Who's Reading What?

[Quillback]

Re-reading one myself. "Pea Ridge - Civil was campaign in the West" William L. Shea.

Very readable account of the battle.

[ness]

I've heard that recommended before, quill. Gotta check that out too.

[Jack Jones]

Reading Child 44 - a serial killer story based loosely on the Rostov Ripper case and set in Stalinist Russia.

Also reading The Wilderness Warrior, about big TR.

[Justin Spencer]

Been on a Hemingway kick, just finished The Sun Also Rises which I really liked, A farewell to arms a little to much of a love story for me, Old Man and Sea great, Snows of Kilamanjaro and Sweet short life of some guy were both good short stories.

Next up Capote's In Cold Blood.

[ness]

Next up Capote's In Cold Blood.

Great book. I loved it the first time I read it, and did some other reading on the whole situation which led me to read it again. Capote took quite a lot of poetic license that many people have had issues with over the years. The remaining sister and some friends have spoken up in recent years about not only the inaccuracies, but how the book has been a bit of a curse due to the continued attention they get.

Just finished Steven Ambrose's "Undaunted Courage" about Lewis and Clark. A really good read, but Ambrose seems to inject a lot of judgement, speculation, and also has a bit of a 'fan-boy' infatuation with Lewis at times, kinda like he did in Band of Brothers and Eisenhower. It was very interesting how close L&C were to complete disaster on many occasions, but ultimately only lost one man on the journey -- due to an apparent appendicitis. The description of the last couple years of Lewis' life were really interesting, and sad.

Next up "Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage" about an expedition to Antarctica that went bad.

[Justin Spencer]

I'll add Corps of Discovery to my list, love Lewis and Clark stuff.

[Old plug]

Garden books with a view towards what we will do next year around here. Also Hosta and Heuchera (coral bells) publications to see what new. I have at least one seminar to host next year about these two plants.

[Quillback]

I'll add Corps of Discovery to my list, love Lewis and Clark stuff.

Get the Bernard DeVoto edited edition of the journals.

[Quillback]

Just finished "Game Wars" - "The Undercover pursuit of wildlife poachers." By Marc Reisner. Published in 1991, might be a tad hard to find, but it's probably on Amazon. The book covers some of the cases of wildlife poaching taking place in the 80's. Ivory from walrus in Alaska, Louisiana ducks, crappie and deer. The descriptions of some of the poachers are hilarious, but some of those dudes were bad characters. What surprised me was how big the crappie poaching operations were at the time.

[ness]

I'll add Corps of Discovery to my list, love Lewis and Clark stuff.

Originally I said Corps of Discovery -- it's actually Undaunted Courage. I think the Ken Burns thing was Corps of Discovery.