What book are you currently reading?

The book is a collection of static stretches. They work, just slower compared to other methods.

 

Thanks for the feedback.

I have of course seen you're answers in some threads and the one you opened about stretching as well.

I even sort of liked it!
"Sort of", because: My problem there was: I simply didn't understand everything or wasn't sure about some parts if I understood them correctly

English isn't my first language but I usually at least understand what I read; but for some reason I have had trouble with parts of your thread and gave up after a while, because I was a bit anxious to try something out of it - and screw up while hurting myself

I really should give it another try, now that I think of it.
I even still have it bookmarked after all.

 

Read Tripwire, Gone Tomorrow and Worth Dying For by Lee Child. Pretty good, OK, WTF??? Seriously after about book 11 there's a big drop in quality.
Read The Fool's Run by John Sandford, interesting both as the first work of an author I read a lot, and as a book from 1989 about hacking. A little predictable as a thriller (indeed actually reminded me of Lee Child a bit) but also shows some of the touches that would later go into the Virgil Flowers series.
Also read Jing Wu: The School That Transformed Kung Fu by Kennedy and Guo, an excellent and surprising work which much like their other book on Chinese training manuals shows that we don't know what we think we know.
Also read The Art of the Two Handed Sword by Ken Mondschein, a translation and exploration of Alfieri's La Spadone, one of the best HEMA books I've read.
Currently reading The Empress File by John Sandford.

 

I wasn't joking when I said I routinely read 50+ books a year

 

American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

Utterly brilliant.

 

The first "Bartimaeus" book by Jonathan Stroud.

Saw it used for 2€ and decided to finally get it (I'm not so much into books from first person perspective and part of it is like that), after being curious fr quite a while.

And I'm positive surprised.

I started it on Sunday and despite not having much time or even interest in reading lately I'm more then 200 pages in and looking forward to keep going.
Instead of sleeping in the train it's reading in the train-time again

Fun to read, an easy enough style, so that you can enjoy reading it, even though you have a hard time focusing at the moment - and it gets you're head into the book, that you (yes, I admit it: That I ) actually are able to stop worrying too much about other things

 

I think I made it to the second book back in grade school before it lost my interest but it was pretty engaging for a while. The djinn were kind of a cool concept. A bit like Harry Potter meets Pokemon

 

I never looked at it like that, but that's actually true

Would have gotten the book sooner, if someone would have explained it like that

 

Read the Empress File and The Devil's Code by John Sandford, now reading Eyes of Prey by Sandford.

 

Finished Eyes of Prey, I'd forgotten how good the early Davenport novels are. I especially liked that he was struggling with depression in this one. Gone straight on to re-reading Silent Prey.

 

Japanese Art: to colour in
by

Katsushika Hokusai

It has some nice pictures and the descriptions of the paintings are interesting to me.

 

The little prince

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

 

Toward the end of his life Hokusai would start each day drawing a picture. Hoping that he would have a peaceful day.

 

Sweet Science_ A.J. Liebling

I was helping may father move some bookcases, and upon the very top shef was this book, hard cover, first edition.

He said he nearly forgot about the book and gave it to me to add to my library

 

Socrates was pretty cool as well.

 

Do not be misled by the Republic; it is not a dialogue on the construction of a utopia but on the management of the self. In book 4, Glaucon insists on taking 'the short way,' one Socrates says is illusory and will not lead to true knowledge or something of the sort. The Statesman is Plato's utopia.

 

Is this a compilation of Plato's works? I think you're referring to the Symposium with the banquet; interestingly, one of the guests who tells the story of when men and women were conjoined is Aristophanes, who wrote a parody of Socrates in The Clouds. Good read. When you get to "The Apology," hell, when you read any of the dialogues, but especially the Apology, Republic and Gorgias, it's important to have a sense of the prevailing political climate at the time.