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#1 Post by **Vandal** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:21 pm

It has been a few months, so shout 'em out.

Now:
Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen

Finished since last time:
The Christmas Train by Davis Baldacci
The Fiction Class By Susan Breen
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
The Land of Mist and Snow by James Macdonald and Debra Doyle

Ritterskoop · #2 Post by **Ritterskoop** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:23 pm

Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

next up:

Temple Grandin, Animals Make Us Human

MarleysGh0st · #3 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:31 pm

In print: 1635: The Dreeson Incident by Eric Flint and Virginia DeMarce.

Audiobook (CD): Empire by Orson Scott Card.

Audiobook (MP3): In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson.

Evil Squirrel · #4 Post by **Evil Squirrel** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:34 pm

Rand McNally's Road Atlas for the state of Colorado....

SportsFan68 · #5 Post by **SportsFan68** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:35 pm

The daily garbagewrapper.

College textbooks (one class).

Mike Lawrence's Bridge Clues.

This is pathetic.

minimetoo26 · #6 Post by **minimetoo26** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:37 pm

Ritterskoop wrote:Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

next up:

Temple Grandin, Animals Make Us Human

I think I'd be interested in the Temple Grandin book.

I still haven't started the books I bought before Christmas. But I read Beedle the Bard! It took less than half an hour, but I liked it.

SportsFan68 · #7 Post by **SportsFan68** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:44 pm

minimetoo26 wrote:
Ritterskoop wrote:Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

next up:

Temple Grandin, Animals Make Us Human
I think I'd be interested in the Temple Grandin book.

I still haven't started the books I bought before Christmas. But I read Beedle the Bard! It took less than half an hour, but I liked it.

I haven't even gotten to Beedle the Bard, which Santa brought me.

This is REALLY pathetic.

danielh41 · #8 Post by **danielh41** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:48 pm

Just finished Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. I'm ready for the movie now.

I'm still reading the New Living Translation of the Bible. I started at Genesis 1 back on October 1, 2008. I'm currently in the gospel of John...

sunflower · #9 Post by **sunflower** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:54 pm

I have been trying to get through the Twilight series since December, I only finished the first book...like Sprots, also have not touched Tales of the Beetle and the Bard which I bought at Christmas time. I just read The Alchemist (Paul Coelho?) and today at lunch I bought Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.

goongas · #10 Post by **goongas** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:59 pm

I just read Malcolm Gladwell's three books recently. They were all very good.

Jeemie · #11 Post by **Jeemie** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:03 pm

Eye dont reed.

sunflower · #12 Post by **sunflower** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:04 pm

goongas wrote:I just read Malcolm Gladwell's three books recently. They were all very good.

What's the third one? I know Tipping Point and Blink and I can't think of a third off the top of my head.

#13 Post by **littlebeast13** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:07 pm

Jeemie wrote:Eye dont reed.

Mee neethre....

lb13

trevor_macfee · #14 Post by **trevor_macfee** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:13 pm

Just finished:
Kurt Vonnegut - Armageddon in Retrospect
Stephen King - Duma Key
David Sedaris - When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Currently Reading:
American Lion (Andrew Jackson Bio) by Jon Meacham
The Reason for God by Timothy Keller (kind of the flipside of The God Delusion)
The Crucified Christ by Jürgen Moltmann
Q & A by Vikas Swarup (has been retitled Slumdog Millionaire as the movie was based on it)

My wife makes fun of me for reading several books at a time. This is why I'm getting a Kindle (should be delivered today) - much lighter!

clem21 · #15 Post by **clem21** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:40 pm

Breaking Dawn of the aforementioned Twilight series which I'm being forced to read
Through The Looking Glass by The Rev. Charles Dodgson

Catfish · #16 Post by **Catfish** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:43 pm

hard copy: As of today, I am setting aside The Bones of Plenty, by Lois Phillips Hudson, the current selection of the Spock Book Club, to resume reading The Bible, by God's ghostwriters, which I had set aside to read The Bones of Plenty. This is my lenten observance. No more distractions.

e-mail (dailylit.com): "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," two more installments to go

CD: Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain. Having had Anthony in my head for a couple of weeks, I can't imaging reading it in print

Jeemie · #17 Post by **Jeemie** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:49 pm

clem21 wrote:Breaking Dawn of the aforementioned Twilight series which I'm being forced to read

Those books are awful.

How did they EVER get popular?

frogman042 · #18 Post by **frogman042** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:15 pm

The Terrorist by John Updike
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

MarleysGh0st · #19 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:19 pm

Jeemie wrote:Those books are awful.

How would you know?

You don't read.

earendel · #20 Post by **earendel** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:24 pm

Vandal wrote:It has been a few months, so shout 'em out.

Now:
Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen

Finished since last time:
The Christmas Train by Davis Baldacci
The Fiction Class By Susan Breen
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
The Land of Mist and Snow by James Macdonald and Debra Doyle

The instructions on medicine bottles, immediately.

Long-term I'll be reading Father Raymond Brown's two-volume Biblical work entitled "The Death of the Messiah". It's my Lenten discipline.

Jeemie · #21 Post by **Jeemie** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:27 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:
Jeemie wrote:Those books are awful.
How would you know?

You don't read.

Touche.

Actually, like Clem, I'm being forced to read them because my daughter liked the movie.

But the books definitely read like they were written by a bored housewife.

sunflower · #22 Post by **sunflower** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:29 pm

Jeemie wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:
Jeemie wrote:Those books are awful.
How would you know?

You don't read.

Touche.

Actually, like Clem, I'm being forced to read them because my daughter liked the movie.

But the books definitely read like they were written by a bored housewife.

I read the first one on flights to and from FL - easy reading because I was a captive audience. I haven't yet picked up another one to read at home, even though they're all sitting there. I personally wanted them to be my new Harry Potter...they weren't.

frogman042 · #23 Post by **frogman042** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:30 pm

Jeemie wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:
Jeemie wrote:Those books are awful.
How would you know?

You don't read.

Touche.

Actually, like Clem, I'm being forced to read them because my daughter liked the movie.

But the books definitely read like they were written by a bored housewife.

OK, who on the bored is going to fess up as the true author of the series?

sunflower · #24 Post by **sunflower** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:36 pm

frogman042 wrote:
Jeemie wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote: How would you know?

You don't read.

Touche.

Actually, like Clem, I'm being forced to read them because my daughter liked the movie.

But the books definitely read like they were written by a bored housewife.
OK, who on the bored is going to fess up as the true author of the series?

I WISH...only because I'd be a bazillionaire if I wrote them. Or maybe a gazillionaire, whichever is larger.

gsabc · #25 Post by **gsabc** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:41 pm

Currently: The Killing Joke, the Batman/Joker story by Alan Moore which was the basis for Heath Ledger's version

In-house and upcoming:
The first seven volumes of Sin City, the graphic novel stories by Frank Miller
Carry On, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, annotated with historical essays and other references

WWTBAM Bored

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