January 2008: What book are you reading?

[LePaul]

Another month, another monthly "What's everyone reading" for books

I am still limping thru the John Bolton "Surrender is not an Option".  He states so many names, titles and the sort, you are rather overwhelmed with information.  Its good, just tough to get through at times.

I did get "You: Staying Young" by Dr Mehmet Oz and Dr Michael Roizen.  Just finished it up, its another excellent read if you are into healthy living/fitness.  (An excellent hypochondriac read    )

How about the rest of you guys and gals?

[vorticon]

royal assassin by robin hobb.

[texasmom]

I got the greatest book as a gift from my son. I skimmed through, then read the first few chapters, then lost the book.  It's driving me bonkers that I can't find it.  I can't even remember the name of it.  It's about a British gal who was running an intelligence organization during WWII.  Once the war was over, it talked about her trips through Europe searching around the last known locations of her agents (most of whom had been prisoners).

Seeing your post though, made me go find one of my books called "When Surrender Was Not an Option" by George Crawford (his account of WWII, including POW Camp). I'm going to read that.

[eagl]

Capital budgeting decisions.  And another dozen readings on corporate finance.

Part of my MBA coursework.  Bah.  I hate school.

[texasmom]

Originally posted by eagl
Capital budgeting decisions.  And another dozen readings on corporate finance.

Part of my MBA coursework.  Bah.  I hate school.

Yuck ~ I need an aspirin just seeing your post. Sounds tedious. Good job sticking to that!

[Chairboy]

On the iPhone: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - RAH  (re-read, it's been ages)
Book: Off Armaggedon Reef - David Weber

[Russian]

"Beyond the Wild Blue" Walter J. Boyne. St. Martin's Press. New York. 2007. Amazon


"Private Pilot Manual" Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc.

[Pei]

"Against the Day" by Thomas Pynchon

I am also re-reading "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" as I have just finished a biography of Hunter S Thompson that I was given for Xmas.

[LePaul]

Eagl, Chair, Wolf and other real life pilots...

I'm hunting around for a book on getting back up to speed on flying.  I haven't logged any time since 2002 and am hoping to get back into a C-172 again in a few weeks.  

Anything come to mind?  I've been browsing through my old Jeppersen ground school books, but wondered if there was something newer that dealt with the airspace changes, etc etc.  Just a good, overall primer for those of us who have been out of the groove for a few years.  I thought about the huge AIM the FAA puts out, but that's pretty dry reading

[AquaShrimp]

"Hannibal" by Thomas Harris.

Its not quite the page turner that "The Silence of the Lambs" was.

Also reading "Managing small woodlands for wildlife".

[Tarmac]

World War Z.  Plowed through half of it today, but I probably won't have time to read more this weekend.

[Chairboy]

Originally posted by LePaul
I'm hunting around for a book on getting back up to speed on flying.  I haven't logged any time since 2002 and am hoping to get back into a C-172 again in a few weeks.  

Go to the library and get a copy of each of the FAR/AIMs since then, there's a section in each describing only what's changed from year to year.

[nirvana]

Still reading The Helmsman and trying to memorize the 11 general orders to long term memory.

[rpm]

I'm sure you finished and reread "How To Manipulate The Masses" by Faux News. Can you give us a review?

Originally posted by LePaul
Just finished it up, its another excellent read.

[AquaShrimp]

Lol, now thats funny.