re: What are you reading?

Midnight Black by Mark Greaney. The latest Grayman novel. Violator stacking bodies again.

Cobra Event - Richard Preston

Food for Though - Alton Brown

Finally finishing up Atomic Habits (got part of the way through it last year and got distracted).

Aside from that, I grabbed this one after a friend recommended it as a coffee table read. I've been picking it up occasionally between sessions or when I'm doing some short term waiting. It's a neat little book about certain colors and stories associated with the color. For instance it talks about Electric Blue and Chernobyl or Woad and it's Viking and Celtic roots.

I'm reading Deeds of Darkness by Mel Starr. It's #10 in a medieval mystery series which is sorta my guilty pleasure. I love anything medieval, esp in England.

I read several other cozy mystery series like Brother Cadfael which is set in 12th century England. Then there are two series set in early 19th century London, Sebastian St. Cyr and Charles Lenox series.

Then there's modern day mysteries like Andy Carpenter, a reluctant lawyer who takes on hopeless cases. These mysteries are heavily influenced by the author's , David Rosenfelt, love of dogs. So if you like dogs.....

Then there are two game warden series, Joe Pickett in Wyoming and Mike Bowditch in Maine.

So I read a lot of mysteries. A coworker calls them my tee-tee sitting down books.

Koko by Peter Straub

I picked up a book called Black Range Tales by James McKenna. I heard about it on the Meateater podcast. I've got to say I am pleasantly surprised with how good of a book it is. It's a compilation of stories about life in the U.S. southwest by a prospector named James McKenna. I had no particular interest in learning the history of this area and time (between late 1800s and early 1900s), but I've been hooked ever since picking it up. The author writes just like you'd imagine they talk and can be hard to understand at first. I have found myself rereading earlier parts of the book at times, now that I have a better understanding of the author's communication style.

Overall, I'd highly recommend this book if you enjoy U.S. history and want to learn about life on the frontier, gold mining, surviving indians, etc...

Just read Colonialism by Nigel Biggar. It’s a heavily footnoted refutation of the modern leftist notion that the duplicitous, maniacal, racist, capitalist British rampaged the globe enslaving brown people and commiting various genocides. And, halfway through a similar book entitled Not Stolen by Jeff Fynn Paul. It’s about the truth of colonialism in the New World. Similar to the first book mentioned only limited to The Americas. Recommend both for enlightenment and ammunition in any discussion you might have with someone who ingests too much modern wokeness regarding those evil white Europeans.

Henry the 5th- Dan jones

Was in the new books section. Don’t know much about him but evidently he’s worth writing about

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Strongly considering the Border Trilogy by McCarthy

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I liked book 2 more than book 1. Starting the third this weekend