What are you reading?

Just finished reading the first two books in the Lone Star Series by Bobby Akart. Very interesting and timely having to do with Iran and North Koran dropping EMP nukes from satellites on the US East and West Coast and America's response. As the series title suggest it is a lot about Texas and it's electrical grid surviving and then the State succeeding and sealing it's borders rather than be overrun by the golden hoard from the rest of the country.


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079WG166M/?tag=survivalmonke-20

 

The Gulag Archipeligo.

 

I just finished reading a book written by Scott Todd. The book is called Mega Cataclysmic: The Last Survivors Chronicles
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00Q1SWEXG/?tag=survivalmonke-20
Scott is a member of another site and is very knowledgeable about planet earth, earthquakes etc. He focused the book on mega doom plus the survival after. I have read his posts regarding earthquakes for years. I had trouble putting it down because he has always has a great way of educating the reader while telling a story. I really hope he will do a book two.

 

Very entertaining read, but there's a catch...

 

The zombie Fallout Series by mark Tufo, im a zombie nut and watching whatever is on prime

 

Bobby Akart: The Loyal Nine

 

Born Fighting by Jim Web



https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FCKGTS/?tag=survivalmonke-20

 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1524731633/?tag=survivalmonke-20


An autopsy of the American dream

Over the past 50 years, lots of things have changed in the United States. Here are a few examples.

1) A child’s chance of earning more than his or her parents has plummeted from 90 to 50 percent.

2) Earnings by the top 1 percent of Americans nearly tripled, while middle-class wages have been basically frozen for four decades, adjusting for inflation.

3.) Self-inflicted deaths — from opioid use and other drug addictions — are at record highs.

4) Nearly one in five children in the US are now at risk of going hungry.

5) Among the 35 richest countries in the world, the US now has the highest infant mortality rate and the lowest life expectancy.

These facts, and many others, are cataloged in a new book by Steven Brill about America’s gradual decline over the last half-century. Brill has been writing about class warfare in the US since 2011, and the picture he paints is as depressing as it is persuasive.

The book argues the people with the most advantages in the American economy have used that privilege to catapult themselves ahead of everyone else, and then rigged the system — to cement their position at the top, and leave the less fortunate behind.

 

22? If you read it, and understand it, you obviously didn't 'get it'. so you have to read it again until you understand it.

 

The Bible. I reread it every decade or so.

Changes in my perspective make it almost a whole new set of lessons each time.

 

I have been reading young adult dystopian books. Just finished Empty by Suzanne Weyn. It was a quick read but good. Story is about a small town when the nation starts to run out of gas. Gas at $30 dollars a gallon is hard to imagine but it could happen. The teenage characters were well done and not too dramatic.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0545172799/?tag=survivalmonke-20

 

100 years of solitude.

 

This book?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060883286/?tag=survivalmonke-20

Next on my TBR pile is Neal Shustterman's book Scythe. I read his Unwind series and that was a series I won't ever forget. Pretty dark series, I couldn't believe it was YA reading.

 

Yes. I'm only about 1/4 into it so far. I am enjoying the fiction and the author's style.

Since I want to be a better author myself, I'm studying the voices of great writers to find my own.

 

An outstanding, though troubling read for anyone seeking a better understanding of the politics of the war. I read it cover to cover in a couple days. Couldn't put it down.

 

Found this to be a pretty good story AND the version I have... which is older... has a different name... but contains how to make your own radiation counter...

The Rackham Files by Dean Ing

 

We've been reading Grit: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B010MH9V3W/?tag=survivalmonke-20 We love data.

 

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
12 Rules For Life: Book Summary in PDF
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FPGY5T0/?tag=survivalmonke-20

 

Jordan Peterson is a deep thinker and good orator

 

I felt like I had to read that in chunks because Peterson is so deep. I'd read a chapter. Put it down. Think about it for a few days. Come back and read the next chapter. That guy's a genius.