What's on your reading list?

still on Finnegan's Wake

Santa brought me a bunch of books and I'm on a tear. Just finished this one:

It chronicles the collapse of Bronze Age Civilizations (Mycenean, Egyptian, Hittites, etc.) and the forces that may have triggered the collapse, natural disasters including climate change, financial meltdown due to breakdown of international trade, civil unrest, migration, and invasion, causing what's known as the First Dark Ages. These factors are strangely similar to what's going on today. At the end of the epilogue, the author recounts an exchange with a colleague, Adam Frank, that's a bit disquieting, reminiscent of ***Those who forget history are doomed to relive it,

[SIZE=6]When I told Adam Frank that we should be thankful that, unlike the Hittites, we are now advanced enough to understand what is happening and can take steps to fix things his rejoinder was short and direct: "But are we advanced enough to do anything with our understanding?" It remains to be seen whether we will have a good answer to his question.[/SIZE]***

[SIZE=4]I'll hold off on another history book about the history of Constantinople and go light next:
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Picked this up to read on vacation next week, looking forward to it.

Just finished these three...

Time for some "lighter" fare so this is next up...

I'm a big WWII buff, it amazes me what those kids went out and accomplished.
This is supposedly the definitive read on the history of the plane, hopefully I'll get to start it this weekend.

I'm currently focused on looking at what the state of FLA and other narrow minded peeps are labeling as banned!!

Mary reading this one. Fiction , Legal thriller.

getting on the subway ride, hardly anyone is ever book reading… it’s all the cellphones… 99. 3/4 %… cellie…
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getting on the subway ride, hardly anyone is ever book reading… it’s all the cellphones… 99. 3/4 %… cellie…
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That way they can switch quickly to video to record the mayhem.....

getting on the subway ride, hardly anyone is ever book reading… it’s all the cellphones… 99. 3/4 %… cellie…
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And head on a swivel trying to stay alive! :)

Usually read spy novels, detective stories, British mysteries and the once in a while a classic and/or a history book....just started Grant by Ron Chernow (about Ulysses S. Grant) ...really enjoying it but it’s over 900 pages. I’m a slow reader, and will still be reading it in the fall at least...but it is very informative, detailed book.

Big reader of TEOTWAWKI books but also enjoy Baldacci, Berry, Thor, Vince Flynn, Tom Clancy (I know, both have sadly passed) Mark Greaney, Demille, Bentley, Carr, Deuterman, etc. and a fan of Iris Johanson and her son's series too. Non-Fiction-wise I still read a lot of Korean War, WW2 naval and military.

A good Disaster book…….

Drowning by T.J. NEWMAN

Wife gave this and her other book FALLING 5 Stars.

THe author has been picked up by Universal for Falling and others to hit the big screen.

Thanks. Will give her first one a try. (I usually prefer big catastrophe, massive raghead attacks, World War 3 stuff, not just a single planeload of people in danger, but will give it a go.) Currently reading "Black Autumn", a true TEOTWAWKI type, which is going to be made into some sort of streaming series starring Neil McDonough but the streaming one sounds like it will be too much religion mixed in for the likes of me. Plus there is some sort of "go fund me" nonsense and you get to be an extra, lol. (On Facebook its listed as "Homestead.")

"Lucifer's Hammer" from way back remains one of the best TEOTWAWKI books. I guess I am just a gloom and doom type. I definitely live in the absolutely wrong place to like these "survivalist" books. 99% of Lawnguylanders would be dead within 2-3 weeks.

Picked up the Rick Atkinson trilogy, will start on North Africa this weekend - looks like it's going to be raining...

George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle

Very interesting & a great read...............