A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers.
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers.
Just finished:
Why Nations Fail (Acemoglu, Robinson)
Antifragile (Taleb)
Unintended Consequences (Conard)
Next Reds manager, second shooter. --Confirmed on Redszone.
The Night Circus was fantastic. Probably the second best book I've read in the past year, after The Historian. My own writing tends to be spare, but I love reading rich, intricate fiction.
Change of pace next: Joe Hillls N0S4A2.
It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it. Carl Jung.
Game of Thrones. I love the TV show and I'm loving the book more.
I am about 200 pages into "The Last Lion: Winston Churchill: Defender of the Realm" by William Manchester and Paul Reid. Years ago I read Manchester's first two volumes on Churchill.
"Hey...Dad. Wanna Have A Catch?" Kevin Costner in "Field Of Dreams."
MikeThierry (05-12-2013)
Gamble by Felix Francis, it's a dick francis novel and will be the 14th i've read.
Just started Stephen Kings Under the Dome..so far so good
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https://www.amazon.com/Charles-DeMaris/e/B07BD4JBQB
Book three of the Game Of Thrones series--Storm of Swords. I can't stop reading *it*, but the new Dan Brown book is sitting here tempting me too....
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
All the dishes rattle in the cupboards when the elephants arrive
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