What book are you reading now

[icansayit]

Primarily TOM CLANCY, Hunt For Red October, Red Storm Rising, plus...like many here. 1984 over, and over again. It's almost like reading the DAILY reports or hearing daily crap from PSAKI the Biden President of "LIARS-R-US".
ORWELL was right on almost everything...but in different versions of the Destruction of Man.

[BoogyMan]

Just finished book 13 in this series. Craig Alanson has done a wonderful job with these books.

Expeditionary Force: Columbus Day is the first in the series. Fun books to read and get really good about midway through book 1.

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[SassyLady]

I've read all 15 books in this series and really like this author. Reading another of his series, Odin.

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[hjmick]

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel:

It takes place in the Great Lakes region before and after a fictional swine flu pandemic, known as the "Georgia Flu", has devastated the world, killing most of the population. It won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2015. It's been on my list since before COVID, came across it at Costco the other day. It seems they issued another edition due to the HBOMAX series.


Goodreads: Station Eleven

Amazon: Station Eleven

[SassyLady]

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel:

It takes place in the Great Lakes region before and after a fictional swine flu pandemic, known as the "Georgia Flu", has devastated the world, killing most of the population. It won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2015. It's been on my list since before COVID, came across it at Costco the other day. It seems they issued another edition due to the HBOMAX series.


Goodreads: Station Eleven

Amazon: Station Eleven

The Omega series I mentioned above is about exposing and eliminating the new world elites that are using technology for population control.

[revelarts]

"For years, émigrés from the former Soviet bloc have been telling Rod Dreher they see telltale signs of "soft" totalitarianism cropping up in America--something more Brave New World than Nineteen Eighty-Four. Identity politics are beginning to encroach on every aspect of life. Civil liberties are increasingly seen as a threat to "safety". Progressives marginalize conservative, traditional Christians, and other dissenters. Technology and consumerism hasten the possibility of a corporate surveillance state. And the pandemic, having put millions out of work, leaves our country especially vulnerable to demagogic manipulation.

In Live Not By Lies, Dreher amplifies the alarm sounded by the brave men and women who fought totalitarianism. He explains how the totalitarianism facing us today is based less on overt violence and more on psychological manipulation. He tells the stories of modern-day dissidents--clergy, laity, martyrs, and confessors from the Soviet Union and the captive nations of Europe--who offer practical advice for how to identify and resist totalitarianism in our time. Following the model offered by a prophetic World War II-era pastor who prepared believers in his Eastern European to endure the coming of communism, Live Not By Lies teaches American Christians a method for resistance:
• SEE: Acknowledge the reality of the situation.
• JUDGE: Assess reality in the light of what we as Christians know to be true.
• ACT: Take action to protect truth.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn famously said that one of the biggest mistakes people make is assuming totalitarianism can't happen in their country. Many American Christians are making that mistake today, sleepwalking through the erosion of our freedoms. Live Not By Lies will wake them and equip them for the long resistance."

[revelarts]

ReRead
Dune

[revelarts]

I don't read much fiction anymore (my fiction is usually via movies & comics... & CNN) but this caught my eye.
I'm almost done. it seems like the kind of thing some folks here might like.

from Amazon
"The Lost Order continues renowned New York Times bestseller Steve Berry’s Cotton Malone series with another riveting, history-based thriller.

The Knights of the Golden Circle was the largest and most dangerous clandestine organization in American history. It amassed billions in stolen gold and silver, all buried in hidden caches across the United States. Since 1865 treasure hunters have searched, but little of that immense wealth has ever been found.

Now, one hundred and sixty years later, two factions of what remains of the Knights of the Golden Circle want that lost treasure—one to spend it for their own ends, the other to preserve it.

Thrust into this battle is former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone, whose connection to the knights is far deeper than he ever imagined. At the center is the Smithsonian Institution—linked to the knights, its treasure, and Malone himself through..."

Apparently this "Lost Order" group was (is?) real, I'd never heard of it before.