Thread: What are You Reading?

Just finished a book titled "Younger Next Year" by Crowley and Lodge. Awesome read for us old guys and you youngsters as well with some great stuff on keeping fit and enjoying life more as we get older. Definitely a recommended read.

So, what are you Reading?

I'm reading 'History of the world through 100 objects'. It's a great book, written by the director of the British Museum. The objects themselves are interesting, but moreso is the way the author looks at the thinking behind them and what it meant for us and those that came before us.
Amazon.com: A History of the World in 100 Objects (9780670022700): Neil MacGregor: Books

Apparently there was a series on it, but I haven't caught that.

Thanks to both of you for your reading suggestions. I'll have to check out both of those texts.

As for me, I just began reading Rawn James, Jr., Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall and the Struggle to End Segregation.

Last week I was revisiting some of my favorite chapters from The Arabian Nights. I was just thinking this morning about resuming my effort to read more from the Harvard Bookshelf. I don't own the collection so have been finding the titles separately.

I thought some background information on the Harvard Bookshelf would be appropriate. Apparently a Harvard professor once made the claim that a man could receive the equivilant of a liberal arts degree by reading a selection of important works that would fit on a 5 foot bookshelf. A publisher challenged the professor to compile a list of titles. The collection was published with a forward to each title by the professor about that specific work and how to read it. I think there were around 50 volumes in the collection, with multiple titles per volume. The Harvard bookshelf was very popular in its day.

I'm actually trying to figure out what to read next. I just finished Stephen King's "11-22-63" the other night, and don't know if I want to move on to another of his books or switch gears a bit.

Good thread, Lynn!

Darth, I have read a lot of L'Amour books. I always found his longer books to be much better than the short stuff. Last of the Breed, The Lonesome Gods, The Walking Drum, Jubal Sackett are some of his best works.

"Helmut for My Pillow" by Robert Leckie ; a book about the Pacific island battles during WW II.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

"Helmut for My Pillow" by Robert Leckie ; a book about the Pacific island battles during WW II.

Great book! It was one of the World War II memoirs used to make the HBO mini-series "The Pacific."

BTW...Have you read Eugene Sledge's, With the Old Breed about his days as a Marine at the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa during World War II? Its outstanding.

I'm reading Greg Iles, footprint of God.

Iles has provided me with quite a few "easy summer reads" the last couple of years.

Not exactly masterpieces, but decent crime nonetheless

Originally Posted by jhenry

Great book! It was one of the World War II memoirs used to make the HBO mini-series "The Pacific."

BTW...Have you read Eugene Sledge's, With the Old Breed about his days as a Marine at the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa during World War II? Its outstanding.

I have not read "With The Old Breed", eventually I will get to it. Surprisingly, I have missed most of the books on the Pacific campaign. I'm making up for it now. I spent my youth mainly reading about the battles in Europe & Vietnam.
I just finished " No Easy Day", by Mark Owen. It was a fast, good read.