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fantine33 · #26 Post by **fantine33** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:07 pm

silvercamaro wrote:
fantine33 wrote:ESPN The Magazine.

The woman who writes the paranormal thrillers is Kay Hooper. My sister has a boatload of them (she writes a series in trilogy sets) and I always refer to them as the "Kay Harris" books. Ha!
This could be an entirely new sub-genre -- BoB* horror. I can envision some of the early titles -- The Undead Debutante, The Terror of Tommy Tuberville, and The Phantom of Frequent Flyer Miles.

* For those who are not fluent in Fantinese, BoB = Belle of the Ball.

The War Eagle Witching Hour
Spooky Shoes
Ill Advised Insurance Policies

Okay, BoB, we've given you enough material here, now sharpen those pencils and get to work!

Aside: I don't know why BoB never took off. People glommed onto Sliver and Moonbeam and, well, Saucy just took on a life of its own.

silvercamaro · #27 Post by **silvercamaro** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:34 pm

fantine33 wrote:
Spooky Shoes

I haven't read that one yet, but the sequel gave me shivers -- Wrong Purse, Shoes That Don't Match

fantine33 · #28 Post by **fantine33** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:39 pm

silvercamaro wrote:
fantine33 wrote:
Spooky Shoes
I haven't read that one yet, but the sequel gave me shivers -- Wrong Purse, Shoes That Don't Match

Then don't even attempt White Slingbacks on September 17th. Pretty gory and some things you just can't "unsee".

danielh41 · #29 Post by **danielh41** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 4:39 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:
danielh41 wrote:I'm reading No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. I was a little wary of it because of McCarthy's habit of not using quotation marks for dialogue, but the book is really good. I'll probably have to pick up his The Road when I'm done with this...
I just finished The Road a week ago. I really don't understand how it became one of Oprah's selections.

It also won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction...

lilclyde54 · #30 Post by **lilclyde54** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:12 pm

I read my new issue of Cardplayer magazine last night.

themanintheseersuckersuit · #31 Post by **themanintheseersuckersuit** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:15 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:
danielh41 wrote:I'm reading No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. I was a little wary of it because of McCarthy's habit of not using quotation marks for dialogue, but the book is really good. I'll probably have to pick up his The Road when I'm done with this...
I just finished The Road a week ago. I really don't understand how it became one of Oprah's selections.

I liked No Country for Old Men. I gave up on The Road. Just because I start a book doesn't mean I have to finish it.

danielh41 · #32 Post by **danielh41** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 6:33 pm

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:
danielh41 wrote:I'm reading No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. I was a little wary of it because of McCarthy's habit of not using quotation marks for dialogue, but the book is really good. I'll probably have to pick up his The Road when I'm done with this...
I just finished The Road a week ago. I really don't understand how it became one of Oprah's selections.
I liked No Country for Old Men. I gave up on The Road. Just because I start a book doesn't mean I have to finish it.

I do like No Country for Old Men, especially how the story moves and how McCarthy uses the language so sparingly. He says a lot with a few words. But I have two gripes with it. First off, Sheriff Bell makes reference to watching an execution in a gas chamber. Texas never used a gas chamber as a form of execution. They went from hanging to the electric chair to lethal injection.

Secondly, McCarthy makes it very clear that the story is set in 1980 (Chigurh makes reference to a 1958 quarter travelling 22 years to get to this point). Yet Wells has a mobile phone. Yes, I know they were invented then, but they were rare at best and didn't work so good. You'd think that a writer of McCarthy reputation would have done some simple research in connection with his novel...

SportsFan68 · #33 Post by **SportsFan68** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:30 pm

Catfish wrote:Audiobook: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, my favorite book of all time; every time I read it, I'm amazed by the influence it had on me

I read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn a dozen times when I was Francie's age. I still think of it when a scene reminds me of something in the book. I think I won't read it again -- I like the youthful filter I see it through, and I worry that if I read it again, I'll age it.

mrkelley23 · #34 Post by **mrkelley23** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:39 pm

Picked up the first book in the newish trilogy from Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter. It's kind of a continuation of 2001, which means I'll probably fall asleep while reading it, but I'll give it the old college try. Otherwise, I'm spending a lot of time with the high school girls' softball rules book and case book, since I'm starting that this year.

ne1410s · #35 Post by **ne1410s** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:22 am

Re-reading "Strictly Speaking" by Edwin Newman. It has not aged well.

earendel · #36 Post by **earendel** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 10:16 am

I'm reading several books. For "light reading" it's a fantasy book named Mistborn. It's the first in a trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. I chose it because he was the person chosen to finish Robert Jordan's series and I wanted to get a sense of his writing.

In hardback I'm reading The Yiddish Policeman's Union and waiting for the library to tell me that my name has come up on the reserve list for T is for Trespass.

themanintheseersuckersuit · #37 Post by **themanintheseersuckersuit** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:58 pm

Just for MMFF Freakonomics just featured this one in a post What are the odds you will survive an airplane crash and it would seem that the odds
are better than an layperson might expect.

Beyond the Black Box: The Forensics of Airplane Crashes

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2 ... ane-crash/

Kazoo65 · #38 Post by **Kazoo65** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:15 pm

I am reading "Boom!" by Tom Brokaw. It's a book about the Sixties. He writes about the events of that turbulent time and how they are still affecting us today. I'm on the section about Vietman right now. There are LOTS of comparisons between how the politicians screwed up that war and how they're screwing up the current war in Iraq.

It's a very interesting book-if you lived through the Sixties, you might like it-and if you were just starting out during that decade (I was born in 1965) it's a good history lesson.

Sir_Galahad · #39 Post by **Sir_Galahad** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:21 pm

I am reading Bernard Goldberg's "Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right"

Anyone know a good book by a liberal besides Al Franken that's worth reading? I'm curious to read what he/she has to say.

kayrharris · #40 Post by **kayrharris** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:29 pm

fantine33 wrote:
silvercamaro wrote:
fantine33 wrote:ESPN The Magazine.

The woman who writes the paranormal thrillers is Kay Hooper. My sister has a boatload of them (she writes a series in trilogy sets) and I always refer to them as the "Kay Harris" books. Ha!
This could be an entirely new sub-genre -- BoB* horror. I can envision some of the early titles -- The Undead Debutante, The Terror of Tommy Tuberville, and The Phantom of Frequent Flyer Miles.

* For those who are not fluent in Fantinese, BoB = Belle of the Ball.
The War Eagle Witching Hour
Spooky Shoes
Ill Advised Insurance Policies

Okay, BoB, we've given you enough material here, now sharpen those pencils and get to work!

Aside: I don't know why BoB never took off. People glommed onto Sliver and Moonbeam and, well, Saucy just took on a life of its own.

I must start paying closer attention.

I posted early in this thread ....11 days ago now... and didn't bother to check back in to see this. Quite enjoyable, I must say. Fan, you can call me BoB...and it might still catch on. Mine probably didn't stick 'cause I'm mostly a bit of a wallflower.

TheCalvinator24 · #41 Post by **TheCalvinator24** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:48 pm

Prisoner of Trebekistan by Bob Harris
Character Makes a Difference by Mike Huckabee
From Hope to Higher Ground by Mike Huckabee
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number by Mario Livio
Sanford Meisner on Acting by Sanford Meisner

takinover · #42 Post by **takinover** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 10:25 pm

I just finished reading The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World. I recommend it.

Will visit library tomorrow to find something new.

themanintheseersuckersuit · #43 Post by **themanintheseersuckersuit** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 1:55 pm

I liked Prayers for the Assassin, so I checked out one of the authors earlier books.

In it the hero is a undercover cop on the run from a vicious drug dealer. To draw him out the hero goes on Jeopardy! and for his final jeopardy answer gives the drug dealers name. (it was a opera question) The dealer is a Jeopardy fan. It very far fetched but it amused me.

Beebs52 · #44 Post by **Beebs52** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 5:30 pm

I'm reading the book of John, from the Bible, there. I decided I'm horrifically ignorant from the historical and contextual and whateveretical viewpoint of the Bible. Therefore, I'm reading it and studying it. Hard.

Plus, I've been reading up a bit on certain reformationists and such and I'm not pleased with some of the stuff I've read. I need to read more that is balanced and well, just read more.

Catfish · #45 Post by **Catfish** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 6:11 pm

Beebs52 wrote:I'm reading the book of John, from the Bible, there. I decided I'm horrifically ignorant from the historical and contextual and whateveretical viewpoint of the Bible. Therefore, I'm reading it and studying it. Hard.

Plus, I've been reading up a bit on certain reformationists and such and I'm not pleased with some of the stuff I've read. I need to read more that is balanced and well, just read more.

I also feel ignorant of the Bible, so prompted by Nelly's QOD, after I finish the newish biogaphy of Charles Schulz, I will start reading the Bible cover to cover.

AnnieCamaro · #46 Post by **AnnieCamaro** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 6:14 pm

Catfish wrote:
Beebs52 wrote:I'm reading the book of John, from the Bible, there. I decided I'm horrifically ignorant from the historical and contextual and whateveretical viewpoint of the Bible. Therefore, I'm reading it and studying it. Hard.

Plus, I've been reading up a bit on certain reformationists and such and I'm not pleased with some of the stuff I've read. I need to read more that is balanced and well, just read more.
I also feel ignorant of the Bible, so prompted by Nelly's QOD, after I finish the newish biogaphy of Charles Schulz, I will start reading the Bible cover to cover.

Miss Cat and Miss Beebs, take it from me -- don't turn the pages with your tongue, or they'll all stick together.

Catfish · #47 Post by **Catfish** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 6:20 pm

AnnieCamaro wrote:
Catfish wrote:
Beebs52 wrote:I'm reading the book of John, from the Bible, there. I decided I'm horrifically ignorant from the historical and contextual and whateveretical viewpoint of the Bible. Therefore, I'm reading it and studying it. Hard.

Plus, I've been reading up a bit on certain reformationists and such and I'm not pleased with some of the stuff I've read. I need to read more that is balanced and well, just read more.
I also feel ignorant of the Bible, so prompted by Nelly's QOD, after I finish the newish biogaphy of Charles Schulz, I will start reading the Bible cover to cover.
Miss Cat and Miss Beebs, take it from me -- don't turn the pages with your tongue, or they'll all stick together.

Thanks for the warning, Annie. Did you get to chase lots of Easter bunnies today?

AnnieCamaro · #48 Post by **AnnieCamaro** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 6:24 pm

Catfish wrote:
Thanks for the warning, Annie. Did you get to chase lots of Easter bunnies today?

I don't chase Easter bunnies. I'm not that kind of girl. (Besides, I had to watch basketball. I'm that kind of girl.)

/:P\

Beebs52 · #49 Post by **Beebs52** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 6:35 pm

AnnieCamaro wrote:
Catfish wrote:
Thanks for the warning, Annie. Did you get to chase lots of Easter bunnies today?
I don't chase Easter bunnies. I'm not that kind of girl. (Besides, I had to watch basketball. I'm that kind of girl.)

/:P\

Boy, wasn't THAT fun. The girls' game was fun. The boys', not so much.

AnnieCamaro · #50 Post by **AnnieCamaro** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 6:42 pm

Beebs52 wrote:
Boy, wasn't THAT fun.

The red team boys didn't play so good, did they? But, did you see at the end, when they talked about Mr. Coach's dad? I think they said he lives in Miss Ritter's town, where he's an assistant coach for their grown-up team.

I hope Miss Ritter will meet Mr. Dadcoach someday. That seems like a nice family.

/:P\

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