What are you reading?

[Algor]

Taking a break from Middle Earth. Now reading Samuel Butler's Erewhon.

I picked this up a long time ago and never finished it: I recall now why this is so. It isn't a very interesting novel, though it is good satire.

 

[Algor]

OK, Finished Erewhon. Started something on my to read list for a while: E.E. Cummings: A Biography by C. Sawyer-Laucanno. I have an absolutely dogeared hardback of his collected poems that I bought in undergrad.

What a self-centered jerk! LOL. I knew he was a bit off plumb. But the dude could write.

 

[Algor]

Rudyard Kipling's Kim. Cracking good read!

I have his complete verse, which is good fun, and I grew up on the Jungle Books, so this is like my third or fifth childhood.

 

[Torin]

I'm done with The Federalist Papers, and now I'm reading How to Read the Constitution and Why by Kim Wehle.

 

[docphin5]

I wanted to take a break from my usual historical books and try a bit of fantasy fiction for a change. So I read

”The Fifth Season” by Jemisin

because it had good reviews. It is part of a trilogy which I plan to continue. It is about humans with powers over earth, tectonic plates, volcanoes. They are controlled by another class of humans called “Guardians” with powers over the earth movers. There also are beings that live IN the earth controlled by no one. And then there are your ordinary run of the mill humans powerless and weak, ie., the sheep. Always the sheep. Ha ha! Characters are intriguing, story is good. I enjoyed it because it is different, novel and immersive in a mythical world refreshingly new (Versus dragons, wizards, demons, or vampires). Something different if that is what you are looking for. On a 1 to 5 scale I give it a 4.

 

[Torin]

I am now reading another "Civic Classics" book called Supreme Court Decisions, edited by Richard Beeman. The book is a series of short excerpts from famous Supreme Court decisions with some expert commentary. I'd recommend it if you are a layman with a casual interest in politics and Constitutional law, like I am.

 

[Torin]

I am now reading another "Civic Classics" book called Supreme Court Decisions, edited by Richard Beeman. The book is a series of short excerpts from famous Supreme Court decisions with some expert commentary. I'd recommend it if you are a layman with a casual interest in politics and Constitutional law, like I am.

Moving on from the "Civic Classics" book above, I've started on Antonin Scalia's book A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law, which defends legal originalism.

 

[Torin]

Moving on from the "Civic Classics" book above, I've started on Antonin Scalia's book A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law, which defends legal originalism.

I have finished the Scalia book. I have also finished a very short, very patriotic book by Bradley Thompson entitled What America Is.

I am now reading a much longer book entitled Founding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights, edited by Jack Rakove. It's a collection of primary sources about the founding of the United States. I am planning to take my time with this book so that I can absorb what the various primary sources are saying.

 

[Torin]

Wrap Up for 2023

Here are the books I finished this year.

1. Our Oriental Heritage
2. Fossil Future
3. 20,000 Years of World Painting
4. Heroes, Legends, Champions
5. Washington: The Indispensable Man
6. Abe
7. Illuminating Ayn Rand
8. Prague Winter
9. A Concise History of Germany
10. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
11. The Federalist Papers
12. How to Read the Constitution and Why
13. Supreme Court Decisions
14. A Matter of Interpretation
15. What America Is

I don't expect to get through the book I'm currently reading before the end of the year, so that's that for a while.

 

[Arch Stanton]

What are you reading?

Since it is 'Halloween' season I thought I would read a few classics.... Frankenstein [Mary Shelley] and Dracula [Bram Stoker].

 

[Mike McK]

"Black Rednecks and White Liberals" - Thomas Sowell

 

[Mike McK]

Yeah, the Left is very weird. I've seen them claim the reason for the revolutionary war was to keep their slaves, and the reason for the second amendment so that slaveholders can massacre the Black race, which is false on SO many levels!

Vibise believes this.

 

[greatdivide46]

I'm currently reading Heaven by Randy Alcorn. "Other than the Bible itself, this may well be the single most life-changing book you'll ever read" -- Stu Weber.

For my fiction I'm reading Alien Echo by Mira Grant. "A spellbinding novel of courage and terror" -- Jonathan Maberry.