What are you reading?
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What are you reading?
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
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
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Re: What are you reading?
[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.
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.
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Re: What are you reading?
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.)
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.)
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Re: What are you reading?
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
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
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Re: What are you reading?
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.
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.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
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Some people are like a Slinky. They are not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs...
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Re: What are you reading?
And almost forgot The Invention of Air: A Story Of Science, Faith, Revolution, And The Birth Of America by Steven Johnson.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.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
~Mark Twain
Some people are like a Slinky. They are not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs...
~tanstaafl2
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~Mark Twain
Some people are like a Slinky. They are not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs...
~tanstaafl2
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Re: What are you reading?
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
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
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Re: What are you reading?
I forgot to include my next reading adventure:
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Re: What are you reading?
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
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
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Re: What are you reading?
The late, great, Bill Hicks had a silght variation on the question:
- secondchance
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Re: What are you reading?
In the middle of listening to The Lovely Bones whilst driving.
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Re: What are you reading?
secondchance wrote:In the middle of listening to The Lovely Bones whilst driving.
And writing on the bored too?
I believe in the usefulness of useless information.
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Re: What are you reading?
"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.
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.
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Re: What are you reading?
OMG!Vandal wrote:I forgot to include my next reading adventure:
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Vandal wrote:I forgot to include my next reading adventure:
It's not just good science, it's good sense!
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Re: What are you reading?
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.
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.
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Re: What are you reading?
"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.
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.
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Re: What are you reading?
Four Days in November by Vincent Bugliosi. Minute by minute account of the days of and following Kennedy's assassination
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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...Vandal wrote:I forgot to include my next reading adventure:
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.
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.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
~Mark Twain
Some people are like a Slinky. They are not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs...
~tanstaafl2
Nullum Gratuitum Prandium
Ne Illegitimi Carborundum
Cumann na gClann Uí Thighearnaigh
~Mark Twain
Some people are like a Slinky. They are not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs...
~tanstaafl2
Nullum Gratuitum Prandium
Ne Illegitimi Carborundum
Cumann na gClann Uí Thighearnaigh
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Re: What are you reading?
tanstaafl2 wrote: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...Vandal wrote:I forgot to include my next reading adventure:
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.
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Re: What are you reading?
I'm working my way through a collection of short stories. Read "The Ransom of Red Chief" last night.
No matter where you go, there you are.
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Re: What are you reading?
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Re: What are you reading?
Right now? The Bored, silly. --Bob
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