Reading anything good?

Reading Insomnia, by Stephen King. I’m reading the dark tower series for the first time, and was told there are several books that would be beneficial to read in the middle. Insomnia is starting out very…slow lol. Started this series by stumbling upon The Stand and absolutely falling in love with it. I started this book series last fall.

 

Wife convinced me to give The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton a try.

 

Its pretty good! I read it a few years ago and I remember that I enjoyed it.

 

It's good so far but I'm not very far in.

 

Just finished “With the old breed” by E. B. Sledge. Downright incredible what our boys went through in the Pacific (and Europe of course) during WWII. He certainly didn’t glorify war which certain WWII books do, but he did glorify the comradeship amongst the soldiers. Which is the most important aspect in these and similar professions IMHO.

 

I'm into audio books.
Finished the trilogy of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmond Morris
River of Doubt about the Amazon expedition TR did.
American Lion by Jon Meacham about Andrew Jackson
Higher Call by Adam Makos. This guy does great job telling stories.
Spearhead by Adam Makos.

 

3rd time for me. Read it a while back, did audio book twice, once after watching the Pacific.

Also Ike's Bluff by Evan Thomas, details that Ike was a lot more than a golf player during his two terms.

 

I just finished The Devil’s Hand by Jack Carr and now reading Killing The Mob by Bill O’Reilly

 

Picked this up and read it, yep it’s a great story. Liked so much a bought the 2nd book Galactic Outlaw. Have never gotten into SciFi but I’m hooked now

 

1/4 way through Merchants Of Grain.

The world runs on crude oil and grains.

 

Listening to the latest this weekend. I’ve lost count of how many there are now. They are wrapping up season 2.

 

I'm working my way through some classics again.

Finished:

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

White Fang - Jack London

The Call of the Wild - Jack London


In progress:

Moby Dick - Herman Melville

 

In my spare time, I'm a self proclaimed biblical theologian. I recently went down a rabbit hole of studying Jewish history, specifically the intertestamental period. Today I picked up a copy of the Septuagint which is the Hebrew Bible translated into Greek which has then been translated into English by the NRSV. It contains a copy of the Apocrypha which is a collection of deuterocanonical books mainly written during the 2nd temple (200-100bc) period.

I also bought a copy of Dr. Micheal S Heiser's "The Unseen Realm" which examines the ancient context of Scripture, explaining how its supernatural worldview can help us grow in our understanding of God. He illuminates intriguing and amazing passages of the Bible that have been hiding in plain sight. This is a subject that I have been delving in. I have read many excerpts from the book, just never read the book in its entirety, until now.