What are you reading right now (II)?

[B1GTide]

I decided to read another Jack Reacher novel. Very simple minded books, but just the right kind of book for a busy mind.

 

[B1GTide]

I haven't visited this thread in a while.

It's a good time for reading. ..is there a bad time?


"250 WPM (words per minute)" is said to be the average readers speed, "achieved by the 6th grade"

"For success in college you should be able to read 350 to 450 words per minute"

I consider myself to be a slow reader, pausing to think about a passage and sometimes rereading a sentence or paragraph.

I read for two reasons - to absorb content and for recreation. I read much faster when I just need to absorb the content (when reading for work or technical manuals/books). When reading for fun, I want to see the world built around me in my mind's eye, so I read much more slowly.

 

[Bodhisattva]

Journey of the Pharaohs by Clive Cussler

Book 17 of The NUMA Files

 

[Padreruf]

Death at Nuremberg.

 

[Bodhisattva]

Siege of Stone by Terry Goodkind

 

[Bodhisattva]

The Jungle by Clive Cussler

Book 8 of The Oregon Files

 

[Bodhisattva]

Heart of Black Ice by Terry Goodkind

 

[FitToBeTide]

A couple I'm working on. An Inconvenient Death by Dan Walsh; The Depths of Courage, American Submariners at War with Japan, 1941-1945, by Flint Whitlock and Ron Smith; The Fleet at Flood TIde, America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-45, by James D. Hornfischer. In the bullpen warming up: Walk the Wire (a Memory Man book), David Baldacci's latest.

 

[Padreruf]

Just finished "A Gentleman in Moscow" -- wonderful read...great prose, plot and well-told narrative.

 

[Bodhisattva]

The Fall of Gondolin by J.R.R.Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien

 

[The Ols]

Blindside by James Patterson...

 

[rolltide_21]

The Camel Club by David Baldacci

 

[FitToBeTide]

The Camel Club by David Baldacci

Hope you enjoy Baldacci as much as I do. Camel club is excellent.

 

[Bodhisattva]

Mirage by Clive Cussler

Book 9 of The Oregon Files

 

[81usaf92]

Gettysburg 1st day and Into the Maelstrom

 

[rolltide_21]

Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

 

[FitToBeTide]

A couple I'm working on. An Inconvenient Death by Dan Walsh; The Depths of Courage, American Submariners at War with Japan, 1941-1945, by Flint Whitlock and Ron Smith; The Fleet at Flood TIde, America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-45, by James D. Hornfischer. In the bullpen warming up: Walk the Wire (a Memory Man book), David Baldacci's latest.

Finished Walk the Wire. Excellent reading, as always with DB. Small spoiler: the author brings in a couple of characters from another of his series to help the Memory Man out.

 

[Bodhisattva]

Salt River by Randy Wayne White

 

[Bodhisattva]

Piranha by Clive Cussler

Book 10 of The Oregon Files

 

[Go Bama]

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Now seems like the right time in history to read this book.