What are you reading? Not necessarily coin or ancient related.

Loving this!

 

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I bought the paperback. It is a great read. Her online videos are also excellent.

 

I got that one for Christmas last year - good read.

 

This is exactly how I feel as well Brian. I usually spend months studying before I take a trip because I feel that it makes it more enjoyable and also shows respect and gratitude to the people there for allowing me to be a guest in thier country.

A lot of times I will go into a museum or visit a site and be in awe of something that is either sparsely visited or else being mostly ignored by everyone else. The best example I can think of was in the Athenian Agora museum where everyone only had eyes for the Themistocles ostracon but ignored the Spartan shield from one of the most shocking instances of Spartan surrender in history.

The Athenians gloatingly etched an inscription on it that you can still make out.

"[The] Athenians [took this] from [the] Lacedaemonians from Pylos"

I would never have known about it (it was not well marked/explained) if I hadn't come across this awesome book by Donald Kagan.

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I have been doing my best to speak passable Croatian but I fear I will unfortunetly have a pretty poor showing at it come game time! Oh well

 

Hey Bing,

Have you read Simon Scarrow's Eagle series? I'm up to number four -
The Eagle and the Wolves. Really enjoying the series.

 

I have read most of the Eagle Series. Unfortunately there is some copyright issue preventing part of the series being sold in th US.

 

So many books in this thread I want to read now.

John

 

Love love love Calvin and Hobbes

 

You may be too young to remember it but Bloom County is also an awesome comic that is similar in some ways to Calvin and Hobbes. Highly recommended.

 

I'll keep that in mind. Is it by bill?

 

I need to get back into some fiction reading, I've been neglecting it lately.

I've been "reading" this again...




and this...

 

It deals with my main focus in history and collecting and is a good blend of scholarly and casual (leans kind of more towards the scholarly which is fine with me). I enjoyed reading volume 2 so I knew I had to get volume 1 (don't ask me why I got 2 first). Haven't had a chance to continue due to the college semester but I should have some time for it during the hurricane.

 

Yep. Read them all. Not a bad series at all. I can add my recommendation.

 

In the midst of two:

 

I will have to check out the vids.

This book is on deck.

 

It is by Berkeley Breathed.

I was so bummed when he stopped many years ago.

 

He has started making new strips again and posts them on Facebook

 

Thanks for the tip! I loved Bloom County and it's a blast to be reading the new strips.

 

Really, no way!

Is Opus back?

 

Yep!
https://www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/