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What are you reading?

#1 Post by Vandal » Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:32 am

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
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#2 Post by christie1111 » Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:38 am

[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.
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#3 Post by MarleysGh0st » Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:39 am

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.)

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#4 Post by earendel » Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:51 am

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
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#5 Post by tanstaafl2 » Thu Sep 23, 2010 11:00 am

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.
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#6 Post by tanstaafl2 » Thu Sep 23, 2010 11:02 am

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.
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#7 Post by themanwho » Thu Sep 23, 2010 11:12 am

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.

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#8 Post by Vandal » Thu Sep 23, 2010 11:22 am

I forgot to include my next reading adventure:
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#9 Post by Catfish » Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:52 pm

hard copy: Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
audio: Last Night in Twisted River, John Irving
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#10 Post by TheConfessor » Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:57 pm

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


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#11 Post by secondchance » Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:57 pm

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

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#12 Post by ulysses5019 » Thu Sep 23, 2010 2:02 pm

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

And writing on the bored too?
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#13 Post by Spock » Thu Sep 23, 2010 3:37 pm

"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.

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#14 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Thu Sep 23, 2010 3:55 pm

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

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#15 Post by FannytheBull » Thu Sep 23, 2010 5:18 pm

Vandal wrote:I forgot to include my next reading adventure:
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#16 Post by mellytu74 » Thu Sep 23, 2010 5:47 pm

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.

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#17 Post by etaoin22 » Thu Sep 23, 2010 6:44 pm

"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.

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#18 Post by kroxquo » Thu Sep 23, 2010 7:18 pm

Four Days in November by Vincent Bugliosi. Minute by minute account of the days of and following Kennedy's assassination
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#19 Post by tanstaafl2 » Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:39 am

Vandal wrote:I forgot to include my next reading adventure:
Spoiler
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.
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#20 Post by Jeemie » Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:07 am

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#21 Post by Bob Juch » Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:11 am

tanstaafl2 wrote:
Vandal wrote:I forgot to include my next reading adventure:
Spoiler
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.
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#22 Post by andrewjackson » Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:45 am

I'm working my way through a collection of short stories. Read "The Ransom of Red Chief" last night.
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#23 Post by ulysses5019 » Fri Sep 24, 2010 3:16 pm

Jeemie wrote:Eye dunt reed.

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#24 Post by Bob78164 » Fri Sep 24, 2010 3:36 pm

Right now? The Bored, silly. --Bob
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