Finished Game of Thrones and have started Clash of Kings. Great series so far. I'm gonna hate finishing the rest of the books and then Martin never finishes the series.

Also finished Shift, and am 85% through the final book in that series, Dust. Great trilogy, I highly recommend it.

Finished Dust. Enjoyed the ending.

Started A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea last night. It's a short book from Kindle Unlimited that I'll be able to finish before my subscription ends tomorrow. Pretty harrowing story so far. The guy was born in Japan to a Japanese mother and Korean (born when it was just Korea) father. Father was a real bastard, and through an unfortunate string of events he took the family from Japan to the supposed utopia of North Korea.

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Finished Dust. Enjoyed the ending.

Started A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea last night. It's a short book from Kindle Unlimited that I'll be able to finish before my subscription ends tomorrow. Pretty harrowing story so far. The guy was born in Japan to a Japanese mother and Korean (born when it was just Korea) father. Father was a real bastard, and through an unfortunate string of events he took the family from Japan to the supposed utopia of North Korea.

Read this book as it was on of the free book of the months. Completely F'd up story, and really gives you insight to how shitty a country North Korea is.

Finished A River in Darkness a while back. Truly terrible story.

I'm about 50% through A Clash of Kings.

I finished a book called The Naturalist. It was a good, quick read about a computational biologist who discovers a serial killer and starts his own investigation after law enforcement chalks up the deaths to bear attacks.

I just started a book called Steel World last night. It's the first book in a series of 9 total that was recommended by a co-worker. His suggestions for sci-fi are always good, and this one hasn't disappointed so far.

The Pursuit of God

Been a while since checking in. I've finished Steel World, mentioned above, and two more in the series. Dust World and Tech World.

I'm almost done with Clash of Kings.

I've hit my goal of 48 books for the year. I might give myself a break and take the rest of the year off once I finish Clash of Kings.

I finished No Country for Old Men this morning. Fantastic book. 

Next up is the iconic The Guns of August. It has been on my list for years. 

Read 50 books in 2018. Just shy of 24k pages.

I recently started All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. Fantastic book so far.

Just finished "Tigerland" by Wil Haygood, the story of the (Columbus) East High School Tigers, who won both the state basketball and baseball championships in 1969, and the societal turmoil that shaped the players.  Fantastic book, extremely well-written and engrossing.  My wife is a first cousin of the one of the starters who played on both teams, so it was a chance for me learn more about her family , and also about an era I was unfamiliar with.

Also finished the latest Jack Reacher novel "Past Tense" by Lee Child.  It's a look into Reacher's family's history, in particular his late father's past, which is not what it seems to be.  Not quite as violent as the previous novels, in terms of Reacher constantly being challenged by local toughs and international goons (before easily dispatching them and righting injustices everywhere), but still pretty interesting if you're a fan like me.  And plenty of black coffee is involved.  

Finished All the Light We Cannot See a few days ago. Fantastic book.

I'm about a third of the way in to A Storm of Swords (GoT #3) and just started Killers of the Flower Moon last night.

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Finished All the Light We Cannot See a few days ago. Fantastic book.

Really liked that one too. Currently reading some random free Amazon book called Darknet.  

I'm a little more than halfway through Killers of the Flower Moon. Absolutely fascinating story.

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I'm a little more than halfway through Killers of the Flower Moon. Absolutely fascinating story.

I've started this twice, but can't get past the first 30 pages or so.  That doesn't gel with all of the great things I hear about it, like your statement.  Is it just slow starting or am I missing something.

I'm reading Ready Player One.  As a child of the 1980s, I finally got curious enough to try it.  About 2/3 through and enjoying it.  I fun geeky book.  

I guess it might be considered slow, but I was pretty engrossed right away.

I recently finished reading The Coddling of the American Mind. Usually when I read I get so absorbed into a book that it is almost like racing to finish it. This book I didn't do that. I actually read only a part at a time, savoring it and then thinking about it for a while before picking it back up. 
In short, I loved it and it's in my top 20 of fave's.

Just finished John Grisham's "The Reckoning".  Wow.  As one of the characters says at the end "What a family".

Finished Guns of August, really good. 

I just started Legacy of Ashes, the history of the CIA. It is a tough view of the history of the CIA.  

I have queued up this year:

• Gladwell's The Tipping Point 
• Ohio State Football: The Forgotten Dawn by Robert Roman 
• All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire by Johnathan Abrams 
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
• Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Steve Coll 
• The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983 by Marc Ambinder 
• Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlen 
• Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

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Just finished John Grisham's "The Reckoning".  Wow.  As one of the characters says at the end "What a family".

Just started this....looking forward to it

I just finished reading all 113 pages of a classic entitled: The Wrestling Thread That's Not About Anything (aka The Wrestling Thread That's Not About Eligibility) authored by Gardens35. It was born on Feb. 7, 2011 and ran up until January 18 of 2018. It had 40,000 some views and over 2000 posts, however only a handful of the posters remain here today. A memorable quote came from Heretic: "This is and will forever be the greatest accomplishment in the history of this site.  It's all downhill from here!".

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I just finished reading all 113 pages of a classic entitled: The Wrestling Thread That's Not About Anything (aka The Wrestling Thread That's Not About Eligibility) authored by Gardens35. It was born on Feb. 7, 2011 and ran up until January 18 of 2018. It had 40,000 some views and over 2000 posts, however only a handful of the posters remain here today. A memorable quote came from Heretic: "This is and will forever be the greatest accomplishment in the history of this site.  It's all downhill from here!".

That was one of the ones that got derailed in epic fashion by that one dude who had two kids wrestling that he moved from one school to another, over-the-top bashed the old school and came off as completely batshit crazy, wasn't it? If so, my opinion holds. Nothing will ever match that complete, unfiltered insanity.

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That was one of the ones that got derailed in epic fashion by that one dude who had two kids wrestling that he moved from one school to another, over-the-top bashed the old school and came off as completely batshit crazy, wasn't it? If so, my opinion holds. Nothing will ever match that complete, unfiltered insanity.

Yes, you remember correctly.

Currently reading Death World (book 5 of the Undying Mercenaries series) by BV Larson. Good, mindless sci-fi.

Also started Fractured State by Steven Konkoly. I'm only about 10% in but it's interesting so far. It's about a semi-dystopian California (mega surveillance state) in the near future dealing with a big secessionist movement to break away from the US. 

Finished 

• Gladwell's The Tipping Point 
• Ohio State Football: The Forgotten Dawn by Robert Roman 

Gladwell's book was fine, typical Gladwell, and even more relevant in the age of social media. I really liked the Roman book about the history of Ohio State football. It is a really cool history about the first 30 years of the university. It is also a good side history of early football. I didn't realize that in the old days, you kept the ball after each score. You exchanged possessions only after a punt. That is why scores were so one sided in the early days. 50-0 was normal in the early days. I breezed through it in a few days. 

I am 80 pages in All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire by Johnathan Abrams. It is an awesome oral history of the Wire. I love it so far. It has great little stories from the writers and actors.  I highly recommend it for any fans of the Wire. 

Has anyone read any Neal Stephenson sci-fi books? I am thinking of reading Seveneves: A Novel. 

I'm about a third of the way through A Feast of Crows (GoT book 4). Not reading much else right now. I did pick up They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib (old poster Upper90) a few weeks ago, but haven't read it yet.

I just started Secret Empires. too early to tell but the premise is good. i absolutely loved Killers of the Flower Moon. i lived about 25 minutes from the town where all that happened.