What Books Are You Reading?
08-12-2021, 08:29 AM
#11
Super Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Northern California
Posts: 18,155
I tend to hop around a bit but especially like history.
Cowboy Detective and Lone Star Cowboy by Charles Siringo (highly recommend both of these).
Lincoln and His Generals by T Harry Williams (interesting research)
George Washington's Secret Six by Brian Kilmeade & Don Yaeger (Fascinating topic)
Alaska's Wolf Man by Jim Rearden (WOW!!! Amazing life and adventures!)
Anything by Vince Flynn in the Mitch Rapp series (now written by Kyle Mills since Vince passed).
Cowboy Detective and Lone Star Cowboy by Charles Siringo (highly recommend both of these).
Lincoln and His Generals by T Harry Williams (interesting research)
George Washington's Secret Six by Brian Kilmeade & Don Yaeger (Fascinating topic)
Alaska's Wolf Man by Jim Rearden (WOW!!! Amazing life and adventures!)
Anything by Vince Flynn in the Mitch Rapp series (now written by Kyle Mills since Vince passed).
08-13-2021, 05:22 AM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: NE Kansas
Posts: 1,019
Originally Posted by Fieldmouse
I haven’t got into the civil war history other than the regular visits to Gettysburg almost every year in school. I’m still reading about the revolution era.
08-13-2021, 10:07 AM
#14
Fork Horn
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 277
Originally Posted by CalHunter
I tend to hop around a bit but especially like history.
Shadow Divers is another really good book about discovering a sunken U-boat off the coast of New Jersey
The Wool trilogy by Hugh Howey is great if you like apocalyptic end of the world type books
You might enjoy the Milo Weaver series by Olen Steinhauer for espionage thriller books.
Last edited by lonestar50; 08-13-2021 at 10:32 AM.
08-29-2021, 05:24 AM
#17
Fork Horn
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 277
Recently finished Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile. Not usually one for memoirs but this one was quite good. Not just a recap of her life but goes deeper into issues like the conflict between faith and homosexuality, family, anxiety, forgiveness. I think I will read it again at some point.
Currently reading Razorblade Tears by SA Cosby. Two ex con fathers who never supported or accepted their married gay sons are out for vengeance after their sons are murdered. Violent but a page turner.
Currently reading Razorblade Tears by SA Cosby. Two ex con fathers who never supported or accepted their married gay sons are out for vengeance after their sons are murdered. Violent but a page turner.
08-30-2021, 11:36 PM
#18
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 3,813
Working my way through 2 books at the same time:
Crucible of War: The Seven Years War and The Fate of Empire in British North America
by Fred Anderson
-and-
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
Both are very good but two at a time is slow going, especially Moby Dick.
Crucible of War: The Seven Years War and The Fate of Empire in British North America
by Fred Anderson
-and-
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
Both are very good but two at a time is slow going, especially Moby Dick.
09-26-2021, 11:10 AM
#20
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: NE Kansas
Posts: 1,019
Not exactly reading, but going back through and integrating into a class lecture: The Impending Crisis by David Potter. It's a classic on the politics that led to the Civil War.
Essentially, Potter describes how the war with Mexico brought huge amounts of territory into the nation but with no settled or recognized means of deciding whether slavery should or could be planted there. It created an unresolvable political problem that eventually fractured the system entirely in 1860. Slavery in the territories became the central issue to the point that Congressmen were exchanging blows over it and all of the votes were were being decided on North-South lines. Lincoln's election entirely on northern votes was handwriting on the wall for southerners looking to protect or enhance slavery.
Essentially, Potter describes how the war with Mexico brought huge amounts of territory into the nation but with no settled or recognized means of deciding whether slavery should or could be planted there. It created an unresolvable political problem that eventually fractured the system entirely in 1860. Slavery in the territories became the central issue to the point that Congressmen were exchanging blows over it and all of the votes were were being decided on North-South lines. Lincoln's election entirely on northern votes was handwriting on the wall for southerners looking to protect or enhance slavery.
