I sent a message to someone recommending "The Free State of Jones" by Victoria Bynum, as they said they were a Civil war enthusiast. To ensure my judgement wasn't marred by time I re-read it. Now I am recommending it to everyone. It reads like a documentary, but the true story it reveals is fascinating.
I’m reading the second of Nigel Hamilton’s three books on FDR and the war years. The first, “Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942”, covered the run up to the US entry into the war following Pearl Harbor and FDR’s coming of age as a war commander in chief. The second, “Commander in Chief: FDR’s Battle with Churchill, 1943” chronicles FDR’s overcoming Churchill’s and the British war command’s refusal to commit to a second front crossing of the channel in 1944 and FDR’s desire to shape the world anew after his insistence on the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers.
I’m a bit over half way through and it is fascinating reading. Hamilton attempts to set the record straight on FDR’s critical leadership in winning the war and Churchill's rather self serving post-war writing; all sort of surprising given Hamilton is a British writer.
The cooler weather has started my October reading list early. I'm reading Lovecraft's Monsters edited by Ellen Datlow. It is a horror short story anthology on the Lovecraft vein. I'm also rereading some of the stories in "The Children of Cthulhu" edited by John Plan and Benjamin Adams.
I may have started late. Harvest/Halloween stuff has been in the craft shops for weeks.
I have started preparing early this year. I'm currently reading:
Encyclopedia of Christmas: Nearly 200 Alphabetically Arranged Entries Covering All Aspects of Christmas, Including Folk Customs, Religious Obsrevances, History, Legends, symbols
@jfreedy - Nope. Right now I'm right at the weight I need to be for this time of the year. I don't start putting on the extra padding until Thanksgiving.
@motie2 - What I have found interesting in reading the encyclopedia is the number of ways religious leaders and denominations bent their beliefs to bring otherwise pagan or secular beliefs into the churches.
@jfreedy, they even look cool. I am starting a collection of old classics that I can put on my book case next to my fireplace. I will be making paintings of the writers in the book case to hang on the wall in the room.
I'm reading a book on Black & White Photography, and am wondering whether to skip over the chapter on film altogether, as I have no sources hereabouts for either film or processing.
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Read it first time in college..... In one long night.
Certainly in the top five scifi novels.
Sequels never equaled the first.
I’m a bit over half way through and it is fascinating reading. Hamilton attempts to set the record straight on FDR’s critical leadership in winning the war and Churchill's rather self serving post-war writing; all sort of surprising given Hamilton is a British writer.
I may have started late. Harvest/Halloween stuff has been in the craft shops for weeks.
Lovecraft meets Dr Seuss, I love it. Sounds like an old Universal movie.
Encyclopedia of Christmas: Nearly 200 Alphabetically Arranged Entries Covering All Aspects of Christmas, Including Folk Customs, Religious Obsrevances, History, Legends, symbols
http://festivusweb.com/
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/31b04250-8f05-437a-a178-1f13a087e8aa
@jfreedy - Nope. Right now I'm right at the weight I need to be for this time of the year. I don't start putting on the extra padding until Thanksgiving.
It won't bear much looking. Thin soup.
I am starting a collection of old classics that I can put on my book case next to my fireplace. I will be making paintings of the writers in the book case to hang on the wall in the room.
How long, O LORD, must I call for help? But you do not listen! “Violence is everywhere!” I cry, but you do not come to save.
~ Habakkuk 1:2
I picked this up in a used bookstore. If you like ghost stories reported as true this might be worth a look.