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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Aug 1, 2017 3:34:36 GMT
Simple enough question.
I must admit I haven't been reading much lately except for old newspaper articles, but I hope to correct this during August.
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Post by OldSamVimes on Aug 1, 2017 12:49:48 GMT
The Gulag Archipelago.
I'll probably be reading it for the next few months, I'm only half way through volume one.
I'll also keep chipping away at Yoga Vasistha when Solzhenitsyn gets to be too dark.
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Post by PreachCaleb on Aug 1, 2017 15:59:33 GMT
The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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Post by politicidal on Aug 1, 2017 20:29:27 GMT
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 1:36:00 GMT
'My Sixty Years on the Plains' A firsthand account of the history of the Wild West by William Thomas Hamilton
William "Bill" Hamilton recounts his life as a free trapper and mountain man from the age of twenty to the last days of their remarkable time. Hamilton's writing is simple and straightforward, a mirror image of the man himself. Drop that paperback Western and pickup the real story--history with the bark still on it.
Have been watching quite a few movies and series featuring 'Mountain Men' lately and this seems to be one of the very best firsthand accounts written.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Aug 2, 2017 4:00:56 GMT
I just started reading Beren and Lúthien - J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, with illustrations by Alan Lee.
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Post by animejunkie on Aug 2, 2017 23:54:10 GMT
Stranger in A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
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Post by mmexis on Aug 3, 2017 1:36:21 GMT
No is not enough by Naomi Klein
Still reading Smyrna: September 1922 (book is too oainful to read all in one go)
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Aug 4, 2017 22:26:13 GMT
Just finished volume 4 of the manga Mar: Marchen Awakens Romance. Enjoyable.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2017 0:39:51 GMT
Next up, it's either Call of the Wild by Jack London or The Man Who Was Thursday By G. K. Chesterton.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Aug 6, 2017 18:36:29 GMT
Recently read issues 1 and 2 of the magazine The Home Computer Course, published 1983. The magazine was intended to introduce people to computers, giving them advice on which computer to buy, how to do programming, the various uses of a computer, discuss the various pieces of hardware ,and provide info on the history of computers as well as make note of future technology.
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Post by marianne48 on Aug 7, 2017 1:41:03 GMT
Before We We Yours, a novel by Lisa Wingate. If you found Mommie Dearest disturbing, this story sheds some light on where a lot of those children who were adopted by movie stars and by prominent families actually came from. A lot of them weren't orphans, but were taken from their biological parents using various shocking methods (including abduction). Those who weren't adopted often faced cruel treatment and even death. Although much of the book is fiction, it's based on actual events.
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Post by eplay on Aug 8, 2017 1:07:19 GMT
Just finished my first Peter Clines book, "The Fold". Too much of a slow burn, and then 80% into the story, he floors it.
Read "Rubbernecker" by Belinda Bauer before that, which was excellent.
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Post by darknessfish on Aug 9, 2017 8:24:50 GMT
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Post by theravenking on Aug 9, 2017 8:37:04 GMT
I just started reading Flashpoint by John Russell Fearn.
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 9, 2017 14:33:01 GMT
Germaine Greer's "Shakespeare's Wife" - a wonderful overturning of Bardologists' old assumptions of Ann and Will's marriage.
Catching up on a few mystery and suspense series by some recent authors I ran across in the last 6 months or so: David Freed (Cordell Logan series), Brendan DuBois (Lewis Cole series), Michael Koryta (Lincoln Perry & Mark Novak) Jonathon King (Max Freeman), Mick Herron (River Cartwright).
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Post by Raimo47 on Aug 9, 2017 17:43:49 GMT
I just finished rereading The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences by Titus Rivas, Anny Dirven and Rudolf H. Smit. This is the best book on NDEs I have ever read.
I started to reread Science, the Self, and Survival after Death: Selected Writings of Ian Stevenson by Emily Williams Kelly (Editor).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2017 1:15:47 GMT
Finished 'My Sixty Years on the Plains' by William Thomas Hamilton, it is fairly in-depth and information filled about leading the life of an actual mountain man and the constant risk-taking that challenged them just about everyday for survival in mostly hostile country, the most enlightening aspect was the certain 'take it if you could get it' attitude of non-respect for tribal lands and ownership. Good Read- recommend it.
Started and tossed away three fiction books until I finally settled on,
'The Sleepers of Erin' by Jonathon Gash (A Lovejoy Mystery). Really enjoyed the last one a few months ago.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Aug 10, 2017 2:50:40 GMT
I just finished issue three of the magazine The Home Computer Course, published 1983. It was intended to introduce 1980s people to computers, and today serves a purpose as a time capsule of the 1980s computing scene. Joysticks, the Commodore 64, the use of the computer in small business, credit cards, and even how the binary number system works are discussed. Retro fun!
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Aug 13, 2017 3:24:39 GMT
Read issue four of the magazine The Home Computer Course, published 1983.
My favourite articles included those on printers (daisy wheel? really?) and word processors. There's also an article on computers in cars (including a prediction about self-driving cars), a review of the Lynx (a short-lived home computer made in Britain). There's also a wrong prediction about "fifth generation" computers.
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