What are you reading or what have you read lately?

I'm curious, how was the seminar? Also, has anyone covered it by audiobook and have any feedback?

 

She loved the seminar. It was a great accompaniment to the book.

I'm not sure how it would be on an audiobook. It almost reads like a text book but one you can't put down. There were times I reread sections just to ensure I captured all the info.

 

Started a series called Eden's Gate by Edward Brody. I started last Friday and I'm already well into book 3.
Premise is a new VR game comes out and on launch day, after over 5 million players log in, the creator executes a file that transfers everyone's consciousness over to the game and kills the body so everyone is now trapped inside.
Not sure if the author is still working on writing though, a friend of mine has been reading it and told me the other day that the last book that came out was written in 2021. Hopefully it's not a dropped series as it has been interesting. The main character isn't perfect, and at times I really don't like them, but the over all story and world building keeps me reading.

Switched to this after another series I was reading decided to no longer be a part of Kindle Unlimited, meaning I'd have to pay to keep reading. Some may argue that I should in order to support the authors, but they get paid by Amazon for how many people check out their books. Their books weren't good enough for me to want to pay for them. I was reading that series as a filler between waiting on other series to produce new books.

 

Just finished the latest Monster Hunter International book. It was definitely the weakest of the series, just okay.

 

You might like the Arise series by Jez Cajiao.

 

I picked up a copy of Frankenstein: Annotated for Engineers, Scientists, and Creators in honor of the season, same story but the annotations are good and add some insight

 

B&N sent me an email that the 4th Eragon book is dropping, by Chris Paolini. This new one is all about Murtagh and Thorn.

I'm on "The Fractured Dark" by Meagan O'keefe, but I forgot it when we left my niece's house Sunday. I can't decide whether to start the next one, or go back and re-read The Wandering Earth, since I probably won't get the dark back until Thanksgiving.

 

The Civil War by Shelby Foote, vol 1.

 

Someone gave me a paperback of this one and I liked it so much that I bought a hardback and kept the paperback as a loaner.

 

I always have something to read at hand. I'm a high-school English teacher and I attend the local library systems 50-books-a-year reading challenge.

I just finished Barbara Tuchman's "Guns of August" which describes the conditions that set the opening of World War I, and I am halfway through Norman Angell's "Great Illusion" which is a pivotal piece of super-progressive social commentary from that time that describes how war is outmoded.

 

an excellent book, and John Adams is just as good if you have access to it.

 

I had to read that in my last career, it was... not fun. But, I eventually got the hang of it.
Now I can say that I am familiar with the dark art that is radio wave propagation. It only took over a decade.

Good news, if you want to know how to make a cursory radio telescope, that book will explain how that works. And it explains how to build one.

Bad news, if your local shortwave club finds out you know how to construct and use antennae, they will want to talk to you.

 

I read that one after 1776. At the risk of getting a warning for being political, I'd love to have someone with his commitment and objectivity in office today. Any office.

 

I just finished Appalachian Fail and before that Nomadland and currently reading Lonely Vigil, which is about the coast watchers in the Soloman Islands in WW2. This year, I'm up to about 35 completed. In no particular order, some of my favorites were:

The Pope at War. About Pope Pious the 12th and how he dealt with Hitler, Mussolini and the "Jewish question".
Killers of the flower moon: Read the book, ship the movie.
The Coming of the Third Reich. First book of a trilogy about the Nazi's coming to power and their reign by Richard Evans. Similar to The Rise and fall of the Third Reich.
For Blood and Treasure: The settling of the Kentucky territory.
Last Men Out: The 12 or so Saigon embassy Marine guards who were the last men out as the North Vietnamese came into the city.
The End of the World is just the Beginning: The North American continent is going to be a good place to be.

 

Finishing up Vol 2, and about to start Vol 3

 

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

 

Read it a few months ago. I enjoyed it.

 

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff.

 

The End of Night by Paul Bogard. Fascinating AND depressing, right up my alley.

 

"The North American continent is going to be a good place to be." That's just my evaluation of the world situation after reading the book. Have you gotten to the $.11 cents per pair shipping cost of a pair of shoes from the Far East to the US yet??