Recommend a Good/Easy Read

I find these to be easy reads. I have dozens of boxes of 40’s-90’s brochures/manuals/albums from lots of manufacturers.

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Cherokeekid88 said:
Not just motivation books. Also love Norse Mythology and Medieval stuff, if anyone on here is into that
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You’d probably like some of the Harlequin series.:D


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kaiser715 said:
I read a lot of outdoor related stuff, and books about epic trips...climbing, etc.

One I particularly enjoyed recently was The Last Season (Eric Blehm). It is about the search for a nps ranger missing in the high sierras, and the search for him.
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I had recently finished that book in 2012 when my wife and I ran into a ranger while hiking in Glacier NP. We started talking about a young worker at the park hotel who recently went on a solo day hike into the wilderness and did not return, 2wks later and they still hadn’t found him. I mentioned I’d just finished that book and he said he had read it and thoroughly enjoyed it as well. Turned out he lived in Davidson, NC. With as many Grizzly bears as we saw there in East Glacier I know where I’d put my money on the cause of his disappearance.

Some good books off the top of my head...

Brave Men by Ernie Pyle
Simply awesome. Going to read it for a 3rd time soon. Amazing to think if a writer did what he did for the soldiers back then today, makes you ask wtf has happened to America.

A history of hunting in the great smoky mountains-
Legendary hunters of the southern highlands-
Both of these books by NC’s own Bob Plott.
Read the history of hunting first.

Walking the Amazon by Ed Stafford
Almost hard to believe the stuff people willingly put themselves through.
 
I also enjoy books like this one....Bear in the Back Seat...outdoor related, but short stories/anecdotes that you can easily read a while, and stop, and pick up later and not have a long complex storyline interrupted/forgotten.

Bear in the Back Seat is a collection of stories from a GSMNP ranger. Especially nice because I have spent a lot of time hiking in the park, and knew many of the places, even ran across a familiar name or two.

https://www.amazon.com/Bear-Back-Se.../ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
 
If you want to try some Military Science Fiction, The Galaxy's Edge Series by Nick Cole and Jason Anspach
Star Wars as it should be. Free Story in the series here:
TIN MAN (Galaxy’s Edge) – NICK COLE
Norse Mythology alternate History by Harry Harrison The Hammer and the Cross.
Another good alternate History By Harry Turtledove Agent of Byzantium
Also by Harry Turtledove Werenight, Prince of the North, King of the North, Fox and Empire.
I found Neil Gaiman's retelling of the Norse Myths disappointing but Kevin Crossley-Holland's very Good.
 
spoke to my mother for her birthday yesterday....avg. 2 books a week....she'd got almost 500 on her nook thing. Happy birthday! You got a book. She does mission work, and all sorts of stuff as a retired Nurse. At one point she was a director of critical care and read just as much; and I feel accomplished if I check threads on here..:(

On the flip side> she doesn't facebook, forum, blog, much less text.
 
NCJeeplover said:
Brian's Winter is the second of a 5 book series by Gary Paulsen. I read them as a kid and my 10 year old is obsessed with them currently.
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I did not know that now I’m gonna have to go find all 5 lol our 13 year old is reading at a college level for last few years so he may enjoy that series! Thanks for info
 
jcramsey said:
Didn't realize there were more books in the series. I only read "Hatchet". Loved that book when I was kid. I'd definitely read it again now!
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must find as well...good info! I've done two.
 
C.Berry said:
I did not know that now I’m gonna have to go find all 5 lol our 13 year old is reading at a college level for last few years so he may enjoy that series! Thanks for info
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He's got some other good ones also, but my favorite other than the "Brian Saga" is The Transall Saga. I found it in the discard bin at the library a few years ago and snagged it for my boy.
 
Actually I'm wrapping up the final draft on a book before I begin passing it out to Beta Readers for reviewing, final edit, then pushing up the ridiculously hard hill of publishing.

Think... Magnificent Seven meets Jurassic Park meets Planet of the Apes...

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Friends and Co-Workers wanted to start reading it before I finished the final draft, so I started putting chunks up.

Part 1: RAWR! Pew! Pew! Pew!

Part 2: RAWR! Pew! Pew! Pew-Part Tew!
 
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