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CatsbyAZ

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« Reply #70 on: January 15, 2019, 11:05:15 AM »
Looking through last year’s reading list, read 23 books in 2018, mostly Novels, almost all read before football season, about a half-dozen re-reads from previous years, the highlights of the new reads: Empire Falls by Richard Russo, The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, and Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon. 

Starting this year with My Brilliant Friend by the Italian writer Elena Ferrante. You might’ve heard of it from HBO’s ongoing miniseries, filmed in Italy and fully scripted in Italian. The novels themselves are translated from Italian and might be partly why the writing comes across so refreshingly matter-of-fact. No flashbacks, nor much recounting of family history; just a total immersion into late-50s/early-60s Napoli Italy.
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« Reply #71 on: January 15, 2019, 12:47:52 PM »
I think I'm probably somewhere between 15 and 18 in 2018... Sometimes tough to tell because I don't recall whether the books I bought in Dec 2017 on the Kindle were read in 2018, but I think so. I should try to up that for 2019, but my work travel schedule has been lighter lately and that's when I do the bulk of my reading. 

I might have to go to Thailand this year though, so that's good for at least 4 books on all those flights.
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« Reply #72 on: January 17, 2019, 11:29:38 PM »
I'm reading Ron Chernow's new biography of Ulysses S. Grant, titled Grant.

He's mostly positive about Grant, admitting two problems: Grant was an alcoholic and he couldn't spot a con man if his life depended on it.
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« Reply #73 on: January 18, 2019, 01:57:27 PM »
Quote from: CWSooner on January 17, 2019, 11:29:38 PM
 Grant was an alcoholic and he couldn't spot a con man if his life depended on it.
Or the roughly 60,000 Rebs in the woods/hills of Cold Harbor.
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« Reply #74 on: May 30, 2019, 07:03:38 PM »
From Blood,Sweat and Arrogance,The Myths of Churchill's War,by Gordon Corrigan(Finished)
About myths of Churchill's & Monty's caustic narrative that exposes just how close Britain came to losing

Eisenhower's Armies,by Dr Niall Barr(finished)

Guns at Last Light,by Rick Atkinson

Both about the battles,Armies and personalities during WWII in the ETO

oh and Bernard Law Montgomery was a filthy,lying,fook
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« Reply #75 on: May 30, 2019, 09:09:06 PM »
I'm really enjoying
'Freedom's Detective', The Secret Service, the KKK, and the Man Who Masterminded the U.S.' First War on Terror.  (Charles Lane).
Story of Hiram Whitley, who has quite the biography, among other accomplishment's the Secret Service's 2nd (and first real) ever director and a man who infiltrates the KKK, captures fugitive slaves and pursues the killers of a prominent Georgia politician.
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« Reply #76 on: May 31, 2019, 12:06:59 AM »
About 3 weeks ago, I bought The Pentagon Papers at Barnes & Noble.  Fat hardback for $9.99, IIRC.  It's got some interesting stuff in it.  Long ago, I had a paperback copy, but it has disappeared somewhere along the way.

I've also been reading Mornings on Horseback, the story of the young Theodore Roosevelt, by David McCullough.  It's a typical good read from McCullough.
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« Reply #77 on: June 01, 2019, 10:27:11 AM »
I reread "Red Badge of Courage" a few years back after hating it in HS and found it quite good.

I have become addicted to the Michael Connelly books.  The Bosch series on A Prime is also quite good I think.  I enjoy conflicted lawman books.







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« Reply #78 on: June 03, 2019, 12:02:34 PM »
[font=.SF UI Text][font=.SFUIText]Reading Empire Falls by Richard Russo after first reading last year. The novel is total immersion in the post-manufacturing years of a small town in Maine. Whereas a lot of novels and personal histories make a big point of leaving your hometown for the sake of following bigger opportunities, this novel illustrates answer to what happens to those who never leave where they grew up. The stayers. At age 70, one of the character’s only motive, as has been for his last 40 years, is to make it down to Key West before the coming winter.[/font][/font]

Maybe it’s the type of reader I am but there’s so much more to the second rather than the first reading of a book. All my favorite books I’ve had to read at least twice to appreciate.
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« Reply #79 on: January 07, 2021, 05:58:17 PM »
I just received my first book ever, to read (other than mandatory crap throughout my education).


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« Reply #80 on: January 07, 2021, 06:12:52 PM »
I just reread Leon Uris's Exodus. As you know it is the story of the founding of the state of Israel. Even though the book is pro Israel, it is absolutely amazing what the Jews did to establish that country despite being outnumbered by enormous odds in every way possible. The characters are also heart wrenching.

I also recently read James Jones From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line.
The former depicts life in the prewar US Army in all its grime, insanity, drunkenness, whoring and pure boredom. The latter puts you in the foxhole on Guadalcanal in 1942. Jones is a veteran of WW2 and paints his true picture. 
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« Reply #81 on: January 07, 2021, 06:53:56 PM »
I spent several days cleaning up my first novel and submitted it to Pegasus, not sure if I'll get any attention of course.  It had a lot of errors, probably still does.

I finished Book Two but hate proof reading so I'm half way through Book the Third.

I wish the library would reopen.
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« Reply #82 on: January 07, 2021, 06:59:13 PM »
the library will have to be closed a LONG time before I resort to writing my own books
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« Reply #83 on: January 07, 2021, 07:08:25 PM »
I can type very fast, that helps.
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