Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

Dear Fellow Hoggers, Last year was tough on us all. For me, I got tired of hearing and reading the same every day. I have decided to stop reading or listening to news on the television or in my car radio. Instead, I occupied myself with books to read. Here is a list of the books I have read that I have found interesting. I don’t want “atta-boys” I just wanted to keep from losing my mind.


1. How To Survive A Plaque: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France

2. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by
Rebecca Skloot

3. Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America by Jared Cohen

4. Resolute: The Epic Search For The Northwest Passage by Martin Sandler

5. The Invisible People: How The US has Slept Through The Global AIDS Pandemic, The Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe Og Our Time by Greg Behrman

7. When The Center Held by Donald Rumsfeld

8. Destiny Of The Republic: A Tale Of Madness, Medicine And The Murder Of A President by Candice Millard

9. Inventing Modern America: From The Microwave to The Mouse by David E. Brown

10. The Works: Anatomy Of A City by Kate Ascher

11. The Man He Became by James Tobias

12. Founding Martyr: The Life and Death Of Dr. Joseph Warren, The American Revolution’s Lost Hero by Christian De Spigna


I would like my friends to keep from losing their mind and suffer from “Cabin Fever.”
All these books are factual and very quick reads. Have Fun!
Let’s Have a Happy New Year!

captivecookie Loc: Washington state

A book I read only part of, and am stunned by:

Black Rednecks and White Liberals, by Thomas Sowell.

Also:

The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

bittermelon

I am going back to some of the great classics which I have not read before. Just finished Moby Dick. Now reading Crazy Horse and Custer. I also tried In Cold Blood, but could not get past the first 3rd. I also read Eat Joy, which is a community read from our library.

Sinewsworn Loc: Port Orchard, WA

The Future of Technological Civilization by Victor Ferkus- out of print but very influential in the 1960s-pr4edicted most of what we experienced.

No Bugle,No Drums by Charles Durden- a different and very accurate (from my experience) description of activities by soldiers in-theater during the Vietnam War.

kk794d Loc: Los Angeles

I thought I was the only one giving up tv and radio my books just read are The last panther also tiger track both by Wolfgang Faust also the reprint of former FBI director J Edgar Hoover’s Master of deceit (8.00 from Amazon) I feel retirement is good

dancers Loc: melbourne.victoria, australia

I read the Gulag. years back...wow

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

I just got tired of hearing or reading the same news over and again. Nothing new, and all of it depressing! I started to read a fictional novel and it bored me to tears. I switched to non-fictional and I found it more compelling. I no longer have cabin fever. But I’m getting tired of drinking single malt and smoking out in my backyard. I prefer a nice warm cigar bar in New York City.

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

I don’t think I’ll be reading or watching the news anytime soon. I’m tired of waiting on line, and wearing a mask everywhere I go. I want a mask that says “I’m not paying attention to you,” or “If you can read this, back the F&@$%k up!”

JustJill Loc: Iowa

The Epic Search Of The Northwest Passage sounds good.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

All of Dr Sowell's stuff is worth reading.

captivecookie Loc: Washington state

It was never mentioned in any of my schools. I had to wait until I was 56 to discover it.

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

It is a delightful read. I hope you enjoy it.

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

I have never heard of him. I am putting it in my list. Thank you.

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

I have never read this book and it looks like a good read. I shall put it on my list. Thank you.

Canonuser Loc: UK and South Africa

What a great reading list. Accompany that with some nice background music and you’ve got it made.
I do have to say though that in the UK, Mr Trumps behaviour yesterday significantly altered our news headlines for a while.