Thread: What are you reading?

Right now I'm in the middle of, I think it's 4 paper based books, 2 ebooks, and 2 audio books - none of them about WW.

Originally Posted by BobL

Right now I'm in the middle of, I think it's 4 paper based books, 2 ebooks, and 2 audio books - none of them about WW.

Anything stand out? What sort of stuff interests you?

The main paper book I'm rereading is ATM 1984, the main audio book is Aeronuats, a history of ballooning, the other one is a bio of Maralin Manson. I'm just about finished the story of the kids that got trapped in the cave in Thailand. I recently finished a trilogy of Linda La Plant detective stories. I get through about three books a week , Mainly audio. My pref is non-fiction military history but I also like to read about how military conflicts change society. Post conflict sociological changes etc.

I’m on the audio book Bad Blood the story of the fraudulent blood testing company Theranos, crazy stuff, right up there with Enron etc.

I’ve never read a woodworking related book, only forum posts and watch youtube videos.

Originally Posted by BobL

The main paper book I'm rereading is ATM 1984, the main audio book is Aeronuats, a history of ballooning, the other one is a bio of Maralin Manson. I'm just about finished the story of the kids that got trapped in the cave in Thailand. I recently finished a trilogy of Linda La Plant detective stories. I get through about three books a week , Mainly audio. My pref is non-fiction military history but I also like to read about how military conflicts change society. Post conflict sociological changes etc.

Ah nice, 1984 is one of my favourite books. Big fan of dystopian fiction, probably a bigger fan of Fahrenheit 451 though. Read the MM bio years ago as well, he's an interesting bloke!

I want to read Bad Blood as well, they posted an excerpt online when it was released and it was a fascinating read. Should start getting into audiobooks.

I finished yesterday 'The View from Connor's Hill' by Barry Heard which is a good read.
And started 'Great Convict Escapes' by Warwick Hirst.
I'm really getting into Australian history this year. I've got a few WW books on the list for this year too.

Apart from the usual woodwork mags, AWR and AWW, and a railway magazine, since Christmas I have read "Against all Odds" - the story of the Thailand cave rescue written by the 2 Aussies. Thoroughly recommend it as a good read. It tells a lot more of the background than we learned from the news at the time.
Last week, I finished "The Sinking of HMAS Sydney" - also a good read. I was interested in that as I was always led to believe that one of my father's cousins went down with it but after some research, I now think he went down in HMAS Armidale.
Late last year, I read "Horrie, the War Dog" and "The Changi Brownlow" both by Roland Perry and easy reads about aspects of WW2.

Currently reading Point of Origin, a Patricia Cornwall novel.

Currently reading "Anzac Aviator" about Ros Smith and his flight to Australia with his brother Keith in 1919. In my younger days l used to do a bit of flying, so always interested in anything aviation and also very interested in Australian history.

Read heaps when we are away with the van, not so much when at home as I always have some projects on the go.

George

Horrie the Wog Dog, I read that while I was very young and at school about 60 years ago which was only about 15 years after WW2 . Ah! memories. I am about two books into John Sandford's PREY series having read all of Virgil Flowers books which spun off the PREY series. I read very little non fiction these days preferring to keep my reading light and listen to a lot of audio books when in the car which I find very good on longer trips. I will make an exception for Against all Odds though, it should be a spectacular read. The Kindle makes buying books so easy.

One minute later I own the book without even leaving my chair. Modern technology is simply marvelous.

Great question. I am re-reading George Nakashima's "The Soul of the Tree" and it is quite a revalation.

I first saw Nakashima's work in the MFA, Boston in the early 1980's and was blown away. In spite of his name, Nakashima was American but he had an intense appreciation of the natural world and the Japanese philosophy of eliminating the unessential, of and of wabi sabi - acknowledge aging and appreciate the beauty of imperfections.... Shortly after, I started reading his publications, particularly The Soul of the Tree. And I continued to be blown away by his designs.

Now, re-reading his iconic book, I probably appreciate the nuances of his philosophy even more; I just sat there nodding as I acknowledged the depth of his observations and agreed with what he was saying. But I was far less impressed with his design work - great for an art gallery or a museum - but I am not sure that I could live with it in daily use in my home. My ideas have changed over the years!


Cheers

Graeme

Heh. I do a lot of reading... and I agree that a kindle is a lovely piece of kit. I've an old paper-white (with a physical integrated keyboard!) and between the loooong battery life, massive storage and inability to distract me with adverts, texts, emails or incoming calls, well... I carry the kindle around more often than I carry a phone.

At the moment I'm finishing up a 5 book series, Stephen Donaldson's "The Gap" series. A bit of modern sci-fi, that appeals to me enough that I started reading last w/e and've already nearly finished 'em.

Apart from that, I'm slowly leafing through an Australian Home Handyman hard cover. Printed by Ideal Home Library (GB), it doesn't have a publishing date or ISBN but the "Radio for the Novice" section doesn't evenly remotely cover IC's... it only talks about valves.

My bedside table is holding Albert Messiahs "Quantum Mechanics II" uni textbook. It's something that both baffles and intrigues me and I have trouble wrapping my head around it if I try to swot. So, more often than not I'll read about one concept just before sleep and let my subconscious mull it over. I think I'm coming to grips with it. Only took me two years to get through the 1st book...

I'm also working my way through Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" collection, buying the boxed Volume sets. Hey, it's only a comic book, but who says kids need to be young?

I found some of my old lists of audio books I listened to between about 2010 and 2012. These were mainly old out of copyright books from Librivox, the free audiobook service. I listen to these until I got onto the free local library audiobook service.

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Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

.....My bedside table is holding Albert Messiahs "Quantum Mechanics II" uni textbook. It's something that both baffles and intrigues me and I have trouble wrapping my head around it ...

Yeah: quantum mechanics makes science fiction credible.