Avid Naked Readers
For those who love to read, either old fashioned paper books ( and my preferred way) or the new fangled ebooks. There was a book reading nudist group at one time but i have not found any trace of it. So this will fill the void.
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What have you all been reading?
Return to DiscussionsI have plowed thru several books recently. Just simply have preferred to curl up with a book rather than turn on the TV .
From action thrillers to adventure travel and even read a paranormal thriller which was a nice change of pace. Averaging about a book a week for the year.
What has passed before your eyes this spring ( or autumn if you are south of the equator) ?
I've got several in process at the moment. On my computer, "Nimitz-class Aircraft Carriers" by Brad Elward, on my phone it's "The Deep Blue Good-by", a Travis McGee novel by John D. MacDonald. The Kindle app on my tablet has "First Dangle" by Kevin Hearne. "The Years of Attrition: 1940 - 1941" by Richard Collier is my current bedside reading, and for my driving time there's the Librivox.org audiobook of "The Woman Who Went to Alaska" by Mary Kellogg Sullivan. Finally, I'm about halfway through the current issue of Flying magazine.
I use the web site BookBud to get ebook selections, of numerous styles & genres, at discounted prices. On my phone I have been reading the Gregory Maguire's, Wicked Years Complete Collection. Includes The Wizard of Oz, finished it and Wicked, still working my way thru Son of a Witch.
I really like books of short stories. I can buzz through a short story and walk away without wanting to continue reading. Though, now instead of "one more chapter", it's "one more short story". IPad has books of Suspense & Mystery and 2022 collections of new Science Fiction. both short stories. The actual paperback book I am reading is Divergent. Somehow it found its way onto my bookshelves, and I figured "why not".
OK, the current list. Two physical items - the current copy of N magazine (41.3) for my main read, and "The Years of Attrition: 1940-1941" by Richard Collier is my bedside reading. For listening to while driving, I've got "The Wonderful Visit" by H. G. Wells, downloaded from librivox.org. I've also got two e-books in progress. One is "The Hemlock Avenue Mystery" by Lily A. Long (writing under the pseudonym Roman Doubleday) that I downloaded from gutenberg.org, and "The Time Traveler's Handbook" by David Goldblatt.
The Years of Attrition is a WWII history covering those two years. It was originally two separate books, but this is combined in an omnibus volume. The Wonderful Visit is a fantasy about an angel visiting a small village in England. The Hemlock Avenue Mystery is a murder mystery from the early 20th century (maybe late 19th - I don't remember the publishing date). Finally, the Time Traveler's Handbook is an extended brochure from a company offering time travel tours of various places and events, describing how your visit to those times will be planned and the things you can expect to see and experience.
Currently reading several books:
"The Night Watch" by Terry Pratchett - ebook, fantasy
"The Admirals" by Walter Borneman - Kindle, WWII history about the four five-star U.S. admirals of that war
"Buffaloes over Singapore" by Geoff Fisken, DFC - ebook, WWII history of the aerial defenders of Singapore in 1941/1942
"Spuds, Spam and Eating For Victory" by Katherine Knight - physical book, about food rationing in the UK during WWII and after
I'm also working through various magazines; the current issue of Firearm News is on my desk. For the car, I'm also listening to the Librivox.org audiobook reading of "Around the World on a Bicycle" by Thomas Stevens. It's the experience of a young man who rode a high-wheeler around the world in the late 1880s.
I'm just finishing The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides--historical non-fiction. The book recounts Captain Cook's 3rd voyage where he discovered a number of South Pacific islands, including Hawaii, and explored much of the Alaskan coast for the first time (for a European). The South Pacific islanders were true naturist before the missionaries got to them. Hampton Sides is my favorite non-fiction author. His books read like a good novel and his research is remarkable.
Though I don't consider myself an avid reader, I, for some unknown reason, picked up a book last year and began reading the series. My wife is an avid reader of a lot of books. I liked the first Lee Childs, Jack Reacher book and decided to begin reading them in chronological order. I've now read 13 of the 30 books that have been written.
I took a short break from Jack Reacher and am now reading the Micheal Connelly Bosch series of books in order. I have read several other books along the way but the Reacher and Bosch series of books should keep me busy at least another year.
I've got several books in progress at the moment. For my night-time reading, my bedside table has "Station X", about the Bletchley Park codebreakers in WWII. I'm also reading the e-book of "The War Below", by James Scott. It's about U.S. submaringe warfare in the Pacific during WWII.
There's an audiobook for when I'm driving - "Between the Lines", a memoir of trench warfare in WWI. Most of my audiobook listening comes from older books available on-line at Librivox.org.
The latest edition of Sport Aviation has a place on my list as well, as does the Kindle edition of "Casca - African Mercenary" by Barry Sadler. It's one in a fairly long series about an immortal Roman soldier condemned by Jesus to remain as he is until the Second Coming.
I discovered the cross over writer Ruta Spetys . Her books are geared for young adults and are often told from their perspective. But historically set novels have plots and characters any age can get into. Salt to the Sea is set in the waning days of WW2 with the Soviets bearing down on Germany and the civilians who are fleeing before them. They are chased aboard a ship to escape. I Must Betray You is setting as communism fell in the late 80s in Romania. Having just done a guided tour of Bucharest that our guide described living through those days made the book very real to me. Fountains of Silence is 1950s Spain under Franco and Between Shades of Gray is set in the Soviet Union and deals with deported Lithunians
West with Giraffes by Linda Rutledge is a fun novel based on the true story of the transportation of 2 African giraffes across the USA to San Diego.
Michael Sears has a series of thrillers / mystery set in the world of finance. The draw for me is that the main character who has an autistic son
who he is trying to raise. My nephew is on the scale and it is very insightful into what my bro and his wife have to deal with. Black Fridays is the first one in the series.