What are you reading?

[Witterquick]

I love books and would love to read about what you're reading. Please post a short summary and your thoughts on it or anything else you would like to say about it.

I'm reading Flanders by Patricia Anthony.

Character: Travis Lee Stanhope, a guy from Texas, who joined the British army in WWI.

Main Setting: Trenches

Stanhope sees ghosts. Stanhope thinks his captain is in love with him. Is he reading too much into his captain's actions? Are the ghosts real?

I like the book but it's not a page-turner. It's all Stanhope's POV and the other characters aren't very fleshed out. I'm also not in love with the format, which is in the form of Stanhope's letters to his brother (some of which he doesn't really send).

I wish the book has more substantial development of the other characters. It's just a lot of Stanhope's thoughts though.

 

[Shatnertage]

I'm reading Frank Herbert's Dune. I'd wanted to read it for a long time, and am just now getting around to it.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I am currently reading The Jedi Path A Manual For Students of the Force By Dan Wallace. Just an incredibly cool book. When I'm finished this I'll be reading Superman: The Last Stand of New Krypton Part I by James Robinson and Sterling Gates.

 

[Captain_Nick]

I am reading the TV guide. It is well written and informative. By reading it I can see if there are any good movies on, and then watch them. Good days

 

[Saga]

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest

 

[Amaris]

I'm halfway through another reading of "The Demon Haunted World" by Carl Sagan.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I have just started reading two books

1) Mr Darwin's incredible shrinking world by Peter Macinnes. Charles Darwin published One the Origin of Species in 1859 and this book looks at what stage science and technology were in that year. What I had so far has been quite interesting.

2) Death's Inheritance by E. and M.A. Radford.

My mother, who is terminally ill has decided to get her affairs in order which includes getting rid of all her books. She asked me to select any books that I was interested in and the above title is one of about 100 that I selected. It is a British murder mystery set in the 1960s. I have no idea if it will be any good and my mother can't recall reading it.

If anyone is interesting my book collection is listed on LibraryThings (where I go by the name Zozette).

 

[Alpha Romeo]

World War Z

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I've just started reading "It's Only A Movie" by Mark Kermode.

 

[Kirby]

I have two books going right now:

Medusa by Clive Cussler

Jack, Straight From the Gut by Jack Welch (former CEO of General Electric)

 

[Jack Bauer]

Pursuit of Honor by Vince Flynn. Mitch Rapp is an even badder bad ass than Jack Bauer...

 

[sojourner]

This... no, this... no, this... no, this... ARGH!

 

[Lookingglassman]

The Third World War

 

[MHT1138]

I am currently reading
A) Love in the Afternoon-a regency romance by Lisa Kleypas
B) Much Ado About Anne- the second book in the Mother Daughter Book Club series, an intermediate children's series by Heather Vogel Frederick
C) Deliria - an advanced readers copy of a sci-fi YA book where love is outlawed.

 

[WillsBabe]

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest

How are you getting on with that? I love Dragon Tattoo but struggled through the first half of Hornet's Nest. There seemed a mighty lot of exposition to me. I abandoned it midway through. My husband read the whole thing and Fire, and he said that they improved a great deal. I will go back to Hornet's Nest. I don't like Salander but I'd be happy to see more of Blomquist.

I'm reading Die Trying, the second Jack Reacher novel, by Lee Child. It's the second Reacher novel I've read, the first being 61 hours. I love the way the author writes this character, and I'm fascinated by his writing style. Jack's a real hero with a heart, and I like spotting the clues and red herrings in the prose. I'm intending to read every damn one of Jack's adventures this far!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The computer screen in front of my face.

 

[Saga]

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest

How are you getting on with that? I love Dragon Tattoo but struggled through the first half of Hornet's Nest. There seemed a mighty lot of exposition to me. I abandoned it midway through. My husband read the whole thing and Fire, and he said that they improved a great deal. I will go back to Hornet's Nest. I don't like Salander but I'd be happy to see more of Blomquist.

i'm about 300 pages into it but i can see how one could struggle with it. page after page of backstory and Swedish political history does get tiresome.

 

[An Officer]

The two books currently on my night-stand:

The art of happiness in a troubled world - His Holiness the Dalai Lama & Howard C. Cutter
Here's the blurb on the back:

Terrorism, economic crisis, poverty, wars, racism, global warming and domestic violence. How can we expect to find happiness and meaning in our lives when the modern world seems like such a truly unhappy place?

The art of happiness has become the classic guide to the Dalai Lama's enlightened approach to living - illuminating the profound principles and perceptive wisdom of this most revered spiritual leader. Now, in this inspirational new volume, the unique collaboration between the Dalai Lama and highly respected scholar Howard Cutler returns with a practical application of Tibetan Buddhist spiritual values to the stressful and demanding world we all live in today.

With the Dalai Lama's trademark warmth and humour and Cutler's penetrating mind, the result is a wise approach to dealing with human problems that is both optimistic and realistic, even in the most challenging times.

It does all it says on the tin and more. For someone like me for who emotional intelligence does not come easily, it has been an eye opener. I have been wanting to work on the idea of service to others, rather than service to self for some time - basically habitually coming from a place of compassion as a way of life. I believe this is a step up in human consciousness. Understanding an idea in theory is one thing though, putting it into effect is the challenge! And this book is full of pragmatic advice. A fascinating page-turner. Something to be read slowly and allowed to simmer.

The secret history of the world - Jonathan Black
The description on Amazon:

This book will take you on a jaw-dropping journey through the spiritual and mythological history of the world A wonderfully controversial read, which challenges the accepted view and spiritual history of human society - Soul and Spirit Magazine

Here for the first time is a complete history of the world, from the beginning of time to the present day, based on the beliefs and writings of the secret societies. From the esoteric account of the evolution of the species to the occult roots of science, from the secrets of the Flood to the esoteric motives behind American foreign policy, here is a narrative history that shows the basic facts of human existence on this planet can be viewed from a very different angle. Everything in this history is upside down, inside out and the other way around. At the heart of The Secret History of the World is the belief that we can reach an altered state of consciousness in which we can see things about the way the world works that are hidden from us in our everyday, commonsensical consciousness. This history shows that by using secret techniques, people such as Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton and George Washington have worked themselves into this altered state - and been able to access supernatural levels of intelligence. There have been many books on the subject, but, extraordinarily, no-one has really listened to what the secret societies themselves say. The author has been helped in his researches by his friendship with a man who is an initiate of more than one secret society, and in one case an initiate of the highest level.

Who needs fiction? The facts seem to be far stranger.
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[TheSeeker]

Right now I'm reading Dead Like You by Peter James.

 

[Eleanor_zhDarjel]

Das Parfüm - Patrick Süßking. Read it before but it's a wonderful book.