Khadaji's Whatcha Reading Thread--June 2019 edition

[DinoR]

Finished Myth-Fits by Jody Lyn Nye. It’s the latest in the series started by Robert Asprin.

Reading Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett. I’m sensing a theme. It seemed like time for a little light fantasy back to back.

@Shodan

Only two chapters in to Battle: The Story of the Bulge by John Toland, and he definitely has my interest.

He does a good job weaving together first hand accounts to still deliver a coherent narrative about the battle. Those vignettes from the veterans he interviewed are IMO the highlight. It brings a vividness to the history. If you really like that first hand account piece you might want to check out Company Commander by Charles B MacDonald the next time you are looking for nonfiction. It’s his memoirs of being a Company Commander in 2nd Infantry Division during the Battle of the Bulge.

[DZedNConfused]

Hey gang,

New thread: Bring on the dog heart attacks, it’s JULY!

[DZedNConfused]

@DinoR

Reading Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett. I’m sensing a theme. It seemed like time for a little light fantasy back to back.

One of my favorites!!

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Siam_Sam

Finished The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America, by CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta. The travails of reporting on the current White House with a president who particularly hates this author’s guts. Excellent, excellent, excellent. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough.

Have started Misery, by Stephen King.

Thanks. The Acosta book sounds great, and Misery is one of my all-time favorite King books. I just re-read it a few months back.

@DinoR

…[Toland] does a good job weaving together first hand accounts to still deliver a coherent narrative about the battle. Those vignettes from the veterans he interviewed are IMO the highlight. It brings a vividness to the history. If you really like that first hand account piece you might want to check out Company Commander by Charles B MacDonald the next time you are looking for nonfiction. It’s his memoirs of being a Company Commander in 2nd Infantry Division during the Battle of the Bulge.

You might also enjoy Scott Turow’s war novel Ordinary Heroes, about a US Army JAG officer who gets caught up in the Battle of the Bulge. It’s loosely tied to his Kindle County legal thrillers (Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof, Reversible Errors, etc.)