I'm 30% done with Station Eleven. It is fine so far, just slow. It is not as post civilized world so far as I thought. 

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Reading Harry Potter for the first time. I'm almost done with book two.

Finished all 7 HP books. I really enjoyed them and thought the writing got better and better as the series progressed. I'm going to watch the movies while we all practice social distancing. 

I'm not sure what to read next. 

Holy cow, Station Eleven is slow, but now halfway through and it suddenly picked up the pace and steam. It is a good read now. 

Starting Little Fires Everywhere today so I can watch the new show on Hulu soon. 

Finished Station Eleven yesterday. It is really good once you get past the first third of it. That slow start sets the table for the complicated and interconnected story lines. It does shift stories and timelines a lot, but it pays off in the end. Solid read. 

I started Cherry by Nico Walker now. I heard it is a crazy novel from 2018. 

Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins

The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson about Churchill's first year in office. Excellent so far. 

Just finished re-reading "Illusion" by Frank Peretti.  One of the more unique novels I've read - a Christian high-tech thriller with Twilight Zone-like threads, and enough Hallmark romance to pull in the female demographic.  I'm a grown man, but I even teared up at the end.

Also re-read "Prey" by Michael Crichton.  Been 15 years since I last read it.  It was a lot more enjoyable then, but this time I couldn't enjoy taking half the novel to set up the action at the high-tech plant.  Maybe my attention span is shrinking.  But still, fascinating concepts and a "killer"ending.

I'm about 5 chapters into "Gideon's Corpse" by Preston & Child.  Terrorists assemble a nuclear device in NYC?  A little light reading to relax you after absorbing the stress of what this virus is doing to our country.  Perfect, lol

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Just started up a book club with a few old co-workers. We're going to read Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough.

Haven't read in a while, will be picking this back up tonight. I'm planning on reading at least 2 hours each night this week, instead of sitting on my computer glued to twitter for news updates.

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Haven't read in a while, will be picking this back up tonight. I'm planning on reading at least 2 hours each night this week, instead of sitting on my computer glued to twitter for news updates.

That's what I have been doing, taking at least 1-2 hours each day to read. I've added 3 new books to my Kindle over the last few days, and am circling back to books I have never actually read. 

I have the following books lined up:

• Cherry (10 pages in and there has been an OD and a bank robbery) 
• Little Drummer Girl 
• Night Manager 
• Spy Came in from the Cold 
• Every Man a Menace
• Uncle Tom's Cabin 
• Leviathan 

I'm 1/3 of the way through Cherry, a semi true story written about and by Nico Walker. The story, starts in 2003, is about a guy from Cleveland who drops out of college, heads over to Iraq, gets screwed up, becomes addicted to drugs and robs banks. It is a blunt picture of how easy it is for life to fall apart. Nico wrote it while in jail, where he still is. 

Apparently, the book got picked up for a movie where freaking Spiderman, Tom Holland is going to play the main character. 

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I'm 1/3 of the way through Cherry, a semi true story written about and by Nico Walker. The story, starts in 2003, is about a guy from Cleveland who drops out of college, heads over to Iraq, gets screwed up, becomes addicted to drugs and robs banks. It is a blunt picture of how easy it is for life to fall apart. Nico wrote it while in jail, where he still is. 

Apparently, the book got picked up for a movie where freaking Spiderman, Tom Holland is going to play the main character. 

Let me know what you think after you finish, this sounds interesting.

Neptune's Inferno

It's a miracle tat we actually won WWII

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Let me know what you think after you finish, this sounds interesting.

It's good. A quick read. I enjoyed it as a nice change of pace. It is more Iraq focused than I thought it would be. That part of the novel reads like you typical disillusion with the mission, war sucks, we are bored stuff. The language is really blunt and crude, but that makes it feel real and lived in. The back half of the book is his fall into drug addiction and desperation that led him to rob banks in the Cleveland area. 

I just start Le Clarre's The Little Drummer Girl today. 

Got The Outsider this evening and I’m a quarter way thru it. Pretty good so far. 

I will plug The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson again.  It's about Churchill's first year as PM.  While mountains have been written about Churchill's life, this is a focus on this one sliver.  To me the most interesting parts are his ability to see certain strengths in people and put them in key positions, and the battle of wills between Churchill and Hitler.  Erik Larson is the author of Devil in the White City and In the Garden of the Beasts among others.  He's very readable and good at capturing personalitites.

I've read a ton on Hitler and I cannot understand why he stuck with Goerring as long as he did.  Goerring was an early Nazi with him and was a WW1 flying ace.  But there were plenty of other early party members Hitler ditched over time.  Goerring made huge errors in developing and deploying the Luftwaffe.  Had Hitler had a competent head of his air force, the Battle of Britain could have taken on a very different tone. 

Just finished The Outsider. I liked it a lot. Very good read. 

Fab, I see you’re reading All the Light We Cannot See now. Fantastic book. 

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Fab, I see you’re reading All the Light We Cannot See now. Fantastic book. 

Awesome book

I am! I'll be sure to check back in when I'm done. 

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I am! I'll be sure to check back in when I'm done. 

😩😭 Heartbreaking and beautiful. I'm extremely jealous that there are people who can write like that. 

Just finished "Dark Matter" by Blake Crouch.

I'm always a sucker for romance novels involving quantum physics and Schroedinger's cat.  Well, this one's a little more twisted than the average Harlequin romance, but I was hooked from the first few lines of the dust jacket synopsis.  Crouch's writing style is a bit irritating (too many hard paragraph returns), but the plot line and details were really cool.  Gets even more twisted at the end.

LOVE Dark Matter. Read Recursion next.

Thanks!

Over the weekend I finished John le Carré's Little Drummer Girl. I watched the miniseries last year, loved it, and wanted to read the book. 

The book follows the show closely, which is great. A quick summary: Set in 1982, Israeli Mossad recruits a young English actress to pretend to be the lover of the brother of a Palestinian bomb maker. Over half the novel is setting up the complex play and deception to allow her to infiltrate the terror cell. It is really well done and a good spy novel. 

I'm about to start the original le Carre novel now: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.