Books... What are you reading? And what do you recommend?

BarnBuster

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Oct 20, 2020

• #441

Twilight of the Gods : War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 / Ian W. Toll. (This is the final book in the trilogy by Toll. One of the best series on WW2 in the Pacific, right up there with Samuel Eliot Morison's epic work. bb)
His previous:
The conquering tide : war in the Pacific Islands, 1942/1944 / Ian W. Toll.
Pacific crucible : war at sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 / Ian W. Toll.

Bourbon : what the educated drinker should know / by Tim M. Berra

The Bourbon bible : the complete low-down on the spirit of America--140 bourbons tried and tested / Eric Zandona ; with contributions by Sara L. Smith

Hitler : downfall, 1939-1945 / Volker Ullrich ; translated from the German by Jefferson Chase.

The spymasters : how the CIA directors shape history and the future / Chris Whipple.

The nicotine chronicles / edited by Lee Child.

 

BarnBuster

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Nov 20, 2020

• #442

The law of innocence / Michael Connelly.

Renew Marauder / Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison.

The iron sea : how the Allies hunted and destroyed Hitler's warships / Simon Read.

The killer's shadow : the FBI's hunt for a white supremacist serial killer / John Douglas and Mark Olshaker.

How to they/them : a visual guide to nonbinary pronouns and the world of gender fluidity / Stuart Getty ; illustrations by Brooke Thyng.

The secret life of groceries : the dark miracle of the American supermarket / Benjamin Lorr.

Plagues, pandemics and viruses : from the plague of Athens to COVID-19 / Heather E. Quinlan.

Poisoning the Pacific : the US military's secret dumping of plutonium, chemical weapons, and Agent Orange / Jon Mitchell.

Nazi wives : the women at the top of Hitler's Germany / James Wyllie.

The S.S. officer's armchair : uncovering the hidden life of a Nazi / Daniel Lee

 

LondonSeedCentre

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Nov 21, 2020

• #443

Night Probe from Clive Cussler

 

BarnBuster

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Nov 21, 2020

• #444

LondonSeedCentre said:

Night Probe from Clive Cussler

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Have you read Cussler from the beginning? I always preferred the stories where Dirk was the protagonist.

 

Milovan1

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Nov 21, 2020

• #445

 

LondonSeedCentre

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Nov 22, 2020

• #446

BarnBuster said:

Have you read Cussler from the beginning? I always preferred the stories where Dirk was the protagonist.

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I think I only read about 15-20 of his books over the years, but yeah definitely prefer the ones with Dirk Pitt.

Jacob

 

Milovan1

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Dec 11, 2020

• #447

 

BarnBuster

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Dec 13, 2020

• #448

RIP, John

 

DarkWeb

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Dec 13, 2020

• #449

BarnBuster said:

RIP, John

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Saw that on the news today. RIP

 

injinji

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Dec 14, 2020

• #450

I read everything he wrote. Although I got introduced to George Smiley through the PBS mini series, then read the books. Listening to the remembrance this morning on NPR, they were saying he changed the way spies talked. Mole and coming in from the cold are examples. But I guess the biggest thing he did to the spy novel was to show that the good guys were not always good.

 

BarnBuster

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Dec 29, 2020

• #451

This is an interesting documentary about the NYPL, kinda long so one must have patience and fortitude

 

smoothJoe

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Dec 29, 2020

• #452

de hip hop bible

 

Milovan1

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Dec 29, 2020

• #453

 

curious2garden

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Dec 29, 2020

• #454

Amazon.com

 

BarnBuster

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Jan 8, 2021

• #455

Our local library is opening up to walk in on Monday, thank God. It was about my only (and jussssst enough) dose of IRL humanity.

 

DarkWeb

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Jan 8, 2021

• #456

Just about to start on this soon.

 

Milovan1

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Jan 8, 2021

• #457

Inside The Strahov Library

 

lokie

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Jan 23, 2021

• #458

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Other light reading for added confidence. lol

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ChingOwn

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Jan 23, 2021

• #459

I'm currently in book for of the stormlight archive by Brandon Sanderson. I shouldn't say I read it I listen to it mostly at night or when I drive. Book for us not the best in the series, but the series as a whole has been awesome.

 

blueberryrose

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Jan 23, 2021

• #460

Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges