What book are you reading right now?

Kevin,

I am in early stages of the book (preface & introduction), so far finding it very interesting and well written. Between 1930-1945, in a relatively small part of Europe (the Bloodlands stretch from the Baltic states through Poland, to Ukraine and Belarusia) 14 million non combatant people were executed or died of hunger. Snyder investigates the motives and methods of both Hitler and Stalin and the relations between the two regimes. "Using scholarly literatures and primary sources in all relevant languages, Snyder pays special attention to the sources left by the victims: the letters home, the notes flung from trains, the diaries found on corpses"

The events of the novel take place during the course of a single day in an unnamed city in occupied Germany where the endless drone of allied planes overhead increases the already heightened tension. Throughout this powerful narrative, the characters' experiences ultimately reveal how and at what cost Germans in the 1950s, by failing to confront their recent past, blinded themselves to its after effects.

A far traveling book. I Couldn't find it in any library in the state of Illinois so finally a copy arrived from a community college in Oklahoma City.

very enjoyable and well written.If you are Cello suite fan it is a must.

...and a fan I am.  When I read this book, the cover was like this:

I am a visual person driven by visual clues to keep track of things and very little annoys me more than when something is repackaged.  Who knows if this is newer, older, the same, different......?

I am so undisciplined that even though the conditions for buying this was that it would remain under the tree as my own Christmas gift to myself until Christmas Eve just before midnight.

Oh well.  No one really gets hurt even if I can't keep my own word for such things and I am selfishly enjoying this now.  I believe the old adage is wrong.  Each photo contains many more times one thousand words each.

Stoner by John Williams.

I am the secret footballer

Chris

Kevin,

Max Hastings has an excellent book on the same topic:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12.../26SHEEHAN.html?_r=0

I've read it Haim, enjoyed it. Good man, Hastings. Have you read "All Hell Let Loose"?

No, though I read several other Hastings books covering WW II, Korea and the Falkland Islands. I also had the privilege to hear him speak last year in Chicago.

An excellent trilogy covering the European WWII (western front only) by Rick Atkinson was just completed. I highly recommend him.

Had this for years and never got round to reading it:

Has anyone read this book yet? Is it worth a try?

Passion for vinyl. The book's subtitle "A Tribute to ALL Who Dig the Groove" tells the story.

Not as good as I hoped but interesting nonetheless (for the rebel in me)

Great fun. I love the story of the "game of three halves":

I like books like this.

First they remind me of the good old days. Second, that the teams I played for weren't all that bad (well maybe a bit), although chunks are achingly familar...

Easy read, a very funny murder mystery and cheating in fishing competitions. A must read for any fisherman.

"The Bully Pulpit"

Had this for three years, only just got round to reading it.

One of the most bizarre stories in all of music.