What is everyone reading at the moment?

I picked this up after hearing the author interviewed by Jordan Peterson. Brian ShadowsDad  you might be interested in this one.  It’s not about living longer but living better longer. 

Bruce Chatwin was a great writer. Story of a man who becomes a prisoner of his porcelain collection.

Read it years ago and picked it up again this summer. It always reminds me to try and keep my soap collection under control. 

Striking the Balance - #4 in Harry Turtlediove's Worldwar series.



See https://damnfineshave.com/thread-what-is...#pid479116 for description.

Oh yeah. I cheated by reading the first chapter of Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, by C. S. Forester. It's the first in a series of 11, following Horatio's career in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Ripping yarns.
That'll be next.



You can find a digital copy of it here - https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20170206
The other ten in the series here - https://www.fadedpage.com/csearch.php?au...0Troughton

Oh yeah. I cheated by reading the first chapter of Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, by C. S. Forester. It's the first in a series of 11, following Horatio's career in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Ripping yarns.
That'll be next.



You can find a digital copy of it here - https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20170206
The other ten in the series here - https://www.fadedpage.com/csearch.php?au...0Troughton

Great series.

I picked this up after hearing the author interviewed by Jordan Peterson. Brian ShadowsDad  you might be interested in this one.  It’s not about living longer but living better longer. 

I watched an interview of Peter Attia on StarTalk. It was pretty interesting.

Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa41LPpap6k

These past few weeks I've somehow gone into winter hibernation mode, and started binge reading again, with my Kobo e-reader.
One of the enabling  . . . things . . . is having finally gone down to my brick & mortar public library to get a card and borrower's ID number.
With this I could finally set up my Kobo e-reader to download epub books from the public library system via the "OverDrive" feature, for up to 21 days.
OverDrive let's you read preview sample chapters, and to place a hold for books for which all copies are currently out on loan, then you get a notification when a copy is available. You can borrow audiobook versions too, for most of the titles, but I prefer the text versions.

Being able to borrow relatively current works for free, instead of sticking to public domain or pirated works is rather nice for a change.
I think I've only ever paid for one e-book so far (from Kobo) and now I find that title is available via OverDrive too.
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"Three Miles Down" by Harry Turtledove.
Lot's of pop culture and Sci-Fi references from the '70s. I think I got nearly all of them. E.g the alias for one of the characters was "Dahlgren", which was the title of a 1975 novel by Samuel R. Delaney (which I have), as well as a Swedish surname.
The plot is based on the events of the recovery of a Soviet ballistic missile submarine by the Glomar Explorer, (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian ) but that's just the 2nd cover story.



"Julia" by Sandra Newman. It's George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four", but from the POV of Julia, Winston Smith's love interest.


"The Wives of Los Alamos" by TaraShea Nesbit. It reads more like a documentary, with little tiny snippets of anecdotes about the experiences of the wives and families of the scientists and engineers in the Manhattan Project, based on true events. They had no clue (until the Trinity Test) as to what the husbands were even working on, due to the secrecy imposed on them.
Very few of the stories are more than a paragraph long. 



"The Codebreaker's Secret / A WWII Novel" by Sara Ackerman. A woman is posted to Hawai'i to be a part of the cryptanalysis team decoding messages intercepted from the Japanese Imperial Navy.
About a quarter of the way through I realized that I was tricked into reading something very similar to a standard romance novel. Euwww! I got over it, because I found the story engaging anyway. It's a similar setting to that of "The Bletchley Circle" mini-series.



"Elevation" by Stephen King. Dude is losing weight but not getting thinner. 
A novella, so it didn't take long to read.



"Later" by Stephen King. 
Kid can see and talk to recently dead people.



"Holly" by Stephen King. Holly is a character in the "Mr. Mercedes" mystery/thriller series, and in this spin-off she has a "missing person" case, in the middle of the Covid-19 lockdown.
Right now I'm only at page 97 of 985.



Those are just since December 4th.

Every year, A Christmas Carol and this collection by Connie Willis.

Listened to this on Audible, my first audiobook. Interesting way to "read".