WWTBAM Bored

It's time for all you bookworms to sound off.

My list:

Reading:
A Devil in the Details by K. A. Stewart

Finished:
Bleachers by John Grisham
The Rainmaker by John Grisham (this was my first Grisham book and it was fabulous)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Split Second by David Baldacci
Rock Paper Tiger by Lisa Brackman
True Blue by David Baldacci
The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton

[quote="Vandal"]It's time for all you bookworms to sound off.

My list:


The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

This was a good book that I listened to on CD. Husband1111's mother was one of the children evacuated from Guernsey.

CD Audiobook: Jane Slayre by Charlotte Bronte and Sherri Browning Erwin
MP3 Audiobook: A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World by William J. Bernstein
Print: Grantville Gazette IV edited by Eric Flint (This is an anthology of fanfic and nonfiction, set in Flint's 1632 time travel/alternate history universe.)

I'm reading several books (no audio or e-books):

West and East - the second in Harry Turtledove's latest alternate history series, The War that Came Early
Catching Fire - the second in Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy
No Law in the Land - the latest in Michael Jecks' medieval murdery mystery series featuring Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and Simon Puttock

Spending most of my time with the travel guides for Egypt, Jordan and Jerusalem. Probably will save Michael Crichton's Travels for the plane. Although his mystical juju tangents that I have heard about may not have much appeal to me. We shall see.

Will probably also take the latest Dexter installment, Dexter is Delicious. If there is room I may also take Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer and The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. I need to get to those eventually.

tanstaafl2 wrote:Spending most of my time with the travel guides for Egypt, Jordan and Jerusalem. Probably will save Michael Crichton's Travels for the plane. Although his mystical juju tangents that I have heard about may not have much appeal to me. We shall see.

Will probably also take the latest Dexter installment, Dexter is Delicious. If there is room I may also take Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer and The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. I need to get to those eventually.

And almost forgot The Invention of Air: A Story Of Science, Faith, Revolution, And The Birth Of America by Steven Johnson.

Rereading Davita's Harp by Chaim Potok for the 4th time, I think.

Just finished Cancer on $5 a Day by Robert Schimmel. Parts of the book were very ironic, given his recent accidental death. Also read Sh*t My Dad Says. Funny, short, not worth paying for but some good laughs, you should read it at B&N. I bought and sold a "Like New" copy on Amazon. Cost me about a dollar to read it, all told.

I've got an advance reader's copy of Seeing Further, the Story of Science and the Royal Society, edited by Bill Bryson, for next week's plane trip.

-M

I forgot to include my next reading adventure:

Spoiler

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/059509 ... HWK55XCGG2

hard copy: Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
audio: Last Night in Twisted River, John Irving
e-mail via daliylit.com: Classic Shorts: Eight Stories for Summer, various writers, the current story being "The Pit and the Pendulum," Edgar Allan Poe

The late, great, Bill Hicks had a silght variation on the question:

In the middle of listening to The Lovely Bones whilst driving.

secondchance wrote:In the middle of listening to The Lovely Bones whilst driving.

And writing on the bored too?

"Empire of the Summer Moon"

About the rise and fall of the Comanches built around the Cynthia Ann and Quanah Parker stories.. Awesome book.

Read another book recently in the sam vein-"Comanche Empire"

Both good-I heartily recommend "Summer Moon" to anybody.

Vandal wrote:I forgot to include my next reading adventure:

Spoiler

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/059509 ... HWK55XCGG2

OMG!

Vandal wrote:I forgot to include my next reading adventure:

Spoiler

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/059509 ... HWK55XCGG2

It's not just good science, it's good sense!

I just got finished My Antonia.

Next on the list is The Real Nick and Nora: Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, Writers of Stage and Screen Classics.

There's also a book about Gene Tunney's friendship with George Bernard Shaw that I want to check out. Also, the new biography of Sarah Bernhardt.

And Tim Gunn's new book.

And a couple of other books that I can't remember right now.

"Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Professional Wrestling" by Bret Hart.

The very best memoir I have encountered of life in some form of athletic endeavour, for some time, and it seems to be self-penned with the aid of his personal audiotape diary. He also sketches cartoons, and his inner back cover sketch of 55 wrestlers of note is a hoot; if I can find a JPEG, it would be worth posting as a quiz.

Four Days in November by Vincent Bugliosi. Minute by minute account of the days of and following Kennedy's assassination

Vandal wrote:I forgot to include my next reading adventure:

Spoiler

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/059509 ... HWK55XCGG2

This recommendation alone is enough to buy this book for those who are a little "backed up" in more than than just their reading list...

Spoiler

But I decided to try the methods described in the book. Anal constrition and stomach compression, 100 times a day for several days.

At the risk of seeming disgusting, permit me to say that several days after I started this practice, I experienced what was probably the largest bowel movement in my life.

Eye dunt reed.

tanstaafl2 wrote:

Vandal wrote:I forgot to include my next reading adventure:

Spoiler

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/059509 ... HWK55XCGG2

This recommendation alone is enough to buy this book for those who are a little "backed up" in more than than just their reading list...

Spoiler

But I decided to try the methods described in the book. Anal constrition and stomach compression, 100 times a day for several days.

At the risk of seeming disgusting, permit me to say that several days after I started this practice, I experienced what was probably the largest bowel movement in my life.

Spoiler

You apparently have never prepped for a colonoscopy.

I'm working my way through a collection of short stories. Read "The Ransom of Red Chief" last night.

Jeemie wrote:Eye dunt reed.

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