On the long shot that anyone is the least bit interested in what I've been reading lately, here's what I'm currently reading as well as a list of recent reads.
Dust of Life
by Cameron Michaels
Images of America - Winsted and Winchester (CT)
by Virginia Shultz-Charette and Verna Gilson;
Adirondack French Louie - Early Life in the North Woods
by Harvey L. Dunham
The Courage to Write
by Ralph Keyes
Napalm and Silly Putty
by George Carlin
Why Fish Bite and Why They Don't
by James Westman
The Shore Road Mystery
by Franklin W. Dixon;
(Yeah, it's another kid's Hardy Boys book. What of it?)
Does a Wild Bear Chip in the Woods?
by Lewis Grizzards
Excuse Me, Sir ... Your Socks Are On Fire - The Life and Times of a Wilderness Park Ranger in the Adirondack Mountains
by Larry Weill
Fail Safe
by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler
Adirondack Detective Returns
by John H. Briant
The Secret Panel
by Franklin W. Dixon
(Yeah, it's a kid's Hardy Boys book. What of it?)
Adirondack Mysteries and other mountain tales - Volume 3
contributors John H. Briant, Tico Brown, Cheryl Ann Costa, Marie Hannan-Mandel, G. Miki Hayden, Jordan Elizabeth Mierek, Jenny Milchman, W.K. Pomeroy, Woody Sins, Gigi Vernon, Dennis Webster, and Larry Weill
compiled and edited by Dennis Webster
I Remember When - The Untold Story of Helen Ellett
by Randy Kneer
Peopling the Adirondacks
by Amy Godine, Exhibit Research Curator, Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
Folk Tales and Ghost Stories - Village of Unionville
by Olivia Zmarlicki-Germano
Wishin' and Hopin' - A Christmas Story
by Wally Lamb
I Always Tell the Truth (Even if I have to lie to do it! - Stories from the Adirondack Liars' Club
Edited by Vaughn Ward
An Adirondack Passage
by Christine Jerome
Move the Sock Hole Over
by John G. Funchion
See Wayne Run. Run, Wayne, Run
by G. Williamson
Go, Dog. Go!
by P. D. Eastman (Yeah, it's a child's book. What of it?)
At the Mercy of the Mountains
by Peter Bronski
Truck
by John Jerome
Forgive Me, Ma'am...Bears Don't Wear Blue
by Larry Weill with Kelly Weill
Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
Raquette Lake Home Away from Home - Memoirs of a Camper
by Robert E. Bauer (Yes, we're related: he's my Uncle Bob.)
North Country Tales Truths and Trivia
by Ruth Timm
My Grandpa's Woods
by Larry Beahan
Pardon Me, Sir... There's a Moose in Your Tent
by Larry Weill
Little Brother (electronic version) *
by Cory Doctorow
Travels with Charley
by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
The Hacker Crackdown (electronic version) *
by Bruce Sterling
Calling CQ
by Clinton B. De Soto
Demian
by Hermann Hesse
The Curse of Lono
by Hunter. S. Thompson and Ralph Steadman
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by Bill Bryson
Hiroshima
by John Hersey
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
* available online for free download:
The Hacker Crackdown
Little Brother