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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

I'm re-reading this and hoping to find some inspiration. I checked out the novel yesterday and then stumbled on this today.
The first scrooge - BBC News

I'm on the second book if Cormac McCarthy's border trilogy, The Crossing.

More Forsyth novels. I liked his earlier works like The Odessa File and Day of the Jackal better than the later books.
There is also John le Carre.

Here's an update on a book in an earlier post, Two Years Before the Mast. I finished it over the weekend after some time away from the book. The author wrote the book based on his experiences aboard...

This evening I reread The Declaration of Independence.

I was also disappointed by the movie version of The Revenant. It diverged too much from the book and had some major plot issues. I also got sick of the antagonist (Hardy).

I'm about halfway through Two Years Before the Mast. The books is a bit of a slow read but it has been worth the time investment so far-descriptions of California, daily life aboard a ship,...

I checked out two books from the Harvard Classics, or the"Five Foot Shelf" series. The first book I started is a selection of American historical readings in chronological order from the dicovery of...

I am reading two books with overlapping content related to "bio-hacking". The first is called What Doesn't Kill Us by Scott Carney. The book is about using breath holding exercises and exposure to...

I just checked out Measure Twice, Cut Once: Lessons from a Master Carpenter after seeing it here. I'm already feeling handier after peekin inside.

Earlier this evening I was reading If You Give a Moose a Muffin, Where the Wild Things Are, and It's Pajama Time. I might start on a Charles Dickens novel later tonight.

The Starz network will be airing a 10 episode series of American Gods this year.

I listened to "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" this weekend while driving to visit relatives. I'm also about a third way through Boone: A Biography about the life of the frontiersman Daniel Boone.

The third volume of his autobiography(unabridged version) has some scandal in it but would seem pretty tame compared to mosern standards. Volume three finishes with an appendix of documents related...

I finished re-reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer over the weekend. I took a grad level class on Twain in the spring so I noticed some things with this re-reading that went over my head the first...

I read A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R. R. Martin a couple of weeks ago. This week I've been reading Mark Twain's Roughing It.

I am around 100 pages into American God's by Neil Gaiman. The story looks like it will be about gods brought to North America by immigrants, now forgotten, trying to be relevant again.

I am reading Mark Twain's autobiography, the complete version that he didn't want published until 100 years after his death. After reading five of his novels this year the biography should be...

I'm currently reading The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs by Ambrose Bierce. Fun stuff.

I have read the first three chapters of an I interlibrary loan book that finally arrived. I had given up so it was a nice surprise. Anyway, the book is A Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine by Steven...

At the moment I'm reading The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson. The book is about the English language. So far the book has went from human ability to speak through the influence the Vikings had on...

I had heard about the play many years ago and my recent "Webster" Wade & Butcher acquisition reminded me of the play. The play is based on a Washington Irving short story which is based on the...

I'm about Halfway through a short play called The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benet. The play is about afarmer being defended in a trial for his soul by the famous U.S. senator...

I'm undecided. I am a stickler for details and the author is oversimplifying some of the wilderness survival aspects of the story, which I find annoying.

I'm currently reading The Revenant: a Novel of Revenge. It's the telling of High Glass's ordeal after being mauled by a Grizzly and abandoned by his comrades.

Update. Glass uses a razor to skin...