What Are You Reading Now?

[SteelBlue]

Just finished The Best American Short Stories 2014. Jennifer Eagan (A Visit from the Goon Squad) was the editor this year and I thought she put a really interesting collection together.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Recently finished the Silo trilogy (Wool-Shift-Dust). Very good. I see the movie rights have been purchased.

Also finished West With the Night by Beryl Markham.

http://www.amazon.com/West-Night-Ber...=UTF8&sr=&qid=

Amazing memoir. She grew up in Kenya on a large farm with her father in the early 1900's. Later she became a racehorse trainer and then a professional pilot. First woman to cross the Atlantic solo.

[snowcat]

Recently finished the Silo trilogy (Wool-Shift-Dust). Very good. I see the movie rights have been purchased.

These are next on my list.

[falafel]

Recently finished the Silo trilogy (Wool-Shift-Dust). Very good. I see the movie rights have been purchased.

Aren't there like 6 books in this series?

[Jeff Lebowski]

Aren't there like 6 books in this series?

9 books organized into three (omnibus) books.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silo_%28series%29

[Northwestcoug]

I certainly did not intend for a review of this book:

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http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/gronking-jesus

to lead me to this book:

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http://www.amazon.com/Gronking-Remem.../dp/B00RN7TNHE

I missed this. As the site's (probably) only Pats fan, I should weigh in. Although now I have a new term to try out on my wife, I will not be buying this book.

[SteelBlue]

Marilynne Robinson's Lila wins the National Book Critics Circle Award. To me this cements her as the odds on favorite to win the Pulitzer.

http://www.themillions.com/2015/03/2...announced.html

[BigPiney]

Marilynne Robinson's Lila wins the National Book Critics Circle Award. To me this cements her as the odds on favorite to win the Pulitzer.

http://www.themillions.com/2015/03/2...announced.html

I started listening to "Home" today. I really enjoy her books.

[SteelBlue]

I started listening to "Home" today. I really enjoy her books.

I loved "Home", it took a really unexpected twist. With yesterday's win, it can now be said that every single work of fiction she has published has won a major prize.

[SteelBlue]

"We Are Not Ourselves" by Matthew Thomas. I'm about 2/3 through this one and am somewhat amazed that it hasn't been on any prize lists that I've seen. This is a very powerful book, and unless it somehow falls apart suddenly, I will count it among the best I've read in the past year.

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[Uncle Ted]

The Innovators by Walter Isaacson. I read this last week when I was in Utah and had nothing better to do. Isaacson has a good knack for making history interesting. Not only does he give the history of how we got here (WRT the digital revolution) he gives some very interesting insight on where we might be going. Uncle Ted recommended.

[Jeff Lebowski]

The Innovators by Walter Isaacson. I read this last week when I was in Utah and had nothing better to do. Isaacson has a good knack for making history interesting. Not only does he give the history of how we got here (WRT the digital revolution) he gives some very interesting insight on where we might be going. Uncle Ted recommended.

Isaacson is an excellent writer.

[SteelBlue]

Ok, finished "We Are Not Ourselves". What an incredibly moving book. I haven't had a book put me through such a range of emotions in a long time. Highly, highly recommended.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Just finished Boy's Life by Robert McCammon. Fun story set in the 60's in a small Alabama town. Some nice engaging plot twists. But I do have a few gripes: too long, some dumb plot elements (a dinosaur? really?), and I am tired of authors making the hero a young kid who wants to grow up and write novels.

[happyone]

I really haven't kept up with my what's happy reading entries. Also I'm way behind on typing up my thoughts on GoodReads

That said since my last entry ( 6 mnts ago, where does the time go). I won't attempt to post a complete list, but here are a few of what I think are 5 star reads

Robert Harris' An Officer and a Spy - Historical Novel about the Dreyfus Affair
my thoughts
https://www.goodreads.com/review/sho...w_action=false

P.T. Duetermann's "Sentinels of Fire - Historical Fiction about the Destroyers on picket duty off Okinawa in April/May 1945
My thoughts
https://www.goodreads.com/review/sho...on=true&page=1

Martin Windrow's The Last Valley - the story of the French loss at Dien Bien Phu
My thoughts
https://www.goodreads.com/review/sho...w_action=false

I mentioned above S.C Gywnne's Rebel Yell - biography of Thomas Jackson, probably the best combat leader of the Civil War.

I haven't typed up my thoughts yet, but I can't recommend it highly enough

A couple that while I didn't think were 5 star reads, were still very good

John McManus' The Dead and Those About to Die - the story of the 1st ID at Omaha Beach.

Again I haven't typed up my thoughts, but excellent, if a bit gruesome. Tells the story of the Big Red One from the time the left Sicily to sundown on 6 June 1944.

Dan Jones' The Wars of the Roses - esp appropriate at this time. The story of the Dynastic struggle between the House of Lancaster and the House of York, from the collapse of the English Kingdom of France through Richard III's defeat at Bosworth Field and the death of the last Plantagenet pretender in 1525 - approx 3 genearations

and finally,

Robert Utley's Lone Star Justice - a look at the first 100 yrs of the Texas Rangers and how they went form an Indian/Mexican fighting militia to one of the first state wide police forces

Not his best, but I thought some people might be interested.