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What book are you currently reading?

Started by Valiss, September 13, 2010, 01:34:15 PM

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Carl

The Sun also Rises 
Wow can these people drink!
Castleteer
Bretheren of the Great Lakes
Outlander
FOKTOP
True heirto the Duchy of Savoy
Rivet'n Penny

maeven

Bart Simpson's Guide to Life (I bought it a while back and it caught my eye while I was moving stuff around in our bedroom the other day-it's too funny)
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Molden

Quote from: Carl and Donna on January 04, 2011, 08:32:46 PM
The Sun also Rises 
Wow can these people drink!

A great book by Hemingway! It has more of an F. Scott Fitzgerald flavor to it.

I'm currently reading "Full Catastrophe Living" a book on applying meditation/mindfulness to day-to-day life by Jon Kabat-Zinn. The title is misleading unless you've seen Zorba The Greek and get the analogy to his quote in the film.

I'm also reading "Storied Lives: Discovering and Deepening Your Personal Myth" by Craig Chalquist and Rebecca Elliott. A very succinct, and practical companion to Joseph Campbell's "Hero With A Thousand Faces" which is an extremely academic tome.
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Zardoz

'The Invention of Tradition', A great book about how many "ago old traditions" are sometimes not really that old or traditional.
http://www.amazon.com/Invention-Tradition-Canto-Eric-Hobsbawm/dp/0521437733


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Tink

One of my resolutions this year is to read more.  It's funny, but ever since I started teaching reading, I've done very little of it myself.

I've started Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and have several of the mash-up novels to read, including Dawn of the Dreadfuls (the prequal to P&P&Z), Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, Jane Slayer, and Android Karenina.

I got a nook for Christmas, so I also want to go back and read/ re-read all the classics.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. - W. Shakespeare

Morgan Dreadlocke

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
My intentions are to commandeer a venue, sail to Tortuga, then pick, strum and otherwise play me weasily black guts out.

Becky10

Rereading Lamb the gospels according to Biff.
Its the only book ive ever seriously LOLed while reading
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on

appljx

Started reading the Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson...hopefully I won't finish them before the last book comes out next year :)

http://www.amazon.com/Eye-World-Wheel-Time-Book/dp/0812511816/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1295189798&sr=8-2

cowgrrl

Quote from: Becky10 on January 12, 2011, 12:55:26 AM
Rereading Lamb the gospels according to Biff.
Its the only book ive ever seriously LOLed while reading

It is hilarious.  'You can't give the meek a fruitcake'.

I'm reading the following:

-'Deeper than the Dead' by Tami Hoag (at home)
-'The Swan Thieves' by Elizabeth Kostova (at work/We have a daily reading time & the administration wants the kids to see us reading.  Oh darn, I have to read for 20 minutes every day at work)
-'Beautiful Boy' by David Sheff (audiobook/listening to in my car)

I love to read. 

Merlin the Elder

Quote from: Becky10 on January 12, 2011, 12:55:26 AM
Rereading Lamb the gospels according to Biff.
Its the only book ive ever seriously LOLed while reading
It was/is the funniest book I have ever read. Tears, I would laugh so hard!
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Zardoz

Working through my Christmas books...

For Non-Fiction;
Just finished "The Invention of Tradition" Ed. by Eric Hobsbawm it's a great book about how many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were invented comparatively recently.

Next up; "Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right"  by Jennifer Burns

For Fiction; Finishing up "Blackout" by Connie Willis, and it's sequel "All Clear" is up next.
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Lady Pagos

I just finished The Stand...for about the 6th time...
Now onto Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell
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KeeperoftheBar

Fiction: "The Fort" by Bernard Cornwell
Nonfiction: "Infiltration" by Albert Speer (Yes, the Nazi)
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Celt_Skins

I currently have three Fiction and Two Non-Fiction in the process of being read:

Fiction:

Doomewyte (a novel of Redwall, by Brian Jacques)
The Protector's War (a novel of The Change, by S. M. Sterling)
The Lost Symbol (by Dan Brown)

Non-Fiction:

Fire in the Head (a book about Celtic Shamanism, by Tom Cowan)
The Art of Happiness (by his holiness, The Dalai Lama)

Enjoy Reading!!!

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Merlin the Elder

Quote from: Lady Pagos on January 17, 2011, 10:32:00 PM
I just finished The Stand...for about the 6th time...
Now onto Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell
Looks like we like the same sort of books!
Living life in the slow lane
ROoL #116; the Jack of Daniels; AARP #7; SS# 000-00-0013
I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
...and may all your babies be born naked...