Whatcha Reading? (In August)

[Jack7]

Non-Fiction:

The E-Myth Enterprise

The Forbes CFA Institute Investment Course - continuing on with this study from last month

The Innovator's Way


Fiction:

A Dead Man's Secret - I started this after finishing Rise of the Huntress: the Last Apprentice. It's a great book about the Crusader Knight Geoffrey Mappestone who is forced into king Henry's service (successor to William the Conqueror) and who sends Geoffrey to Wales on a secret mission to deliver letters. Several murders surround the events. The longer the story goes on the better the mystery, the characters are excellent - they remind me of Bernard Cornwell characters - and the general scene is superb. Geoffrey wants to escape back to the Holy Land and Henry keeps using him and manipulating him. Good book. I recommend it.


A Dance with Dragons - just got my copy and starting it this weekend


Books on CD/Tape:

Creating Wealth - very good


Book Yourself Solid - very useful



Lectures:

Nanotechnology - resisting to this because I want to extract more notes and invention ideas.

 

[Jhaelen]

Having finished 'Anathem' by Neal Stephenson (which was delightful!) and MV:TttNV next in line is 'Also sprach Zarathustra' by Friedrich Nietzsche.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Catching up on some David Gemmell, who (despite me voraciously reading fantasy since elementary school) I've managed to pretty much miss. I've only read two or three of his books in my life.

Just read Waylander, which I have to admit I found wanting. But I've liked the other stuff of his that I've read in the past, so I intend to keep going.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Non-Fiction: The 12 Caesars

Fiction: Barsoom Series

 

[Agamon]

Non-fiction: Still working my way through The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Fiction: Just finishing up Mass Effect: Ascension and about half-done A Dance with Dragons

 

[Stumblewyk]

About to finish A Dance with Dragons, then it's on to Frankenstein: The Dead Town by Dean Koontz, and then I'll probably finally get through Side Jobs by Jim Butcher before starting on Ghost Story.

 

[Umbran]

In the evenings, before turning in for bed, I'm often reading The Wild Road, by Gabriel King, aloud to my wife.

For myself, at the moment I'm reading Tales from the Great Turtle, an anthology of fantasy stories inspired by and in the style of Native American myths, edited by Piers Anthony* and Richard Gilliam.


*Anthony admits to being mostly a figurehead editor in his forward.

 

[Asmo]

MV:TttNV

LOTR I get but I´ve no idea what that is.

Asmo

 

[Croesus]

LOTR I get but I´ve no idea what that is.

Asmo

Monster Vault, Threats to the Nentir Vale (yeah, I had to Google it...)

Non-fiction, current: The Last Gunfight about the Earps the OK Corral.

Non-fiction, next in line: The Believing Brain by Shermer

 

[Richards]

Currently A Letter of Mary, the third in a series of five (thus far) novels detailing the exploits of a semi-retired Sherlock Holmes and his second partner, a half-American, half-British 15-year-old girl named Mary Russell. I picked up all 5 novels at a library book sale, and am reading them in sequence. I'm liking them so far.

I also just finished Creature Tech, a graphic novel by Doug TenNapel, that I picked up for 20% off at a Borders going-out-of-business sale. I really enjoyed that one, and if the concept of a story blending alien symbiotes, undead necromancers, humanoid preying mantis rednecks, the shroud of Turin, demonic cats, and giant space eels is your idea of a good time, I think you'd probably enjoy it as well.

Johnathan