Mike (mikebreen) (South Windsor, CT)'s Recent Status Updates Showing 1-30 of 36

Mike is starting The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science

— Aug 25, 2021 08:00PM Add a comment

Mike is starting The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery

— Jul 23, 2021 08:54PM Add a comment

Mike is starting Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made

— Apr 17, 2021 03:40AM Add a comment

Mike is starting Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America

— Feb 23, 2021 12:26AM Add a comment

Mike is starting All Flesh Is Grass

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Mike is 5% done with Stand on Zanzibar

— May 22, 2020 04:42PM Add a comment

Mike is 2% done with The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

— Feb 06, 2019 08:03PM Add a comment

Mike is starting Plain Tales from the Hills

— Nov 13, 2018 10:18AM Add a comment

Mike is starting All Souls' Night

— Oct 01, 2018 08:08PM Add a comment

Mike is starting Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

Leckie wrote one of the WORST volumes of history I've ever suffered through.

— Aug 05, 2018 07:17PM Add a comment

Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

Mike is 4% done with Moby-Dick; or, the Whale

fuck it I'm going to sea again

— Jul 09, 2018 08:20PM Add a comment

Mike is 15% done with Life of Pee: The Story of How Urine Got Everywhere

— Jan 22, 2018 06:33PM Add a comment

Mike is starting Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

— Jan 05, 2018 03:56AM Add a comment

Mike is starting Triplanetary (The Lensman Series Book 1)

— Nov 24, 2017 08:52PM Add a comment

Mike is starting The Dictionary of the vulgar Tongue

— May 17, 2017 03:23AM Add a comment

Mike is starting Aurora

Something a little different, for me, of late...

— Mar 10, 2017 07:40PM Add a comment

Mike is starting Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas

fuck it going to sea with Herman again

— Feb 02, 2017 07:38PM Add a comment

Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas

Mike is 10% done with The North Water

Holy shit so far it's like a mashup of Melville and Cormac McCarthy with bits of Patrick O'Brian and Jack London and it's like it was written just for me.

— Jan 02, 2017 04:16AM Add a comment

Mike is 10% done with Burnt Offerings

— Aug 27, 2016 11:36AM Add a comment

Mike is starting Three Hearts and Three Lions

I vividly remember the musty smell and crackling bindings of the dozens and dozens of old sci-fi and fantasy novels I checked out of the library as a kid... This one was a particular favorite when I was 11 or 12... gonna see how it holds up.

— Apr 25, 2016 08:23PM Add a comment

Mike is 62% done with The Mulberry Empire

I rarely bail out on a novel, but I'm calling it quits on this. Hensher's prose is elegant, his commentary on the folly of imperialism sharp and oh so relevant... but it's just... too... damned... slow. I might have stuck with it if this all hadn't already been done- and much more effectively- in Flashman and The Man Who Would be King.

— Apr 25, 2016 08:00PM Add a comment