What are you reading now: FeFebruary 21, 2026

Wrapping up Warship 2024. A Mouthful of Dust and Soviet Cavalry Operations During the Second World War will follow.

I'm still reading Stride Toward Freedom by Martin Luther King, Jr.
I've also started reading Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. The local museum is having an event next month where you go around with a docent and look at paintings connected to the stories. I'm looking forward to it!

The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising – The Holocaust Biography of Female Resistance Leaders
by Elizabeth Hyman
4/5 stars
This is a very interesting book about the Warsaw Ghetto in which five young women in the Holocaust who helped lead the resistance, sabotage the Nazis, and aid Jews in hiding across occupied Poland and Eastern Europe. I enjoyed it. Non-Fiction

I'm reading, and enjoying, the memoir, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South by Esau McCaulley.

Dark Intelligence, it was by chance that I stumbled upon this book by Neil Asher. Very interesting, especially since everyone is so worried about the end of the world curtesy of technology.

I finished up The Myths of Enki: The Crafty God. Some interesting bits on Mesopotamian religions that I hadn't seen before.

Now I've started The Poetic Eddas: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes as translated by Jackson Crawford. I watched a lecture series by him about Norse Mythology on the Great Courses. His lectures were great, I'm hoping that his translations are just as captivating.

I'm getting to the last bit of The Companions by Sherri S. Tepper and also reading The Price of Glory by Alistair Horne. Both long and very rewarding.

I finished the excellent memoir, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South by Esau McCaulley. You can see my review on the book's work page and on my Club Read thread. Next up for me will be The Surgeon's Daughter, a novella included in a Sir Walter Scott 3-story collection, Chronicles of the Canongate.

I've started A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas and it's just ok which is disappointing. I'm only half way through so if it changes I will report back!

>9 amdial7: I borrowed and read all of the "Lady Sherlock" series so far from the library. There's a new and 9th installment The Vanished Sister coming this fall.

A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore
by Matthew Davis
4/5 stars
This was a very interesting book on the history and the building of the South Dakota Mount Rushmore. It also talks about the Wounded Knee tragedy and the history behind Wounded Knee and much more! Non-Fiction

>10 princessgarnet: I wish I could get into it but so far still meh.

Inca Gold by Clive Cussler.

MISS MORGAN’S BOOK BRIGADE
by Janet Skeslien Charles

Historical fiction, WWI era France.

Choke
by Chuck Palahniuk
This is the story of Victor, who has dropped out of med school to pay for his mother's health care. However, he is a scammer, and he gets people to send him checks for him and to help his mother. He also works at colonial theme park. It is quite an interesting book but not for everyone. 2001

The new thread is up over here.