any Holiday reading ----?

[ron l edmiston]

on the back deck in 70 sunshine kennesaw ga, overlooking the woods & pond:

-- "walden, the natural man, the maine woods & walking.." henry d thoreau
maybe throw in --- "the essential dogen, writings of the great zen master.." too

doing my best, with a smile, to keep the webs & cob from mind nourishment..,

ronnie

[joosttx]

Ronny- I am reading short ribs recipes and instructions for putting together hot wheels tracks!

[rwsaunders]

John Le Carre's autobiography titled The Pigeon Hole. Now I'm looking up all of his novels that have been scripted for films and I might be doing some binge watching over the next few weeks. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Smiley's People; The Night Manager to name a few. The series that starred Sir Alec Guiness as George Smiley were awesome from what I recall.

[TMB]

John Le Carre's autobiography titled The Pigeon Hole. Now I'm looking up all of his novels that have been scripted for films and I might be doing some binge watching over the next few weeks. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Smiley's People; The Night Manager to name a few. The series that starred Sir Alec Guiness as George Smiley were awesome from what I recall.

All of those are good. I have read most of the LeCarre books many times and the films are fabulous.

[TMB]

One of my daughters gave me a couple of the America's Test Kitchen books - I have been immersed in those today.

The other daughter gave me Romeo Dallaire's biography. That will be a very interesting read.

[cash]

Alexander Hamilton by Chernow. Late to the cultural party but it's dynamite. (And "Night School" by Lee Child ... popcorn, for sure, but damn tasty.)

[false_aesthetic]

The Festival of Insignificance is fantastic!
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/bo...dera.html?_r=0

[bigbill]

I've been reading this:
The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 by James D. Hornfischer — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists

I read history books and James Hornfischer does his homework.

[UnfilteredDregs]

"Diplomacy"- H. Kissinger

[ericpmoss]

http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/superpage/lemanoir/

I like the presents I get myself. :) The photography is good, the writing is infectiously good-natured, and construction quality superb, even on the kitchen version -- highly recommended. The recipes? So far the Comte cheese souffle is ferociously good as long as I get the right mustard in the sauce. The apple tart is good, but boy do I need some practice on crust. The rest will take some skills I have yet to learn.

[vertical_doug]

These Are The Criminals and Corporations That Have Gotten Really, Really Rich Off The Refugee Crisis - The Huffington Post

Huffington Post has a long form article on the global refugee crisis. It deals with the smuggling hubs, transport hubs, criminal hubs and corporate hubs. It is worth a read.

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[deano]

I read Shusako Endo's "Silence" in February last year and it was stunning. Come to find out Scorcese's making an Oscar bid with an adaptation that's apparently out and select cities and about to have wide release. & so my book buddies and I are rereading it. I'm about to start it again.

[nash]

Currently reading 'Fields of Blood' by Karen Armstrong and rerearding 'My Struggle Book 2' by Karl Ove Knaussgard. On the backburner is 'The Ground we Share' by Roshi Aitken and Brother Stendl. Just picked up 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. The Ground we Share is a conversation about Buddhism and Christianity between a Soto Zen Master and a Benedictine Monk. It hasn't grabbed me yet. But I have read another book by Aitken. Mysterious depths there. So far book 2 is my favorite of Knaussgard's series. New revelations in rereading. Fields of Blood is blowing my mind in the first few chapters. I know so little of early civilizations and their spiritual practices. Ford will be entirely new to me.

[xjoex]

I'm reading White Night by Jim Butcher. Just finished the fifth season by Ursula K Leguin and was not a fan at all...

[GonaSovereign]

Memoirs of ths Second World War, by Winston Churchill.

[Clyde]

Jerry Kuhnhausen's 1911 manual.

[BBB]

Being in Japan, I'm currently reading Underground, which deals with the sarin attack on the Tokyo subway back in the 90s.

[vertical_doug]

Being in Japan, I'm currently reading Underground, which deals with the sarin attack on the Tokyo subway back in the 90s.

I lived it. I rode the Hibiya line and got off at Kamiyacho. I was lucky because I went to work much earlier. The computer shop the cult had on 7-chome Minami Aoyama was on my morning jogging route. The cult had press conferences there until I think the spokesman was stabbed in an attack.... It was so long ago. There was a lot more than just the one attack. There was a second failed attack in Shinjuku with Cyanide in a burning bag in the big underground walkway near the station.
It was a scary spring

[colker]

I am about to start Jack London´s White Fang

[Rich Beaudoin]

The Sixth Extinction is great reading (to my taste anyway), if you like non-fiction.