What are you reading right now?

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Re: What are you reading right now?

Postby JackRiddler » Sat Mar 09, 2019 4:47 am

Alan Taylor, American Colonies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en2PqhCfRrc

Gerald Horne, The Counter-Revolution of 1776

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C71DIrOmkBM
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Re: What are you reading right now?

Postby seemslikeadream » Thu Mar 28, 2019 2:15 pm

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder Audiobook


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mZDf0yd9ZI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81wWsMdikaQ
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Re: Read it and reap

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Re: What are you reading right now?

Postby Grizzly » Fri Aug 02, 2019 12:58 am

The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka
by Wole Soyinka
The Nobel Prize-winning African writer, Wole Soyinka, was imprisoned without trial by the federal authorities at the start of the Nigerian Civil War. Here he records his arrest and interrogation, the efforts made to incriminate him, and the searing mental effects of solitary confinement.


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Wole Soyinka.. The man died.. A rich experience of highly human level. You understand what kind of man is Soyinka through his struggling to maintain his humanity above all. The book is an essay, poetry, a diary of a political prisoner, a man aiming wholly to liberty and freedom..


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Re: What are you reading right now?

Postby Freitag » Fri Aug 16, 2019 1:52 am

Chaos
Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
By: Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring


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(The narrator is outstanding, for those who prefer the audio book version.)

This book is blowing my mind right now. I'm about halfway through it. The author takes all the weird conspiracy threads I've heard over the years about Manson and weaves them into a coherent story. I think this guy really discovered the truth.
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What are you reading right now?

Postby Grizzly » Sun Feb 09, 2020 8:30 am

There are some many sweet posts here, music, film, some I've even contributed such as the short films thread, but have we a Books your reading thread?

If we already do, then I haven't seen it in so long could someone point or link to it?

Anyway feel free to delete this if we do have one. Lastly, any books that resonate with Jeff’s?

I'll Start ...

I often read several at a time I can compartmentalize (I have no idea if that's weird, normal or unique)

'Your Mother's Not a Virgin!: The Bumpy Life and Times of the Canadian Dropout who changed the Face of American TV! by John Barbour*

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel A. van der Kolk

Rain Gods by James Lee Burke

Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life is a self-declared "un-memoir" by Tom Robbins.

America, The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges

*John Barbour Is a super interesting guy here's a vid that some might find interesting...




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Re: What are you reading?

Postby Elvis » Sun Feb 09, 2020 1:30 pm

Grizzly wrote:have we a Books your reading thread?


I recall others, but these all have some worthy entries.


What are you reading right now?
viewtopic.php?f=34&t=8602


Towards a Psychological Operations Reading List
viewtopic.php?f=44&t=30613


the 9/11 reading list thread
viewtopic.php?f=23&t=16987


Reading Suggestions and Top Ten Books
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=23642


The Currently-Reading Thread
viewtopic.php?f=40&t=16630
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby Cordelia » Sun Feb 09, 2020 2:16 pm

There's also:

Novels that pull back the curtain
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=39733

On that thread's subject, I'm reading Isabel Allende's historical novel, A Long Petal Of The Sea. As a novel, I find it flawed (probably due to translation) though highly informative about life during The Spanish Civil War, Pablo Neruda's mission to help its refugees seek asylum in Chile, life there before, during and after Pinochet's US. backed reign of terror, as well as deeply sobering, to reflect on the suffering, loss, displacement, etc. that wars place on populations.

Thanks Grizzly for the heads-up on The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel A. van der Kolk.
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby Elvis » Sun Feb 09, 2020 2:18 pm

Oh, and currently, since you ask—

Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
— it's Vol.II of a trilogy biography by Morris, picking up when Roosevelt becomes president. I read Vol.I The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, which I highly recommend if you're curious about TR. There was never anyone like him and he's fun to read about. I'm a TR fan—except for his childish war fever, which was unfortunate to say the least. Just now reading about the British & Germans both threatening to seize Venezuelan territory for late debt payments. Pretty sure that didn't happen, will find out tonight.


Just finished—

Understanding Government Finance by Brian Romanchuck

Short explainer from an MMT perspective, with emphasis on bonds, bond pricing etc., which gets crazy. Not a book I wanted to go on forvever. (For that, try J.K. Galbraith.) Romanchuck is pretty good at explaining stuff, though. I started reading his blogposts at "bondeconomics."


Next I'll finish Pat O'Day's book—

It Was All Just Rock 'n' Roll

—which I started but put down to read—

My Adventures in Zuni by Frank H. Cushing

—an early Smithsonian ethnologist who "went wild" and moved in with the Zuni Indians, eventually gaining admittance to their secret societies and himself becoming a Zuni war chief. I want to say don't die without reading this. There should be a movie.
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby Luther Blissett » Sun Feb 09, 2020 11:18 pm

The Night Manager, trying to learn something.
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Re: What are you reading?

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Re: What are you reading?

Postby Elvis » Thu Feb 27, 2020 6:18 pm

“The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.” ― Joan Robinson
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby norton ash » Thu Feb 27, 2020 10:05 pm

Thanks for the list! :adore:
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby Cordelia » Fri Feb 28, 2020 5:56 pm

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Well researched, novel take on Lycanthropy, as portrayed over a span of a 100 years by men in a rags-to-riches family of tycoons. (Recommend more for the poetry-in-prose nuggets of gold found on almost every page, rather than the masters-of-the-universe-as-werewolves metaphor.)

A terrific read I’ll probably finish tonight, regrettably.

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Re: What are you reading?

Postby Elvis » Fri Feb 28, 2020 5:57 pm

I've suspended my scheduled reading after picking up a thrift store find:

Macroeconomics - Understanding the Global Economy (2012) by David Miles, Andrew Scott & Francis Breedon.

It's a Post-Truth exercise, "the political subordination of reality" (Lee McIntyre).

I know this will sound shocking, but we are being lied to! No really!
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