what you reading

when I was young, I was taught that reading was fundamental. as it was an exciting thing to be doing and to this day I still enjoy reading.. my latest book reading

what's yours??

 

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I am refreshing my grammar skills so I'm reading these 2 books -

 

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Should I...OK...just finishing the last of the Harry Potter books. Not sure how many times I have read them, but I do like them. Also reading them gives me an appreciation of the stupendous job the screenwriters did.

 

Irony.

 

If the great earthquakes of New Madrid, 1811, re-occured in present time in the same but more in extended areas of the US. The new writing is intermingled with excerpts from the old quake writings, and with additions of modern problems, such as race, splintered politics, religious end of the world people and a lot of KKK, military and preppers. I have found it scary fun, yet bulky. Glad I have the kindle version as it is 740 pages in paper. 4 and 1/2 stars. Jim

 

Couldn't bloody resist......

 

Finians Rainbow.......what a bomb.

 

I used to read a lot of Sci-Fi. Recently picked this up at a used bookstore. Never heard of the author but it is thoroughly enjoyable so far. Exactly what I wanted.

 

I'm guessing you're a lot younger than me. Back in the 1970s you couldn't read a lot of sci-fi without hearing of David Gerrold. Plus, he wrote "The Trouble With Tribbles".

 

I think to answer the headline you meant "I refreshing my grammar skills". Parallel construction and all that.

 

Oh no you di'n't...

 

When I was young, I was taught that fundamental reading was developmental/practical. Being a Pragmatist, I read newspapers for impractical, and technical-studies/AI/Etc. reports, design/operational/repair manuals for practical.

My reviewing of "foreign" newscasts seems to provide a reasonable adjunct balance for a believed fundamental lifestyle.

To each their own!

JMHO

 

I hear dem Elk is mighty tasty........

 

I'm in the middle of a 10 book online series.

 

green18- Wonderful that you are reading War and Peace! It is very interesting, although it does feel like a soap opera at times. I read War and Peace back in 8th or 9th grade. (Not assigned reading, but, I would come into the school's library and spend a half hour reading as much as I could.) I finished it before the school year ended, and thought it was very interesting literature about life during Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia. Interestingly, from what I remember, the translation of the book I read had the intro paragraph in French. Also, apparently Russian aristocracy spoke French during that time period.

Right now, I am reading "In High Places" by Arthur Hailey. I very much recommend Hailey's books, because they are very descriptive about whichever topic they delve into, such as Moneychangers- which describes the American banking system, and happenings between the workers of the "First Mercantile Bank".