I believe that a what a person reads tells a lot about them, what did you last read other than the Bible?

Question

For me this was "The Secrets of The Eucharist" and before that John Grisham's "Painted House"
"People are not usually better than the books they read,"
Anon

Thanks for sharing.

Answer 1

A Brief History of Time - Steven Hawkins
The Art of War - Sun Tzu

Next books I read :

The Grapple (Settling Accounts Trilogy, Book 3) - Harry Turtledove
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice - Christopher Hitchens

Answer 2

The last book I read was Ulysses Grant's Memoirs of the American Civil War: he was of course the commanding General of the Northern forces and later a two-term President. Two things stand out: Grant's insistence on cutting through formality and protocol in managing the War, and his deep desire to bring the North and the South together after it. Many of the military leaders on the Southern side were friends of his from earlier years and battles. Robert E. Lee had been much his senior in the Mexican War.
A chaplain reported to Lincoln that Grant was given to drinking: the President asked what he drank so that he could give some of it to his other Generals, because Grant understood how to fight.
When Grant wrote his Memoirs, he was ill with cancer (too many cigars). Mark Twain was his publisher and agent; the book sold very well, and Grant's family was left financially well off.
I have begun Tocqueville's "Democracy in America," which though written more than 250 years back, is a very perceptive and prophetic book about the nation. Tocqueviile forecast what the nation would become on the basis of what he saw of it during Andrew Jackson's time: the mark of a very original mind.

Answer 3

Clan of the Cave Bear was the last book i finished ,prior to that Moby Dick for the umtenth time , Oliver Twist is probably my favorite book of all ,and im curently reading Blackwood Farm ,by Ann Rice
other books : Noasfaratu, Ninios De LE Noche,(infact moast vampier stories), the compleete works of charles dickens , the wind in the willows (kenith Grayham)

so what kind of person am I

Answer 4

Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good. It's a non-fiction book that argues that all animals, not just humans, feel and pursue pleasure in many forms. I am a vegetarian for health reasons, not moral, but I haven't even been remotely tempted by a steak or shrimp since reading this.

Answer 5

Advanced Microeconomics

Answer 6

When Men Think Private Thoughts - Gordon Macdonald

Answer 7

The Life of Pi --- great book!!

Before that...a series of apologitetics on the Catholic faith. And, before that the lastest Harry Potter book - for some lightweight fun reading.

Answer 8

I read "Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality" by Donald Miller last.

Answer 9

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.

I had to do SO much research afterwards to look into all the church and pagan history behind that book. Taught me a lot.

Answer 10

Urchin of the Riding Stars