Quarentine Reading List
If the virus can be kept at bay and enough work done at home to satisfy the boss, these days may be gifts for a lot of you.
I've mentioned it before, but you can choose to binge watch some mindless sludge of a TV show (the one with tigers in it which is such the rage right now just proves my point), or, you can use the time to discover real entertainment and knowledge.
In that vein, I, like every other blogger out there, am going to make a reading list for your consideration.
First up, The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolien. If you have somehow missed reading it until now, please don't rely on the movie, not even the animated one from the 1970's. The book is oh so much better. Follow Bilbo Baggins on the adventure that brought fantasy to the modern era.
I've mentioned it before, but you can choose to binge watch some mindless sludge of a TV show (the one with tigers in it which is such the rage right now just proves my point), or, you can use the time to discover real entertainment and knowledge.
In that vein, I, like every other blogger out there, am going to make a reading list for your consideration.
First up, The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolien. If you have somehow missed reading it until now, please don't rely on the movie, not even the animated one from the 1970's. The book is oh so much better. Follow Bilbo Baggins on the adventure that brought fantasy to the modern era.
From delightful fiction to horrific non-fiction, The Great Influenza by John Barry. Paperbacks are currently out of stock (I wonder why?), you can certainly get along with the Kindle version. Read and learn about how terrifying and devastating a true pandemic is, not a glorified cold virus. Seriously, you need the perspective, read it.
Let's combine history and fiction and come about to the The Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield. You've seen the movie 300 which is a highly stylized version of the 300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae. Now, read what it was really like.
One thing about summer reading, it's often time for a guilty pleasure. Florida Roadkill by Tim Dorsey is the first in a long series of stand-alone books which are a crazy, comedic take on the Florida crime novel. This one is laugh out loud funny, something al lot of us can use right now.
What about those of you who want to exit this lock down a better shooter and fighter than when you entered it? Reid Henrichs' The American Rifleman takes you down the road of not only the mechanics but what it means to be a nation of riflemen, both historically and in modern times.
