[August] What are you reading?

[bento]

About to finish "The First Man in Rome" by Colleen McCullough. First book in a series of 6 (7?) going from the rise of Gaius Marius (100BC) through to the ascent of Caesar Augustus (30BC). I read this and half of the second book when I got sidetracked with other things in my life about 18 years ago.
Now that I have more time on my hands and a hankering for all things Roman, it shouldn't be as much of a problem.

I'm planning on pacing myself by alternating this series with non-fiction breaks. On the batter's deck is "The Great Transformation" by Karen Armstrong. It's a religion / history book about the rise of the great religions and philosophy that took place around 600 BC.

 

[Mark]

About to finish "The First Man in Rome" by Colleen McCullough. First book in a series of 6 (7?) going from the rise of Gaius Marius (100BC) through to the ascent of Caesar Augustus (30BC). I read this and half of the second book when I got sidetracked with other things in my life about 18 years ago.
Now that I have more time on my hands and a hankering for all things Roman, it shouldn't be as much of a problem.

I absolutely loved that series. One of my favorites. I just hooked up a buddy with the first book in the series yesterday, as a matter of fact.

Masters of Rome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Currently reading The Sword and the Shield, the first book from the Mitrokhin Archive. Almost done, too. Pretty good, very informative. I'll probably pick up the second next time I get a B&N coupon.

After that, I have a paperback of Clear and Present Danger*, but if Land of the Dead shows up at work tomorrow like Amazon says it will, that'll get read first. Frikkin' six years to write a novel...

Brad

* - Tom Clancy's mammoth tomes are pretty good on the Metro.

 

[Punnuendo]

The Prefect by Alistair Reynolds. This is the first thing I've read by Reynolds and I'm about halfway through and enjoying it a lot.

 

[drothgery]

Currently re-reading Naomi Novik's Teremaire books. Next up is my first re-read of The Wheel of Time in forever, with book 12 coming out in November.

 

[Jack7]

Boy, I haven't been to this forum in awhile. Then again work and other matters have kept me really busy lately.

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell. I can't believe how quickly I'm plowing through this massive book, but I hate to put it down and stop reading for the night. (As a result, I haven't been getting as much sleep as I normally get!)

It was indeed a most excellent book. It painted pictures in my mind with words the way great artwork does with paintings. As a matter of fact to me it seemed like a story told in paintings translated into words.

Halfway through Jared Diamond's Collapse. Fascinating read. If his theories are correct, well we're pretty much screwed.

I read that book and didn't get that impression at all.

Then read The Alienist, which was okayish, but not at all what I expected.

I really, really liked the Alienist. Then again I was a psychologist and a criminologist. So early Alienists interested me. The same author recently wrote a new Sherlock Holmes book which was also excellent to me.

Because of being so tied up I haven't had much time for reading lately either. But I have been able to listen to unabridged an unabridged version of Rough Weather when traveling.

As for other fiction I've been reading:

Dead Beat. I've only ever really read Dresden by Butcher. Out of curiosity I'm gonna read a book called Princep's Fury by him which seems to be some sort of fantasy or alternate reality work.

Non-Fiction:

Called Out of Darkness, by Anne Rice. It is a sort of spiritual autobiography. It's interesting, if odd in some ways.

At flight camp one evening, after setting up my tent I went outside under the full moon and stars and listened to part of the lecture series, Odyssey of the West IV. It is mostly by Shutt, one of my favorite professors. Only listened to one lecture though, by Thom Madden, also one of my favorites. No time for more.

Now that I'm back home I'm gonna read the Industrial Revolutionaries (which I'm really looking forward to), the Ruin of the Roman Empire, and Frontiersman, what seems like a really good biography of Dan Boone.

 

[GSHamster]

Out of curiosity I'm gonna read a book called Princep's Fury by him which seems to be some sort of fantasy or alternate reality work.

Just to warn you, that's like Book 5 in a series. The first book is Furies of Calderon.

I've been reading a bunch of Regency romances by Georgette Heyer. Quite amusing.

 

[crazzycat]

"Act like a lady, think like a man" Steve Harvey

 

[Jack7]

Just to warn you, that's like Book 5 in a series. The first book is Furies of Calderon.

Thanks for that warning.

I just saw the book in the library and decided I would read some Butcher other than Dresden. Didn't know it was part of a serial.

Think I'll go by your suggestion if I can find it.

 

[El Mahdi]

The only thing I've been reading this month is a engineered hardwood flooring instalation guide (we're remodeling).