What are you currently reading?

kshapero said:
Just ordered that based on your post.
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You will or maybe not enjoy it, if you live in the west: too depressing. One of the earliest misses was a climate theory by the then imminent climatologists was that 'rain will follow the plow' (about 1845). That meant if you start plowing the land it will rain there. Of course that didn't happen and was partially responsible for the future dust bowl.
 
charjohncarter said:
You will or maybe not enjoy it, if you live in the west: too depressing. One of the earliest misses was a climate theory by the then imminent climatologists was that 'rain will follow the plow' (about 1845). That meant if you start plowing the land it will rain there. Of course that didn't happen and was partially responsible for the future dust bowl.
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This 1840s climatologist must have been missing the target as much as his 1840s contemporary, William Miller.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Disappointment
 
charjohncarter said:
You will or maybe not enjoy it, if you live in the west: too depressing. One of the earliest misses was a climate theory by the then imminent climatologists was that 'rain will follow the plow' (about 1845). That meant if you start plowing the land it will rain there. Of course that didn't happen and was partially responsible for the future dust bowl.
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I am not afraid of a sad story, I'm afraid of not being informed.
 
The Promise of Paradise - Utopian Communities in British Columbia by Andrew Scott. Villa and Zapata - a History of the Mexican Revolution by Frank McLynn. Anything on the Canon RP by Ken Rockwell.
 
Just finished “Solaris” by Stanislaw Lem, which I had heard for years was good. It wasn’t. Less than sophomoric, as it turns out.
Now on “Every Man Dies Alone” by Hans Fallada which is shaping up to be much more worthwhile.

Nice idea for a thread.
 
'The Body in the Thames' by Susanna Gregory. One of a series of novels based in Restoration England in the reign of Charles II. Full of espionage, terror, drama, and corruption and debauchery at court. Gregory is a prolific and gifted story-teller and her novels have a sound historical base.
 
Phantom Africa, by Michel Leiris and 'Le secret pouvoir du sens: Entretiens' with the Surrealist poet and art critic Alain Jouffroy interviewing Pierre Klossowski, writer and artist.
 
kshapero said:
I have to tell my wife about this.
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If it will help it (Jane Austen in Context) is edited by Janet Todd and is an excellent book to dip into or read a one or two sittings. In a nutshell there's a lot of chapters written by experts on most aspects of life in JA's time. So if you want to understand the roads and transport or the postal service or clothes you just read and understand.


Regards, David
 
"Fair Warning" by Michael Connelly. After a long break in reading thrillers in favor of non-fiction, I'm burned out on reality and just want some mind-numbing entertainment.
 
"200 ans guides de Chamonix" The newly published, 200 yr history of the mountain guides of the Chamonix valley. Many photos.

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Henry VI part one by a young William Shakespeare. We'll see how it works out. I'm slowly working my way through all the plays. I usually fill the breaks between with a mixture of detective stories and auto/biographies.
 
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