What are you reading?

Apocalipstic · 12-04-2009, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Dean Thoreau

for light reading this week I read...............
Sari Shop Window..by Bantwal great read, good novel....
The Eliminationists by David Neiwert....(quasi political)
The Dangerous World of Butterlies ***** i recommend
The End of Overeating by David Kessler..excellent
Super Freakonomics....fun
Cheap by Ellen rupel Shell.... not bad but she is really out of touch with the world.

not sure what i will read tonigh

dean

I really enjoy the Freakonomics books, fun indeed!

Rufusboi · 12-04-2009, 04:13 PM

Original Sin by PD James.

Inuus · 12-04-2009, 05:57 PM

Soul Of A Dog by Jon Katz
Most recent book in a series about his life in upstate NY on his farm. Ive read a few in the series and really like them. Quick read, great stories and antics about his animals. Light reading would recommend it

daisygrrl · 12-04-2009, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Inuus

Soul Of A Dog by Jon Katz
Most recent book in a series about his life in upstate NY on his farm. Ive read a few in the series and really like them. Quick read, great stories and antics about his animals. Light reading would recommend it

That sounds like a great book! You may also enjoy When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy

Kassy, Dean, & Rufus--those are great lists! I looked at reviews on them and put several on my reading list!

hottprof · 12-04-2009, 07:19 PM

The Dark Tower Series : Drawing of Three (ie book 2). Stephen King

On the Edge: The United States in the Twentieth Century - Horowitz and Carroll (for the class I am teaching this spring)

The Lyrics to "We didn't Start the Fire" BIlly Joel (also a teaching tool)

Smiles

daisygrrl · 12-04-2009, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by hottprof

On the Edge: The United States in the Twentieth Century - Horowitz and Carroll (for the class I am teaching this spring)

The Lyrics to "We didn't Start the Fire" BIlly Joel (also a teaching tool)

Smiles

Dear prof--I wish that I was in that class (how cool!)

MsDemeanor · 12-04-2009, 07:47 PM

Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell

Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich

The Family by Jeff Sharlet

And a bunch of silversmithing and jewelry making books and magazines

bright_arrow · 01-06-2016, 05:35 PM

The Draculia Vampire trilogy by Colleen Gleason. Delving into her books and loving them more and more.

bright_arrow · 11-17-2016, 09:49 PM

Just finished re-reading Needful Things, it is a favorite of mine for reasons unknown

Started reading Odd Thomas. I have seen the movie, but the book series is 7-8 books so I am excited

Kätzchen · 11-18-2016, 05:06 PM

I found an interesting book to read, the other day, while wandering around the skilled nursing facility (pt/ot rehab).

Title : King Larry | The Life and Ruins Of A Billionaire Genius.
Author: James D. Scurlock.
Publisher: Scribner, 2012.

I've only read the introduction, a mere few pages, but the author gives meticulous attention to the man who gave birth to DHL, which was doing business long before FedEx (50 year head start) and how Larry Hillblom was not only a business genius but how his behavioral choices, hiding in plain sight, would be the long remembered undoing of his so called financial empire (and not his business acumen).

I haven't even finished with chapter one and already give it a huge props. Very good book. Very enlightening. Tragic story.

Kobi · 11-23-2016, 02:12 PM

After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents -- first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year old mother -- author Plum Johnson and her three younger brothers have finally fallen to their middle-aged knees with conflicted feelings of grief and relief.

Now they must empty and sell the beloved family home, twenty-three rooms bulging with history, antiques, and oxygen tanks. Plum thought: How tough will that be?

I know how to buy garbage bags. But the task turns out to be much harder and more rewarding than she ever imagined.

Items from childhood trigger difficult memories of her eccentric family growing up in the 1950s and '60s, but unearthing new facts about her parents helps her reconcile those relationships, with a more accepting perspective about who they were and what they valued.

They Left Us Everything is a funny, touching memoir about the importance of preserving family history to make sense of the past, and nurturing family bonds to safeguard the future.

Dean Thoreau · 12-04-2009, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by apocalipstic

I really enjoy the Freakonomics books, fun indeed!

it is also one of the few economic books my kids will read and enjoy as well...
i have a tendency to quote form them frequently when talking with my elementary students they make economic principles and concepts easy to understand....
tho my favorite book to quote from at school is "Lies my teacher taught me"

bright_arrow · 02-17-2015, 07:18 PM

On book two of this series:

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Rest-Falls-Gardella-Vampire-Hunters-ebook/dp/B00NMVLLMA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1424222033&sr=8-1&keywords=gardella+vampire+series"]Amazon.com: The Rest Falls Away (The Gardella Vampire Hunters: Victoria Book 1) eBook: Colleen Gleason: Kindle Store[/ame]

80% through Stephen King's "Revival" on my Kindle, and a few pages into a book that was loaned to me.

GraffitiBoi · 02-17-2015, 07:35 PM

One of my friends just had her second book published. Sacrificial Lamb Cake. So I'm reading that.

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Sacrificial-Lamb-Cake-Katrina-Monroe/dp/1940215420/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1424223190&sr=1-2&keywords=sacrificial+lamb+cake"]http://www.amazon.com/Sacrificial-Lamb-Cake-Katrina-Monroe/dp/1940215420/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1424223190&sr=1-2&keywords=sacrificial+lamb+cake[/ame]

FemmeBibliophile · 02-17-2015, 07:38 PM

The person above me gave me a very interesting little book to read called: Topping From Below... Gonna read that next.

The JD · 02-17-2015, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by FemmeBibliophile

The person above me gave me a very interesting little book to read called: Topping From Below... Gonna read that next.

I read that book a decade ago, and it haunts me still. There are some facts about animal penises I just don't need to know. Gack!

always2late · 02-17-2015, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by The JD

I read that book a decade ago, and it haunts me still. There are some facts about animal penises I just don't need to know. Gack!

Read the book many years ago and I agree....I could have certainly done without the "fun" animal facts!

Bard · 03-10-2015, 02:47 AM

Currently Priceless by Shannon Mayer and also another series Celtic Legacy by the same author. Also the Tarot Witches series by SM Reine

Fancy · 03-12-2015, 02:12 PM

Selected Poems

ee cummings

Inspired by this recent magazine article, so I picked up a copy and decided to reacquaint myself with ee.

femmeandstrong · 03-17-2015, 08:37 AM

..this page... lmao

but also... FAT LAND ( about the politics of food in the US over the last 50+ years)

12-04-2009, 05:57 PM	#3
Inuus Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Preferred Pronoun?: She/Her Relationship Status: Single Not Looking Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 265 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 242 Thanked 377 Times in 143 Posts Rep Power: 3733068	Soul Of A Dog by Jon Katz Most recent book in a series about his life in upstate NY on his farm. Ive read a few in the series and really like them. Quick read, great stories and antics about his animals. Light reading would recommend it __________________ “Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society.”- Cesar Chavez

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hottprof Member How Do You Identify?: female Preferred Pronoun?: Miss to you... for hym... Relationship Status: Crashes One Femme Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: PA Posts: 335 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 180 Thanked 549 Times in 188 Posts Rep Power: 4984838	The Dark Tower Series : Drawing of Three (ie book 2). Stephen King On the Edge: The United States in the Twentieth Century - Horowitz and Carroll (for the class I am teaching this spring) The Lyrics to "We didn't Start the Fire" BIlly Joel (also a teaching tool) Smiles Last edited by hottprof; 12-04-2009 at 07:19 PM. Reason: not an english teacher... bad spelling

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Kobi Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Biological female. Lesbian. Relationship Status: Happy Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hanging out in the Atlantic. Posts: 9,234 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,840 Thanked 34,617 Times in 7,640 Posts Rep Power: 21474860	They left us everything : a memoir / Plum Johnson. After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents -- first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year old mother -- author Plum Johnson and her three younger brothers have finally fallen to their middle-aged knees with conflicted feelings of grief and relief. Now they must empty and sell the beloved family home, twenty-three rooms bulging with history, antiques, and oxygen tanks. Plum thought: How tough will that be? I know how to buy garbage bags. But the task turns out to be much harder and more rewarding than she ever imagined. Items from childhood trigger difficult memories of her eccentric family growing up in the 1950s and '60s, but unearthing new facts about her parents helps her reconcile those relationships, with a more accepting perspective about who they were and what they valued. They Left Us Everything is a funny, touching memoir about the importance of preserving family history to make sense of the past, and nurturing family bonds to safeguard the future. __________________

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Kätzchen Member How Do You Identify?: As a very feminine woman. Relationship Status: Unavailable. Join Date: May 2010 Location: Near smoke signals in the sky. Posts: 16,191 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,460 Thanked 33,606 Times in 10,705 Posts Rep Power: 21474868	I found an interesting book to read, the other day, while wandering around the skilled nursing facility (pt/ot rehab). Title : King Larry \| The Life and Ruins Of A Billionaire Genius. Author: James D. Scurlock. Publisher: Scribner, 2012. I've only read the introduction, a mere few pages, but the author gives meticulous attention to the man who gave birth to DHL, which was doing business long before FedEx (50 year head start) and how Larry Hillblom was not only a business genius but how his behavioral choices, hiding in plain sight, would be the long remembered undoing of his so called financial empire (and not his business acumen). I haven't even finished with chapter one and already give it a huge props. Very good book. Very enlightening. Tragic story.

02-17-2015, 07:18 PM	#13
bright_arrow ☆ the stars are aligned ☆ How Do You Identify?: one queer mama Preferred Pronoun?: she/her Relationship Status: married to my Boo Daddy <3 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: nor cal Posts: 2,910 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,644 Thanked 9,363 Times in 2,296 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	On book two of this series: [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Rest-Falls-Gardella-Vampire-Hunters-ebook/dp/B00NMVLLMA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1424222033&sr=8-1&keywords=gardella+vampire+series"]Amazon.com: The Rest Falls Away (The Gardella Vampire Hunters: Victoria Book 1) eBook: Colleen Gleason: Kindle Store[/ame] 80% through Stephen King's "Revival" on my Kindle, and a few pages into a book that was loaned to me.

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GraffitiBoi Member How Do You Identify?: Transmasculine Preferred Pronoun?: Male ones Relationship Status: Playing around and having fun Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Minnetonka, MN Posts: 903 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 990 Thanked 3,663 Times in 824 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	One of my friends just had her second book published. Sacrificial Lamb Cake. So I'm reading that. [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Sacrificial-Lamb-Cake-Katrina-Monroe/dp/1940215420/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1424223190&sr=1-2&keywords=sacrificial+lamb+cake"]http://www.amazon.com/Sacrificial-Lamb-Cake-Katrina-Monroe/dp/1940215420/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1424223190&sr=1-2&keywords=sacrificial+lamb+cake[/ame]

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