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RE: what have you read, lately? - 2/18/2008 10:40:39 AM

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"Arc of Justice," the story of Dr. Ossian Sweet's trial for the shooting of a man during a mob action against the doctor when he moved his family into an all white neighborhood in Detroit in 1929. Great read.

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RE: what have you read, lately? - 2/18/2008 10:48:42 AM

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If you like Dan Brown, give M. J. Rose's The Reincarnationist a whirl.

I'm reading Susan Wise Bauer's History of the Ancient World but my guilty pleasure is Nora Roberts. I enjoy reading the first chapter, and then plotting out how I think the rest of the book will go before I finish it.

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RE: what have you read, lately? - 2/18/2008 10:52:35 AM

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carlie..you're busted too...LOL

JD Robb, anyone??

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RE: what have you read, lately? - 2/18/2008 10:55:22 AM

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carlie..you're busted too...LOL

JD Robb, anyone??

I was including her in with NR!

Have you signed up with PaperBackSwap? You can get some good books there for free--if you list books of your own to send & send them if someone requests.

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RE: what have you read, lately? - 2/18/2008 10:56:09 AM

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What have you read lately?

Pierre Berton's "Flames Across the Border" (War of 1812)
Winston Churchill's "Modern Contemporaries"
Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet"
Joseph Campbell's "The Hero of a Thousand Faces"

Rare that I read just one book at a time.

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RE: what have you read, lately? - 2/18/2008 10:58:24 AM

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Books that are not tax related? Not lately........but I am acquiring a pile. I have the new Steve King, Duma Key, which I bought because I was fascinated by the short story it came from (read THAT on Amazon during a rare moment of dead time at work). There are some Charlie Stross and Karl Schroeder books on the heap, and something my friend lent me, Rousseau's Dog, which I think is essays (if so, that would be appropriate!) Nonfiction, I am reading a big fat sex book, and a few knitting books.......

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RE: what have you read, lately? - 2/18/2008 11:07:20 AM

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PaperBackSwap

I love that site!

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RE: what have you read, lately? - 2/18/2008 11:08:00 AM

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Just finshed The Cold Moon , a lincloln rhyme book.
Now, im reading alfred hitchcock

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RE: what have you read, lately? - 2/18/2008 11:08:11 AM

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Have you signed up with PaperBackSwap? You can get some good books there for free--if you list books of your own to send & send them if someone requests.

ooh..no... gonna do that now!!

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RE: what have you read, lately? - 2/18/2008 12:47:21 PM

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Let me throw out another site- www.biblio.com. I've been buying lots of stuff through them recently- Got to reread Daniel Keyes Moran's the Long Run. Just finished George MacBeth's Cadbury trilogy -the Samurai, The Seven Witches, and the Born Losers (the first was far and away the best)- Currently rereading December 6, 1941- Martin Cruz Smith- another author who does his homework. Also reading Luftwaffe- Williamson Murray. Best novel I've read in a long time- Pattern Recognition by William Gibson- I'm envious of how well this guy can write. For the mystery fans- nobody's mentioned my favorite author- Leslie Charteris. For the Floridians (and the rest of us) I always enjoyed the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald, and I really like a lot of Carl Hiassen's stuff too which is a bit more contemporary. I pretty much gave up on the Alex Delaware stuff by Jonathan Kellerman- he's too dogmatic, no wonder he turned to writing instead of being a shrink.

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RE: what have you read, lately? - 2/18/2008 1:52:18 PM

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I did read the "Pillars of the Earth" about 12 years ago, and it was a great book.

At the moment I am reading the 3rd part of the "Bartimaeus" trilogie. An entertaining read, I would recommend it.

Before that, I did run through the first 9 "Dresden Files" novels, and now I am impatiently waiting for the 10th one to come out in April. Fantastic books, unusual combination of fantasy and hard boiled detective stories.

And waiting in line are the first three books of the "Codex Alera" by Jim Butcher, who is also the creator of the "Dresden Files".

My "go-to and re-read" standby are the "Belgariad", the "Malloreon", the extensions to those two, the "Elenium", and the "Tamuli" series, all by David Eddings. I just recently aquired his last circle of books, "The Dreamers". However, after loving his earlier work so much, this was a sad, sad read. To me, they lacked in everything a good book should have.

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RE: what have you read, lately? - 2/18/2008 4:03:54 PM

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And I'll never admit it publicly but I enjoy Catherine Coulter as well:)

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RE: what have you read, lately? - 2/18/2008 4:44:51 PM

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Hmmm I just finished up
Kushiels Justice, the 5th in the series, by Jacqueline Cary.
The Appeal, by John Grisham. I'm still working on The Innocent Man.
Halfway through Shadow Dawn, 3rd in the Shadow Wars series, by Chris Claremont and George Lucas.
Just started Misquoting Jesus, by Bart D. Ehrman.

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RE: what have you read, lately? - 2/18/2008 4:57:36 PM

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I love books. Uh huh. I love the feel of holding one in my hand, and turning the pages. Ohhhhhh Yeahhhhhhh..... The written word appeals to me in so many ways... (Man noises.....gurrgle......Gris love books)

I just finished reading "The Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett. What an awesome book! Not being an architect, or an expert on the time period, I have to assume that he did at least some research into both subjects.

Put me in any city and I can spend days looking at buildings.

Not only did the story appeal to me, but I was impressed by how he was able to impart info about the processes involved in the building of the cathedral in a way that made it interesting to me. And (again, I'm no expert..in fact my knowledge of the era is quite limited) the politics and depiction of daily life had an authentic feel to it.

I cant wait to get my hands on the sequel!

What have you read lately?

Gawwwwd....what haven't I read lately? I'm on 6 flights a month and I read everything I haven't yet read. Books are Gods milk.

Most recent...."Age of Turbulence" by Alan Greenspan (I'm a bit of an econ freak).

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RE: what have you read, lately? - 2/18/2008 5:03:20 PM

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Gris.. when I went to Europe last summer I took tons of pics.... and almost all of them were of buildings,..lol We spent a day in Paris. Out of about 200 pictures, I'd estimate that 120 were of Notre Dame.. *grin*

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RE: what have you read, lately? - 2/18/2008 5:11:02 PM

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For fun i am reading "Tremors of Intent" by Burgess but for school i am doing a project on religious fanatcism.

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RE: what have you read, lately? - 2/19/2008 7:03:58 AM

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Fiction:
The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs by Irvine Welsh - A not very inspiring effort by his standards, and certainly not up to the standards he set with Trainspotting and Filth. Still an enjoyable read.
Pure Pulp - An excellent anthology of American hard-boiled stuff from first half of the 20th century

Non-Fictioin:
The latest issue of waxpoetics - a bi-monthly journal of crate digging
The Africa Cookbook - exactly what the title says it is

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RE: what have you read, lately? - 2/19/2008 7:08:47 AM

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Ghost wars-stephen coll
The looming tower-lawrence Wright
Contemplative prayer-Thomas Merton
Parting the waters-Taylor Branch
The heartless Stone-Tom Zoellner

I tend to work on a few books at a time. Next on the list is
The Master and the margherita.
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but it is the book that inspired the song
Sympathy for the devil.
It looks good.

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RE: what have you read, lately? - 2/19/2008 9:07:05 AM

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CalamitySandra menntioned the David & Leigh Eddings' books. I'm reading book 2 of The Malloread. I gave away my 3rd set of The Belgariad to a chick in Vancouver BC August 2006. Reckon I need to replace it.

KatyLied mentioned Love in the Time of Cholera, an outstanding example of "Magical Realism". One Hundred Years of Solitude was also fine, as was Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel. I made a couple recipes from the book, including the Quail in Rose Petal Sauce, when I had my restaurant. Yummy stuff.

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RE: what have you read, lately? - 2/19/2008 9:16:45 AM

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