What are you currently reading?

[Clare]

The Four Loves, C S Lewis

[red solo cup]

The Scotch-Irish: A Social History by James Leyburn.

[Bernadette]

Getting ready to start Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. I know absolutely nothing about it, other than what I just saw on the movie trailer via Youtube.

Edit: Can't do it. So boring and contrived. 

[Machaut1377]

The Scotch-Irish: A Social History by James Leyburn.

How is it, what do you think of it?

Is it more on the academic scholarly side or is it more of a popular history?

[Machaut1377]

The civil war in the west: victory and defeat from the appalachians to the mississippi

[red solo cup]

The Scotch-Irish: A Social History by James Leyburn.

How is it, what do you think of it?

Is it more on the academic scholarly side or is it more of a popular history?

Popular. Easy to read. Pretty thorough from Scotland to Ulster to America with an emphasis on the Mid-Atlantic states. Strictly Lowland Scots,
quite different from Highland culture.

[Machaut1377]

The Scotch-Irish: A Social History by James Leyburn.

How is it, what do you think of it?

Is it more on the academic scholarly side or is it more of a popular history?

Popular. Easy to read. Pretty thorough from Scotland to Ulster to America with an emphasis on the Mid-Atlantic states. Strictly Lowland Scots,
quite different from Highland culture.

Thanks.

[Carleendiane]

LAST STAND OF FOX COMPANY...not currently, but a favorite! One of my favorites. Highly recommend it!

[maryslittlegarden]

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

[Prayerful]

Work of Human Hands, Rev. Anthony Cekada.

[Fleur-de-Lys]

I've just ordered Jean Raspail's Le camp des saints. I'm reading it in the original French, but there is an English version available, The Camp of the Saints. It looks like a fascinating and strangely prophetic book. From a review on Amazon:

This book is so politically incorrect that I admire Amazon.com for actually carrying it. Written in the early 1970s, this book looks beyond the cold war to a North-South confrontation in which European civilization is unilaterally morally disarmed. The thesis is simple: suppose a million starving people from the Ganges actually took Western rhetoric of compassion, explotiation, etc., to heart, and comandeered, en masse, shipping, with the intention of moving to the shores of France? (Raspail, of course, is French.) Would anyone stop them? The imagery employed is interesting. The title comes from Revelation, Chapter 20, and refers to the forces of evil laying seige to the camp of the saints, here meant to be the nations of the West. "The thousand years are over..." is chanted from Third World lips, harking to the millenial reign of Christ, as well as to the millenial domination of Europe over the globe. Raspail has the Vatican, World Council of Churches, and other organs of what he saw as Western liberal compassion try to feed the Armada, as it sails around the Cape. The bodies of their would-be benefactors are cast into the sea. The characters who oppose, with violence, the Armada are named with names like Constantine Drasages and Luke Notaras, namesakes of the last Byzantine Emperor and Admiral. They are portrayed as villans in the media; one of the more thoughtful leftists, fashionably in support of opening up France's shores, but cynical enough to see the potential results, reflects on the parallels between Byzantium's fate and that of the West. The author's point is that any who dare to say that 'white' civilization has a right to exist are branded racists and cast out of the pale of polite society. The narrative is set up as a flashback. The Armada is about to disgorge its human cargo in Provence as we begin. An old man, M. Calgues, awaits them, Mozart playing in the background, after setting what he expects to be his last supper among the living. From there, we go back to the beginning, in India, as a Western cleric preaches quasi-liberation theology to the masses. Along the way, as the news spreads over the world, we digress, looking at Manhattenites holing up in skyscrapers as the spectre of race riots beckon, and at Russian troops on the Manchurian border contemplating the human waves gathering to wash over them. The central question of the book is this: will the West (including Russia - more properly, the North), when (not if) confronted with de facto occupation of national territories by Third World people, coming to live, but not to assimilate, use violence to save itself? Is there left in Euro-American civilization a will to live that is strong enough to pull a trigger? The stark question is answered in one of two possible ways by the concluding chapter. This astringent book, whether you agree with Raspail's views or not, demands thoughtful attention to the questions posed. How will we deal with population/immagration issues? Is our culture and way of life worth fighting for? -Lloyd A. Conway

[red solo cup]

I've just ordered Jean Raspail's Le camp des saints. I'm reading it in the original French, but there is an English version available, The Camp of the Saints. It looks like a fascinating and strangely prophetic book. From a review on Amazon:

This book is so politically incorrect that I admire Amazon.com for actually carrying it. Written in the early 1970s, this book looks beyond the cold war to a North-South confrontation in which European civilization is unilaterally morally disarmed. The thesis is simple: suppose a million starving people from the Ganges actually took Western rhetoric of compassion, explotiation, etc., to heart, and comandeered, en masse, shipping, with the intention of moving to the shores of France? (Raspail, of course, is French.) Would anyone stop them? The imagery employed is interesting. The title comes from Revelation, Chapter 20, and refers to the forces of evil laying seige to the camp of the saints, here meant to be the nations of the West. "The thousand years are over..." is chanted from Third World lips, harking to the millenial reign of Christ, as well as to the millenial domination of Europe over the globe. Raspail has the Vatican, World Council of Churches, and other organs of what he saw as Western liberal compassion try to feed the Armada, as it sails around the Cape. The bodies of their would-be benefactors are cast into the sea. The characters who oppose, with violence, the Armada are named with names like Constantine Drasages and Luke Notaras, namesakes of the last Byzantine Emperor and Admiral. They are portrayed as villans in the media; one of the more thoughtful leftists, fashionably in support of opening up France's shores, but cynical enough to see the potential results, reflects on the parallels between Byzantium's fate and that of the West. The author's point is that any who dare to say that 'white' civilization has a right to exist are branded racists and cast out of the pale of polite society. The narrative is set up as a flashback. The Armada is about to disgorge its human cargo in Provence as we begin. An old man, M. Calgues, awaits them, Mozart playing in the background, after setting what he expects to be his last supper among the living. From there, we go back to the beginning, in India, as a Western cleric preaches quasi-liberation theology to the masses. Along the way, as the news spreads over the world, we digress, looking at Manhattenites holing up in skyscrapers as the spectre of race riots beckon, and at Russian troops on the Manchurian border contemplating the human waves gathering to wash over them. The central question of the book is this: will the West (including Russia - more properly, the North), when (not if) confronted with de facto occupation of national territories by Third World people, coming to live, but not to assimilate, use violence to save itself? Is there left in Euro-American civilization a will to live that is strong enough to pull a trigger? The stark question is answered in one of two possible ways by the concluding chapter. This astringent book, whether you agree with Raspail's views or not, demands thoughtful attention to the questions posed. How will we deal with population/immagration issues? Is our culture and way of life worth fighting for? -Lloyd A. Conway

In the days before Amazon the only way to get a coy of this was from the reading list of National Alliance, a group also founded by Bill Pierce.
At the time it was believed that purchasing it and other titles like Turner Diaries would get you put on a government list. They were quietly
handed around among people you trusted. Things sure have changed.
And those Russian troops on the Manchurian border? They were the only ones with the guts to do what needed to be done.

[Clare]

Journey to the Baobab Tree, by Krys Latham

A true story of courage, endurance and love. 'Hauntingly beautiful and compelling'. This is the true story of two children's epic journey from Eastern Poland to Siberia, their escape to Persia and finally to Africa during World War Two. Alinka's family lived in a small river town in Eastern Poland where her father was chief of police. Witek's father was a forest keeper in the remote forest regions bordering Russia. When the war began in September 1939, the Soviets, allied for the first two years of the war with the Nazis, invaded Eastern Poland and brutally deported over one and a half million Polish people in cattle trucks to the far ends of the Soviet Union. Alinka and Witek, both ten years old at the time, were among those taken. A million died in the deportations. Against all odds, Witek and Alinka, in different parts of the Soviet Union, survived and escaped. They meet for the first time in Africa under a Baobab Tree....

[Bernadette]

The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 1 Fort Sumpter to Perryville, by Shelby Foote. Accessible and interesting.

[Jacob]

Yesterday I read Wild by Cheryl Strayed.  It is a first person account of Cheryl's trip up the Pacific Crest Trail through California and Oregon interspersed with stories from Cheryl's life up to that point.

An interesting book. Always fun to read about liberals seeking meaning in their lives by flailing about and eventually finding something that Christians have known for 2,000 years (the pilgrimage, finding one's own Calvary, self-flagellation, etc.).