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[realdocBBQ]

I've been on that one I mentioned above - The Frontiers Saga by Ryk Brown - space opera kinda series. Post-apocalypse, humans getting back into space, space warfare, etc.

For anyone who liked the Honor Harrington series by David Weber, this is pretty similar. Pretty detailed space combat. Maybe not as in-depth physics as the Honor Harrington stuff, but otherwise, I think it's pretty close. Good writer.

I've made it through the first 2 series' of 15 books each (he calls them episodes - but they're 300-550 pages each), so I'm now technically on "Book 32" I think. Good stuff, I really like it. Haven't seen exactly how far it goes yet, but I know series 3 goes through 15 books, and there is a series 4, so possible 15 there as well. So I'm still occupied for another few weeks to month or two.

Very good if you're into military sci-fi and like the character-building story arcs. It'll definitely last you a while. lol

[Troutman]

Just finished on my Kindle.

[Alan Brice]

Always the Good die young. Tragic.

[MarkN]

Picked this up after realizing so many of the quotes and phrases I have always liked are simply the fundamentals of Stoicism.

[JCBBQ]

I love the stoics, especially Epictetus. Been years since I’ve read any. Might have to get one out. Thanks for reminding me.

[fzxdoc]

I just re-read (read it first a few years ago) Ben MacIntyre's The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War:

If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation’s communism as both criminal and philistine.

He took his first posting for Russian intelligence in 1968 and eventually became the Soviet Union’s top man in London, but from 1973 on he was secretly working for MI6. For nearly a decade, as the Cold War reached its twilight, Gordievsky helped the West turn the tables on the KGB, exposing Russian spies and helping to foil countless intelligence plots, as the Soviet leadership grew increasingly paranoid at the United States’s nuclear first-strike capabilities and brought the world closer to the brink of war. Desperate to keep the circle of trust close, MI6 never revealed Gordievsky’s name to its counterparts in the CIA, which in turn grew obsessed with figuring out the identity of Britain’s obviously top-level source. Their obsession ultimately doomed Gordievsky: the CIA officer assigned to identify him was none other than Aldrich Ames, the man who would become infamous for secretly spying for the Soviets.

Unfolding the delicious three-way gamesmanship between America, Britain, and the Soviet Union, and culminating in the gripping cinematic beat-by-beat of Gordievsky’s nail-biting escape from Moscow in 1985, Ben Macintyre has crafted an electrifying account of an international hero. Like the greatest novels of John le Carré, The Spy and the Traitor brings readers deep into a world of treachery and betrayal, where the lines bleed between the personal and the professional, and one man’s hatred of communism had the power to change the future of nations.

Of course it prompted me to get his newest book, Redwood.

I've read almost all of MacIntyre's books. Not a bad one in the bunch.

Kathryn

[Spinaker]

This is a great read. I loved it. The ultimate game of cat and mouse for sure.

[Ace]

Just arrived yesterday. Lately I've been watching some of his YouTube videos. He's a pretty funny guy...