+ WilliamM Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 I am reading Hitler: Downfall 1939-1945 by Volker Ullrich. Translation from German. The author is a historian and journalist. My dad served in the Pacific in the Second World War, and rarely talked about it. That's why I never shut up about Vietnam. (I did take several German History courses I n college. And I lived in West Germany for several months in 1972) Danny-Darko 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Lucky Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 Just picked this up at the library! + Charlie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Hagen Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 On 1/20/2022 at 9:22 PM, WilliamM said: I am reading Hitler: Downfall 1939-1945 by Volker Ullrich. Translation from German. The author is a historian and journalist. Is that the book that the remarkable movie Downfall was based on? Presume so. Great great movie. As a skier I LOVE this mistranslation of a scene: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 On 1/28/2022 at 2:10 PM, Rod Hagen said: Is that the book that the remarkable movie Downfall was based on? Presume so. Great great movie. As a skier I LOVE this mistranslation of a scene: I doubt it. Although the name is the same. This isn't the first time we have had similar interests. I am glad. Rod Hagen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Lucky Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 I read Congressman Jamie Raskin's book on the suicide of his son followed by his management of the Trump Second Impeachment. It is much more interesting than I expected. Here is a review: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/01/28/rep-raskin-personal-grief-national-trauma-collided/ rn901 and thomas 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Lucky Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 I read New York, My Village and was fascinated. It is about a Nigerian man coming to work in New York and the experiences he has, particularly sharp on racism. It is very intelligent and very clever. + Just Sayin and + Charlie 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ mature_guy Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Hagen Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 + WilliamM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Lucky Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 16 minutes ago, Rod Hagen said: I read that and liked it. Rod Hagen and Alpha714 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 "Master of the Senate" by Robert Caro About Lyndon Johnson before he became vice president. In preparing for the series about LBJ starting on February 20th on CNN. (I was also born in Austin, Texas) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 (edited) Tea leaves. The room. The writing on the wall. Edited February 26, 2022 by samhexum just for the hell of it + Charlie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitman Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 I enjoy a good biography, and have a keen interest in American history, so I don't know why it's taken me so long to get around to Walter Isaacson's 2003 Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. I'm not that far into it, but Ben is already good company. Even as a boy and young man, what a remarkable fellow! Also (if it counts as "reading") while on a road trip over the past week I listened to an audio book of Colm Tóibín's The Magician, a sort of fictional biography of the writer Thomas Mann. I say "sort of fictional" because a lot of the facts of Mann's life are accurately presented, but Tóibín embellishes those facts with (entirely plausible) imagined detail. I am presently through 10 of 14 CDs that run a total of 16 hours. I'd switch to book form to finish now that I'm back home, but I don't have a copy (and neither does my local library--although that's where I got the audio book). Rod Hagen, + Lucky, Danny-Darko and 2 others 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Hagen Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 (edited) On 2/7/2022 at 10:46 AM, Lucky said: I read that and liked it. Finished it. Enjoyed it. Well-written, Trashy fun. Edited February 28, 2022 by Rod Hagen + WilliamM and + Lucky 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny-Darko Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 'White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America' by Don Jordan (Author), Michael Walsh (Author) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Hagen Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 Finally reading this, love it so far + WilliamM and jerryskater 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 The Fighting Soul: On The Road with Bernie Sanders by Ari Rabin-Havt 21 minutes ago, Rod Hagen said: Finally reading this, love it so far I also liked the book. Thanks Rod Hagen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Lucky Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 I hated Shuggie. The author's next book, Young Mungo, was a little more acceptable. Either way, he takes the darkest parts of Glasgow to feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealAvalon Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 On 9/29/2021 at 6:34 AM, WilliamM said: I bought Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers three days ago at Barnes and Noble. Still have not taken the book out of the bag. About 1500 pages of small print. What was I thinking? That you were never planning on travelling ever again? lol Rod Hagen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealAvalon Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 I've been having an eclectic month of reading: Naked Airport, A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure. It's interesting but definitely a niche read. China in Drag, Travels with a Cross-Dresser. Written by a BBC journalist stationed in China for decades. He travels with his older language tutor across China to visit sites important to his tutor. It's a geographic tour of modern Chinese history from the Cultural Revolution, embrace of capitalism, Tiananmen Square ... in high heels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Hagen Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 On 9/29/2021 at 6:34 AM, WilliamM said: I bought Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers three days ago at Barnes and Noble. Still have not taken the book out of the bag. About 1500 pages of small print. What was I thinking? Friend of mine read Joseph and His Brothers and said it's one of the great books. On the level of Proust, Joyce, and Flaubert. If I remember right, Susan Sontag read it in German when the English was (long) out of print. I hope you unpacked it and loved it. RealAvalon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ poolboy48220 Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 Has anyone read the Bridgerton books by Julia Quinn? I'm thinking they'd be good reading for summer vacation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 On 5/16/2022 at 1:11 PM, Rod Hagen said: Friend of mine read Joseph and His Brothers and said it's one of the great books. On the level of Proust, Joyce, and Flaubert. If I remember right, Susan Sontag read it in German when the English was (long) out of print. I hope you unpacked it and loved it. I haven't read the Bible since it was required freshman year in a Catholic college. Much more at home with Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain and even Doctor Faustis Rod Hagen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike carey Posted May 20, 2022 Share Posted May 20, 2022 From Twitter: A week ago my MIL began reading "The Exorcist". She said it's the most evil book she had ever read, so evil in fact she couldn't finish it, took it to the beach & threw it from the rocks into the sea. I went & bought another copy, have soaked it & put it in her bedside drawer. RealAvalon, + WilliamM, Rod Hagen and 4 others 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skynyc Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 Was sent City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert who wrote Eat, Pray, Love. Tag line is "You don't have to be a good girl to be a good person." Only on page 100, but silly fun. Perfect for summer...will report back when I am finished. mike carey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 Robert Morrison's The Regency Years, about the years in the early 19th century when the future King George IV was ruling as Regent in place of his insane father George III. He divides the book into topics, and one of the longest chapters is Ch. 3, "Sexual Pastimes, Pleasures and Perversities." There is a lot in it about homosexuality, including male brothels, in Merrie Olde England. Danny-Darko, + Lucky, + WilliamM and 1 other 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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