Just picked up Everyone Counts.  Faith, Family, and my life in baseball. The Lou Brunswick Story. 

A book just came out about my HS baseball coach.  They solicited some stories and comments for the book.   Should be a good read.

I finished All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire by Johnathan Abrams. Great recollection of the show. A great read for any Wire fans. 

I also finished The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983 by Marc Ambinder. A good deep dive in the 1982-1983 escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and U.S. that almost led to nuclear war and woke up both sides to determine to thaw the relationship from 84 on. 

I just started Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Steve Coll. Coll wrote the go to book about the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan from 1989 to 9/11. This is the follow-up from 9/11 to 2016.  

Grant Cardon's Sell or Be Sold.

Cardone is a little woo-woo for my taste, but he usually does have a few solid gold nuggets amidst all the bullshittery.

Finishing up The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss right now.

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Finishing up The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss right now.

Fun tidbit: I used to know that guy.  Did some business with him back in the day, shortly after he published that.  Sent me a signed copy.  Seemed like a nice guy.

Just finished "The Sense Of An Ending", by Julian Barnes.

Interesting British novel of a divorced man in his 60's.  He seems to be content with his quiet solitary existence until he is named in the will of someone he met only once.  His efforts find out why force him to confront his past as a college student, and how his life turned out as it did.   I love a good mystery.

Not my usual type of fare, but I'm glad I read it..  Fascinating, very well-written, and very British.  The ending is a shocker. 

Started a re-read of A Song of Ice and Fire. When I get to A Feast for Crows, I'm going to do one of the alternative ways where you switch back and forth between it and A Dance of Dragons.

I'm just over halfway through The Singularity Trap by Dennis E Taylor. Fantastic science fiction.

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I'm just over halfway through The Singularity Trap by Dennis E Taylor. Fantastic science fiction.

Finished the other day. Great book.

Just started The Case Against Sugar by Gary Taubes last night. My wife just read one of his other books, Why We Get Fat, and enjoyed it enough to pick up this one.

The Fox by Frederick Forsythe.  I have enjoyed all of his books.  This one looks to be no exception.  

I finished Steve Coll's Directorate S about the U.S. war in Afghanistan post 9/11. He pulls no punches and spares no one from blame regarding the situation today. It is a pretty good detailed look inside the U.S. perspective as well as Pakistan's point of view. 

I'm about 150 pages into Chernow's Alexander Hamilton. It is as good as advertised. 

I still need to read Hamilton, it's been sitting on my shelf for well over a year now.

I'm currently reading Speaker for the Dead, the second Ender's Game book.

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I still need to read Hamilton, it's been sitting on my shelf for well over a year now.

I'm currently reading Speaker for the Dead, the second Ender's Game book.

I hear that if you read it backwards, there are scripts in it.

I'm about a third of the way through The Stand. I'm enjoying it a lot so far.

I finished Hamilton yesterday and it was a great read. I actually finished it the day of the duel with Burr, July 11. Hamilton died today, July 12, 1804 at the age of 49. 

I'm continuing my founding father's read with Mccullough's John Adams 

Re-reading "Gorky Park" by Martin Cruz Smith.  Been 20 years since I read it, had forgotten how darker and more twisted it is, much more so than the movie, which was very good.

I read another Smith novel several years ago, "December 6".  Sort of a dark and twisted "Casablanca" set in Tokyo the day before the Pearl Harbor attack.

Did I mention they were dark and twisted?

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I finished Hamilton yesterday and it was a great read. I actually finished it the day of the duel with Burr, July 11. Hamilton died today, July 12, 1804 at the age of 49. 

I'm continuing my founding father's read with Mccullough's John Adams 

Both are on my shelf. I think I'm going to go back and read some historical non-fiction in the fall. These seem like good starts.

Alvin Plantiga's Where the Conflict Really Lies

It's a book that engages a mesh of Christianity and evolution.  I'm not always a Plantiga fan, but someone I trust told me he did a good job in the book, so I figured I'd give it a read.

Almost done with The Stand. 

Started Chernow's Alexander Hamilton last night. Great so far, I'm through the first couple chapters detailing his family history and childhood in the Caribbean. 

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Almost done with The Stand. 

I loved the Stand. I hate King’s Politics but I love his writing. Read pet Cemetary and Carrie recently. What got me started was 11/22/63, and I’ve been trying to read some ever since. IT was great too. 

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I loved the Stand. I hate King’s Politics but I love his writing. Read pet Cemetary and Carrie recently. What got me started was 11/22/63, and I’ve been trying to read some ever since. IT was great too. 

I have the same view of him. He's a goober, but I love his books. The Dark Tower series was awesome. 

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I loved the Stand. I hate King’s Politics but I love his writing. Read pet Cemetary and Carrie recently. What got me started was 11/22/63, and I’ve been trying to read some ever since. IT was great too. 

What's 11/22/63?

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What's 11/22/63?

I haven't read it, but it's one of his highest rated books. Something about JFK and time travel.

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is an outstanding short story/novella. Different Seasons was a great book, it combined that, Stand by Me, Apt Pupil, and some other throwaway story. The three listed by name were great stories. Apt Pupil was...messed up, but very good.

His Bill Hodges trilogy is also very good (Finders Keepers, Mr Mercedes, End of Watch).

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What's 11/22/63?

It’s one of his newer books. Like Justin said, the premise is a guy can go back in time to try and stop the Kennedy assassination. It’s long, but good. I believe someone did a mini series on it but I never saw it.