What are we reading?

[Gusington]

About to begin The Last Days of the Teutonic Knights by William Urban.

[MetalDog]

Do you eat books?  That's like the third weighty tome in a week!

[Gusington]

The really academic ones I speedread...The Wife taught me how. And if I dare read a 1000 page book or something similar, I do the same. I did it with Anne Rice's Witching Hour and it still took me like two weeks!

I also do it with books that suck but I am too stubborn to stop reading.

It's very very rare for me to stop reading a book no matter how crappy it is. The last time I did that was 15+ years ago with a horrible translation of a Dutch book on colonial New Amsterdam, IIRC.

[MetalDog]

Who knew you married Evelyn Wood?  How much do you retain?

[Gusington]

Not gonna lie...some. But for books that are crap it doesn't really matter.

I will tell you this...I will not be speed reading the book on the Teutonic Knights by Urban - that guy can write.

For reelz.

[Sir Slash]

Just starting, "Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Last Year of the American Civil War" by S.C. Gwynne, an excellent author. Can't wait to get into it.  :D

[JasonPratt]

The really academic ones I speedread...The Wife taught me how. And if I dare read a 1000 page book or something similar, I do the same. I did it with Anne Rice's Witching Hour and it still took me like two weeks!

He practices using my posts/threads.  >:D

[Huw the Poo]

He practices using my posts/threads.  >:D

Oh god help us, it's self-aware! :D

[Gusington]

This is the day we've been fearing. Let's not forget our training.

[JasonPratt]

No no no, don't worry!





That day is coming sometime next year. I promise.  >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D

[Gusington]

It's when you say 'don't worry' that I worry most.

[ArizonaTank]

About halfway through Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History by Cait Murphy.

https://www.amazon.com/Crazy-08-Boneheads-Magnates-Greatest/dp/0060889381

Well written history of the 1908 baseball season. May even be interesting for someone not into sports history. There is a bunch of social history covered.

The author makes the case that '08 was the greatest season ever. I'm not certain you could ever pick one season and say that's it...but maybe the author will convince me by the end of the book.

[JasonPratt]

It's when you say 'don't worry' that I worry most.

It'll be groggy. Really really really groggy.

Don't worry.

:D

[MetalDog]

About halfway through Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History by Cait Murphy.

https://www.amazon.com/Crazy-08-Boneheads-Magnates-Greatest/dp/0060889381

Well written history of the 1908 baseball season. May even be interesting for someone not into sports history. There is a bunch of social history covered.

The author makes the case that '08 was the greatest season ever. I'm not certain you could ever pick one season and say that's it...but maybe the author will convince me by the end of the book.

When I was a boy, I got really into the history of baseball.  That looks awesome!

[Gusington]

1908 the best season ever? That's quite a ways back. Maybe for the Cubs...