What books are you reading now?

[VirginiaJim]

They turned around an entire Japanese battle group..

[zgirl]

I have an extensive collection of SF paperbacks (1000+) that haven't been read in years.  Just finished Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Endless Universe.  Not really a great fan of hers but that one was pretty good.

I did enjoy the Mists of Avalon years back but not nearly as much as The Once and Future King by T H White.  It's been many years since I read fiction though.

[zgirl]

I read differing types of books. Generally my wife finds something she likes and I get interested.
To name a few;
Currently reading a series by CJ Box. It's about a game Warden in Wyoming that get's involved in chasing all kinds of bad guys. Has a lot of description of the outdoors in the Mountains.

Before that we read a collection of books that were written by Holocaust survivors.
(It's amazing that any of them survived)

Being Military type, I sometimes get into war novels or documentaries.

Ride safe, Ted

The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom was a true story and she was an amazing survivor!

[Strawboss]

I started a thriller by John Connolly, "The Wolf in Winter", about 80 pages and it's dumb/weird, sometimes the book wins. Found an old WWII book at work, "Up Periscope" written by Robb White in 1956, WWII frogmen go to a Pacific island in a sub to steal a code.

[connie_rider]

That reminded me of an old movie. So, I checked.
The Movie Up Periscope came out in 1959 with James Gardner.
Here is the trailer.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=movie+Up+Pariscope&docid=608044078221692625&mid=A894032EA6A9D68CEB2AA894032EA6A9D68CEB2A&view=detail&FORM=VIREHT

Ride safe, Ted

[Strawboss]

Yes, I remember the film now that you mentioned it, I didn't think it was the same, I watched it in the 80's. I request it from the library, thanks.

[connie_rider]

https://ok.ru/video/2988439374336

[Strawboss]

Just finished Brad Taylor's "Daughter of War" and started Bill O'Rielly's "Killing The Empire of The Rising Sin", so far, its decent, some things I didn't know about, interesting. I've held off reading his "killing" series but everyone I know who has read them says they are ok, we'll see.

[bigjim]

I guess I am the oddball, (nothing new!).  Magicians of the Gods, Fingerprints of the Gods, now on Underworld.  Pre-history theories would be the best description.  Supernatural, Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs and When the sky fell are on deck for the winter ponderances.

[Strawboss]

No, you are like the rest of us because we read for pleasure when the majority of others do not, no oddball in that.

[Boomer]

Due to several disappointments with new books, I have gone back to my library and re-read these:
Spider Robinson - Callahan series (funny, thought provoking)
David Gemmell - Jerusalem Man trilogy (awesome! western/fantasy/sci-fi)
Larry Niven - Ringworld series and A World Out of Time.

I am currently part way through Harry Harrisons The Stainless Steel Rat books for the n-th time.
Once I have finished with Slippery Jim DiGriz, I have all of E.E. Doc Smiths books, and 60+ Anne McCaffrey books to go through.

I like my Kindle, but I'd forgotten how it feels to read real books. 

[O.C.]

Just read "The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz" by Jeremy Dronfield (a true story) and very sobering

Now reading  "The Hard Way - Mark 'Billy" Billingham"  'Adapt, Survive and Win'

Both excellent books

[VirginiaJim]

Due to several disappointments with new books, I have gone back to my library and re-read these:
Spider Robinson - Callahan series (funny, thought provoking)
David Gemmell - Jerusalem Man trilogy (awesome! western/fantasy/sci-fi)
Larry Niven - Ringworld series and A World Out of Time.

I am currently part way through Harry Harrisons The Stainless Steel Rat books for the n-th time.
Once I have finished with Slippery Jim DiGriz, I have all of E.E. Doc Smiths books, and 60+ Anne McCaffrey books to go through.

I like my Kindle, but I'd forgotten how it feels to read real books. 

I've got quite an extensive collection of older SciFi authors.  Larry Niven and Harry Harrison amongst the favorites.

[Boomer]

I've got quite an extensive collection of older SciFi authors.  Larry Niven and Harry Harrison amongst the favorites.

After posting my comment I went into the attic and went through the rest of the collection.
I now have 30+ Heinleins to re-read, a stack of Clarke and Asimov, about 10 AE Van Vogt, and assorted others including Edmund Cooper (and his many aliases).
Currently re-reading Edmund Cooper's Kronk which is funny, sad, and very relatable right now as it's about a disease that affects the whole world.
I especially like the moment when the Gabriel believes that the statue of Sir Michael Jagger has thrown a bra at him. 

[Edit] Having read this I counted and realised I have read 11 books in 7 days . I seem to be resorting to escapism as we approach Lockdown 3.0 which starts tomorrow. <sigh>
I did get out for a ride on Otto this weekend of a whole 65 miles, in the rain, and nearly crashed due a dangerous pothole, which has been reported.

[greenie]

I've read a boatload of books this year - a combination of retirement, an accident, and Covid restrictions has created a perfect storm for me to have lots of time and not a lot of places to go has made books my # 1 activity.
I just started The First American Industrial Revolution - The Dawn of Innovation (Charles R. Morris) - a book I've had for a while but never started. The book starts, Boomer,  with the War of 1812 and American vs. British war boats on Lake Ontario. Imagine a ship so large it carries 800 crewmen and the top mast was 200 feet above  the waterline. It promises to be good.
I'm not nearly as fussy as I used to be - I've finished every book I've started.

[Boomer]

I just started The First American Industrial Revolution - The Dawn of Innovation (Charles R. Morris) - a book I've had for a while but never started. The book starts, Boomer,  with the War of 1812 and American vs. British war boats on Lake Ontario. Imagine a ship so large it carries 800 crewmen and the top mast was 200 feet above  the waterline. It promises to be good.

I assume you are referring to HMS St Lawrence? We were taught about the 1812-1815 war at school. 
It was a time of great innovation worldwide. Enjoy! 

[VirginiaJim]

Ah yes, the HMS St. Lawrence, alas had very little if any to do with the war of 1812..  It was launched and then within weeks the war ended.  It saw no action.  A marvel of ship building to be sure but was of no consequence to the war effort.  It was sold in 1832 for 25 pounds.


The US had knowledge of this ship and was building two ships to take care of it in Sackets Harbor.  Those ships were the USS New Orleans and the USS Chippewa with 130 guns each.  Neither ship were ever launched.

[Rick Hall]

I read commando, seldom put a book down before finishing it. War and Peace the exception, it's HUGE

Last reads were "Doorknob Five Two" and "The Next Five Minutes".

Rick

[greenie]

"It was a time of great innovation worldwide. Enjoy!"
Much of the innovation came from England. Crucible steel was world class - England was able to first produce a cannon that was predictable. French sailors "feared the guns they were serving more than those of the enemy". Thomas Newcomen invented the basis for the steam which Scot James Watt improved upon. Crop rotation, textile production, mine work and general industrialization was centered in England by a government that allowed freedom to innovate.
Navigation was improved upon by England finding a manner to determine longitude. Latitude was already mastered but longitude remained evasive. British technology vastly improved the ability to accurately fix a location. 
Like most others I learned general history (names and dates) in school but there's much more to learn and know.
One of the very few silver linings to Covid (maybe the only)  is having the time and fewer distractions to read.

[Strawboss]

"Enemy of Mine" by Brad Taylor. Just finished "Under the Ice" by Hendrik, written in 1989 it was interesting to read old cold war stories.