David McCullough’s?
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David McCullough’s?
Halfway through Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop by
Nick Offerman
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War and Peace by Tolstoy. It is a long book but I am getting through it. All the Russian names can get confusing.
Yeah
I really enjoyed his second book: Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers.
Apollo 13, James Lovell and Jeffery Kluger. Don't tell me how it ends.
I'm listening to "Washington: a life"
It does live up to the hype.
And definitely makes the commute more bearable.
It does live up to the hype.
And definitely makes the commute more bearable.
Currently on Ron Chernow's Ulysses S. Grant biography, trying to finish before David McCullough's new book on the American Frontier releases next week, but I don't think I'm going to make it.
50 pages into "The Beautiful Crescent," a somewhat dated history of New Orleans.
Max Hasting's history of Vietnam.
Yeah I wanna read that one too. For now I’m going to try to make it through the Lord of the Rings books, starting with Hobbit. We’ll see how this goes.
Moby Dick. It's much better as an adult who is able to appreciate Melville's humor, irony and wit. Too many great books are wasted on the young. May follow it with Frederick Busch's The Night Inspector, which involves Melville as a protagonist in a mystery.
Also, Trollope's The Way We Live Now. Biting satire as current today as it was when it was written.
Plus plenty of thrillers and lighter stuff such as Awakened by James Murray, The Quantum Supremacy by David Goldman, To Die in Vienna by Kevin Wignall and Killer Thriller by Lee Goldberg. Next up is Bad Blood by John Carreyou.
Next big book will probably be something by Tolstoy, most likely War and Peace. Definitely need to read Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, too. And always on the list for upcoming releases: Lee Child, Stephen Hunter, the team of Richard Preston & Lincoln Child, and maybe something nasty by Cormac McCarthy.
Also, Trollope's The Way We Live Now. Biting satire as current today as it was when it was written.
Plus plenty of thrillers and lighter stuff such as Awakened by James Murray, The Quantum Supremacy by David Goldman, To Die in Vienna by Kevin Wignall and Killer Thriller by Lee Goldberg. Next up is Bad Blood by John Carreyou.
Next big book will probably be something by Tolstoy, most likely War and Peace. Definitely need to read Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, too. And always on the list for upcoming releases: Lee Child, Stephen Hunter, the team of Richard Preston & Lincoln Child, and maybe something nasty by Cormac McCarthy.
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Russka by Edward Rutherfurd
shavefan
I’m not a fan
His first non-fiction work, I'm looking forward to it...
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I gave up on Crawdaddies Sing.
Reading Sarah Vowell's Lafayette in the Somewhat United States. Informative and amusing. She is a good essayist. I do not think David McCullough need feel threatened by her as an historian.
Reading Sarah Vowell's Lafayette in the Somewhat United States. Informative and amusing. She is a good essayist. I do not think David McCullough need feel threatened by her as an historian.
I loved Assassination Vacation.
It’s a remarkable book.
Assassination Vacation was great. How did you like Crawdads ?
Both these books are on my list. But dang, they are daunting! I picked them both up at a secondhand bookstore last year. $6 for Moby and $8 for War. Couldn’t pass it up. Both are paperback. War & Peace is roughly 1400 pages. Oh lawdy!
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