Book Recommendations

Steve LS

Steve LS

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I'm an avid fiction reader.

If you're like me consider checking out BookBub.Com.

Check off the authors you like and the genres you enjoy and they will email you 6-8 cheap or free book downloads from Amazon every day.
They will recommend books by self publishing authors that match your preferences.
Just give them your email address.

I've downloaded over 200 free books.
Most of then are excellent with very few disappointments.

You try it, you decide.

Anyway, my recommendations.
My favorite series without a doubt is the Odd Thomas books by Dean Koontz.

Another book I got from the library that I thought was just wonderful was A man called Ove.

I saw this 2012 book on the New York Times bestsellers list.
I wondered what a 5 year old book would be doing on the list.
As it turns out a movie was released in 2016 in Sweden (English Subtitles).

Anyway A Man Called Ove is a great book, I highly recommend it.

Happy Reading
 

I get a list of 5 or 6 books every day that are on sale from Book Bub. Like you, I've noted my favorite authors. I also get a similar list from Early Bird books every day. As you said, there are also free books from both sites as well as from Kindle and Google books. They keep me busy reading, especially in the dark cold months of winter.
 
I visit a site called Good Reads and go through the titles. I don't go by what others think so much, but, reading the summaries give me a decent indication if it's something I want to pursue. I'm not concerned when the book came out because generally, I reserve them on-line from the library so it's better if their now the newest titles that way they're likely to have a shorter wait period to get.

At the moment I'm reading a book that from the very first page, on I have been LOL, literally. The book is titled "funny in Farsi" by FirooZeh DuMas; it's a Memoir. I intend to check out other books by this author, I don't think a book has put me in such a joyful mood in quite a while.

There's one moment in the book when an uncle came for a visit; it was his first time experiencing American cuisine. Before planning to head back home, the uncle tried on his travel clothing, nothing fit, not even a little. Uncle proceeded to try every diet fix advertised on American TV. Hilariousness entailed; and I guess one has to read the whole adventure of it to get how neurotic and funny it all was, though to some degree in the 80's been there just not to the extremes of Dumas' uncle.

I did pick up several other more serious themed books, but this one is my favorite, which I'm trying to read as slowly as possible though it could be read in a very short time considering it's just about 200 pages.
 

I am a history buff and currently reading "American Lion. Andrew Jackson a biography of the 7th president of the United States. by Jon Meacham on KINDLE
 
Our local library has a bi-monthly used book sale. 50 cents for any book. I love to go, and went today. Came home with a bag of books: a couple of Clive Cussler adventures, several political books, Dan Brown's The Lost Symbols, and a book on child development. That should keep me busy for the summer.

I can recommend another good book site, featuring independent writers and publishers. They have nearly 500k ebooks available, and over 70k are free. Many offer a free sample. You can read online or download in various formats. I also recommend this site for people who want to publish their own writings.

https://www.smashwords.com/
 
My favorite subjects are the histories of Scientific Research and Development, notably the Manhattan Project, in which whole new industries had to be crash-developed to quickly produce fissionable Uranium and Plutonium to make the Atomic Bombs that would end WW2, which they did!

Here's a scale schematic diagram of the only Uranium-fueled "gun-type" fission bomb ever detonated, which destroyed Hiroshima, Japan on august 6, 1945, at 8AM Japan time. It was called "Little Boy", and the Nagasaki bomb was called "Fat Man".

All others since then, including the Nagasaki device, dropped 3 days later at 11AM, were all Plutonium-fueled "implosion-type" fission bombs.

I have many books and movies of the A-Bomb development, which I find fascinating. Also I know the purpose and function of every component in this device!

HiDesertHal
 

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Wow, Hal! You are really into this. Prompted me to go take a quick look at more info. I found the issue about Soviet espionage ("atomic spies") gaining info to speed their nuclear program along quite interesting.
 
A book I recently enjoyed was "In The Unlikely Event" by Judy Blume. It's a fictionalized account of real events. Light reading but interesting.
 

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