What are you reading?

Reading through again at a slower pace and taking notes on projects to try out: Amazon.com: The Self-sufficient Life and How to Live It (9780789493323): John Seymour: Books

 

I'm reading seed catalogs and planning next year's garden

 

Just finished Sue Grafton's "V is for Vengeance" and "Until Tuesday" which is about a wounded veteran and his service dog. Before that was "Moonshiner's Manual" which was quite um... educational.

Up next is "11-22-63" by Stephen King.

 

The Union Creek Journal

 

Im reading World War Z it's a zombie appocalse but before you jump to conclusions it has a very real story line about this virus and goverment cover up. It was first called African rabie's the US goverment had hid the infections and the spread of the infection secret. Countries were hit unprepared. Honestly would also be a good plot for swine flue or any other viral disaster.

 

This what I'm currently reading thru again at random

Jerry D. Young: More Prep & PAW stories

But I've got two new Clive Cussler books & am reading a chapter a day in my book "The Ultimate Guide To U.S. Army SURVIVAL Skills, Tactics, And Techniques" that I picked up at Ollies other week.

 

Finished this a few weeks ago and am currently rereading it. I kind of liked it but there are some stretches that made it a tiny bit hard to push that suspend disbelief button. If anyone's interested, I'll happily mail it out. Just PM me.

 

Travainian , Shibumi

 

Ill tell you something I like about it and I haven't finished it yet, to me it keeps pushing the idea of not being prepared. As reading I could almost see it more in the lines of a pandimic, the sheeple and the loss of human life due to goverment cover up and
the lack of civilans being unprepared or so far thats kind of the mind set Im getting.

 

A while back I finished "Under the Dome", by Stephen King. It's about this small town that gets isolated by some alien technology that basically encases the entire town, including it's airspace and ground beneath, in a huge, clear dome. They can't blow it up, can't break it, can't go under it. Electricity and supplies are all cut off. The interesting part about the book is following the power plays that ensue because there is no one around to intervene. The mayor, who is totally corrupt, guts the local PD of anyone who isn't his lap dog, and replaces them with the town thugs who will do whatever he says. Confiscations of propane, food, and firearms quickly follow, along with vilification of anyone who doesn't toe the line. The sheep just bleat along and hope for handouts.

Alien terrariums aside, I think it's a pretty good description of what could happen if things go haywire and normal checks and balances are removed.

 

DW You have just described

 

BULFINCH'S MYTHOLOGY

THE AGE OF FABLE OR STORIES OF GODS AND HEROES

by Thomas Bulfinch


It's on line and for free -
Bulfinch - Index


North American Indian Mythology (Burland and Woods)

Just in time for the slow holiday season.

 

Thanks for posting this, gomer. I'm glad you enjoy the Journal enough to refer it to your friends.

I'm the author of The Union Creek Journal and I'd like to invite each of you to stop by and give it a read. No cost or obligation. If you like, you can subscribe to be notified by e-mail each time I post a new chapter. (A new chapter is coming later today, by the way.)

The Journal is a fictional diary written by David Johnson. Johnson and his family are struggling to survive on a small farm in the Midwest after a global economic collapse. They thought they were well prepared but, as it turns out, there are some things for which you simply cannot prepare.

Thanks again, gomer.

 

It is interesting PAW fiction

It is interesting PAW fiction along the lines of James Rawles et al. It is worth reading for the ideas that are incorporated into the narative. YMMV

 

Thanks.

I'm trying to avoid making it too "Rawles-ian" but you're right, there are a number of similarities.

 

Just finished world war z.

 

If you want to while away the hours this winter by the fire engrossed, check out Terry C. Johnston's "Titus Bass" series, about a kid on a family farm in Ohio in the 1830s who runs away from home, hops a river boat, and ends up a beaver trapper in the Rockies. About a nine or so book series, each one of which is a classic. First book in the series is "Dance On The Wind," all available, used paperback, from Amazon.

Johnston wrote prolifically about the early West and Indian matters, very knowledgeable, interesting documentation of his subjects... sadly, he died at age 54 - we lost a good author.

 

You need to write faster..I'm caught up and waiting for the next chapter.Spend a little less time eating and sleeping and other unimportant stuff like that,you'll have more time to write.Dang good story..