Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
The Bible
Let’sRun?
Business adventures, very well written, thoroughly enjoyed the chapter about the income tax
Rereading Prisoner of Azkaban
I just finished Chernow's Grant. I highly recommend it. I was amazed by how Reconstruction lifted the freed slaves then shocked by the post civil war violence against them. I had thought it had be only a hundred lynchings but it was much worse and blacks may not yet have achieved the status Grant defended post war and prior to the white backlash. The whole thing is frighteningly familiar and depressing, but one must know history....
Tom
yepppppp wrote:
Infinite Jest has been sitting on my bookshelf for about 8 years.
I've started it no less than 6 times.
I've made it past the first 200 pages ZERO times.
Just dipping your toe in the water it's clearly an amazing read, but just seeing the girth on that thing still remaining at the end of every reading session somehow turns it into a task rather than a joy... builds a sense of dread, unrelated to the quality of the story.
DONT MAKE ME START IT AGAIN.
Yaaa my favorite book!!! You should start it again
I know Tony Doerr personally, so of course I read All the Light We Cannot See when it came out.
He's run at least one marathon.
As for me, I just finished The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial, by Maggie Nelson. Very good.
Next up, Penance, by Kanae Minato.
A Year in the Woods of Maine by Berndt Heiricht Saw the article about him in Outside, remembered I had the book in my basement. Only OK too much plant talk!! But a pretty cool idea living in the woods of central Maine in a cabin.
Money : The Unauthorized Biography - From Coinage to Cryptocurrencies by Felix Martin
Grand Hotel Abyss : The Lives of the Frankfurt School by Stuart Jeffries
Collective hallucinations and inefficient markets: The British Railway Mania of the 1840s by Andrew Odlyzko
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie
Good Rockin Tonight: Sun Records and the Birth of Rock and Roll
American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
Best American Sportswriting of 2017. This yearly anthology always has a few gems. Good story about a marathon in San Quentin prison.
The Accidental President by AJ Baime. The first four months (only) of the Truman presidency.
Just finished The Bolt Supremacy.
yepppppp wrote:
Infinite Jest has been sitting on my bookshelf for about 8 years.
I've started it no less than 6 times.
I've made it past the first 200 pages ZERO times.
Just dipping your toe in the water it's clearly an amazing read, but just seeing the girth on that thing still remaining at the end of every reading session somehow turns it into a task rather than a joy... builds a sense of dread, unrelated to the quality of the story.
DONT MAKE ME START IT AGAIN.
Dude you need to read it. Something wonderful on every page of that book. Took me about 9 weeks to read. But it's true you have to want it really bad. Just try for 10 pages a day, everyday, and it will take less than 6 months. I know a D1 track all- american that read it in under a month. it can be done.
How has no one admitted to Fire and Fury yet? I respect all ya'll with your thought provoking book lists... but the OPs question is "currently reading" and I just finished this popcorn novel a couple days ago.
Next on my nightstand is Squeezed: What You Don't Know about Orange Juice, and most recent previous was Saving Italy... so I more typically read outside the political novel genre... but when the interviews hit the airwaves, I had to buy it.
The Art of Cycling by Cadel Evans. A surprising page-turner thus far.
I usually reading any articles. I read new information about again and again. For example http://tempelocksmith-az.com/
At the beginning of the thread I was reading Dostoevsky's The Idiot. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since then. Recently a Romanian colleague loaned me "The Crusades through Arab Eyes" by Amin Maalouf and I'm about 2/3 or 3/4 the way through. I expected it to be horribly boring but it's been really quite profoundly interesting, a great companion to Machiavelli's The Prince, which preceded it on the bedside table. Next up is "The Book of Why" by Mackenzie and Pearl on the recommendation of a North American colleague.
The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump
Wuuunderful, ja!