[Chief Joseph]

"No shortcut to the top" by Ed Viesturs... I love reading about high altitude mountaineering even though I would never attempt it and think that those that do are insane. Nicely written book, easy to read and enjoyable.

[Mike Collins]

Story-telling rituals can either enrich or darken our family's past. The book Black Sheep & Kissing Cousins-How our family stories shape us by Elizabeth Stone explores how the stories and myths that are passed on within a family help to create the people we are today. She interviewed over a hundred people and her examination reveals how the reverberation of stories affects our work, love, and chosen life-style.

[zephyr]

The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease and the End of an Empire, Kyle Harper, Princeton University Press, 2017. If you are interested in world history, climate change and the unseen but omnipresent world of microorganisms then this book is for you. Scholarly but accessible, well-researched and written. This was a bit dense at times but the information was so fascinating that one muddles through. In fact I had to return this book to the library after renewing three times (the limit) and put it on hold again. The wait-list was a bit long. The author gives you the big picture of our species versus a number of bacteriological and viral pathogens over deep time. Among many great reviews are two that might give you an idea—The American Scholar and World Archaeology. ~z

[Chief Joseph]

Actually I just picked a book at the library about the story of Tensing Norgay's son "Touching my Father's soul" probably start reading it tonight.

[olderthanIusedtobe]

I usually have no interesting in reading books written by celebrities, but I've heard good enough reviews to decide to give actress Krysten Ritter's book a chance. It's a thriller called "Bonfire." I just got it from the library. edited--cruised through this in a few days. Enjoyed it fairly well. It's kind of in the same vein as "The Girl on the Train' and Ruth Ware's novels. Female protagonist who is maybe not a reliable narrator and starts to doubt her grip on reality. The ending went off the rails a bit.

[bobbi]

Dan Brown's 'Origin' so far so good!

[Mike Collins]

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein is a novel written from the perspective of a dog. It is an entertaining book that is just plain fun. I had the good fortune to be paid $75.00 an hour to read much of it. My flight was overbooked so I took the $300 offer of the airline to take another flight four hours later. I finished the book just before the takeoff to snowy Chicago.

[lookout bob]

I'm reading an older book but it's great. Try "Blue Latitudes:Boldy Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before" by Tony Horowitz. Some chapters are hilarious.

[cdestroyer]

Waiting for an army to die by fred a wilcox.. the tragedy of agent orange

[Bedivere]

"No Angel" by Jay Dobyns. True first-person account of an ATF undercover agent's infiltration into the Hells Angels. Just getting started with it, but enjoyable so far.

[olderthanIusedtobe]

Picked up Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher novel, "The Midnight Line," from the library. They're kinda all the same, but always entertaining. There are 21 of them now. I'm not sure how many of them I've read, at least half a dozen.

[Waterman]

Rereading Grizzly Years by Doug Peacock. Have to say that I'm getting much more out of it then the 1st go around. But isn't that true of most books that you revisit over the years?

[olderthanIusedtobe]

Haven't read any John Scalzi for a while. Just started "Agent to the Stars." Apparently it was the first novel he wrote, but wasn't officially published for many years. He had it available on his website while some of his other works were published and he started to make a name for himself.

[tmatlack]

River stewards, jurisdictional buffs, waterways, flood control, Sage Brushers(+/-), etc. read The Source by Martin Doyle: How Rivers Made America and How America Remade Her Rivers. Good stuff on West Point engineers, Corps, barging, floods, irrigation, salmon, etc. Tom

[Toni]