Summer Reading List

kaiser715

kaiser715

Doing hard time
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Jun 1, 2006
Location
7, Pocket, NC
What are yall reading now?

I am in two books at the moment.

Grandma Gatewoods Walk is about her 1955 AT thruhike. Interesting subject, but this has to be absolutely the most poorly written, hard to follow, disorganized book I have ever read. Not even halfway thru, and I am having to force myself thru it, and skipping many paragraphs and subsections that just aren't relevant to the story.

The other book is Philosophy of Sailing. Total opposite, easy to read, conversational writing style, and many lessons within.

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Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne is on my list.
 
While little more "mainstream"... working my way thru Craig Johnson's "Longmire" series. After watching the ill-fated series a couple times, I find the books are more enjoyable.
Due to "availability issues" (BFVa public libraries are NOT endowed/funded/subsidized like NC 🤬), I'm forced to wait on my wife to download a batch from NCPL and then schlep them to my device... so during the waits, alternate some historical fiction and post-apocalypse. May drag out my entire (printed) Foxfire collection for a cruise, but really prefer the Kindle... much quieter than turning pages across my belly *AND* doesn't loose my place when I snore out mid-sentence 🤣
 
I ordered and received a beautiful hardback copy of The Hobbit. The illustrations are fantastic. I had a paperback copy forever but gifted it to a young reader a while back.

I want to replace my paperback Ring trilogy and Chronicles of Narnia with hardback as well. I read these at least once a year, have been reading them since I was a boy.

will post pics in a few
 
One on the left about the fifth time. The right is a new to me used book score.
 

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Finishing a book about owls my daughter insisted I read (Guardians of Ga'Hoole series), and then it's on to Enter Prehistoric. @Atla

Also just added John Hood's new book, Forest Folk, to my list.
 
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