What are we reading?

[Sir Slash]

Hip deep in, "Germany Ascendant" WWI in the east 1915. So far just as good as the first book but not gooder, and the annoyingly poor maps continue.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Those who Dare by Phil Ward is a kindle freebee today. It is one of a series of "historical fiction", if that makes sense. Maybe revisionist historical  fiction?

[airboy]

I've been reading a bunch of Terry Pratchett Diskworld books.

Finished: Going Postal.
Rereading: Mort
Purchased: Small Gods.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Airborne: The Combat Story of Ed Shames of Easy Company

Is $1.99 today. AR probably has it already, if not, heads up!

[Staggerwing]

Airborne: The Combat Story of Ed Shames of Easy Company

Is $1.99 today. AR probably has it already, if not, heads up!

Thanks!

Lazy Link for the rest of you...

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

http://www.amazon.com/WIRED-Douglas-E-Richards-ebook/dp/B007EWJBIE/ref=sr_1_1_ha?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1442455743&sr=1-1&keywords=Wired

Recommended. I'm half way through this quite enjoyable thriller. Get it, you will like it.  :D

[Barthheart]

Remember this plea from our Glorious Leader when shopping at Amazon:

http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=14554.msg386356#new

O0

[Martok]

When I moved earlier this summer, I discovered (to my everlasting disgust) that at some point I'd apparently managed to permanently misplace several of my favorite Star Wars novels, including all three books of Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy.  >:(  Feeling a strong desire to reread them, and having concluded (after repeated failed searches of my remaining unpacked boxes) that I wasn't going to find them again, I finally bit the bullet a couple weeks ago and re-ordered them from my local bookstore.  When I picked them up (shortly after Labor Day), I'll admit I suffered a pretty bad case of nerd rage seeing that lame-ass "Legends" banner across the front of all three books, but at least I had them in my possession again. 

In any case, I'm now reading the series for the first time in ages (it's quite possibly been ten years at this point), and I'm definitely enjoying it; I'd already plowed through Heir to the Empire last week, and will finish off Dark Force Rising tonight, leaving The Last Command to get me through my next seven-day work stretch (or at least through the weekend).  I'll admit I wasn't sure how much I'd like the books now that I'm a little older, but I'm happy to report they still seem to hold up pretty well.  It's good to know Zahn's magic hasn't lost its touch for me.  :) 

I also just finished reading This Book Is Full Of Spiders.

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A web novel?

Written with someone like Martok in mind.

I still don't think I wanna know... 

I'm reading a dull book, which is not bad.

How so?  Are trying to go to sleep or something? 

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Welcome back Martok, you cut your way past the web that had cornered you?

It's like textbooks, sometimes you consume dry food for the protein. If you need to know, you read it.

[Martok]

Welcome back Martok, you cut your way past the web that had cornered you?

Thanks Kev!  Yeah, my life is slowly, finally beginning to return to a semblance of normalcy.   

It's like textbooks, sometimes you consume dry food for the protein. If you need to know, you read it.

Ah, gotcha. 

[bbmike]

Martok! Thank goodness you have returned! We worried about your absence in this thread as well!  O0

[Martok]

Hey bbmike!  Good to see you.  :) 


Damn LongBlade anyway.  Why must he create a politics thread I'm compelled to actually follow (and possibly participate in)?  Grrr...  ::) 

[besilarius]

Now, Martok, appreciate that you were missed.  We could just as easily have celebrated with dance and song.  (Don't check LB's garbage cans.)

For World War II afficionadoes, a book that might round out your understanding of the Allied drive in France is Jacob Devers - A genral's life.
A number of other books have mentioned the feud between Ike and Devers, and that Bradley could be tactically inept.  (Heurtgen Forest, e.g.)  A pretty good look at the southern drive in France.  Speculates on what could have been accomplished if there were a southern push, coordinated with Patton's drive in the center.

[Gusington]

Currently reading The New York Grimpendium by J.W. Ocker. 'Tis the season.

http://www.amazon.com/New-York-Grimpendium-Macabre-Ghastly/dp/0881509906/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1443364482&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=Grimpendieum

[mirth]

Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson

http://www.amazon.com/Lawrence-Arabia-Deceit-Imperial-Making/dp/0307476413