What are You reading?

[H2O Man]

I’m curious what books other DU community members are currently reading? I ask this for several reasons -- the first being that in the years I’ve been a member (since 2003), others have recommended a number of important books to me. My little library could have a section of “DU Recommended” books on politics, history, and sociology. Without question, I’m far more interested in what good people here suggest, than any other group that I communicate with.

The second reason is that I’m attempting to watch less television news these days. In large part, I already know everything I need to know about Donald Trump, and I have the urge to vomit when media coverage of the 2016 election devotes more than 50% to reports on this fellow. I am enjoying investing more time reading …..something that, as I live in the northeast, helps make the cold season pass quicker.

Normally, I find enough reading material from public library book sales in the late summer and fall, to last me until spring. My children gave me eight good books for the holiday, totaling a little over 4,000 pages of new reading material. I’ve started all of them, and finished a few. So, I got a bit antsy today, and used a couple Barnes & Noble gift cards that I had laying around, to order some new books.

High among my favorite social philosophers is Erich Fromm; over the years, I have quoted from (and recommended) a number of his books. Thus, today’s order includes three by Fromm:

1- On Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying “No” to Power;
2- Marx’s Concept of Man; and
3- Dogma of Christ, and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology, and Culture.

Thanks in advance to any/all responses!
H2O Man

[peace13]

1. Currently I'm reading Light On Yoga..

...by B.K.S. Iyengar. Enjoy your new books! I love it when a new book arrives!

[madamesilverspurs]

2. "From the Lives We Knew" by Phil Miller

Historical fiction, very timely, about Middle East refugees (from all sides); stories are based in fact, names and some details changed to preserve the identity and safety of persons involved.

[whatthehey]

3. I usually have at least two on the go on my e-reader with several backups

One of the many joys of those things is that they will save your place in essentially unlimited books, so I have two primary (one fiction one non) and several backups going depending on my mood, and which I can switch between instantly.

Right now the primaries are Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore (fun silly fantasy humor) and Penguin's History of the World 6th edition (after long reluctance I am warming to the World History approach academically). Some of the backups are Bleak House, Gibbon's D&F (pretty much have that constantly in the backup pile for the sheer wondrous prose it contains) Drink (a history of booze), the Father Brown compendium and Burr (Vidal is one of those guys I always wanted to read but never got around to so trying to catch up).

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. The Operators, by the late Michael Hastings.

One of the subjects of the book was first a magazine article he wrote for Rolling Stone, about General McChrystal, who was later fired from his role as Afghanistan head of operations, replaced by Petraeus, ( and we all saw where THAT went, right?).

The Operators is about how the Afghanistan war was being handled for the past 14 years, up to 2011.
Hastings then was killed in a very suspicious car crash.
So I am reading his archived articles in Rolling Stone online, and his books ( epub, on Nook) to find out what he said that was so threatening to TPTB.

Most of my books are political history, and some economic history.

[broiles]

4. The Devil's Chessboard and Queen of Chaos.

[Mopar151]

59. Eager to read these, myself.

Currently reading from the Kindle Unlimited library, generaly about the economics of power among America's elites - starting from the "other selections" around Devil's Chessboard.

"JFK's war with the national security state" was VERY illuminating.....

[mountain grammy]

86. Just finished the Devils Chessboard

Recommend it highly to all. My parents met in the Marines during WW2 and they never spoke the name Dulles without adding "the Nazi." My mom was totally convinced until she died in 1988 , that Allen Dulles was behind the assassination of JFK. I read this book for her and I, for one, believe every bit of it.

[broiles]

89. Me too.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. just finished Rex Stout's e-book collection (12 stories)

on my ipad. Fun brain candy to go to sleep with.

[tishaLA]

7. "Negroland" by Margo Jefferson

and "Purity" by Jonathan Franzen

[gratuitous]

8. The Invisible Bridge by Rick Pearlstein

Subtitled "The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan." It's the third in a three volume historical review by Pearlstein (and I'll have to go back and read the first two, now). He's a readable writer, and details a number of small incidents and news stories to build a credible picture of the period from 1972 to 1980.

I've read a lot about political events from 1920 or so through 1960 and the waning of the Red Scare. It's fascinating to discern the threads from, say, the Palmer Raids in 1920 as they wind through the Hoover years at the FBI, the Great Depression, World War II and the post-war era in the United States. Many of the exact same things you're liable to hear on the evening news right now were said back in each decade, applied to slightly different events. The same xenophobia, wall-building, whispers, and smears have been used for years to keep people scared and suspicious of their neighbors.

[lovemydog]

36. Oh, absolutely.

I love reading history because it helps me understand the present. Everything old is new again, just with different names & faces.

[Mopar151]

61. ****^^^^^^^^^^

Winner! They don't even send out for new rhetoric, or, in Ted Cruz case, an new haircut.

[Zorra]

9. Another Roadside Attraction.

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Again.

Just an escape to a space and time that somehow still feels like home. Some might even call Another Roadside Attraction "source" material for item #3 on your list.

“The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed twits who want to run everything. While the rest of us are busy living - busy tasting and testing and hugging and kissing and goofing and growing - they are busy taking over.”...

“This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.” Tom Robbins

And now, back to the future.

[unc70]

10. Reading Claudius by Caroline Heller

[FLPanhandle]

11. The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan

Nice history of the woman who worked at the Oak Ridge Plant during WW2

[Manifestor_of_Light]

12. The Science of Evil

By Sacha Baron Cohen -on empathy and the origins of cruelty. The Undiscovered Self by Carl Jung. The Anatomy of Violence The Biological Roots of Crime by Adrian Raine.

[Lilyhoney]

13. The Book by M. Clifford.

This is the most exciting fiction book I have read in a while. It's like Farenheit 451 meets I don't know what yet. Only like 80 pages into it.

[randome]

14. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Pulitzer Prize winner and a massive 771 pages. It's a work of art.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]

[femmocrat]

23. I loved that book.

Couldn't put it down.

[malaise]

15. Three hilarious Jamaican novels

written by a friend's sister. Light...no stress...fall down funny.

[Jim Lane]

16. I read mostly history.

Right now it's The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942, by Nigel Hamilton. If you don't care much for military history, ignore it. It's a focus on Roosevelt as he dealt with war issues before Pearl Harbor and as Commander in Chief thereafter.

As a side note, one thing that struck me was how much material the author was able to use from the private diaries kept by several of the key players. For example, Canadian PM Mackenzie King happened to be meeting with FDR at one crucial time, and recorded very detailed accounts of their conversations, giving a real inside view into what was happening. It occurred to me to wonder how historians of the future would fare. Do many of our current political and military leaders keep such personal records? Maybe the historians will have to rely on their emails, blog posts, and tweets.

[lovemydog]

34. Same here.

I love history.

I'd guess some of them now keep dictations or emails for use in future books or for historians.

[1939]

17. Right now the book is upstairs so I don't have the exact title

It is by Robert Crowley and narrates the Portuguese conquest of the Indian Ocean from the Muslim traders during the years 1498-1550. Truly amazing how an insignificant nation with a population of about one million was able to pull it off. A combination of Portuguese takeover of the Spice trade and inflation caused by Spanish flooding Europe with gold and silver from the Americas destroyed the power of both Ottoman Turkey and Mameluke Egypt.

[hfojvt]

18. right now

"Women and Indians on the frontier 1825-1915" by Glenda Riley

but it is not very good.

Probably I will get done with that on Wednesday night and return to Autobiography of Malcolm X.

Or I might return to "The Peopling of British North America" by Bernard Bailyn

I really enjoyed "The Barbarous Years" by Bailyn and also the three books I read by H W Brands - The Age of Gold; Lone Star Nation; and The First American

Allen W. Eckert's hagiography of Tecumseh was interesting too, although I sorta mock its objectivity. It seemed quite detailed and footnoted though, although he includes an incident that Brands calls a myth.

I read "The Sane Society" a long time ago, in graduate school (although I did it on my own time). As such, I cannot remember much of it. I have "The Anatomy of Human destructiveness" around here somewhere, but have never gotten to it. These days, the only time I read books are either while on break at work or else while volunteering at the homeless shelter (which I have only done for seven months now (the shelter itself is only a year old). Otherwise I am on the internet.

[tishaLA]

21. Bailyn is such an amazing historian

And his Ideological Origins of the American Revolution helped alter the way we think about the early republic. He, Gordon Wood, Joyce Appleby, and JGA Pocock are absolutely indispensable thinkers.

[hfojvt]

75. Gordon Wood?

Doesn't he drastically underestimate the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth? I heard that somewhere.

[tishaLA]

78. I was primarily referring to all those historians because

they helped establish what has been termed "the republican synthesis," a linguistic approach to how we understand the establishment of the early republic. Since them, there have been many addenda to their thesis, including those that focused on gender, race, and class issues (just as there have been addenda to virtually every original strain of thought). None of this diminishes the importance of their contribution to the understanding of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

[hfojvt]

80. you mean you never saw the movie?

[smirkymonkey]

19. Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain

It is the account of a woman's experience of WWI, in which she lost many close to her and left Oxford to serve as a nurse at the front. Very poignant and moving testament about the pointlessness of war.

[footinmouth]

20. I'm a Kindle Girl

I read a lot of varied topics and genres and I read a ton. I recently joined "Book Bub", a free service which delivers 5 books a day to your email. They are never more than $1.99 and there re usually at least 2 free books.

Right now I'm reading "Micro" Michael Creighton's last novel before he passed away. It was finished by someone else. It's a bit far-ferched but very entertaining.

Other recent reads:
Jury Town - I don't have the author, it was a free first read on loan and I returned it. It was about a compromisd jusry system in Virginia which was replaced by a professional jury. It was an excellent read. I highly recommend it.

The Governor's Wife - by Mark Giminez. This was a great read. You will learn all you ever need to know about Texas politics. Yikes

Deadly Coast by R.E. McDermott - my son is a professional seaman so this book was of interest to me. It was about piracy and kidnapping at sea. Very scary since this ship was taken by terrorists rather than your usual Somali pirates. Very good read if you have any interest in the maritime industry.

--------------------------

I paid a bit more for these

Girl at the End of the World, My Escape from Fundamentalism by Elizabeth Esther
Quiverful, Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement, written by a journalist with no dog in the fight, very interesting read
The Guilty by David Baldacci
Natchez Burning by Greg Iles - excellent book, rather deep and very long, I think it was 700 pages

I read for knowledge and entertainment and I am rarely disappointed, I have 10 more that I acquired on the cheap or for free waiting to be read.

[lovemydog]

32. I'm a Kindle Guy.

Love the new paper white kindle.

I wish people would stop giving me physical books because I don't like lugging them around. No worries though because I enjoy giving them to friends or libraries.

[dhill926]

38. Yeah, Book Bub is great....

just finished "The Harder They Come" by T.C. Boyle. HIGHLY recommended. And only $2.99!

[footinmouth]

44. Looks like I missed the boat on this one

I just looked up this book and it looks like something I would like, too bad it's $14.99 now instead of $2.99. Did you get it as a first read?

[dhill926]

45. don't know about first read...

but I did hop on it right away...

[Codeine]

47. I love my Kindle.

It at least doubled my old reading pace. Carrying a pile of books with me at all times is fantastic.

[Nevernose]

22. The New Jim Crow, and

The novelization of The Force Awakens.

[PasadenaTrudy]

24. Rocks with Wings by Anne Hillerman n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

25. The Fall of the House of Dixie, Zealot, and Commonwealth of Thieves.

Among others. I'm a very undisciplined reader.

[FSogol]

26. Harold and His Purple Crayon

It is my niece's bedtime.

[saltpoint]

27. Tales of the 1001 Arabian Nights.

These stories are sizzling hot, ladies and gentlemen.

I don't think Franklin Graham would like them one little bit.

[KentuckyWoman]

28. Erma Bombeck

Started with her first book, "At Wit's End" and have read them in order.....currently on "When you look like your passport photo it's time to go home".

Life is challenging right now. I need the silliness.

[dem in texas]

60. Erma Bombeck is a Delight

I have read several of her books and used to read her weekly column in the newspaper. She had me when she said she hid the scissors and white glue from her kids! What mom hasn't done that! I remember my mother used to offer us kids a nickel if we could find her scissors so she could sew.

[pangaia]

29. "Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper,

A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China," Fuchsia Dunlop

and "The War of the Two Emperors, The Duel Between Napoleon and Alexander, Russia 1812," Curtis Cate

[lovemydog]

30. Unfaithful Music by Elvis Costello.

A rambling autobiography written in a style similar to Bob Dylan's Chronicles Volume 1. Surreal recollections, family history, jumps in time, shaggy dog stories. All is his own unique style.

I too love Erich Fromm. The Age of Anxiety and Escape From Freedom are two of my favorites.

There's television and there's news. The two rarely meet.

[mike_c]

31. currently top on my reading list is volume two of William Manchester's biography...

...of Winston Churchill, The Last Lion. I waited for the third volume for years. Now I'm re-reading the first two before I get to the third. After that is just a stack by the desk and another by the bed. So many books, so little time. I NEVER get bored.

[JustAnotherGen]

33. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Great fable!

ETA - just finished Gray Mountain last night. Having traveled to places like McCreary County KY, W.V., Sunbright TN - it took me back into their businesses, homes, inns, diners.

[Bluenorthwest]

35. The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy

Just started it.

[johnp3907]

37. Reconstructing Lenin by Tamas Krausz.

Also halfway through Welcome To Nightvale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, but I haven't touched it since around Thanksgiving. Bad habit of mine.

[longship]

39. Lots of science.

Walter Issacson's biography of Albert Einstein is a really wonderful read. I highly recommend it.

Frank Wilczek's The Lightness of Being describes modern physics in a new way and also describes what the fuck is asymptotic freedom (for which the author shared the Nobel Prize). Plus, Wilczek is a very cool person.

Then, I often read a good book over and over again. Examples of such things are the following:

The Big Short by Michael Lewis. A wonderful narrative with a great cast of characters. Steve Eisman is an incredible individual. That Lewis' narrative focussed on him is not an accident. I have not seen the film, but I hear it is great.

god is not Great by Christopher Hitchens. This is another book that I can read over and over again. Hitch had a way with words nobody else had (maybe since Churchill). Anyway one looks at it, this is a great read. Yup! It's a polemic. But it's Hitchens!

I also have dragged out Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel Escher Bach, just for the fun and challenge of it. Who else would have thought of Contrafactus, and football! I guess it depends on whether one is a fan of ten dimensional steam hockey.

[tammywammy]

40. Dead Wake by Erik Larson n/t

[B2G]

41. Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson

Not to be read in public. People will think you've lost your mind.

Ditto for her first book.

[X_Digger]

42. I recently re-read Joe Bageant's 'Deer Hunting with Jesus'. n/t

[Skittles]

43. A Sunless Sea by Anne Perry

heh, I love mysteries but did not realize this was set in 1864 until I started reading the book. I thought, well, OK, I'll bite.....and I find I am thoroughly enjoying it. Strangely enough, the book I had just finished reading was about Kitty Genovese, by Catherine Pelonero, regarding a crime that occurred in 1964.

[Codeine]

46. "The Mechanic's Tale" (a Formula 1 memoir)

by Steve Matchett and "An Instance of the Fingerpost" by Iain Pears. Also reading through a stack of about forty Green Lantern trade paperbacks.

I'm always reading a bunch of things at once. The internet seems to have fucked up my attention span.

[trackfan]

48. Salutati: On the World and Religious Life

and To Live and Dine in L.A.

[spanone]

49. Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll

by peter guralnick

sam did invent rock and roll...

sam started Sun Records

elvis presley
jerry lee lewis
johnny cash
carl perkins


‘Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ’n’ Roll,’ by Peter Guralnick

Five hundred forty-one pages into Peter Guralnick’s 763-page biography of Sam Phillips, the impresario enshrined in the subtitle as “the man who invented rock ’n’ roll,” we get the moment when many people probably saw Phillips for the first time. It was the night of May 15, 1986, a few months after he had been inducted into the charter class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for having produced the first recordings by Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins, among others, more than 30 years earlier. Phillips was appearing as a guest on “Late Night with David Letterman,” and he was behaving strangely, deflecting questions with an indifferent glare or changing the subject to ask how Letterman could be so successful with such bad teeth.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/books/review/sam-phillips-the-man-who-invented-rock-n-roll-by-peter-guralnick.html?_r=0

[kentauros]

50. Re-reading James Hogan's "The Two Faces of Tomorrow"

about developing true AI for a world computer system that is logical but has no common sense

The Two Faces of Tomorrow (1979)
(synopsis at link)

[hfojvt]

77. wasn't there a space station

that somebody fired a rocket into, to stop it from rotating? I must have read that in the early 1980s, but cannot remember if I own a copy or if it was a library book.

[kentauros]

81. I haven't read that much science fiction

compared to what's out there. Two Faces of Tomorrow does take place on a space station, and there is a contingency in place to destroy it if they have to.

As for your description, you'll have to either search on it or ask in the Science Fiction group. They're far more read in the genre than I, though I have read a fair share

[leftofcool]

51. "God is Red" by Vine Deloria

[dhill926]

63. fantastic book...

have read it many times....not lately though....hmmm....

[ohnoyoudidnt]

52. Methods of Persuasion by Nick Kolenda

[valerief]

53. Last one was Sleight of Mind about how magicians, with their mastery of human cognition,

are helping neuroscientists' studies.

Right now, I'm trying to work on my latest novel, so I'm trying to get caught up in *my* book and not someone else's!

[Fla_Democrat]

54. Retire Inspired

Just got released today, and got the ebook to keep me occupied till the hard back arrives.

[SheilaT]

55. We do have a fiction group,

and every week there's a What Are You Reading This Week thread.

Gets pinned to the top of the group for the week.

I love the randomness of what people read.

[tularetom]

56. "The Leopard" by Jo Nesbø

Slowly working my way through the series of Harry Hole novels.

Also, "Spotlight" and re reading "The Big Short".

[dem in texas]

57. Edible South - The Power of Food and the Making of American Region

I love to cook and my favorite reads are books about food history. This book deals more with modern food movements in the South, but that is a good thing. Much has been written about older food histories of the South and little about modern food customs and movements.

Two books that I read in the last two years that had a big effect on me are "The Graves are Walking: The Great Famine and Saga of the Irish People" and "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea".

The best one was the book on the Irish famine, it shows the conservative political philosophy carried to such extremes that it caused the deaths of millions of people. When you read it, you see so many parallels to today's conservative movements and what could happen when they run amok.

The book on North Korea deals with the time in the 90's when there was mass starvation in that country and how people in North Korea survived.

Both are very readable and give you insight to what happened during those times, presented in an interesting way.

[Agnosticsherbet]

58. Light reading: Agatha H. and the Airship City by Phil & Kaja Foglio

They have done a long running online comic series.
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php#.VpR7a4-cFPY

[mucifer]

62. "All But My Life" by Gerda Weissman Klein.

Really intense.

[beveeheart]

64. Both of the ones I'm reading are because of my interest in

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genealogy: 1) Albion's Seed, Four British Folkways in America. by David Hackett and 2) George Washington, A Biography by Washington Irving.

[hfojvt]

79. in what?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024829491

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023295291

But why Washington Irving?

[beveeheart]

84. Sorry that was confusing.

Hope the editing clears it up.
I have ancestors who arrived in the early 1600's and some who fought in the Revolutionary War.

[craigmatic]

65. The plague by Albert Cadmus and Simple's Uncle Sam by Langston Hughes

[betsuni]

66. Just started reading "The Soul of a Chef" by Michael Ruhlman

and Julie Kavanagh's "Nureyev, The Life." Before that, read the devastating "Autobiography of a Geisha," by Sayo Masuda -- a reminder of the days not that long ago when girls were sold like animals.
Next in book pile:
Leona Rostenberg & Madeleine Stern "Old Books, Rare Friends, Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passions."
Curtis White, "The Spirit of Disobedience, Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work."
Paul Collins, "Sixpence House, Lost in a Town of Books."
Lily Koppel, "The Red Leather Diary, Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal."
Alain de Botton, "The Consolations of Philosophy."
Finally bought my own copy of de Botton's "The Art of Travel." I love this book!:

"No one seems to think it remarkable that somewhere above an ocean we are flying past a vast white candy-floss island which would have made a perfect seat for an angel or even God himself in a painting by Piero della Francesca. In the cabin, no one stands up to announce with requisite emphasis that, out of the window, 'we are flying over a cloud,' a matter that would have detained Leonardo and Poussin, Claude and Constable. Food that, if sampled in a kitchen, would have been banal or even offensive, acquires a new taste and interest in the presence of the clouds (like a picnic of bread and cheese that delights us when eaten on a cliff-top above a pounding sea). With the in-flight tray, we make ourselves at home in this unhomely place we appropriate the extraterrestrial landscape with the help of a chilled bread roll and a plastic tray of potato salad."

[jobendorfer]

67. _The Road to Reality_ by Roger Penrose

Very interesting but each chapter more or less demands jumping over yet another math text.
The first 400-odd pages are purely mathematical. Around page 400 it starts turning into physics.
The author seems to be a walking encyclopedia of mathematical physics.

It's very humbling

[roscoeroscoe]

68. John Keel

The 8th Tower.

Deep...

[applegrove]

69. Patricia Crone's Pre-Industrial Societies to figure out where

the GOP wants us to go. This is a new edition. "But the monarchs fear of losing control over the elite also had the effect of suppressing energy that could have been used to good effect" or "it is thus not surprising that states were brittle structures which easily collapsed under internal stress or external pressure. The low degree of integration on the one hand and the minimal services performed by the state on the other meant that there was little to hold them together" or "keeping local communities separate and politically passive was thus a prime objective of pre-industrial governments". I keep falling off my chair (so to speak).

[MuseRider]

70. Full Body Burden

growing up in the nuclear shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen. I am listening to it, have become a huge fan of audio books. I do hours and hours of work outside on the farm alone every day and have found that there are enough books I can get for free from the library app. Lots of biographies. This is very very disturbing. I knew of it of course but I did not KNOW of it.

[NBachers]

71. The Crossing by Michael Connelly- the latest Harry Bosh novel. Up Next: Rose Gold, by Walter Mosley

The most recent Easy Rawlins novel.

[Matariki]

72. I've been reading the often overlooked and entirely fascinating history of West Africa

currently reading Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women Warriors of Dahomey

[olddots]

73. The Empire City

by Paul Goodman

[2naSalit]

74. 1491 by Charles C. Mann

on the top of the stack are

Tough Trip Through Paradise 1878-1879. Andrew Garcia

The Wolverine Way Douglas Chadwick

Just got started on 1491 but it's a very interesting review of what life was like before Europeans arrived to conquer the continent and how a lot of what we were told was history was not like we were told. I think you would like it.

[Marrah_G]

76. Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson

Just finished the North and South Trilogy and the Kent Family Chronicles by John Jakes.

[Kennah]

82. Weirdos in the Workplace

Author's anti-union and pro-capitalism views piss me off, but there's quite a bit of good reading between the covers.

[area51]

83. "The Docker Book: Containerization is the New Virtualization" by James Turnbull n/t

[callous taoboy]

85. Tales from the Big Thicket

A fascinating account of the history of the Big Thicket in East Texas. Brought tears to my eyes last night reading about how the early pioneers in the mid 19th century got on with the Alabama-Coushatta Native Americans, how the Native Americans saved the pioneers' butts more than a few times. It is so incredibly sad how white man ultimately wiped out so many unique cultures in return.

[mountain grammy]

87. The Warmth of Other Suns is excellent.

Currently reading Chasing the Scream.

[Tracer]

88. The Builders by Daniel Polansky

I just started it, but it sounds very interesting. The protagonists are animals!

"For the animals of the Captain's company, survival has meant keeping a low profile, building a new life, and trying to forget the war they lost."

Apparently NOT a Watership Down book!

[H2O Man]

90. Thank you.

I appreciate the many responses here. It's interesting to see the variety of reading material that interests other community members!

[Sensitive soul]

91. I'm Reading

Yes Please...by Amy Poehler. Does that help?