What Are You Reading Now?

[PaloAltoCougar]

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Heard about A House Full of Women by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich on NPR and started that a few days ago. I know very little about church history so it is all news to me.

My wife and I spent an evening with her a year or two ago and were very impressed. She's a highly respected Harvard professor of history and a very serious scholar. But she hails from Sugar City, Idaho, has served multiple times as RS President and in other Church callings, and remains very unaffected by her academic status.

[Maximus]

Just finished swan song. pretty entertaining post apocalyptic book

[Joe Public]

Grunts: The Curious Science of Humans at War – Mary Roach

I'm finishing this now.

[SteelBlue]

Just finished McCarthy's Blood Meridian for the first time. So good. Also finished Knausgaard's My Struggle Book 5 so I'm caught up with the English translation but probably should have waited as 6 doesn't come out for a year.

[Commando]

I suck at reading but lately got into A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn-- pretty fun so far.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Killshot by Elmore Leonard. Another fun novel with some creepy villains.

[LiveCoug]

About a third of the way through "The Son"... I'm really digging it.

Good recommendation, people.

[falafel]

The Night Bird by Brian Freeman. I got it free on kindle with my Amazon Prime subscription. Pretty good detective/psychological thriller.

[SteelBlue]

The Unseen World by Liz Moore. Excellent.

[Walter Sobchak]

How do you guys find time to read? I'm impressed with you folks. I think the practice of law may have ruined reading for me.

Exactly. Audible and Kindle in your spare moments.

I can't listen to audio books. I use a Kindle, but prefer printed media. My life seems full of distractions (e.g. kids) when I do have time to read. I'm constantly flipping back 1 or 2 pages and re-reading content because I was interrupted. That kind of consumption doesn't seem to map well to an audio format IMHO.

I have two e-books currently on loan from the library. "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern" by Stephen Greenblatt, and "A Scanner Darkly" by Philip K. Dick. Haven't started The Swerve, but almost done with A Scanner Darkly. As I'm reading ASD, I humor myself my imagining that every character in the novel could reasonably be an iterative instance of my good friend Uncle Ted. Ha!

[Jeff Lebowski]

I can't listen to audio books. I use a Kindle, but prefer printed media. My life seems full of distractions (e.g. kids) when I do have time to read. I'm constantly flipping back 1 or 2 pages and re-reading content because I was interrupted. That kind of consumption doesn't seem to map well to an audio format IMHO.

I have two e-books currently on loan from the library. "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern" by Stephen Greenblatt, and "A Scanner Darkly" by Philip K. Dick. Haven't started The Swerve, but almost done with A Scanner Darkly. As I'm reading ASD, I humor myself my imagining that every character in the novel could reasonably be an iterative instance of my good friend Uncle Ted. Ha!

Most of my audible listening is done in the car. I don't have a long commute but I am always amazed at how quickly I can get through books that way.

At the same time I always have a book going on kindle for when I want to just read.

I resisted the kindle format for quite a while but I am converted. Don't see myself ever buying another printed book.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Just finished The North Water. I saw it on several "best of 2016" lists. Novel about a british whaling expedition to the Arctic that goes horribly wrong. Kind of a cross between Moby Dick and Silence of the Lambs. A page-turner, but not for faint of heart.

[LiveCoug]

My book consumption is about 95% audiobooks now. I drive a ton for work, so I can bust through books fast.

Also, I can't think of a good reason to pay for audiobooks or for an audiobooks service (audible or whatever). I can get pretty much any audiobook for free through my library app.

I take that back, I guess the one good reason for paying is getting the book you want right away, as sometimes I have to wait a bit to get a book through my library, but my wishlist and hold list is so huge, it doesn't matter. I always have plenty.

[BigPiney]

Just finished The North Water. I saw it on several "best of 2016" lists. Novel about a british whaling expedition to the Arctic that goes horribly wrong. Kind of a cross between Moby Dick and Silence of the Lambs. A page-turner, but not for faint of heart.

Finished it this morning too.

Recommended, but I agree with the bolded. I will not be recommending it to my wife.

[TexTechCoug]

My wife and I spent an evening with her a year or two ago and were very impressed. She's a highly respected Harvard professor of history and a very serious scholar. But she hails from Sugar City, Idaho, has served multiple times as RS President and in other Church callings, and remains very unaffected by her academic status.

I've mostly been listening, and it is very interesting, but I think I was hoping to see a little more of the Feminist tilt to the story. Mostly it has been a retelling of early church history patched together from the letters and journals of some of the women in Nauvoo, Phoebe Woodruff, Eliza Snow, and a few others. Obviously, very well researched and written.