What are you reading?

Rereading Battle Cry of Freedom, James McPherson's one-volume history of the U.S. Civil War era.

Originally posted by @handyandy
Rereading Battle Cry of Freedom, James McPherson's one-volume history of the U.S. Civil War era.

Nice.
By fine coincidence, I've spent some of the weekend reading:
"The Generals - Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee"
by Nancy Scott Anderson/Dwight Anderson

I've had the book on my shelf for quite a few years, but was recently inspired after watching a biographical piece about Mark Twain. (I hadn't known that he'd published Grant's memoirs.)

Originally posted by @wolfe63
Nice.
By fine coincidence, I've spent some of the weekend reading:
"The Generals - Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee"
by Nancy Scott Anderson/Dwight Anderson

I've had the book on my shelf for quite a few years, but was recently inspired after watching a biographical piece about Mark Twain. (I hadn't known that he'd published Grant's memoirs.)

Have you looked at Ron Chernow's new biography of Grant?

Originally posted by @handyandy
Have you looked at Ron Chernow's new biography of Grant?

No, I haven't. Not yet anyway.
Any new revelations?
Like all great characters in history, Grant was complex and very much a man of his times. There's much to admire. I'd put him on the better side of the spectrum between "good vs. evil".

Originally posted by @wolfe63
No, I haven't. Not yet anyway.
Any new revelations?
Like all great characters in history, Grant was complex and very much a man of his times. There's much to admire. I'd put him on the better side of the spectrum between "good vs. evil".

It's on my list. The author probes deeper than his predecessors, reviewers say. It's hefty (1,000+ pages).

The Man in the Wooden Hat (Book Two in Jane Gardam's Old Filth Trilogy)

Noddy and Bigears go Windsurfing

Origin by Dan Brown.

Originally posted by @eric-guerrero
Origin by Dan Brown.

Does it count if you just look at the pictures? 😉

-VR

Originally posted by @very-rusty
Does it count if you just look at the pictures? 😉

-VR

have you ever read a book?
just what do you read?
want to share?
I think it would be a kind of road map into your brain
I just finished Woodward's book, Fear, Trump in the Whitehouse
sad, funny, ridiculous and unfortunate that we are so screwed

Originally posted by @lemondrop
have you ever read a book?
just what do you read?
want to share?
I think it would be a kind of road map into your brain
I just finished Woodward's book, Fear, Trump in the Whitehouse
sad, funny, ridiculous and unfortunate that we are so screwed

Gertrude,

All you have managed to do is answer a very simple question with more questions of your own without really answering, which says something about the way your mind works.

Give me a break do you believe anything that Trumps says?

-VR

Originally posted by @very-rusty
Gertrude,

All you have managed to do is answer a very simple question with more questions of your own without really answering, which says something about the way your mind works.

Give me a break do you believe anything that Trumps says?

-VR

what are you reading, Rusty?
it's the subject of this thread
I won't pester you anymore

Originally posted by @lemondrop
what are you reading, Rusty?
it's the subject of this thread
I won't pester you anymore

Gertrude,

Why do you have to know what people are reading? Are you doing a survey? Are you stock piliing the informations for later use? 😉 😛

-VR

Originally posted by @very-rusty
Gertrude,

Why do you have to know what people are reading? Are you doing a survey? Are you stock piliing the informations for later use? 😉 😛

-VR

I think this thread was meant to tell us a little about books we may not have read yet, and writers we may not have heard of. I found a few book titles here that I tried and liked very much. And when I read a good novel, I want to share with others.

Originally posted by @torunn
I think this thread was meant to tell us a little about books we may not have read yet, and writers we may not have heard of. I found a few book titles here that I tried and liked very much. And when I read a good novel, I want to share with others.

I am quite aware, but thank you for your advice on what this thread is about! 😉

What you fail to see is everything Gertrude asks has a motive behind it.

-VR