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The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson
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The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society - Frans de Waal
i'm a bit torn over this one there are a lot of really amazing animal anecdotes on why natural selection should favor empathy and cooperation but i don't agree with the assumption that the default human society position is individualism - especially when it's argued using a blockbuster movie from 1987 as an example of proof a small gripe - overall good read |
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Kayak Morning - Reflections on love, grief, and small boats
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"A Princess of Mars" (1917) Edgar Rice Burroughs
It is the 1st book in his Barsoom series and the movie "John Carter" was based on it. The book is very good the movie, not so much |
I just finished Happiness by Will Ferguson.
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got 2 books in the backpack right now: a biography about malcolm x and "the courage to be yourself"
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"hostile witness", by rebecca forster
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Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss
by Frederick Barthelme and Steven Barthelme This is a memoir by two adult brothers whose parents both die within a short timeframe, and the brothers become compulsive gamblers and within a matter of a few years lose their fairly sizable inheritance (and gain debt) at the casinos. They are both smart, reflective English professors, and the quality of the writing as well as the way in which they try to figure out psychologically how they let this happen are both very impressive. I definitely recommend this book. It covers grief, our parents' hold on us even as adults and after their deaths, the complicated aspects of sibling relationships, and addiction all with such care. I was not sure I'd like this book because I don't gamble and felt I might get bored, but instead I'm mesmerized. Big thumbs up! |
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch
The book is about the year she spent reading a book a day. I just finished it. I hope it will inspire me to spend less time watching TV and playing Farmville and more time reading. Which reminds me, I must go check on my crops. |
The hunger games book 2
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Some trashy vampire romance novel, yeah it's light reading, but that's what I need right now. :glasses:
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I just finished reading *Wild* by Cheryl Strayed. Fantastic book! This is also a Oprah book club book if you are doing her book club for the summer.
Overview A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than “an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise.” But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone. Strayed faces down rattlesnakes and black bears, intense heat and record snowfalls, and both the beauty and loneliness of the trail. Told with great suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild vividly captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her. |
The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly.
I loved the Harry Bosch books. These -- the other is The Lincoln Lawyer -- not as much, but they are well done. |
This book was written by Diego Rivera's daughter Lupe
if your a frida fan , this book is a very interesting insight from her step children, beautiful photos, alot I have not seen before. http://www.american-buddha.com/afrid...l1x_small1.jpg |
Reading "The Passage" right now (I think that's the name?? lol)... don't know who the author is - and I didn't read the summary so it's been a very interesting experience.
I am 90% certain the military is developing "vampires" for lack of a better word.. and I'm also fairly certain it's going to go horribly... There are bits that remind me a lot of "It" (by King of course)... and I think the vampires may be telepathic... lol I'm liking this whole not reading the summary. Makes the book much more interesting. lol (Book was recommended by a few celebrity geeks. The wife listens to pod casts - so she bought it, and I downloaded it onto my kindle and just started reading it telling her not to tell me what it's about) about 15% in now... the author is spinning a very intriguing web... that's for sure. |
I'm just starting Atlantis and Other Lost Worlds by Frank Joseph.
Seems like it's gonna be quite interesting. :) |
Haunted
Chuck Palahniuk |
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I just ordered: My Side of the Mountain Trilogy (My Side of the Mountain / On the Far Side of the Mountain / Frightful's Mountain)
by Jean Craighead George My nieces and I were discussing this book series last weekend. Their recent enjoyment of the series means that I have to read it again, and remember why My Side of the Mountain was my favorite book as a child. |
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