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What is everyone reading?
« on: October 02, 2011, 10:38:50 am »
I'll start it off. I just started on the reprint of the 1889 second edition of History of the Campaign of Mobile by Christopher Columbus Andrews.
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Re: What is everyone reading?
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2011, 08:46:49 pm »
Right now, Decision Points, George W. Bush's Memoirs.  Previously, Empire of Liberty, A History of the Early Republic 1789-1815, Gordon S. Wood.  Next on the List is Lincoln's Darkest Year, The War in 1862, William Marvel.
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Re: What is everyone reading?
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2011, 06:18:23 am »
Just finished the Autobiography of Mark Twain...reading Tony Campolo's "Is Jesus a Republican or a Democrat? and 14 other polarizing issues"

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Re: What is everyone reading?
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2011, 08:59:34 am »
"Song of Susannah" Stephen King. Dark Tower series.

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Re: What is everyone reading?
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2011, 02:11:05 pm »
User manual for TI-34 Multiview calculator. The eldest son started seventh grade and is being mainstreamed so he is allowed to use the TI-34 to keep up in math class. I get to teach him how to use it. Thankfully I just started wearing bi-focals last year, that manual is freaking small.
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Re: What is everyone reading?
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2011, 02:48:00 pm »
User manual for TI-34 Multiview calculator. The eldest son started seventh grade and is being mainstreamed so he is allowed to use the TI-34 to keep up in math class. I get to teach him how to use it. Thankfully I just started wearing bi-focals last year, that manual is freaking small.

I remember when the only calculator a seventh grader could use was their fingers.  ;D
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Re: What is everyone reading?
« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2011, 03:37:40 pm »
generally just forums is all I read.  :laugh: :laugh:   Havent read a book in a very very long time.



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Re: What is everyone reading?
« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2011, 06:18:48 pm »
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Re: What is everyone reading?
« Reply #8 on: October 03, 2011, 09:28:21 pm »
Just finished Ranks of Bronze by David Drake  and The Excalibur Alternative by David Weber.  I've also been reading the Honor Harrington series.
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Re: What is everyone reading?
« Reply #9 on: October 03, 2011, 10:55:46 pm »
The First World War, by John Keegan.
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Re: What is everyone reading?
« Reply #10 on: October 03, 2011, 11:18:00 pm »
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Re: What is everyone reading?
« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2011, 02:01:01 am »
Book three of the Dresden Files
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Re: What is everyone reading?
« Reply #12 on: October 05, 2011, 05:12:24 am »
User manual for TI-34 Multiview calculator. The eldest son started seventh grade and is being mainstreamed so he is allowed to use the TI-34 to keep up in math class. I get to teach him how to use it. Thankfully I just started wearing bi-focals last year, that manual is freaking small.

Nick, I graduated to tri-focals five years ago...just something for you to look forward to....a hazard of our careers...

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Re: What is everyone reading?
« Reply #13 on: October 05, 2011, 05:16:10 am »
An interesting reading list. The bi-focals/tri-focals are just a hazard of life for those of us that need glasses, bi-focals here.
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Re: What is everyone reading?
« Reply #14 on: October 05, 2011, 06:48:03 am »
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Re: What is everyone reading?
« Reply #15 on: October 05, 2011, 02:00:27 pm »
So many heavy subjects I feel out of place reading "Good Omens"
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Re: What is everyone reading?
« Reply #16 on: October 05, 2011, 03:16:37 pm »
So many heavy subjects I feel out of place reading "Good Omens"

Don't feel out of place. As long as you enjoy what you are reading is all that matters.
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Re: What is everyone reading?
« Reply #17 on: October 05, 2011, 05:22:32 pm »
Man Kzin Wars #12  ;D

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Re: What is everyone reading?
« Reply #18 on: October 05, 2011, 08:56:17 pm »
So many heavy subjects I feel out of place reading "Good Omens"

I LOVED that book!
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Re: What is everyone reading?
« Reply #19 on: October 11, 2011, 10:36:13 pm »
Battle at Sea:3000 years of Naval Warfare.  Its really more of a coffee table type book that caught my eye in the bargain section at my local Barnes and Nobles.  It basically summarizes the major naval engagements from ancient times, and the evolution of fighting ships.  When I'm done with it, I have to find my copy of Fighting Steel and re-install it.