Thread: What are You Reading?

Just finished Hugh Howey's silo series.. fantastic post apocalyptic survival story inside an underground sky scraper/missile silo:


Currently reading:
Dead Weight


The line:


The Goldfinch:


and Brilliance:

Just finished "Blood Meridian" for the 2nd time by Cormac McCarthy ( my favorite author). Good Cowboy and Indian story with a twist, love this book.

Originally Posted by ScoutHikerDad

Another library/smelly old book guy here, Bill (though I would probably read much more if I had a Kindle-I certainly love my iPad!).

While I use a kindle paperwhite 2 now for reading I manage all my ebooks (around 1300+) on my computer with calibre which has versions for most operating systems and will convert books to different formats.... i'll wager there is a reader app for your ipad as well, why get a separate device?

reading "king, queen, knave" by Nabokov probqably 90% of my reading is electronic it is just convenient.

Oh man I love calibre!!!! If you don't have it DL it.

I am several chapters into The Devil in the White City. The book is about two men, architect and serial killer, and the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. This book was recommended in the thread about the giant razor that Henckles had made for this Worlds Fair.

behind the beautiful forevers by Katherine Boo

My favorite author also. I was sort of lost when I realized I had read all his books. Recently I watched The Counselor which is a film with the screenplay written by Cormac McCarthy: recommended........a good read is Woe to Live On by Daniel Woodrell, an author worth reading if you like McCarthy.

Originally Posted by dtrain17

Just finished "Blood Meridian" for the 2nd time by Cormac McCarthy ( my favorite author). Good Cowboy and Indian story with a twist, love this book.

A few days ago, I was on Ebay looking through my daily searches on Carborundums , Nortons & lighters. I didn't see anything interesting, so I started putting names of friends in the search box, don't really know why, nothing popped up, so I put family last names in the search box & on the 1st page of returns was a book written by my great aunt, I had no idea was written. It was a children's book, "The Special Gift", written by Margarette Peebles (my great aunt), about her young sister Bobby Nell Peebles (my great aunt also).

Some details of both; Margarette always wanted a little sister to play with, as she only had my grandfather. She wished this until her 12th birthday, then her mother(my great grandmother) told her that a baby was on the way. A girl was born, Bobby Nell. Bobby Nell was born with severe Down syndrome, back then it was refered to as being mongoloid. Margarette took care of her little sister until Bobby Nell died in her mid to late 60's. The two were inseperable,,, Margarette never married,,, the book was written for parents to read to their small children , explaining how to react to children like Bobby Nell. It was a short read, mainly pictures so children could take interest.

I then scrolled down the search results & found another book that Margarette wrote called, "A History of Mississippi Libraries". Margarette was head of the University of Mississippi's library for over 40 years. The book's subject does not much interest me, but I'm sure it will give me some insight into Margarette, a woman I only knew when I was a small child.

Here are photos of the books from the Ebay ad, that arrived today.
Thanks for your time.







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Very cool, John! I have a saying... Everything winds up on ebay. A great idea you had to do that !

I am cranking through "CENTENNIAL" by James A. Michener for the second time. Last time was in the 70s. American history buffs would enjoy this one. Long read.

Part of this book was the inspiration for the 1966 movie "Nevada Smith" starring Steve McQueen and Karl Malden.