Book club 📖 What are we reading right now? (Planning related or not)

[Richmond Jake]

On deck: President in Cheat, How Golf Explains Trump by Rick Reilly.

No fewer than one laugh on every page.

 

[Richmond Jake]

Gumption by Nick Offerman. Don't waste your time. Boring.
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I'm about 1/3 of the way through Fall and Rise - The Story of 9/11 by Mitchell Zuckoff. Riveting. Can't put it down.

 

[Maister]

Fermentation Made Easy! Mouthwatering Sauerkraut - Holly Howe

 

[mendelman]

John Adams by David McCullough

It's quite voluminous, but a fantastic relatively easy read and really opens one's eyes that John Adams should be much more highly regarded as a Founding Father than he popularly is.

I'm at his Presidency period right now. Woof...he had it tough.

 

[Whose Yur Planner]

John Adams by David McCullough

It's quite huge, but a fantastic read and really opens ones eyes that John Adams should be much more highly regarding as a Founding Father than he popularly is.

I'm at this Presidency period right now. Woof...he had it tough.

Red Jacket by Joseph Heywood. It's about the first game wardens in the Keweenaw Peninsula/ Upper Peninsula in Michigan during the early 1900's. Heywood'd writing takes getting used to, but it's not a bad read.

 

[kms]

Pioneers: the Heroic Story of Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by David McCullough.

 

[JNA]

 

[luckless pedestrian]

I just finished The Vanishing Act by Brit Bennett and it was very good - I got insight in the world of colorism within the black community and the communities created from the children of slave owners and their slaves - I like how the writer creates characters we don't pity but yet we feel their pain and marvel at their pragmatism

 

[mendelman]

Land by Simon Winchester - its a 'history' of land and how humans have used it (directed or indirectly) for material wealth and politics.

On deck:
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow - this is a big bio that launched the broadway musical

1776 by David McCullough - appears to be a history of that year in the proto-USA

 

[SlaveToTheGrind]

Utah Beach The Amphibious Landing and Airborne Operations on D-Day June 6, 1944

Joseph Balkoski

 

[kms]

I finished "The Pioneers" by David McCullough. I may read it again, soon.

 

[Maister]

I've been bookless for several months. Maybe the longest stretch ever as an adult. Yesterday, however, I ended the drought and started "The Secret History of WW2". It's a big ol' hardbound book. I might go as far as to call it a 'coffee table book' due to its size and the number of pictures.

 

[mendelman]

I'm thinking about picking up Submarines of World War Two and between the Wars - by H. Am. Mers

 

[Whose Yur Planner]

I'm dipping back into sci-fi and reading Leviathan Wakes. It's the first in the series of books that The Expanse is based on.

 

[Bubba]

I'm thinking about picking up Submarines of World War Two and between the Wars - by H. Am. Mers

Obligatory:

 

[Super Amputee Cat]

The authoritative book on how Los Angeles got to be the way it is today: Most of the disasters that we equate with L.A. are the result of bad planning and rampant uncontrolled development. But it was written in the mid-1990s and could use some updating.

 

[kjel]

Finishing up Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson. I can only read it in small chunks, it's a hard read. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/653196/caste-oprahs-book-club-by-isabel-wilkerson/

Her earlier book The Warmth of Other Suns is a phenomenally written book telling the story of the Great Migration of Blacks from the South from 1915-1970.

 

[TOFB]

Outside In: African-American History in Iowa, 1838-2000 Bill Silag, ed.

 

[Salmissra]

Wow - I've been reading non-heavy stuff to take my mind off of the family issues.

Finished: The Vanishing, Jayne Ann Krentz

Started: The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman

On deck: Just One Damned Thing After Another - The Chronicles of St. Mary's, Jodi Taylor

 

[MD Planner]

I feel inadequate. I just finished a James Patterson book.