What is everone reading ?

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all you lannisters must DIE! KING IN THE NORTH! KING IN THE NORTH!”

“I just read three books that were all fascinating, they are:

McDonald, Bernadette: Freedom Climbers about Polish climbers who became superstars during the Soviet era.

Niven, Jennifer: Ada Blackjack, the biography of the sole survivor of an arctic expedition that went horribly wrong.

Strayed, Cheryl: Wild about a woman whose daemons are released following the death of her mother and seeks exorcism solo on the Pacific Crest Trail - quite a story, but sometimes difficult to read.

I asked for Bergen, Peter: Manhunt; The Ten Year Search for Bin Laden. He was interviewed on CBC radio yesterday. I hope the library gets it soon.”

“Just finished:
Conant, Jennet: The Irregulars (Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington); New York, 2 008.

Tediously researched, I skipped bits. Unfortunately, while a fascinating story, it was poorly written. There were many run-on pseudo-sentences (clauses missing a verb) and several that were impossible to understand. The writing got better toward the end when she seemed (to me) to warm up to her subject.

I found her account of the deep divisions among the American political and financial elites of the time to be interesting. It provided me an insight into - if not an understanding of - current divisions in American political thought.

Unfortunately they all seemed to be (including the Brits) a group of the most awful shytes.

I have just begun:
Heuer, Karsten: Walking the Big Wild (From Yellowstone to the Yukon on the Grizzly Bear's Trail); Seattle, 2 004.

It is an account of the concept, the foundation and the hiking of the Y2Y trail.

I have't read much of it yet, but so far it is well written and interesting.”

“Just finished the Secret Lives of Bees.”

“I've just started rereading James Clavell's Asian series staring with Shogun.”

“re-reading A Song of Ice and Fire series. currently on Clash of Kings”

“just finished the Hercules Disney book :)”

“I read Walking the Big Wild over the week-end. It just kept getting better. Fabulous read.”

“I'm onto two.."The Shepherd of the Hills...a
classic about life in the Ozarks. Family commitment..I love it. Great old traditions.

Also reading "Cataloochie" about some families in Appalachia by Wayne Caldwell. Just started it. It's family saga along with the time that Smokey Mtn Nat. Park was being established. Love the down home characters and setting.”

“Now reading (started yesterday and will finish this evening):

Funder, Anna: Stasiland; 2012. Origionally published by Granta, London, mine is from McClelland nd Stewart, Canada.

ISBN 978-1-86207-655-6 OCLC 55891480.

Beautifully written.

I discovered that GDR (East Gemany) had an early Rush Limbaugh: Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler on the swarze Kanal [the Black Channel] (an early Fox Network?)”

“Canoe & Kayak magazine”

“Daily Comics!”

“Uh, thet's der schwartze Kanal.”

“Playboy”

“For the articles. Actually I remember short stories by James Baldwin and Evelyn Waugh in Playboy. Hard to believe to-day.”

“Gonna reread the first 3 intallments of Dean Koontz Frankenstein trliogy that warped in a 5 volume set.... Bought 4 and 5... need to start reading more again....

'32oz”

“Ha!”

“.... i recall a bet of some sort...

'32oz”

“On a bit of a fiction kick. I read The Road and Hunger Games (post-apocalyptic kick, I guess).

I have another Cormack McCarthy book waiting in the wings that someone brought over that I'll probably start digging into this weekend.

Anyone read Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter? I saw they made it into a movie. Looks kinda cool...”

“You lost...still waiting to get paid...”

“The Funder book was great (published here by Harper and Collins, BTW); very well written and facinating in a weird sort of way. I guess it's because I am a fan of Le Carré and Deighton and this gave me a view from the other side.”

“"98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive!"
~Cody Lundin”

“American Gods, amazing book.
and halfway through 1984, when i left it at my aunts house.”

“I picked up Ed Abbey's "Down the River" yesterday for another read. They don't make nature writers like that anymore, though I'd argue that Craig Childs does a damn good job writing about wild places nowadays...”

“The Bourne Objective”

“That's funny non. I've been working my way through the Dual Survivalists series. Pretty amusing.”

“I read an interview with Lundin and came away from it thinking he might not be too fond of the program or others like it. (especially others like it, lol) I did like the book and the way he approaches survival in general.”

“I'm a week away from a ripe, old age.

I've been reading about brain repairs using stem cells. ( Part of Nueroscience, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience )”

“Katahdin an Historic Journey
...in anticipation of climbing and hiking on that majestic mountain in the near future.
Got my eye on The Armadillo, an alpine rock route near Chimney Pond.”

“It's taking me a long time to read "A Walk in the Woods." I only read a page or two before falling asleep at night. I also have a book about Mallory killing himself on Everest.”

“Men's Health.....boring I know! what's up Ant, how you been?”

“re-reading A Dance With Dragons”

“Reading files on CIA and US Army drug testing for work right now. Outside of work, it's seldom that I get past trying to keep current with the New York Review of Books - but I've got a couple of Robert Parker detective novels and one Dennis Lehane that I hope to get to over the holidays.”

“One thing I read on this was an article in the New Yorker - very interesting!

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/12/17/121217fa_fact_khatchadourian”

“Cool article, Ped.
Hey John. Can't complain. Climbing a lot. It sure is quiet around here. We should hike sometime.”

“Absolutely!”