What's everyone reading?

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Homegrown Tomatoes

It is getting that time of year again where I actually have time now and then to read a little.  What's everyone reading these days?  I started Joel Salatin's Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer but didn't get it finished before we went to Korea, so I have to go put it on reserve at the library again so I can finish it up.  Read another book a few weeks ago, but the title escapes me now, about owner-builder houses/barns/outbuildings, etc.  It had a lot of good ideas and kind of made me want to build something. :)  Of course with four kids, most of my reading time is taken up with their books, but at this rate, they're becoming very well read.

MountainDon

Just finished Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand. Fantastic book!

From the author:   Growing up in California in the 1920s, Louie Zamperini was a hellraiser, stealing everything edible that he could carry, staging elaborate pranks, getting in fistfights, and bedeviling the local police. But as a teenager, he emerged as one of the greatest runners America had ever seen, competing at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he put on a sensational performance, crossed paths with Hitler, and stole a German flag right off the Reich Chancellery. He was preparing for the 1940 Olympics, and closing in on the fabled four-minute mile, when World War II began. Louie joined the Army Air Corps, becoming a bombardier. Stationed on Oahu, he survived harrowing combat, including an epic air battle that ended when his plane crash-landed, some six hundred holes in its fuselage and half the crew seriously wounded.

On a May afternoon in 1943, Louie took off on a search mission for a lost plane. Somewhere over the Pacific, the engines on his bomber failed. The plane plummeted into the sea, leaving Louie and two other men stranded on a tiny raft. Drifting for weeks and thousands of miles, they endured starvation and desperate thirst, sharks that leapt aboard the raft, trying to drag them off, a machine-gun attack from a Japanese bomber, and a typhoon with waves some forty feet high. At last, they spotted an island. As they rowed toward it, unbeknownst to them, a Japanese military boat was lurking nearby. Louie's journey had only just begun.

Just because something has been done and has not failed, doesn't mean it is good design.


peternap

I've finally gotten around to reading "Hell, I was there"...Elmer Keith
These here is God's finest scupturings! And there ain't no laws for the brave ones! And there ain't no asylums for the crazy ones! And there ain't no churches, except for this right here!

Squirl

I have been juggling between a few books a chapter at a time.

Timber Frame Construction: All About Post and Beam Building by Jack A. Sobon and Roger Schroeder - Good book on joints and connections.  Lacks any technical direction of calculating beam size/span relationships.

The Beekeeper's Bible: Bees, Honey, Recipes & Other Home Uses by Richard A. Jones and Sharon Sweeney-Lynch. - Just a plain beautiful book.  Looking forward to finishing the house and keeping a few of these on the property.

Cabinology: A Handbook to Your Private Hideaway by Dale Mulfinger - I liked his other more picturesque cabin book so much I got this one.  It is great too.

Design of Reinforced Concrete by Jack McCormac - Whenever I can get to the library, which hasn't been to often.  I think I may just buy this.




 


NM_Shooter

Just finished "Life of Pi".  I was blown away by the ending.
"Officium Vacuus Auctorita"


RIjake

I'm about halfway through Survivors by J.W Rawles.  His latest novel.  I think it's excellent.

considerations

A song of Fire and Ice by George R.R. Martin - A 5 book series (I'm on 4) set in an iron age "other" world.  Just finished Livy's "History of Rome".  

Gary O

 I just started Ben Franklin's bio by Edmond S Morgan, who is quite the individual himself.
Franklin's early years are somewhat fascinating, as he was quite the athlete and swimmer.
Truly a man before his time.
I'm enjoying all that I own, the moment.

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air." Emerson