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Post by tarbe on Jul 8, 2021 0:22:48 GMT
I am still trying to get to "The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs" by Joel Salatin.
I read the first chapter, then decided I had to get my house ready for market asap so we could sell and get the heck out of Houston! I feel like I haven't stopped moving for more than 10 minutes since.
Time to go back to work!
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Post by wildhorseluvr on Jul 8, 2021 0:33:32 GMT
I just read Conspiracy: Book of Noah by Mark Goodwin. Wow. If you don’t have a tinfoil hat on you will 1/2 way through. I recommend it. Thank you. Just took a look at this online and it sounds great, I will be looking for it. (I almost always buy books second hand, and only buy new if I can’t find it.) The fact that it’s a Christian book is even better. I haven’t had much time for reading or movies lately, but very recently picked up a mystery/suspense series (Blue Justice series) by Lynette Eason. Had never read any of her books but DGD in KY recommended them so I grabbed this series when I ran across them in a thrift store. Enjoyed them very much, I will look for others by this author. Also just finished another Jane Kirkpatrick book, This Road We Traveled, based on a true story about the Oregon Trail.
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Post by meandtk on Jul 8, 2021 23:58:36 GMT
Last Gasp- a novel’
Preaching- G. Campbell Morgan
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Post by tabitha on Jul 21, 2021 1:34:31 GMT
the library never has a book that I want to read.
I was just going to look at Wendell Berry again. Jayber Crow maybe.
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Post by TxGal on Jul 21, 2021 2:07:32 GMT
You can say that again, tabitha! I read The Good Earth not too long and really, really enjoyed it. While I was getting the kids' books I thought, "Today I'm going to check me out a book and just 'take the day off.' I knew exactly which book I wanted too: Dragon Seed." Nope, not today. My library doesn't have it or anything else by Ms. Buck surprisingly. As progressive as my library is I figured they'd have any and everything Oprah ever promoted.
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Post by tabitha on Jul 21, 2021 17:08:59 GMT
Pearl S Buck is one of my favorites, too. what about Oprah? she wrote books? sorry, I have never ever seen her.
as a young girl I read 'die gute Erde' and not all too long ago I came across, second hand of course, of 'The Good Earth. Had to read it in English. You know what struck me? Olan found those jewels, and it did not cross her husband's mind after he got rich to go north and look for her parents. Nope, he even took those two pearls from her.
He should have been horsewhipped.
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Post by willowgirl on Jul 27, 2021 15:12:53 GMT
I'm still making my way through David McCullough's biography of Harry S. Truman, which I've been reading all summer. I'm enjoying it but I generally only get through 2 pages a night before I nod off, so at the rate I'm going, it's going to be my fall and winter book as well!
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Post by tabitha on Aug 3, 2021 22:06:56 GMT
Thomas More, Utopia
He had some bright ideas that they practiced in the DDR. Ditto Willow girl. slow going.
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Post by wildhorseluvr on Aug 3, 2021 22:18:25 GMT
Having the same problem. Read several Jane Kirkpatrick books recently and then started reading On Desperate Ground (Chosin Reservoir) by Hampton Sides. I read his Ghost Soldiers a few years ago and really enjoyed it, but am struggling with this one. Not the fault of the story, been so busy I just can’t stay awake more than a few pages before I fall asleep.
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Aug 3, 2021 23:44:21 GMT
wildhorseluvr, Not to worry, when you get into the real guts of Chosin Reservoir you'll be awake all night. I haven't read the book, but knew a guy who was there.
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Aug 3, 2021 23:47:29 GMT
Sweet Bride is currently reading Patriots by James W Rawles. I thought she read it years ago when I first read it, but apparently not. It's a bit slow going initially, but throughout the book has lots of both action and good information.
It's the book that introduced us to the Dakota MURS alarm system that we've got all over our place. Great security system and a great company.
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Post by wildhorseluvr on Aug 4, 2021 0:57:23 GMT
wildhorseluvr , Not to worry, when you get into the real guts of Chosin Reservoir you'll be awake all night. I haven't read the book, but knew a guy who was there. I’ve read other books on the Korean War and Chosin Reservoir so have some knowledge but I often read many books on the same topic. I like to have different perpectives. A general’s reflections of a war or battle are quite different from how the infantry guy in the trench or foxhole remembers it. 😉 I’m sure this book won’t disappoint.
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Post by joebill on Aug 10, 2021 2:52:26 GMT
CJ Petit has a LONG list of titles behind him that he describes as "Westerns", but I would beg to differ in most cases. They are novels from the 1800's, mostly, but are hardly exclusively Western stories, and are HIGHLY varied as to subject matter.
Obviously, not for everyone, but I think everyone who enjoys historical fiction might profit from sampling one or two of them, and there must be around 50 out there that can be read of the cheap, since he puts them on "Kindle unlimited" or else sells them in digital format for around a buck per eachum.
The guy began publishing them when he was sure he was dying and just needed to occupy his mind, and just kept going. Sampling them can't cost you more than a buck, and if you liked Louie La More, you will prob'ly like him, too. I actually like him BETTER than I do Louie, but then I do not claim to be a literary critic.
CJ Petit on Amazon Kindle Unlimited....Lemme know......Joe
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Post by wildhorseluvr on Aug 26, 2021 2:56:58 GMT
Currently rereading Five Years To Freedom by James “Nick” Rowe, a Green Beret who spent 5 yrs as a Vietcong POW. I’m about halfway through and have found I’ve forgotten a lot. It’s a good read but I’m so tired I’m usually lucky to make through one chapter a night.
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Post by wildhorseluvr on Oct 7, 2021 2:40:13 GMT
Finished War Dogs (about military dogs) and today stumbled onto The Law, by Frédéric Bastiat (online), which I’m enjoying. I’ll send the link to one of my DGSs. Talked to him the other night and he was telling me of all the history he’s been reading and what he was learning from it. I’m proud to say I’ve had a hand in turning him into a good conservative. 😉 (I really only pushed him to read history, and he figured everything else out on his own.) He’s been struggling to find info on WWI and I sent him some links to interviews of a few WWI vets on youtube. bastiat.org/. (The Law)
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