WHAT have you finished reading recently? Memories from the Microphone, a history of baseball broadcasting.
WHAT are you reading now? I’ve been nibbling at a few books this week, but am most committed to Provoked, a history of DC/NATO vs Russia since Gorbachev. I’ve read Scott Horton’s previous works and even helped in his crowd-funded one. It’s dense, though, and crammed with footnotes. (I am 13% in and am at footnote ONE THOUSAND AND THIRTY.) Kindle claims it’s over 2000 pages: the print version is closer to 700. I think the pace will quicken once I escape the Clinton administration and all of the bloodletting in Yugoslavia. The Kindle shelf:
Red Storm Rising is a library ebook that just became available. It’s dated at this point — Cold War fiction — but Red Metal supposedly took inspiration from it. Generation Kill is one I’m looking at because I enjoy scenes from the show (specifically, the scenes with Sgt Major Sixta — po-lice that moostache!). I also know little about Iraq War II save for the debacle it turned in to.
WHAT are you reading next? Ace in the Hole, once I’ve got some more nonfiction under my belt. I will not tolerate fiction beating out nonfiction again! I’m also hoping to get a hold of Original Sin, on the Biden cognitive coverup, as I’m specifically interested in knowing if Biden himself wanted to run in his condition or if he was pressured into it by the Dem establishment of his wife. With the sudden announcement that he has aggressive cancer on the eve of the book’s publication, I’m especially interested in it.
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Oh, I enjoyed ‘Red Storm’ immensely as far as I can remember. Quite dated and probably more than a little silly at this point – but probably still entertaining.
LOVE the ‘Generation Kill’ series. Picked up the book AGES ago. Still haven’t read it but its in a pile of books I have on war reporting from the 1930’s to today… Which I *really* should get around to reading at some point!
Speaking of stacks…. I have a stack of Ukraine related books that we can argue about… Once I’ve READ any of them! [lol]
Didn’t realize GK was a series! We’ll see how the first book goes.
GK *TV* series….. 7 episodes from 2008. Only the one book as far as I know.
Ahh, misunderstood. I’m on episode 2 of the series so far.
I’ll probably won’t take time to read Provoked, BUT am very interested in your review.
Last book I finished: Cyborg Fever, by Laurie Sheck
Am reading: Maigret à New York, by Georges Simenon
Am listening to: Répondre à la nuit, by Agnès Ledig
Next: Judging Athena, by Perrin Lovett
I’ve made it to 20% after a week of reading. It’s yuge! I also zipped through a smaller title that will be similarly…controversial, Sheldon Richman’s “Coming to Palestine”.
Cyborg Fever sounds worth looking into!
Yes, too big for me now.
Cyborg Fever is unlike anything I have ever read, really
If we go by the Kindle pagecount of 2000+, this will be the largest work I’ve read outside the library. Even the three volumes of Gulag Archipelago didn’t crack 2000.