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[Bada0Bing]

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I recently got this audio book from the library. 38 discs!

It ought to take me several long runs to listen to this bad boy.

 

[Jersey Girl]

I just finished "Mrs. Kennedy and Me" by Clint Hill and "The Kennedy Detail" by Gerald Blaine. Both Secret Service agents. I was especially affected by Hill's book. (He's the agent seen on the Zapruder film climbing up on the back of the Kennedy's car.) He describes, with great affection, the not-quite three years he spent as Mrs. Kennedy's agent and their relationship as well as his relationship with the President and their children. Happy days... and then the assassination. It was a heartbreaking read.

Thanks, Dems. I think I will check the Hill book out.

 

[Jersey Girl]

Well, Dems, the Clint Hill book was checked out. I have it on request. Should be in this week.

I went with "In An Instant" by Lee and Bob Woodruff. Started it last night. I like it so far. I was very intrigued with his story since it happened, so I was happy to stumble across this book.

 

[DemsMyBoys]

Well, Dems, the Clint Hill book was checked out. I have it on request. Should be in this week.

I went with "In An Instant" by Lee and Bob Woodruff.

Another good one. (I read a lot of non-fiction and biographies.)

 

[Jersey Girl]

Another good one. (I read a lot of non-fiction and biographies.)

You're my kinda person then.

 

[DemsMyBoys]

You're my kinda person then.

I thought of one for you if you like history. And to go with the Clint Hill book. "The Death of a President" by William Manchester. The 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination is coming up so I just re-read it. It came out a few years after the event and Jackie Kennedy gave interviews to the author. (There was also a fight later between the two over details she thought were too intimate to include.)

There are Youtube videos of old news broadcasts of JFK's death and the funeral. I found myself looking them up while reading different parts of the book.

Something more fun: "Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have" by Bruce Dern. (I'm a HUGE fan of his.) The guy is a hoot.

 

[TheHopToad]

How is/was it? I want to know.

I actually enjoyed this book. It was a smooth read and she provided very reasonable explanations to her behavior and great details about what she was going through. I was on the fence about her involvement in the death of Meredith Kurcher, but after reading the book and watching several news specials and interviews about/with her on YouTube, I am convinced Amanda Knox had nothing to do with this murder. She is a very articulate and well spoken girl. Unfortunately, her case is being re-tried again in Italy for the third time--something that would never happen here due to double jeopardy laws.

 

[TheHopToad]

I thought of one for you if you like history. And to go with the Clint Hill book. "The Death of a President" by William Manchester. The 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination is coming up so I just re-read it. It came out a few years after the event and Jackie Kennedy gave interviews to the author. (There was also a fight later between the two over details she thought were too intimate to include.)

There are Youtube videos of old news broadcasts of JFK's death and the funeral. I found myself looking them up while reading different parts of the book.

I almost forgot about this being the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination. This topic is one of my life obsessions, seems like I can't get enough of the subject. I too have watched probably every YouTube video of the coverage from that week. I have several books downloaded to my Kindle about the subject, including the Clint Hill book, so I guess I better get moving on them.

Anybody read Stephen King's "11/22/63"? Although it is fiction, it still looks intriguing and has good reviews on Amazon and Goodreads.

 

[DemsMyBoys]

I almost forgot about this being the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination. This topic is one of my life obsessions, seems like I can't get enough of the subject. I too have watched probably every YouTube video of the coverage from that week. I have several books downloaded to my Kindle about the subject, including the Clint Hill book, so I guess I better get moving on them.

There are a number of us on ASFN who are old enough (groan) to remember that day. I might just start a thread on the anniversary so people can share their memories.

 

[Jersey Girl]

Another good one. (I read a lot of non-fiction and biographies.)

Finished "In An Instant." Liked it. Thought the different perspectives from Bob and Lee were well done. Thought it was a good story.

Started "Sleeping Naked is Green," which is about a journalist who made a change everyday for a year in order to be more eco-responsible. We will see how that goes.

 

[seesred]

I really enjoy David Baldacci books. I;m now just finishing The Hit Man. Great action well thought out plot, Enjoyed.

The breath of God was excellent.

The story tellers by Jodi Picoult. Great read.

Just a few that I've read lately.

 

[D-Dogg]

Almost done with Devil in the White City. Good read, just going slowly through it.

 

[Avondale Red Rage]

Almost done with Devil in the White City. Good read, just going slowly through it.

Good read. Just finished Team of Rivals - just as emotional about Lincoln after the movie as well.

 

[Mulli]

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Not his best, but the parts in the trenches are excellent.

 

[D-Dogg]

Treasure Island (first time since I was 11) and Secret Garden (never before). My 7th and 5th grader are reading these in class, respectively, so I'm going to read their curriculum. I have a couple of years yet before i have to crack open the Dostoevsky.

 

[Jersey Girl]

Treasure Island (first time since I was 11) and Secret Garden (never before). My 7th and 5th grader are reading these in class, respectively, so I'm going to read their curriculum. I have a couple of years yet before i have to crack open the Dostoevsky.

Nice post.

Gives me an idea for a new one.

 

[D-Dogg]

Also, Across Five Aprils (a book I was supposed to read when my daughter did last year, that I'm getting bashed on for not finishing).

 

[D-Dogg]

Now that I am reading (or re-reading) my kids' assigned books, I'm screwed. Here is just some of my fare for the next six years (full reads only, not excerpts, or what have you..and there is a lot more, this is just the descriptive of the lit-comp classes from 5th-12th):

Alice in Wonderland
Little House on the Prairie
Robin Hood
The Golden Fleece
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
A Door in the Wall
The Horse and His Boy
The Secret Garden
Little Women
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Wrinkle in Time
Wind in the Willows
Shane
A Christmas Carol
Across Five Aprils
Prince Caspian
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Treasure Island
The Miracle Worker
The Lord of the Flies
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
The Canterbury Tales
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Beowulf
Song of Roland
Twelfth Night
The Merchant of Venice

(freshman year on, here's where it gets crazy and is authors, not books, and I'll probably be an uberdick on these forums

Freshman; American history with representative American literature including selections from Hamilton, Madison, Thoreau, Emerson, de Toqueville, Douglass, Twain, Melville, Crane, Cather, Sinclair, Wilder, and Hemingway.

Sophomore: English and European literature, philosophy, and history in tracing the development of political institutions from the late Middle Ages through World War II. Authors studied include Shakespeare, More, Locke, Austen, Dickens, Rousseau, Marx, Dostoevsky, and Solzhenitsyn.

Junior: Literature, philosophy, and history of Ancient Greece with readings from Homer, Sophocles, Epictetus, Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle. The students also study Hamlet.

Senior: A capstone course in which students draw upon the work of the previous two seminars in examining developments in European literature and philosophy in the transition from Rome, through the Middle Ages and into the Modern Era. Authors read include Virgil, Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Descartes, Hegel, Marx, and Dostoyevsky.

Not to mention my daughter will probably take French so from Frosh to Sr year, I'll have to hear about some book in the native tongue and blah blah bladedy blah.

Edit: I went to find the curriculum. Yeah, I'm gonna be a bigger dick than usual. Bear with me, peeps. Reading list for the next 6 years.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Confessions of St. Augustine
The Great Gatsby
The Miracle Worker
Reason in History
The Aeneid
The Constitution of the United States
Heart of Darkness
My Antonia
Red Badge of Courage
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Crime and Punishment
Henry V
The Nicomachean Ethics
The Republic
Anti-Federalist Papers
Crito
The Histories
No Exit Rip
Van Winkle
Antigone
The Crucible
History of the Peloponnesian War
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
A Rose for Emily
Apology
The Declaration of Independence
The Hobbit
Odyssey
Second Treatise of Government
As I Lay Dying
Democracy in America
Iliad
Oedipus the King
Selected Writings of Marx
Autobiography of an American Slave
Discourse on Method
Julius Caesar
The Old Man and the Sea Shane
Bacchae
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
The Jungle
On Civil Disobedience
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Beowulf
The Divine Comedy
King Lear
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Song of Roland
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Don Quixote
The Last Battle
The Oresteia Summa Theologica
The Bible (selections)
Enchiridion
Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Othello
A Tale of Two Cities
Billy Budd
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address
Our Town
Tales of the Greek Heroes
The Brothers Karamazov
Essays of Montaigne
Lord of the Flies
Paradise Lost
The Tempest
Brown vs. Board of Education
Euthyphro
Macbeth
Phaedrus To Build a Fire
The Call of the Wild
Federalist #10
Marbury vs. Madison
Plessy vs. Ferguson
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Canterbury Tales
Federalist #15 Medea
Poetics of Aristotle Utopia
The Chosen Federalist #39
Meditations on First Philosophy
Politics of Aristotle Walden
A Christmas Carol
Frankenstein
Meno
Pride and Prejudice
The Wind in the Willows
The Clouds Gorgias
Merchant of Venice
The Prince
Young Goodman Brown
The Communist Manifesto
The Grapes of Wrath
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Protagoras

 

[Bada0Bing]

Edit: I went to find the curriculum. Yeah, I'm gonna be a bigger dick than usual. Bear with me, peeps. Reading list for the next 6 years.

Awesomeness. That's a lot of books. I read some of my kids' books too. I read The Giver recently.

I'm showing this list to my son because he's always bitching about having to read too much.

I re-read Lord of the Flies a while back too, then we watched the films.

 

[Mulli]

Read Ivanhoe for a solid Robin Hood story.

 

[Kel Varnsen]

The Canterbury Tales

Nothing says father/daughter bonding like The Miller's Tale.

 

[D-Dogg]

Nothing says father/daughter bonding like The Miller's Tale.

LOL..seriously.

My sister-in-law had the grave misfortune of watching American Beauty in the theater with her (kinda skeevy) dad. Said that was a horrific experience. That is the pinnacle.

 

[MadCardDisease]

Just finished reading "The Birr Elixir" by our very own Jo Sparkes!

read it in about a day and a half. Love the characters that she created. Nicely done Jo!

http://birrelixir.com/

 

[Brighteyes]

Just finished reading "The Birr Elixir" by our very own Jo Sparkes!

read it in about a day and a half. Love the characters that she created. Nicely done Jo!

http://birrelixir.com/

Did he tell you about the map he drew?

http://birrelixir.com/enter-the-realm/map-of-the-realm/

 

[earthsci]

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