What Are You Reading?

After you read it, I'd be interested in your thoughts on it.

I’m very low brow, reading James Lee Burke new Robichaux, been to every haunt in his book, my Dad had a pool hall and honky took and as a little boy they enthralled me. Used to watch pool games that were played for hundreds of dollars in the late forties that was a lot money.

It was written for its time.  And, from a professional hunter buddy from South Africa, a lot of things remain unchanged.  So, if some people are bothered by it not being PC, I could honestly not care any less.

Just started reading a free book I picked up at a fresh egg and book swap stand. It's called The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals by W.T. Hornaday. Published 1923. Pretty great so far, and goes well with a pipe full of Sextant.

Excellent author...all of his books are terrific...even the short stories that are not about Robichaux are excellent reads Two for Texas is one of them.

Presently rereading the entire Jerusalem Bible...going back to read what the Prophets wrote and seeing the correlations in the New Testament.

Finished the Fifth Assasin by Brad Meltzer, good read

Just finished The Long Road to Mercy by David Baldacci and am now reading Bound for Gold by William Martin, both excellent books.
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"A Crown of Swords". Book seven of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. Still enjoying it.

Found it on sale on Amazon from my BookBub newsletter - The Last Sword Maker by Brian Nelson.

In the high mountains of Tibet, rumors are spreading. People whisper of an outbreak, of thousands of dead, of bodies pushed into mass graves. It is some strange new disease … a disease, they say, that can kill in minutes.

The Chinese government says the rumors aren’t true, but no one is allowed in or out of Tibet.

At the Pentagon, Admiral James Curtiss is called to an emergency meeting. Satellite images prove that a massive genocide is underway, and an American spy has made a startling discovery. This is no disease. It’s a weapons test. Chinese scientists have developed a way to kill based on a person’s genetic traits. But that is only the tip of the iceberg. The success of their new weapon proves that the Chinese are nearing “Replication”—a revolutionary breakthrough that will tip the global balance of power and change the way wars are waged.

Now the US must scramble to catch up before it is too late. Admiral Curtiss gathers the nation’s top scientists, including a promising young graduate student named Eric Hill who just might hold the missing piece to the replication puzzle. Soon Hill and his colleague Jane Hunter are caught up in a deadly game of sabotage as the two nations strive to be the first to reach the coveted goal. But in their headlong race, they create something unexpected … something the world has never seen and something more powerful than they had ever imagined.

The Last Sword Maker is an exciting globe-trotting thriller with unforgettable characters that depicts a haunting vision of the future of warfare.

But did you read it in Latin? 😁🤠

Finished Thud,and I've been reading some late 90s X-Men. I've got Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men teed up for my next read

I have enjoyed many of Burke's tales of Robichaux's investigations. The Tin Roof Blowdown was an excellent account of the Katrina disaster. I wish more people read it.

Jolie Blon's Bounce brought us the most memorable and colorful villain in a while, Legion Guidry.

Some say Burke is the most colorful Southern writer since Faulkner. I leave that to others to decide but I sure enjoy his books.

I am on the third book of Evan Currie's Odyssey One series. Harmless space opera with unstoppable killer aliens. Even a wall won't stop them!