What are you reading?

[Robert]

I’m reading it because I have an interest in folklore and I’m trying to understand the culture in my region better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra

Ask them if they have seen Bigfoot.

[Szdfan]

I’m reading it because I have an interest in folklore and I’m trying to understand the culture in my region better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra

Ask them if they have seen Bigfoot.

It’s my understanding that Bigfoot prefers a more temperate, wetter climate.

However, some say they have seen the “Coco Man”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_(folklore)

There is no general description of the cucuy, as far as facial or body descriptions, but it is stated that this shapeshifting being is extremely horrible to look at. The coco is variously described as a shapeless figure, sometimes a hairy monster, that hides in closets or under beds and eats children that misbehave when they are told to go to bed.

[Robert]

It’s my understanding that Bigfoot prefers a more temperate, wetter climate.

The ape suit does get hot.

[Bootstrap]

The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789

We all know the famous opening phrase of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this Continent a new Nation.” The truth is different. In 1776, thirteen American colonies declared themselves independent states that only temporarily joined forces in order to defeat the British. Once victorious, they planned to go their separate ways. The triumph of the American Revolution was neither an ideological nor a political guarantee that the colonies would relinquish their independence and accept the creation of a federal government with power over their autonomy as states.

The Quartet is the story of this second American founding and of the men most responsible—George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison. These men, with the help of Robert Morris and Gouverneur Morris, shaped the contours of American history by diagnosing the systemic dysfunctions created by the Articles of Confederation, manipulating the political process to force the calling of the Constitutional Convention, conspiring to set the agenda in Philadelphia, orchestrating the debate in the state ratifying conventions, and, finally, drafting the Bill of Rights to assure state compliance with the constitutional settlement.

[PeterG]

I just got finished with Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton.

Paton wrote one of my favorite novels, Too Late the Phalarope. I'm not sure if Paton meant it this way, but I found it the most powerful meditation on masculinity that I have ever read.

I've not read Cry, The Beloved Country, but it's been highly recommended to me.

[steve-in-kville]

I haven't read a book in a long time. I read lots of magazines, though. We as a family get a lot of magazines. A lot of varied interests.

[MaxPC]

Right now I have no time to read. When things settle a bit in about 2 months, I plan on reading several, three of which are by Gary Miller:
How Can Anyone Say God is Good

Radical Islam

Jesus Really Said That?

[Fidelio]

Just started this and at nearly 1100 pages, I'll be on it for quite some time. However, I do tend to read more than one book at a time (alternately of course ).

[Robert]

The Curse of Oak Island by Randall Sullivan.

[joshuabgood]

A Young Castro...

Bio of Castro.