What are you currently reading?

[Jacob]

It's been so long since I've read Tom Clancy at length.  The climax of The Sum of All Fears is really the only book I've ever read where I was indeed 'page turning' to find out how it would all end.

But I look back and I realize that I am all Tom Clancyed out.  I just don't think I could get back into that groove, especially now that I am older and more aware of his flaws as a writer.

[maryslittlegarden]

Patriot Games and The Hunt for Red October.

Simultaneously?

Yup.  I usually have more than one book going at a time.

[Archer]

Patriot Games and The Hunt for Red October.

Simultaneously?

Yup.  I usually have more than one book going at a time.

So do I, but doesn't Patriot Games occur chronologically before Red October?

[Bernadette]

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States. In the 30s the Work Projects Administration sent out interviewers to every state that had participated in slavery, and interviewed former slaves. They collected something like 2300 interviews and published 17 volumes (many in several parts), one for each state. I've just started reading Volume I, Alabama, and I was absolutely shocked by the number of people who expressed longing to go back to those days because they had plenty to eat and wear, and "didn't have to worry about anything."  I have never heard anything like this in school or from the History Channel, and here it is, coming from the people themselves!   

[maryslittlegarden]

Patriot Games and The Hunt for Red October.

Simultaneously?

Yup.  I usually have more than one book going at a time.

So do I, but doesn't Patriot Games occur chronologically before Red October?

Yes, but I've read Red October before... and I know what's coming . (And possibly I have a weirdly wired brain, but only possibly.)

[LausTibiChriste]

European Air Law and Flight Planning procedures.

If you only knew how riveting it is folks

[GeorgeT]

I have recently read Fatima Priest and a smallish book on the life of The Cure of Ars by TAN. Both really great.

[Baldrick]

For my devotional reading (at night before bed), I'm currently reading Montfort's Secret of the Rosary. 

[Archer]

Patriot Games and The Hunt for Red October.

Simultaneously?

Yup.  I usually have more than one book going at a time.

So do I, but doesn't Patriot Games occur chronologically before Red October?

Yes, but I've read Red October before... and I know what's coming . (And possibly I have a weirdly wired brain, but only possibly.)

Naw, whatever works for you. I just couldn't do it. I can read multiple books at once but not ones with the same characters. That'd get too confusing lol.

[Prayerful]

 Brent D. Shaw, Sacred Violence. It largely concerns the Donatist-Catholic conflict. This was a conflict not of doctrine, but of how clergy who surrendered vessels and scriptures to Roman officials were to be treated. Some were very unforgiving to the traditores or lapsi, and came to be identified as Donatists after Donatus Magnus, who became for one faction the Bishop of Carthage and Patriarch of African Catholics. They held that clergy or people who lapsed, had to be rebaptised. They were often called 'Rebapisters.' Augustine, Bishop of Hippo was the most famous of the majority faction, the one Rome (both Pope and Emperor) adjudged orthodox. One fascinating detail is that when Augustine asked local peasants who they were, they replied in they were Canaanites. They spoke almost only Punic. Even gentlemen with Roman tria nomina might have difficulty speaking Latin and were more comfortable speaking Punic.

[dymphna17]

European Air Law and Flight Planning procedures.

If you only knew how riveting it is folks

Careful you don't end up bald from pulling your hair out.  A little of that goes a loooong way.   

Are you studying to become a pilot?

[LausTibiChriste]

European Air Law and Flight Planning procedures.

If you only knew how riveting it is folks

Careful you don't end up bald from pulling your hair out.  A little of that goes a loooong way.   

Are you studying to become a pilot?

Well I shave my head, so I think my next option would be stabbing myself with a pen...and yes, I am

[Heinrich]

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States. In the 30s the Work Projects Administration sent out interviewers to every state that had participated in slavery, and interviewed former slaves. They collected something like 2300 interviews and published 17 volumes (many in several parts), one for each state. I've just started reading Volume I, Alabama, and I was absolutely shocked by the number of people who expressed longing to go back to those days because they had plenty to eat and wear, and "didn't have to worry about anything."  I have never heard anything like this in school or from the History Channel, and here it is, coming from the people themselves! 

You might find this interesting, too:

http://www.creators.com/opinion/walter-williams/virginia-s-black-confederates.html

[Michael Wilson]

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States. In the 30s the Work Projects Administration sent out interviewers to every state that had participated in slavery, and interviewed former slaves. They collected something like 2300 interviews and published 17 volumes (many in several parts), one for each state. I've just started reading Volume I, Alabama, and I was absolutely shocked by the number of people who expressed longing to go back to those days because they had plenty to eat and wear, and "didn't have to worry about anything."  I have never heard anything like this in school or from the History Channel, and here it is, coming from the people themselves! 

Bernadette.
the fact that blacks living in the South might have wanted to go back to slavery, was that after the Civil War, all the former Confederate states passed a series of laws known as "Black Codes"; which essentially reduced the freed blacks back into a position of slavery, but without the former slave owners interest in protecting his property.  Blacks were in many ways worse off after the Civil War and the abolishing of Reconstruction than before the War.

[Cesar_Augustus]

For my devotional reading (at night before bed), I'm currently reading Montfort's Secret of the Rosary.

Great book!