson Scott Cards novel on Mormon history.
Real Books
I usually read 2 at a time-4 pages of one then 4 pages of the other.
1) "We'll Meet Again"-#4 in Bartle Bull's Anton Rider series. This is a fairly quick read and jumped ahead of 2 other ones that I am working on.
2) "One Matchless Time-A Life of William Faulkner"-I have paged through this many times but I started reading it in conjuction with "The Sound and the Fury"-may not have been the best decision as it is kind of confusing to keep the 2 straight.
3) "War Along the Wabash-The Ohio Indian Confederacy's Destruction of the US Army in 1791"
My work pickup book
1) A book on flags by Tim Marshall-"Worth Dying For:-Marshall is known for writing about the persistence of geography in geopolitcs.
My good pickup book
1) "1917" by Warren Carroll-Catholic focus on the events of 1917.
Just finished a short trilogy on WW2 in East Asia with a focus on the China front.
Contemplating re-reading this winter the Shelby Foote Civil War trilogy.
First read these following the Ken Burn Civil War doc that drew heavily from Foote-but that has been a 1/3 of a century so a re-reading might be in order.