What are you reading?

[Inkgardener]

I’m sitting in my library as I am reading this thread. I am fortunate that as my kids grew up in our last house they always saw me reading books from our modest wall length bookshelf. Six years ago we built our new house and we built out a bedroom into my full library. My favorite room in the house. My daughter is now thirty and she read twice as many books as I did last year, over 50 I think.

So, reading to your kids and having them read daily does instill it in them. I sure am proud.

 

[steve white]

I read in the bathroom/bano/water closet

 

[Russ16]

I love books too. But I’ve gotten tired of literal crates of books on my basement and storage after every shelf and every end table is jam packed. I’ve moved to the kindle. It is also great for me as someone who travels, if I finish a book on the plane I have a huge library at my finger tips.

It sometimes does make me sad that I don’t have the beautiful cover art and illustrations to thumb through. But I also don’t have kids and won’t be. As I get older I realize a lot of what’s in my house is going to be more of a burden to whoever cleans it out than any kind of legacy. I do have some really good books and an extensive collection of The Double Gun Journal that I’d love to find someone in the next generation who will appreciate it to give it to.

 

[OldCombatEngr]

Just finished "Atlas shrugged" by Ayn Rand

Started "Post Wall, Post Square. Rebuilding the world after 1989", by Christina Spohr.

I am very much a history buff, also interested in social science, and of course, anything related to African hunting of which I have about 60 books.

I also enjoy science fiction and crime novels, if they are good.

Read "Atlas Shrugged" summer '76. It opened my eyes to underlying harm and corruptions that I had not recognized before. "The Fountainhead" was good, too.

 

[OldCombatEngr]

I have a few years on you at 82 and I still enjoy holding and reading a real book. But most of my reading these days is dome on my Kindle app on my cell phone. I no longer have the physical space for real books. Most of my book collection is in storage at my sister's house. I need to get back there and try to donate them to the local library. One of my great fears is my collection will sold for $1.00 each at a garage sale after I'm gone. My son, nephews and nieces are not readers. Neither are any of my friends. It frustrates me as I have have always been a reader for as long as I can remember. No wisecracking please.

I tried to donate some good conditioned and titled books to the public libraries. Even 30 years ago, they were space-limited and thanked me as they declined. With the move to digitization, their desire for hard copies will further decrease, I guess. Some of the older "kids" read, and they can have any books desired. They like the gun-hunting, some military history, and some biography. The engineering, science, and business-econ-finance are not their cup of tea. I expect many books will be happily given to whoever wants them. I see some books listed for good prices on ebay, but that is what they ask, likely a far cry from what they get.

 

[OldCombatEngr]

When ready, maybe sell the very special ones on ebay. I tell myself that's what I'll do. . . one of these days.

 

[Nyati]

In my local supermarket there are some shelves where you can place books you want to donate, or pick up anything you like.

 

[Flbt]

I tried to donate some good conditioned and titled books to the public libraries. Even 30 years ago, they were space-limited and thanked me as they declined. With the move to digitization, their desire for hard copies will further decrease, I guess. Some of the older "kids" read, and they can have any books desired. They like the gun-hunting, some military history, and some biography. The engineering, science, and business-econ-finance are not their cup of tea. I expect many books will be happily given to whoever wants them. I see some books listed for good prices on ebay, but that is what they ask, likely a far cry from what they get.

Have you looked into groups that send books and magazines to over sea soldiers?
I sent a lot of well cared for magazines and books through local groups especially churches and masons.

 

[Flbt]

The complete book of wild boar hunting
By Todd triplett

 

[Berettaco]

Finished into the thorns - it wasn’t exactly what I expected but it was good.

Now about halfway through Kwaheri by Robert Von Reitnauer. So far it’s stellar - probably Top-3 of all the African books I have read.

 

[The creed]

times of rebellion. by cliff ball

 

[OldCombatEngr]

In my local supermarket there are some shelves where you can place books you want to donate, or pick up anything you like.

Neat idea. Valuable as shelf space is, they are generous to do that.

 

[OldCombatEngr]

Have you looked into groups that send books and magazines to over sea soldiers?
I sent a lot of well cared for magazines and books through local groups especially churches and masons.

We did some of that with technical books to an Afghanistani university years ago. I guess the Taliban burned them? But the military donation is a good idea. Stationed in Turkey 1990-92, we had a nice library of a couple thousand books that were well-used, older, almost all donated from various sources.

 

[RLD]

An organization I do some work with just finished a massive book drive for a library that was struggling in Nigeria and sent over thousands of books.

If I hear of similar opportunities I will post them here.

 

[VertigoBE]

On holiday, and this very interesting read followed me to Martinique :

 

[Flbt]

Death in the silent places

 

[yamoon]

White Hunter by J A Hunter
Mike

 

[steve white]

The Old Man and the Boy, Robert Ruark. I may like that better than any of his other.

 

[cajunchefray]

White Hunter by J A Hunter
Mike

Have to get a JA Hunter book, after reading White Hunters by Brian Herne.

Next up is The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill.

 

[Flbt]

The Old Man and the Boy, Robert Ruark. I may like that better than any of his other.

I like it and the old man boys grow older or what ever the flow up is.

I have read them to both of nephews there is some value to the story’s. Especially limited quail harvest form covies around your house.
Them and the fact that I don’t let the wild covies on the farm to be shot.