1 in 4 read no books last year. That's not you. So, what are you reading now?

[Faygo Kid]

I usually have four going at any one time, which admittedly means I surf until I get hooked, then go for it. History and biography, I am afraid. Something old ("The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" - yet again), something new ("The Assault On Reason" - Al Gore, fairly new), something borrowed ("Origins," astronomy and excellent), something blue ("Desperate Engagement," about the Civil War Battle of Monocacy. Blue and gray, get it? Never mind).

So I'm indecisive, but reading, and I think they're all good choices. And you?

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[Deja Q]

1. Three books on how to write novels, one on characterization...

I must be crazy. :crazy:

[BlueIris]

18. Nah, I think that's a GREAT project for you.

Get "Unstuck," by Jane Anne Staw, Ph.D. It's an AWESOME book about writer's block, getting rid of writer's block, and maintaining one's connection to creativity thereafter.

[City of Mills]

2. Just read 1984 and Animal Farm back to back

I've read both before but I was in an Orwellian mood.

[Xipe Totec]

112. Touchstones both n/t

[MiniMandaRuth]

3. Marie Antionette: The Journey (Or somma like that)

Wedge's Gamble (Star Wars story. Sue me)
and I still flip through Memoirs of a Geisha when I get bored.

[Ekirh]

4. Currently Reading Zodiac which I got for my birthday.

I might go book shopping this weekend.. probably something non fiction. Not sure what.

[evlbstrd]

5. A Peoples History of the United States, Howard Zinn

I've also read Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast and The Assault on Reason.

[Jimbo S]

91. I bought it back in December.

Even got the teacher's edition. Sometime in the next fifteen years I'll get around to reading it. :)

[evlbstrd]

99. I bought the companion book two years ago.

It contains the source material he used for the History. Took me all this time to buy the actual History!

[skygazer]

6. Three on WWII

Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose
One about the 1936 Olympics in Berlin
One about the Allied occupation of Germany after the war

And just picked up today a book called Last Flag Down about the CSS Shenendoah but I haven't started it yet.

[Xipe Totec]

110. May I make a recommendation?

Barbarossa - The Russian German conflict 1941-1945

Many histories of the Second World War written by American and English authors downplay Russia's critical role in the Allied triumph over Germany. Some of this has to do with the Cold War rivalry that emerged after 1945, and perhaps more of it comes from a lack of Russian source material and unfamiliarity with the Russian language. In any event, Alan Clark's classic study of the Eastern Front remains the best book on the subject, "the greatest and longest land battle which mankind has ever fought."

http://www.amazon.com/Barbarossa-Alan-Clark/dp/0688042686/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-5689470-6956430?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187829245&sr=1-1

[BarenakedLady]

7. I just finished Memoirs of a Geisha the other night

and read all of One Small Boat by Kathy Harrison yesterday. I'm thinking of either reading Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister or Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Very different, not sure what I'm in the mood for.

[GirlinContempt]

123. Have you read any of Maguires other stuff?

[bridgit]

8. I'm taking up the slack @ +/- 1/week or so...

and yeah, working through Potter, mixed with other murder mysteries, I sometimes read a couple concurrently :)

[FloridaJudy]

85. One a week?

My goodness, how can you restrain yourself? But then, I am semi-retired.

[bridgit]

108. perhaps sadly, perhaps happily; i am required to *live* my life as well...

[HughBeaumont]

9. In the article on Yahoo, one of the quotes hit home with me:

"Reading just makes me sleepy".

There it is.

I LOVE to read. My mind wants to read. But the reality is, my body just plain DOESN'T.

The only time I get to read is right before I go to bed. This is after being up since 5:15 AM, getting ready for work, not coming home until at least 6-6:30, making dinner, doing some cleaning, coming on here . . . and then it's time for bed and doing it all over again.

I want to learn things, but the fact of the matter is, the action/process of reading bores the LIFE out of me.

9 out of 10 times, I'm out like a light after 3-5 pages. And this is regarding stuff I'm INTERESTED in. The last fiction I read was Deathly Hallows, which I read in 2 days, because I fell asleep midway through. Not because the book was boring; my body worked against me and made my eyes heavier and heavier due to lack of physical activity.

Sometimes I loiter at Borders or the library for 2-3 hours at a time, to assure I read the whole book in one sitting. Even then, I find myself needing straight Red Bull shots to merely stay awake through the process.

How am I going to go back to school? How does anyone do this? Do they not work or sleep? I have to do both, else it ain't happening. What gets sacrificed?

[skygazer]

10. My sister is like that

And I just don't get it. I can't sleep when I'm reading something good. Reading stimulates me and keeps me feeling engaged. I can stay up all night reading if it's something that I'm totally into.

But then pot makes me rowdy too and it puts my sister to sleep. :rofl:

[Faygo Kid]

17. Thanks for sharing, you are not alone. The older I get, the more I fall asleep.

When I was in my 30s, I read every night in bed for an hour and a half. Now in my mid-50s I make it about 20 minutes, and it's tough to read as voraciously as I used to.

I have to work, and I have to sleep. But I have to read, too, to live. I will do the best I can, and that's all you can do, too.

[pitohui]

113. a few thoughts on that sleepiness, hoping it might help a little

it helps to find the time of day when you can read best, unfortunately, people with very full schedules like yourself may not have that luxury

they say the average sleep needed is 8 hours but people are not average and some of us actually require 9 hours of sleep -- it is possible you are getting up too early for your physiology, when i was able to switch from rising at 6 AM to 8 AM, then i experienced a HUGE improvement in my mood, my health, and my ability to concentrate (but i still need morning caffeine_

i sometimes fall asleep if i read in the wrong part of the afternoon (that sleepy siesta time after lunch) or if i read extremely dry or technical material for too long

one of my friends falls asleep if he reads ANYTHING unless he's doing espresso shots, and, yes, even though he is v. well known in his field, he had a great struggle in school and most people have no idea of the struggle that takes place behind the scenes

we have found that some of the material he is working on now, and which i am also trying learn, very technical material, puts us both asleep, so we make time to discuss the material we are learning and struggling with almost every day, if not in person then by email -- so yes i'm suggesting a study partner who is equally serious as you are

you may have to go back and forth from the reading assignment to an active way of learning

unfortunately you do have to sleep or the new material doesn't "fix" well in your long term memory, esp. at my age! some people i know who go back to school have coasted ("retired in place" on the job if you know what i mean) or even cut back to part time job hours but of course this is not always possible for practical reasons

[mainegreen]

11. A Hilter biography, Gun Germs and Steel, and an anthology of Russian Sci Fi!

:7

[Faygo Kid]

16. Ever read "Explaining Hitler" by Ron Rosenbaum?

I can't recommend it more highly. Brilliant, thoughtful, disturbing, it will take your breath away. "Guns, Germs and Steel" was highly provocative, too.

Which Hitler biography are you reading?

[mitchum]

19. That is a great book. I also recommend Rosenbaum's essay...

"The Catcher In The Driveway" Hilarious and poignant.

[Adsos Letter]

37. I thought Rosenbaum's "Explaining Hitler" was outstanding...

...very interesting read seeing how various historians have tried to "explain" him.

[mainegreen]

59. Hilter 1936-1945 by Ian Kershaw.

I'll check out the one you mentioned.

[Sanity Claws]

12. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

I just finished three books by Willa Cather, My Antonia, O Pioneers, and A Lost Lady.
My library card gets lots of use!

[yellowdogintexas]

33. are you liking Ragtime? I loved that book. nt

[Sanity Claws]

62. Love it

It's a real quick read. It also makes me want to learn more about the real people Doctorow wove into his story.

[yellowdogintexas]

116. the character's name slips me but she was the communist

activist organizer...Emma? anyway she is featured in "REDS", Warren Beatty's movie
I have been thinking I need to revisit that story, maybe that will be my next read.

I loved how he wraps everything up

[Sanity Claws]

128. Emma Goldman

I also like how Doctorow ties all the different people together. Only 36 pages left - will finish today.
Did you ever read Billy Bathgate? I asked the library to put it on hold for me because I enjoyed this Doctorow book so much.

[EFerrari]

13. Two Vonneguts, one Chomsky (who is pissing me off for being

so dense. He is dense and not very nice to his readers. :grr: ) and a new one, The Race Beat, about reporting during the Civil Rights movement.

Always have at least three going on. :crazy:

[mitchum]

14. "Operation Shylock" Philip Roth

[GenDem]

15. Just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns......

and absolutely loved it. Now reading Drowning Ruth.

Summertime is my time to escape into a few good novels.

[XemaSab]

20. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

:hide:

[XemaSab]

21. Oh, but in the last week I've read

"We have always lived in the castle" and "sense and sensibility." :D

[CBHagman]

34. What did you think of "Sense and Sensibility"?

And if you've read any of Jane Austen's other novels -- Persuasion, for example, or Northanger Abbey -- which is your favorite?

[XemaSab]

41. Unusual book...

I wasn't sure how to take a lot of it...

[dropkickpa]

22. Changewinds - Jack L. Chalker

and a couple oncology journals.

[greenbriar]

23. Armed Madhouse

Al Gores Assault on Reason

[RevolutionaryActs]

24. Right now; Crown Duel/Court Duel by Sherwood Smith

Next up The Curse of Chalion by Lois Mcmaster Bujold


I read Fantasy, and lots of it. :P

[ChoralScholar]

25. The Grand Idea by Joel Achenbach

It's about George Washington and his vision for America. A bit on the jingoistic side at times, but not bad overall.

[Rabrrrrrr]

26. LOTR, Swim Against the Current, The Year of Living Biblically, Affirming Faith, Bones, Meat,

and a few others.

[Reciprocity]

122. LOTR

I'll be rereading that for the 32nd time on Sept. 22, cause that's Bilbo and Frodo's birthday. I've read it ever year since I was seventeen.

[MilesColtrane]

27. "No Country for Old Men" -Cormac McCarthy

& "Tooth and Claw" short stories by T.C. Boyle

[SteppingRazor]

28. Rome Wasn't Burnt in a Day by Joe Scarborough (!)

I like to crack a righty book now and again. See how the other half's living -- know your enemy and all that.

I'm also reading The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway and 1968 by Mark Kurlansky. Recently finished Deer Hunting With Jesus by Joe Bageant -- highly recommended!

[Arugula Latte]

29. "We Need to Talk About Kevin"

It's a mother looking back on the lead-up to her son's shooting spree. I can't put it down.

[pitohui]

45. that's a good read EOM

[Catshrink]

30. A Story of Ernest Rutherford's work on the atom..

a science biography -- really interesting. For fun I'm reading Mendeleev's papers, translated of course.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

31. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows

I finished yesterday. I have The Heart of the World, by Ian Baker, which I had started earlier but just jumped into Potter when the neighbor kid loaned it to me. Now back to some reality.
(someone sent me to the lounge from another thread, and I found this thread)

[yellowdogintexas]

32. The Well of Lost Plots, a fun read, third in a series . nt

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

35. I just went to the Half Price Book Store this afternoon.

I picked up a handful of old classic sci-fi novels written by the masters.

I also chose a Doc Savage novel. Gonna start there first, I think.

[La Coliniere]

36. Just finished

"Life of Pi". Recommended by a friend who believes that I need to find God. Liked the book, but didn't find Him.

[Arugula Latte]

46. I read it too ... Liked it ... still no God here

I looked under the couch cushions and everything ...

[FloridaJudy]

81. Is God lost again?

Those darned Mainstream Religions! Always misplacing their deity: I can't count the number of times they've asked me if I'd found Him. In the meantime, you can borrow mine, if you need a fill-in. She's not fussy.

[ulysses]

38. all the names

by Jose Saramago. Plus a bunch of school stuff.

[Adsos Letter]

39. 4 going...

"Taliban" by Ahmed Rashid

"Gettysburg" by Noah Andre' Trudeau

"The War for Righteousness: Progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic Nation" by Gamble

"Adventism and the American Republic" by Douglas Morgan


They're ALL good... :D

[Nikia]

40. I just read Stardust by Neil Gaiman

I am not reading anything at the moment. When I read a book, I tend to get obsessive about it and spend most of my spare time reading until I finish.

[ZombieNixon]

42. Terry Pratchett - Thief of Time

Been on a Discworld kick of late. :D

[deepthought42]

43. I'd have to go out to my bookshelf and make a list...

so I'll just list what I can remember:

god is not Great
The God Delusion
Phantom by Terry Goodkind
The Wayfarer Redemption by Sara Douglass
The Crown and the Sword by Douglas Niles
When Boy Meets Girl by Meg Cabot (a little light reading)
Daugher of Prophecy by Anne Kelleher Bush


There are more. I brought all the books I'm in the middle of reading, and they take up a whole big shelf. *sigh*

[idgiehkt]

44. I gave up my last book

Jerry Bledsoe was wearing on me. Just way too much info not presenting in a linear fashion. I like my non-fiction to be as linear as possible, otherwise I get peeved.

[BlooInBloo]

47. A book on the calculus of variations, reminding myself how it all works.

[Rodanthe]

48. The Berlin Wall

The Three Musketeers
Deer Hunting with Jesus
and
The Lost

[China_cat]

49. Rereading The Tin Drum

[Sanity Claws]

67. I read that years ago in college

Have you read any other Gunther Grass novels? Have you read Heinrich Boll's novels?
I enjoy reading novels from other countries. Even if they are in translation, you get a feel for the different culture, history of the country.

[China_cat]

77. No Boll, one other Grass

which was so forgettable that I can't even remember which one it was.

[Sanity Claws]

83. Cat and Mouse?

That's the only other Grass I can think of off the top of my head.

[China_cat]

89. Might have been

I had that book out of the library for almost a month and don't think I was ever able to get past about page 20.

[RetroLounge]

50. Reading a few.

Rereading "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger.

Almost finished with "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson.

Just getting into "Wherever You Go There You Are" by Jon Kabat-Zin.

about halfway done with "The Invitation" by Oriah Mountain Dreamer.

RL

[TheMightyFavog]

51. Do graphic novels count?

I'm working my way through the Preacher trade paperbacks.

I got hooked reading the first two flying to London in June, and got so sucked in by the story that I bought three more in London.

[last_texas_dem]

52. _Rock of Ages_

Published in the mid-eighties and probably out of print at this point (I bought it used) it's the history of rock and roll as told by three Rolling Stone critics. Overall, I have enjoyed it simply because it's a topic I always enjoy reading about, but I enjoyed the first third the most. The writers divided the book into thirds and each focused on a particular era, and the first section, which focused on the pre-rock era through the pre-Beatles era has been very informative for me and was written in the most entertaining way as well. The other sections have been interesting, even if most of the information isn't new to me because they focus on artists and music I already know a good amount about, but occasionally disappointing when the authors decided to focus more on criticizing certain artists and genres instead of just keeping it focused on the facts and history. Criticism can be interesting to read, but isn't what I was looking for in a history book.

[Lethe]

53. The Dragons of Eden.... Sagan

saw it at half price books and couldnt pass it up

[Left Is Write]

54. I'm trying to choose.

Vying for next on my list are The Blooding by Joseph Wambaugh and In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. I plan to read both, but which one to attack first is the question.

[JVS]

55. BOOKS SUCK!

[DarkTirade]

56. Currently re-reading the Ringworld books by Larry Nivven

His last two got a little meandery (if that's a word), but still an interesting series.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

57. Two books

Rudy: The People's Governor by Betty Wilson -a biography of former Minnesota Gov Rudy Perpich
Kevin Rudd: The Biography -by Robert Macklin

[MissMarple]

58. Stephanie Plum, from the "Burg", or perhaps "The Hill" in St. Louis.

Janet Evanovich. It's fun. They all are, albeit, a bit shallow. Ohhh...but the choices... Ranger or Morelli?

:rofl:

[FloridaJudy]

79. I'd take the Cop

He may not be as fascinating as the Outlaw, but he'd never leave you in the lurch, or stab you in the back.

[MissMarple]

125. Excellent points....

but Ranger is still sooooo...seductive. ;)

[CottonBear]

80. I love the Stephanie Plum books! Lots of fun! I also just read Killer Angels and Traveller

which are both about the civil war. Killer Angels won a Pulitzer prize. It's about the Battle of Gettysburg. Traveller, by Richard Adams, is about Lee's horse from the perspective of the horse.

I'm a Ranger girl myself! ;)

[MissMarple]

126. Hi, Ranger girl.

Hooboy, what a quandary. I know the smart thing is to go for Morelli...but what does Stephanie really want anyway? I guess that is the cogent question. Oh...choices...:evilgrin:

And thanks for the heads up about the Civil War books. Traveller, he must have been some great horse. My family had folks on both sides of that damn war. Too bad we are still fighting it.

[qdemn7]

60. Currently re-reading

Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" Trilogy, as a contrast after re-reading the entire Harry Potter series in anticipation of Deathly Hallows.

Next things after HDM are:

Graham Hancock's "Fingerprints of the Gods",
Chuck Hansen's "US Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History",
John Ross's "Unintended Consequences".

Think I'll pick up a copy of Guns, Germs and Steel.

[deepthought42]

88. That trilogy is on my "to be read" list...

I have the trilogy, just haven't started it yet because I'm trying to finish some other books first. But I am looking forward to reading it. :)

[qdemn7]

90. It really is superb...

You will not be disappointed. Pullman has written a companion book to the trilogy Lyra's Oxford. He is also working on a second companion novel The Book of Dust. I haven't read Lyra's Oxfords yet.

[graywarrior]

61. Just finished Blaze--Stephen King's oldest/newest best novel ever,

[Slippery_Hammer]

63. now reading

A School for Fools by Sasha Sokolov

The last two,

The assault on reason by Albert Gore

Forever odd by Dean R. Koontz

[MissMillie]

64. The Hobbit

and yes, this is the first time I've read it.

What can I say? I've been reading other stuff.

[deepthought42]

98. I started reading that a while back.

But I got distracted by other books. One of these days I will finish it! I also want to read The Silmarillion and The Children of Hurin.

[Fox Mulder]

65. Proven Guilty, book eight of The Dresden Files series.

[JoDog]

71. I've just started reading that series

and I'm hooked. I'm also writing angry letters to the SciFi channel. To think they passed up a second season of Dresden for the dreck formally known as Flash Gordon!

[Deep13]

66. Isabella nt

[EstimatedProphet]

68. Finishing up The Once And Future King

[Lyric]

69. Today I'll be reading Thomas Hobbes "Leviathan" and

John Locke's "Second Treatise of Civil Government" for my political science class.

:hi:

[soleft]

70. I never read, but I've read 2 books this summer

Patricia Cromwell (or is it Cornell) book about Jack the Ripper.

And

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.phpaz=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=6853582&mesg_id=6853582

[Starbucks Anarchist]

72. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane.

After that, I'll read Big Bad Brawly Brown by Walter Mosley and 1776 by David McCullough.

[stuntcat]

73. Maugham's Of Human Bondage

I finally finished Camus's The Plague :blush: I have a problem reading and the papers and magazines slow me down even more.

I don't have The Assault on Reason, it's on my Alibris list though, waiting til I can spend money and order it.

[spinbaby]

74. I'm running out of new stuff to read

Just finished a rather inept murder mystery and started some awful book about the Amish that a friend gave me. Tonight I'll probably run my fingers along the spines of the books my bookshelves until one feels just right for reading.

[FloridaJudy]

75. I usually read two books at once

A big, fat book I have at home, and a small, portable book I take with me for times of enforced idleness (standing in line, waiting rooms, drive-throughs, traffic jams).

My "home" book: Seed to Harvest by Octavia Butler. Her usual interesting take on sex roles, and the meaning of "family". She seems obsessed with the theme of humans impregnated by Aliens and forced to deal with the consequences, which strikes me as being an appropriate choice of subject for an African-American woman. Surely her ancestors raped by their white owners must have felt like this. Seed to Harvest actually starts during Colonial times with forced relationship between a completely Inhuman "owner" and his (mostly) human slave. Both have entirely different motives for trying to create a race of humans with extraordinary powers.

My "traveling" book: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Because I read it when it was first published and wasn't all that impressed, but many really smart people have recommended it since. I'm giving it another go, to see if I've learned anything in the past twenty-five years.

[Burma Jones]

76. Gibbons' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Mere Anarchy by Woody Allen

[Connonym]

78. I just had to return a bunch half read to the library

I'm now working on a sci-fi "Mighty Good Road" and a new chick-lit book by Jane Greene

[sarge43]

82. Beekeeping for Dummies

So I know what the spousal unit is talking about.

Next up: The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest, Peter S. Wells. Then, I'll re-read Tey's The Daughter of Time.

[FloridaJudy]

84. Daughter of Time is a fascinating book

Piqued my interest in British history as a teen.

I also liked Tey's Singing Sands. You might want to try that one next.

[sarge43]

95. It's influenced a lot of people.

Thanks for the tip.

In return, check out Bertram Fields' Blood Royal: Richard III and the Mystery of the Princes. He's a trial lawyer and takes the same approach as Tey, as much as possible staying with primary sources and first hand accounts. A very well balanced analysis.

[SKKY]

86. Execution - The Art of Getting Things Done....

B O R I N G!!! It's "required reading" for me as ordered by my supervisor (I'm in the Navy, so he can do those sorts of things). I have taken somethings away from it, but on the whole, it's pretty dry.

[seemunkee]

87. Finished The Nasty Bits by Tony Bourdain yesterday

Not sure what I'm reading next. Probably go through the pile of magazines and comics first.

[LSK]

92. Reading Thom Hartmann's Screwed

I have read 4 books so far this year.

My list since August 2003: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/lknol1

[NaturalHigh]

93. Family of Spies by Pete Earley.

[bikebloke]

94. Stalin's Ghost

by Martin Cruz Smith
A popcorn read.

[azmouse]

96. The Monsters by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler

Subtitled: Mary Shelley & The Curse of Frankenstein

[Z_I_Peevey]

97. Mockingbird, by Charles J. Shields.

A biography of Harper Lee. Just finished it last night. It was as delightful as its subject, impressively detailed and very well-researched. Respectful of her.

[Polly Hennessey]

100. Books

Nelson DeMille's "The Charm School" about POW/MIAs being taken to the Soviet Union to train Soviet spies for work in the USA and, Harlen Coben's "The Woods" about a decades old disappearance/murder. Fun reading.

[SoxFan]

101. The Grays by Whitley Strieber

[Dora]

102. How to Start a Successful Newsletter or Magazine

Y'all better watch out.

[likesmountains 52]

103. Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje

[SecularMotion]

104. Finishing "Thomas Paine and the Promise of America"

by Harvey J. Kaye

Next up is

"The Demon-Haunted World" by Carl Sagan
and
"Freedom Next Time" by John Pilger

[6000eliot]

105. Henry Esmond by Thackeray

Set in early 18th Century England. It has a really creepy ending. Henry spends most of the novel pining for the daughter, then he winds up marrying the mother!

[mentalsolstice]

106. Decisions...decisions...

I just finished Stephen King's "On Writing", so I'm considering my options:

Joan Didion - "The Year of Magical Thinking"
Amy Tan - "The Joy Luck Club" (I'm a big fan of hers, and surprisingly I haven't read this one)
Eudora Welty - "Selected Stories"
Flannery O'Connor - "Completed Stories"
Anna Quindlan - "Rise and Shine"

and

"Best American Short Stories of the Century"

[jane_pippin]

107. Lots of fancypants stuff for fall: The Keep by Jennifer Egan,

Winkie by Clifford Chase (about a teddy bear on trial for a unabomber like crime--hilarious!), The Plot Against America by Philip Roth.

I always wind up reading literary smarty-pants kid stuff in the fall. Maybe it's a lingering "back to school" feeling. I mean, I read it in the summer too, and less fancy-pants stuff also, but in the fall I read a lot more of it.

[cynatnite]

109. Dawkins "God Delusion" n/t

[RedCappedBandit]

111. Just got through Welcome, Silence.

[baldguy]

114. Al Gore's "Assault On Reason"

The Robert Oppenheimer bio "American Prometheus"

[triguy46]

115. House of Leaves.

[femmocrat]

117. I'm reading fiction for a change, and it is surprisingly good!

It's a book my mom gave to me, after my aunt gave it to her: Flowers in the Blood by Gay Coulter. I was going to read it at the beach, but didn't have a chance.

[Turn CO Blue]

118. Just finished Potter 7 for the 2nd read, also some Anita Shreve

The Last Time They Met, and am currently reading The Heart of Stars the third book of the Rhiannon's Ride series by Kate Forsyth.

I usually keep two to four books going at once. I finish four to seven books per MONTH, so if I am driving up the average there must be some people who have never read a single book.

[Reciprocity]

119. I'm rereading The Godfather.

[Zomby Woof]

120. "Truman" by David McCullough

...and some Shakespeare comedies, currently "Love's Labour Lost".

[MissMarple]

124. Impressive, ...got coffee?

:hi:

[momophile]

121. "the other side of the river" and next is "failed states" nt

[crim son]

127. The Bourne Supremacy. It sucks.

Bad.