What are you reading right now?
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I plan to being writing my own book in a few weeks. I have a whole stack of old letters and photos which will provide the grist for a pretty compelling frontier-family story. You know, the usual stuff: marauding wolves, cattle stampedes, prairie fires, deadly diseases, cowboys, Indians, European immigrants, horse tales, and trains. I am finishing up the family genealogy now, just to keep the characters straight and in proper perspective. Then I have to research some key historical events: Lewis and Clark, George Armstrong Custer, Crazy Horse, the buffalo hunters, bone pickers, railroads, historic storms and fires, etc.
This will be a bunch of work.
This will be a bunch of work.
I finally got around to checking out another book from the library. I love to read, but for the past year it has been nothing but Reader's Digest and other such publications. I am interested in reading about America during the World War 2 era, so entered that into the search engine at the library. I ended up with a book entitled 'Cocoanut Grove', about a famous and very deadly nightclub that happened back in Boston 1942. The nightclub had been one of Howard Hughe's favorite stomping grounds in the film, 'The Aviator'. I had only heard a little about the firey end to it in the past. Definitely not the most uplifting read, but I think the book does have a lot of interesting commentary and facts about the World War 2 era along with the fire.
I'm currently reading nothing. Went out of town last week and didn't even read on the plane -- I ordered the $5.00 worth of crappy DirecTV instead.
I go through phases where I'm constantly reading and practially go through a book every day. Then, I just stop. For months at a time I can barely even motivate myself to read a magazine.
I feel so damned illiterate right now. I've been the same 100 pages into a book for about five months, and when I finally feel like reading again, I'll probably have to start it over.
I go through phases where I'm constantly reading and practially go through a book every day. Then, I just stop. For months at a time I can barely even motivate myself to read a magazine.
I feel so damned illiterate right now. I've been the same 100 pages into a book for about five months, and when I finally feel like reading again, I'll probably have to start it over.
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