What are you reading right now?

Bronzino

Florida Groupie
Brass Subscriber
#1
Every summer I like to read a book about historical pirates. Arrrrhhhh! This summer it is William C. Davis’s The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf. Amazon link

What are you reading this summer?
 

Grevlin

"Fly birdies!...fly!"
Administrator
#7
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson

Roberts Rules of Order - "In Brief"

Fundamentals of Financial Management - for MBA class

Handful of business articles weekly - for MBA class

Constant stream of online articles about nonprofits


...'bout it
 

WhiteWolf

Wolf Mage
Silver Subscriber
#15
I'll help her out.

After I finished that 14 book saga, I wanted something light - at random. So, Discovery of Witches is book one of three. It is starting to remind me of Outlander in several ways - but the plot lines are different. It weaves solid history (author is an actual historian), and both myth and science history, into a romance between a witch and a vampire (yes, shoot me now) into part occult action novel, some deep research into 16th century British wiccans, and evolutionary DNA (Darwinian) concepts, alchemy etc with a heavy dose of how political things were in that century and how political the Catholic church was then. Old gods, new gods... echoing the GoT theme, too.

If it were one-dimensional, I wouldn't be so sucked into it, I think. It connects a whole lot of specialized knowledge areas into a story, that isn't slow anywhere that I've found.
 

Grevlin

"Fly birdies!...fly!"
Administrator
#16
I'll help her out.

After I finished that 14 book saga, I wanted something light - at random. So, Discovery of Witches is book one of three. It is starting to remind me of Outlander in several ways - but the plot lines are different. It weaves solid history (author is an actual historian), and both myth and science history, into a romance between a witch and a vampire (yes, shoot me now) into part occult action novel, some deep research into 16th century British wiccans, and evolutionary DNA (Darwinian) concepts, alchemy etc with a heavy dose of how political things were in that century and how political the Catholic church was then. Old gods, new gods... echoing the GoT theme, too.

If it were one-dimensional, I wouldn't be so sucked into it, I think. It connects a whole lot of specialized knowledge areas into a story, that isn't slow anywhere that I've found.
The BBC tv show of Discovery of Witches is very good. Season 1 done, and they are working on season 2 now.
 

Optimist

NMR. 11/04/2020
#18
"Because They Hate..." by Gabrielle Bridgette. It's about growing up in Lebanon during the Islamic takeover. She's Maronite Christian, and the account is the kind of thing that makes one start figuring on ways to distribute the Ka'aba over southern Africa as talcum-fine rock dust....