What books are you reading now?

hearlady said:
I just picked up a 1995 book at the thrift store.
'Simple Abundance A Daybook of Comfort and Joy' by Sarah Ban Breathnach
Each day per year is sectioned with a quote, inspiration, thoughts, etc.
I'm beginning to prefer books, movies, tv shows that are pre year 2000 for some reason.
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Perhaps simply that they were simpler times? Before technology overtook and people somehow became more cynical.
I look back more and more at years ago when I seemed to have time to think, read and just be.
 

May I add that the books I mentioned are a kind of 'cosy apocalypse ' stories. I like that, just like 'cosy murder mysteries '. Sounds a bit ridiculous but I feel like I don't want grim reality. Not for me are the books or films full of gore and violence.
 
I'm reading "The kingdom by the sea" by Paul Theroux. In it, he travels round the coast of the UK, talking to local people as he goes and gives his opinions (usually negative) on the places that he visits. This was written in 1982, so is rather dated, but paints a fairly good picture of Britain at that time.
 

Mitch86 said:
I'm now reading: "Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction" by
It's the best book on the Civil War I've ever read.

By the way, I'm listening to the audiobook versions of these book.
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Certain books, I prefer on audio. Others I want to take at my pace. For instancei loved the Sherlock Holmes collections as dramas on audio, also PG Wodehouse is brilliant when well narrated.
 
* Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail
* Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression
* A Land Remembered
 
Going through yet another Stephen Baxter Sci-fi phase. Finished "The Thousand Earths" which was excellent and now on "Galaxia" which has me gripped after just a few chapters!
 
I have started reading "The Happiest Man on Earth" - Eddie Jaku - A Holocaust survivor shares how he found gratitude, kindness and hope in the darkest of places. "Love Stories", by Trent Dalton. Who said he believed in love and believed in stories. He sat down at a small desk and a typewriter on the corner of a street in busy Brisbane and asked people if they would love to share their deepest thoughts on love.
 
Old Salt said:
They are great! I read all 27 volumes written by Lee Child. Are the ones co-written with Andrew Child any good? I just read their biographies and am astounded that both were born and live in the U.K.

Oops, should have been all 17 books!

And now I read it's 25 books! I give up!
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I'm sorry I didn't see this until now @Old Salt

I've so far read about 25% of Lee Child's books, and have no read any that were co-written with Andrew
Child.

My list of Lee Child books, numbers 63. I'm sure that some will be ebooks, which I don't read. I have a
tablet, but don't like to read from it.

Interesting to read Lee Child & Andrew Child's biographies .. thanks for pointing that out!
 
Here's another free historical ebook that I wrote. It is free for a limited time on Amazon.
It's about a young woman in 1830s England whose father passes away in Greece and the cousins inherit their British house. So
she is forced to become a governess. Meanwhile, her father's last letter to her tells her about treasures found on her late
mother's Greek property but she is in love with Allen in England. Will he wait for her to return or will she meet a new love in Greece? That is the choice she must make. I did a lot of research on this one as I did in my previous historical novel. Feel free to download it. Enjoy!
https://www.amazon.com/Helenas-Choice-Novel-Patty-Apostolides-ebook/dp/B012TN9JCK/
 
Rose65 said:
Now that sounds good. For audio for me. I listened to War and Peace, Catherine the Great and Anna Karenina on audio and was fascinated.
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I read "War and Peace" by Tolstoy back in my university days. I believe it was almost 1,500 pages. I also read Anna Karenina. Never read Catherine the Great but I'm sure I would like it. Read a lot of famous Russian novels in my younger days. Good reads but some of the scenes go on for 40 pages so you gotta love 'em. They are not like "Rambo" movies.
 
Packerjohn said:
I read "War and Peace" by Tolstoy back in my university days. I believe it was almost 1,500 pages. I also read Anna Karenina. Never read Catherine the Great but I'm sure I would like it. Read a lot of famous Russian novels in my younger days. Good reads but some of the scenes go on for 40 pages so you gotta love 'em. They are not like "Rambo" movies.
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Catherine the Great led an absolutely fascinating life and was a very strong highly ambitious intelligent woman. Way way cleverer than any man around her. I loved the narrated story of her life on Audibles.
 
I’m reading Innocence by Dean Koontz. I’m really enjoying it. It’s about a man who is living under the big city. I absolutely love his character.
 
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I just finished Freefall, the first book in a first contact sci-fi trilogy by Felix R. Savage about an alien spaceship discovered orbiting Europa, a moon of Jupiter. This one is about the discovery, preparation and launch of a mission to Jupiter to investigate.

I just started book two, Lifeboat, which covers the journey out and initial contact.
 
My brother just sent me a book via Amazon .. Killers of the Flower Moon (The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI). It is soon to be a major motion picture.

This is good timing, as I just ran out of library books, and waiting for more James Patterson.

Anyone here read this book?
 
Pinky said:
My brother just sent me a book via Amazon .. Killers of the Flower Moon (The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI). It is soon to be a major motion picture.

This is good timing, as I just ran out of library books, and waiting for more James Patterson.

Anyone here read this book?
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@Pinky : No, I haven't read the book, Pinky, but am wondering since you like James Patterson. Have you ever read any books by Jonathan Kellerman? They make for great reading if you are a mystery fan. His wife Faye Kellerman also writes terrific books!
 
Leann said:
Actually, the Bible. I've never read it cover-to-cover so I decided it was time to do so.
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The best Bible Edition I've ever seen is "The One Year Bible NLT" on the Kindle. It gives one the verses to be read daily from the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs. Pressing <CTRL>T also reads the verses out loud as you read them on your PC.

For example for October 2 the verses to be read are: Isaiah 66:1-24 Philippians 3:5-21 Psalm 74:1-23 Proverbs 24:15-16.
 
Bill O'Reilly's "Killing Kennedy". I've always been interested in this historical event.
A while back, I read Stephen King's "11/22/63", but that was more a science fiction novel than a historical look into the incident. In that, a man stumbles on a time portal and uses it to go back and try to prevent the assassination, but he finds when he returns to the present, his efforts are making things worse for the present time. He tries several times and finds he has to keep going back to try to correct what he continuously botches up.
We may never know for a fact what happened that day - all I can say for sure is, "I didn't do it." I was in sixth grade class and I have witnesses. I barely knew who was the President at that time as most 12-year-olds would.
 

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