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DesFIP -> RE: What are you reading? (4/22/2009 4:33:57 AM)
Just finished Real Murders by Charlene Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse vampire mysteries. Prior to that, People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks. Wonderful book, tells the history of the Jews for the last five hundred years through the story of a Passover Haggadah and the people who preserve it.

curiousINct -> RE: What are you reading? (4/22/2009 6:06:43 AM)
I'm struggling through A Much Married Man, by Nicholas Coleridge and holding out hope that the next book I pick up sucks me in - it's been nearly a year since that's happened. We have a book bank here. Tons of used books, everything is free - you can leave a donation in the jar on the way out the door if you choose to do so. It might be worth checking around to see if there's something similar in your area, most people around here don't know this place exists. I work in a library, but still get most of my books from there.

thishereboi -> RE: What are you reading? (4/22/2009 6:13:05 AM)
Right now I am reading "High Five" by Janet Evanavich.

kittinSol -> RE: What are you reading? (4/22/2009 6:14:23 AM)
Well, go on then, don't be shy... what is it about? Is it any good? Extrapolate, girly, extrapolate :-) .

AngelGeena -> RE: What are you reading? (4/22/2009 6:18:23 AM)
I've read the entire Stephanie Plum series. I love the way she writes. My 80 year old dad is the one who got me reading her. She cracks me up. Especially stuff about grandma.

MsFlutter -> RE: What are you reading? (4/22/2009 6:43:01 AM)
The Wrong Kind of Money (Stephen Birmingham) The FemDom Experience (re-reading, actually) (Elise Sutton) More Fabric Savvy (Sandra Betzina) Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudia Arabia (Jean Sasson)

CatdeMedici -> RE: What are you reading? (4/22/2009 6:45:17 AM)
" World Without End", which is the second book to "Pillars of the Earth".

GreedyTop -> RE: What are you reading? (4/22/2009 6:49:10 AM)
I've got to get that book, Cat... I loved PIllars (read it 4 times now..) I'm getting ready to start The Ghost War by Alex Berenson.

Jeptha -> RE: What are you reading? (4/22/2009 10:29:04 AM)
"A Coon's Tale" by Thomas and Valda Coon. It's a memoir dating from the earliest years of the 20th century, set in various towns in rural Oregon. I understand why people had so many kids back then; you had to have ten because it was unlikely that all would survive, for any number of reasons. People were always drowning of falling off of something or getting run over by something. The book is not highly recommended. I just got it because it deals with an area of the countryside that I'm interested in exploring. I'm also perusing "Grampa Dean's Hunting Tales", for much the same reason (local references). For some odd reason, I'm finding the book amusing. I've read a lot of books about hunting and sailing, even though I neither hunt nor sail.

chamberqueen -> RE: What are you reading? (4/22/2009 2:02:06 PM)
Shardik, by the same man who wrote Watership Down. Apparently the bear (Shardik) is what Stephen King used to base part of his Dark Tower series on so this is to get a better understanding behind that. (I admit, I'm a huge Stephen King fan though I also enjoy Stephanie Plum and get a kick out of gramma.)

Crush -> RE: What are you reading? (4/22/2009 2:06:11 PM)
I'm reading a bunch of books on Poker and books on Body Language/Interrogation Techniques. Also some stuff on security and related things, *but I'd have to kill ya if I told you ;)* OH, and for light reading, I love Clive Cussler's books...re-reading them.

slvemike4u -> RE: What are you reading? (4/22/2009 2:33:35 PM)
Once the Dirk Pitt books sort of petered out...I lost interest in Cussler .He has his formula....and after awhile it just got old,as did Dirk and good old Al.

Crush -> RE: What are you reading? (4/22/2009 2:50:54 PM)
Still great reading from the history information he provides...and of course, it isn't just Dirk/Al series...there is the Kirk/Joe crew too. Some of the co-written aren't quite as good, but I like how he sneaks in the various historical and even some of his "science" stuff. Though sometimes it does cross the "believable" line. And the whole "Hitchcock" thing...where you get that "deus ex Cussler" along the way.

camille65 -> RE: What are you reading? (4/22/2009 3:30:23 PM)
Just finished the most recent Doc Ford book by Randy Wayne White, really cool series featuring a marine biologist / 'retired' government killer that takes place around the Ten Thousand Islands. I just wish the books were longer, I get bummed out paying for a book I read in 2 hours.

OrionTheWolf -> RE: What are you reading? (4/22/2009 3:32:11 PM)
Plato's "The Republic".

MarsBonfire -> RE: What are you reading? (4/22/2009 3:40:45 PM)
Unfortunately, Ballard passed away this week. But, in honor of him, I'm re-reading "Hi-Rise" this week. It's about a posh apartment building that slowly mutates into a 20 story cliff dwelling when society breaks down... I've read Crash and Empire of the Sun... but I really want to find a copy of both The Wind From Nowhere, and The Concrete Island...

AngelGeena -> RE: What are you reading? (4/22/2009 3:43:12 PM)
Also, A Thousand Splendid Suns....although the author's name totally slips my mind at the m oment.

Jeptha -> RE: What are you reading? (4/22/2009 4:16:51 PM)
I read a couple of great "graphic novels" (we knew them as comic books) recently; "Petey & Pussy", by John Kerschbaum, and "Fuzz & Pluck: Splitsville", by Ted Stearn. Petey & Pussy was bizarre. Fuzz and Pluck was cute.

ThatDamnedPanda -> RE: What are you reading? (4/22/2009 9:14:30 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: AngelGeena Also, A Thousand Splendid Suns....although the author's name totally slips my mind at the m oment. Say, what do you think of that? I read a very encouraging review in the Sunday paper a few weeks ago, and it's kind of on my radar now.

GreedyTop -> RE: What are you reading? (4/22/2009 11:29:29 PM)
OK, started The Ghost War tonight at work... just finished it... good book... if you like spy thrillers, I recommend it..as well as Faithful Spy (same author.. read Faithful Spy first)

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