Whatcha reading, 2024 Edition

[AFG Vet]

Awesome thread! With a new abundance of time on my hands I can finally start reading again!! I'm going with the warrior poets reading list with a sprinkle of some Jack Carr! Super excited!

 

[P7M13]

Read two Joe Pickett novels last weekend, Savage Run and Cold Wind. I don't think I've read a single one of those in proper order. Each one is completely entertaining and a page turner.
Started World War Z last Sunday night, finished it Wednesday. There were a few good SHTF lessons in there.
World War Z movie is only remotely related to the book. The book is far more horrifying, and IMO, lays out the Covid 19 pandemic in the first 70 pages or so.

 

[TeacherSmurf]

I finished



It was a fascinating and very understandable book He really is a gifted writer.

I've also been reading The 39 Clues series with the kids. I love how the authors weave a treasure hunt, mystery, problem solving, history and geography together using kids as the main characters. Even our daughter, who says she doesn't like to read, is asking for the next chapter.

 

[AFG Vet]

Finally picked up some books, hopefully the start of our own library

 

[gearhead]

For whatever reason, I rarely finish a book before starting another. These three are in the mix right now.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

On a Elmore Leonard kick at the moment.
City Primeval is the current read....
Valdez is coming ....Swag ....Stick ...and killshot were recent previous reads.
Excellent writer...many books of his were made into movies.
Andy

 

[Indy62]

Finished Ready Player 1 and Masters of Doom. Now starting this: Hoping it will help to explain the twisted, bizarro world I now inhabit (plus I like working on motorcycles).

 

[AshWilliams]

Finished Ready Player 1 and Masters of Doom. Now starting this: Hoping it will help to explain the twisted, bizarro world I now inhabit (plus I like working on motorcycles).


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Love this book, especially the part about "gumption traps". I too work on bikes and installed a Hammer Performance engine kit and new cams last winter.

 

[Xaevian]

I was going to read the Koran, but I couldn't finish Allah it.

 

[Provincial]

I recently finished "The Second Most Powerful Man in the World," a biography of Admiral William Leahy. Tuesday, the blog The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War posted an episode on Leahy, so you can go to Youtube for a one-and-three-quarter-hour overview of this admirable man.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU1NtsqIFbw

 

[Member 90849]

Dominon by Tom Holland. Fascinating history of Christianity.

 

[gearhead]

Picked this one up while perusing the shelves. So far, everything I was hoping it would be. The man was an artist in every sense of the word, and had the courage to blaze his own path rather than going the way of the tried and true at the heels of the record company executives. Thank you for everything Mr. Dumile.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Re-reading Washington Irving's Astoria.
Andy

 

[Catbox]

I read uhhhh different books than you all seem too....
I love this fellers take on things, his name is Jason Pargin aka David Wong.
I picked the first book up as it had a snazzy title and cover art.
Then I read the back cover and bought it at Powell's...


After a while, I was back at Powell's as my office was down there before I became a remote worker and I found the second book in the Zooey Ashe series had been released and I snapped it right up as well.
Again, a great read.


In looking for the images for this here post, I see that the next installment has been released for Zooey.
I will have to venture out of the house to go and pick it up as I am sure it will be great as well.


The author has many other books that I own some of and need to get back into as well.
I took a photo as a reminder for when I went looking again...

 

[Lilhigbee]

Recently finished Pegasus Bridge, about the British glider troops taking of the bridge on D-Day. Excellent book!!

Also finished Descent Into Darkness, about the salvage divers operating in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. Wow!! Picture doing salvage work in a machine shop, that's been hit by a bomb, and turned upside down, and full of water, and oil, and absolutely dark, and you're wearing a 1940s diving suit and helmet and trying to move decomposing bodies out to where they'll float to the surface to be picked up by the medical team. And you volunteered for this!! And you aren't getting paid anything extra for doing it!!(At first, later they were paid quite well) It covers diving on the USS Nevada, USS Utah, USS Arizona, USS California, USS West Virginia, USS Oklahoma as well as some time on Guadalcanal..

And Patton, a good biography.

And Castle Shade, one of Laurie R. King's later novels in her Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series. Not one of the best books in the series but a fun read anyway. Any Sherlock Holmes fan should read her first book, The Beekeeper's Apprentice. It is a well-done continuation of the Holmes legacy.

 

[Lilhigbee]

Lightning Down, about a P-38 pilot shot down in France and winds up in Buchenwald Concentration camp.

Ayn Rand's Romantic Manifesto, a series of essays on modern art. Not sure I agree with all of it or even understand some of it, but it provides food for thought.

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World Revisited. I've had this on the shelf for years, presuming it was a sequel to Brave New World, but it is his commentary on parallels between his story and contemporary events circa 1950's. It's almost scary how closely he predicted our world today politically.

Edit to correct Author's name spelling.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

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.

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

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

Just got this and looking forward to seeing if there are any pearls of wisdom in there.