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Offline Conquistador

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Current virtual reading
« on: February 28, 2017, 03:22:32 PM »
Nook - Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell
Audiobooks - Andersen's Fairy Tales by (reader?)
iBooks - The Hobbit (unabridged) by (reader?)
Kindle - War if he Spanish Succession by James Falkner

This does not include hardback or paperback books I am also reading of course.

What specifically virtual books are you currently reading?

Edit:  finished Sowell and found my bookmark in Eddie Rickenbacker's book on my nook so continuing WW1 air war reading.
« Last Edit: March 01, 2017, 07:19:01 PM by Conquistador »
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Offline Skyven

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Re: Current virtual reading
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2017, 03:56:40 PM »
The following with audio
The Second World War by Anthony Beevor
SPQR by Mary Beard
The Norman Conquest by Marc Morris

and these just as digital books
Picts, Gaels and Scots by Sally Foster
Under the Hammer: Edward I and Scotland, 1286-1307 by Fiona Watson
Culloden: The History and Archaeology of the Last Clan Battle by Tony Pollard

Offline Onebigriver

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Re: Current virtual reading
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2017, 11:50:26 PM »
On my Kobo - Anthony Riches' Empire II - Arrows of Fury - good historical hokum

On my computer I'm listening to The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes edited by John Joseph Adams.

Waiter, my soup is giggling.

Offline Momotaro

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Re: Current virtual reading
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2017, 10:01:11 PM »
I've just re-read Dark Matter by Michelle Paver.  It's a ghost story, the tale of a British scientific expedition to Svalbard and runs from the camp setup during the Arctic summer to the final denouement in the depths of Arctic winter.

It was the first book I ever read on Kindle, but it's also a brilliant psychological/ghost novella, and well worth a couple of evenings of anyone's time.

Also picked up a pile of classic WWII memoirs cheap, including Eugene Sledge's With the Old Breed, George MacDonald Fraser's Quartered Safe Out Here and Charles Macdonald's Company Commander.

Offline MartinR

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Re: Current virtual reading
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2017, 07:01:37 AM »
On my Kindle, Mary Beards SPQR, which has turned out to be a rather more exhaustive history of Rome than I was expecting!
"Mistakes in the initial deployment cannot be rectified" Helmuth von Moltke

 

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