Books! How do you read and what do you read?

The book I started yesterday is 'Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver
The story revolves around a fiery, Baptist preacher, Nathan Price who takes his wife& 4 daughters on a mission to Belgian Congo in 1959. His wife& daughters are the narrators of what happens to the family
I know I read this book yrs ago can't remember when. I've read a couple of her other books I really enjoyed Flight Behavior',Unsheltered'
 
@Olivia, I didn't know about Bobby Vee's Alzheimer's diagnosis. I was a big fan then and still listen to some of his music. (An old iPod is loaded with over 900 of my all time favorite songs. It's hooked up to a tiny but mighty speaker in my kitchen and I click it on when I'm working in the kitchen.)

Very sad news about BV. :cry:
 

I am retired and I have whatever free time I want to read. I don't read every day, but I do read every week. All of my reading subjects are American history. Most all are personal accounts of experiences in war (e.g. Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Viet Nam, etc.) Now I am finishing a book on average once a month. I do enjoy my time reading. e.g., No Surrender by Chris Edmonds, The two-ocean war, by Samuel Eliot Morison, Thunder Below by Admiral Eugene Fluckey, Walk in my combat boots by James Patterson...etc., etc.
 
StarSong said:
@Olivia, I didn't know about Bobby Vee's Alzheimer's diagnosis. I was a big fan then and still listen to some of his music. (An old iPod is loaded with over 900 of my all time favorite songs. It's hooked up to a tiny but mighty speaker in my kitchen and I click it on when I'm working in the kitchen.)

Very sad news about BV. :cry:
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Yes, I feel the same. And I had a big crush on him. I was jealous about how those girls got to sit next to him on that American Bandstand video. Lol. I remember seeing it on TV when it first came out. It's terrible what Alzheimer's can do to a person. :cry:
But we can still enjoy his music. Thank goodness.
 
Shadowman said:
I listened to this book on CD over ten years back. Yesterday, I saw it in the used books for sale section of the library. Hardcovers only a dollar and 50 cents for paperbacks so I could not resist. I like historical books about the interplay of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, etc.
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Found it and I'm getting it on Kindle.
" Descartes' Bones is a flesh-and-blood story about the battle between religion and rationalism that rages to this day."
From Amazon.com
 
Just finished entertaining Memoir of Sir Patrick Stewart, 'Making It So'. And now started 'Beloved Prophet', a collection of letters ” and between Poet, author and artist Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell.
 
CinnamonSugar said:
Just finished "The Women" by K. Hannah... Loved it...

Also picked up "Sarah Plain and Tall" to read with Ed. Not as much 'swash-buckling' as Treasure Island but after that thrilling ride, I think we were ready for something more sedate ;)
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I also loved that book. It might be her best yet, and that's really saying something.
 
Shadowman said:
I listened to this book on CD over ten years back. Yesterday, I saw it in the used books for sale section of the library. Hardcovers only a dollar and 50 cents for paperbacks so I could not resist. I like historical books about the interplay of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, etc.
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Off topic - but must thank you for your signature quote from the late, great George Carlin.
 
"The Daughter of Time is a 1951 detective novel by Josephine Tey, concerning a modern police officer's investigation into the alleged crimes of King Richard III of England. It was the last book Tey published in her lifetime, shortly before her death." Wikipedia

Was looking for something short to read before my book club on Friday. For that, the book is Tabloid City by Pete Hamil. Glad to have read it, never read fiction by Hamil before, but it was just so-so and had too many characters, some apparently as fillers for the story with no real role in the main theme.

Not sure, but think I read Daughter of Time decades ago. It seems like something I would have always been interested in---English detectives and English history.
 
Tightrope: Americans Reaching For Hope (2020) by Kristof, Nicholas D. Nonfiction

Glad I read it but it was depressing. Most examples of hope were from small grass root efforts by individuals. Very little hope coming from reforms at the federal or state levels.

Best thing about the book is it was not just statistics but included personal interest stories on real humans.
 
Pepper said:
Not sure, but think I read Daughter of Time decades ago. It seems like something I would have always been interested in---English detectives and English history.
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I didn't read it before. I read A Shilling for Candles. Am really liking this one.
 
Pepper said:
"The Daughter of Time is a 1951 detective novel by Josephine Tey, concerning a modern police officer's investigation into the alleged crimes of King Richard III of England. It was the last book Tey published in her lifetime, shortly before her death." Wikipedia

Was looking for something short to read before my book club on Friday. For that, the book is Tabloid City by Pete Hamil. Glad to have read it, never read fiction by Hamil before, but it was just so-so and had too many characters, some apparently as fillers for the story with no real role in the main theme.

Not sure, but think I read Daughter of Time decades ago. It seems like something I would have always been interested in---English detectives and English history.
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OMG! I also read "The Daughter of Time" decades ago I've forgotten that. I remember I really liked it. I'm going to find it and read it again.

I'd like to recommend The Tightrope Walker by Dorothy Gilman of the Mrs. Pollfax series. It's a combined mystery and the story of how one young woman finally took charge of her own life and did it with a lot of courage. I think you might like it. And it's pretty much a quick read.
 
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON by S.C. Gwynne

I haven't finished this book,it is a slow read for me.

It is well researched about Texas & the Indians who lived there.

The rise & fall of Americans journey to the western plains to have their dreams destroyed by the Indians whom didn't want to give up their ways of life.

Just when Americans thought they were winning over the Indians the Civil War recruited soldiers back to fight that.

Life for the male Indians was war, horse, guns,, enough buffalo to feed a tribe.

Indian women did the cooking, cleaning of any buffalo or game killed.
They put up the ti-pi , laid hides down to walk , hides to sleep on.
Charred for children,, made clothing, meals.
They also knew how to ride the horses they had to care for.

As the Civil War played out in the eastern/ southern part of America, the Indians out west continued to loot ,murder, steal children. horses.

Once the war was over most of the soldiers didn't want to head back to the Western Plains.
Giving the the Indians more to loot & gain better guns

When the army got some of the leaders who had fought with the Indians,, back out to the Western Plains.
Things would change as these generals had learned how the Indians planned their raids.

Bloody fights went on driving some tribes to the reservations.

One of the harder Indians to capture was Quanah Parker son of an American woman whom had been stolen as a child ,, married to an Indian.

I'm to the last chapters of this novel,, where the army will capture Quanah Parker.

To be continued .......
 
I finally started On a Sea of Glass, several years after I bought it. It focuses on the Titanic. I have been active in the ocean liner community for more than 25 years, though I'm more of an aficionado, not a researcher. I have dozens of ocean liner books, mostly on Titanic and Lusitania. This particular book has gotten rave reviews from the ocean liner community, and so far I'm impressed.

It's a very physically heavy book and a bit hard to read in bed. It's meticulously documented, though, which I appreciate. It stands in stark contrast to Philip Norman's recent biography of George Harrison, which had virtually no source material.
 
Here at CW-Gates we have a small library with all sorts of books,hardcover& paper back, DVD's, magazines etc. You sign out with your name,& book ,when you return it with the date put it back on the shelf where you found it Poisonwood Bible was the 1st one
Yesterday,started reading 'The Guest List' by Lucy Foley,a mystery on a remote coastal island in Ireland where a wedding is taking place,what happens. I've never heard of her/read any of her books,sounded interesting
 
moviequeen1 said:
Here at CW-Gates we have a small library with all sorts of books,hardcover& paper back, DVD's, magazines etc. You sign out with your name,& book ,when you return it with the date put it back on the shelf where you found it Poisonwood Bible was the 1st one
Yesterday,started reading 'The Guest List' by Lucy Foley,a mystery on a remote coastal island in Ireland where a wedding is taking place,what happens. I've never heard of her/read any of her books,sounded interesting
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I loved that book! I enjoy Lucy Foley's books in general. Please let us know what you thought of it after you've finished.
 
Sliverfox said:
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON by S.C. Gwynne

I haven't finished this book,it is a slow read for me.

It is well researched about Texas & the Indians who lived there.

The rise & fall of Americans journey to the western plains to have their dreams destroyed by the Indians whom didn't want to give up their ways of life.

Just when Americans thought they were winning over the Indians the Civil War recruited soldiers back to fight that.

Life for the male Indians was war, horse, guns,, enough buffalo to feed a tribe.

Indian women did the cooking, cleaning of any buffalo or game killed.
They put up the ti-pi , laid hides down to walk , hides to sleep on.
Charred for children,, made clothing, meals.
They also knew how to ride the horses they had to care for.

As the Civil War played out in the eastern/ southern part of America, the Indians out west continued to loot ,murder, steal children. horses.

Once the war was over most of the soldiers didn't want to head back to the Western Plains.
Giving the the Indians more to loot & gain better guns

When the army got some of the leaders who had fought with the Indians,, back out to the Western Plains.
Things would change as these generals had learned how the Indians planned their raids.

Bloody fights went on driving some tribes to the reservations.

One of the harder Indians to capture was Quanah Parker son of an American woman whom had been stolen as a child ,, married to an Indian.

I'm to the last chapters of this novel,, where the army will capture Quanah Parker.

To be continued .......
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When you give spoilers, it turns me away from reading the books you mention. Please consider giving a quick overview, like:

"EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON by S.C. Gwynne

I haven't finished this book,it is a slow read for me.

It is well researched about Texas & the Indians who lived there."
 
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