What are you reading now?

[Wildfire]

I finished reading 2 books:

Trunk Music (Harry Bosch) by Michael Connelly

Great detective yarn! In fact, Connelly is one of the best in his field.

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Fire and Fury:The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945 by Randall Hansen

Talking about Weapons of Mass Destruction used in WWII. Killed ~600,000 civilians mostly women and children!

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[scifan57]

I finished reading 2 books:

Trunk Music (Harry Bosch) by Michael Connelly

Great detective yarn! In fact, Connelly is one of the best in his field.

----------------------------

Fire and Fury:The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945 by Randall Hansen

Talking about Weapons of Mass Destruction used in WWII. Killed ~600,000 civilians mostly women and children!

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WWI and WWII were the first large wars that targeted civilians in a major way. It's become mechanized and too easy, no longer up close and personal, to the detriment of our humanity.

 

[Wildfire]

WWI and WWII were the first large wars that targeted civilians in a major way. It's become mechanized and too easy, no longer up close and personal, to the detriment of our humanity.

There isn't much of our humanity left. However, casualty figures are down in our recent wars. Vietnam was the last war with major casualties. But even 50,000 is a low figure compared to the losses by Russian and German troops in WWII which ran in the millions.

But on a personal level, even one life lost is too much.

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[twerppoet]

The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card

 

[AdmiralAdama]

"A Wanted Man" - a new Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child, purchased in iBooks.

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[ZombieKitty]

It's the companies that make them. They ask for amounts of stock in the Spring and then deliver August onwards. The shops have to either store it in the warehouse(lack of sales) or sell it. Most put it out around this time. Shops can't afford not to. We are ordered around by manufacturers.

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What are you talking about? The Christmas displays?

 

[ZombieKitty]

The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card

Was this awesome? The name makes it sound awesome...

 

[ZombieKitty]

"A Wanted Man" - a new Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child, purchased in iBooks.

AA

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I have read one of these books in the series - it was only a little weird to read it in the middle and not from beginning of series to the book I read. That is hard with series books I think. Great author!

 

[scifan57]

Arrow's Fall, by Mercedes Lackey

 

[twerppoet]

Was this awesome? The name makes it sound awesome...

It's not as good as some of his other books, like Ender's Game, but I'm enjoying it. I've never read a book by Card that I did not enjoy.


P.S. I just finished the book. It's obviously the first of a new series. I'm very much looking forward to the next book. In the mean time the afterword mentioned another book set in the same world/universe, Stonefather. I'll be looking for it shortly.

 

[AdmiralAdama]

I have read one of these books in the series - it was only a little weird to read it in the middle and not from beginning of series to the book I read. That is hard with series books I think. Great author!

I read my first "Reacher" book on vacation years ago. Think it was third in the series. Like you I had no problem settling in. Then I was hooked and started reading from the beginning. Didn't take long to get caught up.

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[J. A.]

Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (iBooks)

"Death by Black Hole" by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (Kindle)

 

[Diablo2050]

The hunger games but on kindle really hoped it would be on ibooks but so far not yet

 

[Mimi80]

"A crown of swords" , Robert Jordan

 

[MoonlitSonata]

"A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin. Love the show, so reading the books finally.