Whatcha reading, 2024 Edition

[CountryGent]

Well, a new year is upon us. In the spirit of the similar threads in the past, what are your reading, circa 2024?

As to yours-truly, just a couple started:

The Renovaré Spiritual Formation Bible. The text being the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) with Deuterocanonical books. At 2,291 pages, it won't be a quick read, but I have a program to work through said day by day.



Spanish Best: The Fine Shotguns of Spain (2nd Ed.), by Terry Wieland. I imagine Zabala, and maybe even POS (teehee), should be covered.



How 'bout you? Any books you're looking forward to diving into this next trip around the Sun? Cheers.

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[Andy54Hawken]

Re-reading The Journal of Jacob Fowler.
Fowler was a Kentuckian who went down , what was later to be known as the Santa Fe Trail , in 1821.
What is interesting , is that the stereotypical "Kentucky drawl " is present from his writing.
It's a fun read for sure.
Andy

 

[CountryGent]

What is interesting , is that the stereotypical "Kentucky drawl " is present from his writing.

Would you say:


Sorry couldn't resist. That does sound like a fascinating read.

 

[Unicykle]

I've been causally reading a box of original Edgar rice burrows books I found in my dads old stuff, there's a bunch, simpler times, some fun reading tho.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Would you say:
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Sorry couldn't resist. That does sound like a fascinating read.

Yes , yes I would.....

Unfortunately for a fella named Dawson who was attacked and killed by a bear...there is a WTF did I just read moment in the account of the attack :
"....When it Sprung up and Caught Lewis doson and Pulled Him down in an Instent Conl glanns gun mised fyer or He Wold Have Releved the man
But a large Slut* Which belongs to the Party atacted the Bare With such fury that it left the man..."

Okay then...
Andy
*The "slut" here...is a large female dog....

 

[CountryGent]

I couldn't help but notice "large Slut" in that discourse. Well then.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

I couldn't help but notice "large Slut" in that discourse. Well then.

Yeah... a WTH for sure...
The "large Slut" here ...is a large female dog....
Andy

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Update...
Finished The Journal of Jacob Fowler....as well as Military Escort on the Santa Fe Trail.
Starting Guarding the Overland Trails ...The Eleventh Ohio Cavalry in the Civil War.
Andy

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Finished my book on the 11th Ohio....
Now I am hearing from all quarters of my library....
Pick me ! Pick me !

Theodore Roosevelt is inviting me to go hunting with him....
General Forrest says "Mount up and help me whip them Yankees...."
Shackleton is busy making snow cones and would like to get back home....
There are those pesky Vikings in the Danelaw and Alfred the Great has asked for them to be baptised....
I'm sure that will work out well..
Conan wants to go adventuring , after he is unencumbered by his latest wench....
The Hobbits are off to Mordor...EEK !!!
Killbuck and LaBonte are headin' to Taos....Mmmm....got a hankering for Mexican food now...

So many books...so little time....
Andy

 

[monkeybutler]

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Deep_Learning/NgTyDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Well now...
Washington Irving won out , his three western narrartives.
A Tour on the Prairies...
Astoria...
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville.
Andy
Edit to add :
Damn...I love my library , but I have a lot of books....
Heinlein as in Robert A. is also calling.
Starship Troopers...
Glory Road...
Stranger in a Strange Land...
Tunnel in the Sky....
Are all calling the loudest. of his that I have....
But then ....
Ray Bradbury speaks up.....
Robert E. Howard muscles his way forward...
Neil Gaiman slyly positions himself to seen....
Sigh....

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Sooooo....
With all that said above , I finally found a book.
Albeit nothing that was listed above...
Townsend's Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains , to the Columbia River.
By John Kirk Townsend.

Townsend was a American Naturalist and Ornithologist .
Many mammals and birds are named after him.
He made this journey in 1834...meeting many folks involved in the Western Fur Trade.
Andy

 

[Aero Denezol]

Currently reading Black Hawk Down.

Not my usual WWII stuff, but it is right up there with some of the best books from WWII.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Re-reading The Journals Of Lewis and Clark...all 13 volumes...as edited by Moulton.

27 May 1804 .....
Lewis : "Clark , are we there yet...? "
Clark : "Shut up Lewis....!!!!"
Andy

 

[CountryGent]

Spinning space pineapples, my reading has been all over the map lately — from vintage firearms guides to contemporary computational linguistics to Anabaptist theology. But I cracked an old favorite today in the beautiful, warming sun:

 

[Lilhigbee]

Latest book finished was The Creature From Jekyll Island; A Second Look at the Federal Reserve. That led me to an earlier book on the same subject, The Federal Reserve Bank which I am working on now.
Having recently taken up writing with a couple of short technical articles, I re-read Stephen King's On Writing, a useful guide to the craft. Before that was Stephen King's Everything's Eventual and (writing as Richard Bachman) Blaze, His work has certainly suffered since his accident. Before that was Heinlein's Job: A Comedy of Justice and The Number of the Beast. Job may be my favorite Heinlein story so far!! Mixed in there somewhere was The Art of Living and Design and Manufacture of Springs. That's a real page-turner!! While I was in Australia I read a couple of sci-fi short story collections, each claiming to be the best stories of the year. They weren't. Not even mediocre stories by my estimation.

 

[P7M13]

Latest book finished was The Creature From Jekyll Island; A Second Look at the Federal Reserve. That led me to an earlier book on the same subject, The Federal Reserve Bank which I am working on now.
Having recently taken up writing with a couple of short technical articles, I re-read Stephen King's On Writing, a useful guide to the craft. Before that was Stephen King's Everything's Eventual and (writing as Richard Bachman) Blaze, His work has certainly suffered since his accident. Before that was Heinlein's Job: A Comedy of Justice and The Number of the Beast. Job may be my favorite Heinlein story so far!! Mixed in there somewhere was The Art of Living and Design and Manufacture of Springs. That's a real page-turner!! While I was in Australia I read a couple of sci-fi short story collections, each claiming to be the best stories of the year. They weren't. Not even mediocre stories by my estimation.

Maybe it was a bad year....


I've been stuck on Thomas Sowell's Social Justice Fallacies for too long.... Maybe some good, light fiction would help get me back into the reading habit.

 

[2Wheels4Ever]

Just about finished this one.

 

[gmerkt]

I read every day. These are the last three I've read:

1.

This is the magnum opus published by the US Air Force after the Korean War; this was the reprint published in later years. It's a long read, 800 pages. Strange format, dual columns on each pages, many illustrations and maps. Air power was the only thing that kept us in the game in the Korean War. There is some background information about the war beyond Air Force activities. This copy looks so ragged because I do a lot of reading in bed; it was simply too heavy to hold up for hours, so as I got into it, I'd tear off a section of pages to lighten the load.


2.


This was a fun, fast read after slogging through the History of the Air Force in Korea. The author describes a number of trips on famous rail lines. Backed up by lots of railroad and general history.



3.



This is what I'm reading at present. It's about the war in the South Pacific in WW2, that area which includes the Solomon Islands, Australia, and New Guinea. New Guineas includes some hairy battlefields in Bougainville and New Britain. Everyone has heard of Guadalcanal, not so much the other venues in this area. It covers 1942-44; everything after that and above the equator is a different subject. This was published in the late 1990's.

 

[TTSX]

I hope to be reading the Bachman books, which are a collection written by Stephen King under a different name. Just purchased a copy. I've read "the long walk" before and it may be the only book I've ever read cover to cover in a single day. It really is that good. This particular collection includes "rage" which can be a very hard book to find for a reasonable price.

I also hope this year to finish the "three body problem" series. An excellent sci Fi story.