Anyone Reading A Book This Summer?

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I always try to read two or three books during the summer. I was wondering
if anyone else also reads a book or two over the summer? I am trying to
finish the following:

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Dee Brown
The Ernst and Young Tax Guide Ernst and Young
The Matarese Circle Robert Ludlum
California! By James Michener

Thrilling reads to be sure. Anyone else reading this summer?
 
I just read One Mans Wilderness by Richard Proeneke

And I am starting "I Hear You Paint Houses" By Frank "The Irishman" Sheerhan

Edited to add I am also reading "Boatbuilding With ALuminum" By Steven Pollard
 
I am on my 3rd book

1) THE WONDER OF KNIFEMAKING.
2) CUSTOM KNIFEMAKING
3) And the one I am on now 50$ KNIFE SHOP

:D
Zoo
 
I have a lovely hard cover version of Walden. I've always wanted to read it over the summer. It just seems like a summer kind of read.

I also started reading Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search For Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries, by John Gribben. So I want to finish that first.
 
komondor said:
I have a lovely hard cover version of Walden. I've always wanted to read it over the summer. It just seems like a summer kind of read.
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I read it in college one line stands out to me

"I felt as if I could spit a Mexican with a good relish — for why should we always stand for trifles?"
 
I go through about a book every two weeks or so. Lots of magazines in between. I'm currently reading something called "Ordinary Springs" but I don't remember the author. Decent book though.

~ashes
 
Yeah, I've got a couple I'm reading - Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose and Masters of Chaos by Linda Robinson.
Citizen Soldiers is a second-hand acoount of several different soldiers' experiences in WWII, starting at Normandy and continuing onwards. It is a very good book and some of the accounts given are simply amazing. Ambrose even interviewed German soldiers, so he was able to paint a picture of the experiences of both sides of the war.
Masters of Chaos is a book about the Army Special Forces over the last 20 years. It also gives the experiences of several individuals throughout the book. The title is a bit misleading because, IMO, it implies the book is a shoot-em-up, saber-rattlin' read; on the contrary, both the authorship of the book and the subjects themselves are very thoughtful and intelligent. This book is also a good read.
 
Right now I'm reading "THE TERRIBLE HOURS" by Peter Maas.The non-fiction about Swede Momsen,inventor of the Momsen lung,and the greatest submarine rescue in history.The "Squalus" on the eve of WWII.Only 100 pages in but good read.
 
When Summer eventually returns I'm planning on rereading the entire 20 volume Aubrey/Maturin naval history series by Patrick O'Brian. I love those books!
 
I haven't found anything to trip my trigger lately :yawn: ....I read non-fiction, everything from social science/psychology/philosophy/different aspects of science like emerging viruses :eek: and scary real life stuff. I have read alot of Jung, Neitzsche,oh, yeah, also got interested in physics for awhile and read some of Stephen Hawkings and Michyio Khaku on subjects like parallell universes, black holes, worm holes, etc. Just on a reading hiatus for the time being....all my free time will be devoted to knifemaking and improving on said knifemaking for the immediate future....oh, yeah, I will probably read some books on knifemaking. :D
 
Just finished "One Shot", the latest in the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. May start Flayderman's definitive tome, "The Bowie Knife, Unsheathing An American Legend" next.
 
Larry S. said:
Just finished "One Shot", the latest in the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. May start Flayderman's definitive tome, "The Bowie Knife, Unsheathing An American Legend" next.
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I like those Jack Reacher novels. I've just started that one myself.
 
I'm just about done with "Are You there God? it's me Margaret" one from my Judy Blume collection.
 
I'm taking H1 English next year and have to read "A Farewell to Arms", "The Great Gatsby", "The Scarlet Letter", and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and do chapter-by-chapter summaries on all of them, then I have to do two papers for AP History on "Trail of Tears" and "Son of the Morning Star". Fun summer :rolleyes: :mad:

Edit: on a lighter note, I'm also reading Stephen King's "Nightmares & Dreamscapes" (another short story compilation like "Skeleton Crew" and "Night Shift".
 
I'm reading the Da Vinci Code at the moment.

Will also be reading Digital Fortress and Mickey and Donalds 50th Anniversay compendium during my leave.
 
gajinoz said:
When Summer eventually returns I'm planning on rereading the entire 20 volume Aubrey/Maturin naval history series by Patrick O'Brian. I love those books!
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:D

I've just finished The Third Reich: A New History, by Michael Burleigh. I'm currently half way through Pompeii by Robert Harris.

Next in line? Either The Sinner by Tess Gerritsen or Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin, depending on whether I'm in a fiction or non-fiction mood.

Books: Yum!

maximus otter
 
A marhematician plays the market by John Allen Paulos and Suomalaisten keskiaika myytit ja todellisuus by Risto Kari. And about one book a week after those...

TLM
 
Just finished Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

Before that was Why I Left Jihad

Next up is Rounding the Horn

We're headed to Bermuda at the end of the month so I'm in a nautical history/adventure frame of mind.
 
Just finished "Night's Down" trilogy by Peter F Hamilton. Not bad IMO. Could have been written in 2000 pages instead of 4000 but still not bad.
 
I just read the new John Sandford, Broken Prey, and its pretty good. I read a couple of books this weekend, but they were library discards, just old detective novels and I didn't even note who the authors were. One was I think Rex Burns. Not bad. Probably quite interesting if you are from Denver, which is where his character is a cop.

I want the new Jack Reacher one too.
 
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