What are you currently reading?

[helicon]

I got a non-fiction work that is like a novel called "The Wager" on Christmas from my sister by author David Grann.

I have to start reading it. The tagline says it is a tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder and a NY Times No. 1 bestseller.

[DEnc]

My homework this month is The Ghost Forest, by Greg King.

https://gregkingwriter.com/the-ghost-forest

It's the story of the "green rush" in California (the timber equivalent of the gold rush), and the creation of the Headwaters Forest Reserve. The shady characters involved in the aggressive extraction and destruction of the redwood groves of northern California are surprising: California university departments, a preservation society that was a front for a green washing operation, and not so surprising, a venture capitalist and of course politicians.

It's homework because I'll be privileged to lead hikes in the the reserve, starting next summer!

[Nakedgun]

Re-reading Frank Herbert Dune series

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All of them?

I've read Dune three of four times during the last 50 years, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune twice, and gave up on God Emperor probably 25 years ago.

Since the Villeneuve film I have acquired the full set, adding Heretics and Chapterhouse, as well as the Dune Encyclopedia.

At some point I hope to delve back in.



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[Lady Fraktor]

Reading them in sequence, about 1/3 through Heretics at the moment.

[Nakedgun]

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Just completed: "Further Adventures Of The Celestial Sleuth" by Donald W. Olson, 2018, 334 pages.

More mysteries put to rest.


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[pakarinen]

Among other books, I'm rereading An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943. I should look for some other desert warfare books I suppose.

[John Donne]

Among other books, I'm rereading An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943. I should look for some other desert warfare books I suppose.

Atkinson has a three book series. I have read them all. Great History.

I recently finished this one. You would maybe find interesting.

[Nakedgun]

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Just completed: "The Soul Of Battle" by Victor David Hanson, 1999, 480 pages.

How three Generals - Epaminondas, Sherman, Patton - used democratic armies successfully.


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[Nakedgun]

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Just completed: "The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" by James D. Hornfischer, 2004, 516 pages.

Quite an event, well told.


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[Nakedgun]

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Just completed: "Not Stolen, The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World" by Jeff Fynn-Paul, 2023, 397 pages.

Debunks the pseudo-Marxist blather espoused by non-historians over the last couple of decades, the roots of which germinated in the '60s and '70s.

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[Nakedgun]

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Just completed: "Cancer Care, The Role of Repurposed Drugs and Metabolic Interventions in Treating Cancer" by Paul E. Marik, MD, 2023, 162 pages.

A useful guide for anyone.


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