The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis.

I'm 2/3 through a trilogy on the US Army in the Pacific during WWII. Newsflash: The Marines did not win the Pacific War all by themselves, the Army did a heck of a lot more fighting but got less recognition.

Here are the John McManus books:

https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Fo...75046/ref=mp_s_a_1_1

https://www.amazon.com/Island-.../132-0733433-9836800


https://www.amazon.com/End-Ear...86885/ref=mp_s_a_1_7

Every time I read about the Pacific Theater, I develop less and less respect for MacArthur, who was a narcissistic jerk! I have even more respect for Harry S Truman who had the balls to fire him.

I've tried to read 1984 several times and abandoned it each time. Just excruciating to read, though the writing is very good.

I just finished Notorious Nashville, and The Crusades From Beginning To End (a very short summary), and have started A Short History Of The World and A Dark Night In Aurora, about the theater mass shooting by James Holmes.

now reading Icelandic thrillers wow those peoples minds are amazing.

Changed my mind and started All The Flowers Are Dying, 16th book in the Matt Scudder series.

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I've tried to read 1984 several times and abandoned it each time. Just excruciating to read, though the writing is very good.

I just finished Notorious Nashville, and The Crusades From Beginning To End (a very short summary), and have started A Short History Of The World and A Dark Night In Aurora, about the theater mass shooting by James Holmes.

Currently going through the Joe Pickett series by CJ Box. Currently on "Winterkill".

I've been burning through the Preston & Child Agent Pendergast series. Over the last couple of months, I've read:

- Dance of Death
- The Wheel of Darkness
- Cemetery Dance
- Fever Dream
- Cold Vengeance
- Two Graves
- White Fire
- Blue Labyrinth
- Crimson Shore
- Obsidian Chamber, and
- City of Endless Night

Currently, I'm reading the Elmore Leonard Raylan Givens books. I've finished Pronto and Riding the Rap, and am about halfway through Raylan.

I just finished J.L. Bourne's The Tomorrow War. I like the pace of his writing and how he doesn't get caught up in too much detail of some things.

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Also just finished a couple of really interesting takes on classic fairy tales by Christina Henry.....one is Alice, the other is Lost Boy. Alternative and bloody what-if takes on Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan, respectively. Unexpectedly good and quick reads. I grabbed Alice at the airport and finished it in a single flight from Seattle to Dallas.

I saw you post and just finished "Lost Boy", really entertaining, a certainly different take. "Alice" is on my library wait list.

I've recently read 4 of Baldacci's Amos Decker books, waiting on the library for the next. Enjoying these, so far.

Right now, I've started "Trust" by Hernan Diaz, it was gift, knew nothing about it. So far, it's an interesting read, not sure what's to come.

Started reading Willa Cather's short stories. She is one of my favorite authors.

Some of these stories, particularly "Neighbour Rosicky" and "The Enchanted Bluff", are excellent.

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I've recently read 4 of Baldacci's Amos Decker books, waiting on the library for the next. Enjoying these, so far.

Coincidentally, I'm on #4 of the Decker series myself right now.

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I've tried to read 1984 several times and abandoned it each time. Just excruciating to read, though the writing is very good.

Just finished reading it a few days ago, not really in any hurry and just read in spare time here and there. Now at least I can say I’ve read it but I won’t be going back and rereading it.

"Trust" by Hernan Diaz, a very different book. It's four books in one and all comes together in book four. The finance world in the '20s, a different take, different perspective. I liked it for it's being different and the way it comes together. I looked it up on Amazon and saw that it was "One of Obama's favorite books of 2022". I doubt he read it, maybe the audiobook while napping.

Now reading "The Collector" the latest by Daniel Silva, enjoyable as expected.

Just started Brad Thor's new thriller "Dead Fall." I am liking it a lot. The main character is Scot Harvath who is in most of Brad Thor's books. It is set in the current conflict in Ukraine.

LARS KEPLAR Spider, another mind blowing Nordic thriller

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Just started Brad Thor's new thriller "Dead Fall." I am liking it a lot. The main character is Scot Harvath who is in most of Brad Thor's books. It is set in the current conflict in Ukraine.

Thanks. I'm about halfway through the latest Grisham book, and forgot Brad Thor had a new one. I just ordered it before it slips my mind again.

Wrapped up Robert Conquest's "The Great Terror" covering Stalin's purges.

Next up is one of Simon Scarrow's 'Order of the Eagle' Roman historical fiction series - I'm up to #18, "Traitors of Rome."

Currently reading and thoroughly enjoying William S. Burroughs' Junkie. Burroughs pulls you right in, and knowing that the work is semi-biographical makes it all the more intriguing.

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Currently reading and thoroughly enjoying William S. Burroughs' Junkie. Burroughs pulls you right in, and knowing that the work is semi-biographical makes it all the more intriguing.

Interesting, I hadn’t heard of this book.

Finished Jack Carr’s latest and now I’m re-reading Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana. It’s every bit as good as I remembered it. Dana went to law school after his return to Massachusetts (what became Harvard Law) and had a distinguished career specializing in maritime law.

Just about to start "Why We Drive" by Matthew Crawford. I really liked his "Shopclass as Soulcraft", enough to have read it more than once.