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What Are You Reading? - 6/2/2012 9:25:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		I started off my summer sweeping through a deeply silly Janet Evanovich novel. Since I now have the attention span of lint, it was a good choice, and not just because it was the book lying around the hotel room.

The pile of books waiting for me is large, and my Amazon wish list has some stuff there too. Naturally I am dissatisfied with all my options.

What are you reading this summer?

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/2/2012 9:35:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm on book #4 of a series called "The Change" by S.M. Stirling. The premise is: 1999, without warning or obvious cause all electronic and many mechanical things fail. Planes fall out of the sky, all engines cease etc. It goes through the sheer upheaval of people trying to survive, and people trying to take what they want without regard for others. In populated areas only a small percentage is able to survive as our civilization takes an enormous step backward.

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/2/2012 12:35:39 PM   
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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/2/2012 12:38:36 PM   
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I'm on book #4 of a series called "The Change" by S.M. Stirling. The premise is: 1999, without warning or obvious cause all electronic and many mechanical things fail. Planes fall out of the sky, all engines cease etc. It goes through the sheer upheaval of people trying to survive, and people trying to take what they want without regard for others. In populated areas only a small percentage is able to survive as our civilization takes an enormous step backward.

This book sounds awesome. I just finished reading a book, and haven't been to the book store to get something else. I might look for this next time I'm there.

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/2/2012 12:41:51 PM   
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ORIGINAL: LadyHibiscus

I started off my summer sweeping through a deeply silly Janet Evanovich novel. Since I now have the attention span of lint, it was a good choice, and not just because it was the book lying around the hotel room.

The pile of books waiting for me is large, and my Amazon wish list has some stuff there too. Naturally I am dissatisfied with all my options.

What are you reading this summer?


Game of thrones series and civilization or barbarism. There's many more but I doubt I'll get to them.

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/2/2012 1:07:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		Jean Auel's Earth Children series. I am almost finished with the 4th, have the 5th on hand, and the 6th reserved at the library as soon as it comes in. They take place during the Ice Age and the beginning of modern man. She has done years of research for these books and I find it fascinating to read about the animals that then roamed the earth and the plants available and what they could be used for.

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/2/2012 1:17:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		I just finished a Bujold-athon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_McMaster_Bujold

and am about to start Daniel Keys Moran: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Keys_Moran

Yesterday I whizzed through the short Food Rules: An Eater's Manual, a 2009 book by Michael Pollan. It offers 64 rules on eating based on his previous book In Defense of Food in three sections: Eat food, mostly plants, not too much. The book attributes the "diseases of affluence", to the so-called "Western Diet" of processed meats and food products, and offers its rules as a remedy to the problem.

Awaiting me in my Kindle is Cormac McCarthy's "The Road," a post-apocalyptic tale of a journey of a father and his young son over a period of several months, across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed most of civilization and, in the intervening years, almost all life on Earth.

The original Edward and Bella version of "50 Shades of Gray" is collecting dust in my Kindle - I think I'm about 12% in.

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/2/2012 1:19:55 PM   
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Jean Auel's Earth Children series. I am almost finished with the 4th, have the 5th on hand, and the 6th reserved at the library as soon as it comes in. They take place during the Ice Age and the beginning of modern man. She has done years of research for these books and I find it fascinating to read about the animals that then roamed the earth and the plants available and what they could be used for.


When I'm trying to get to sleep, her long descriptive passages do the trick like nothing else! I'm in book 5 and have # 6.

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/2/2012 6:47:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		Laying out my Summer reading:
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The Coming of Conan
The Savage Sword of Conan
The Bloody Crown of Conan
The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane
Kull
and if I have any time left I will start over with the Dresden files!

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/2/2012 8:31:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		Currently, these are some I'm enjoying:

http://www.amazon.com/My-Cross-Bear-Gregg-Allman/dp/0062112031/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1338694095&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Caring-Is-Creepy-David-Zimmerman/dp/1569479771/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1338694133&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/The-Cold-Dish-Longmire-Mystery/dp/0143123173/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1338694197&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/What-Talk-About-When-Frank/dp/0307958701/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1338694221&sr=1-1

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/2/2012 10:08:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have been too busy writing to read anything.

On the plus side, I have done some reading - bedtime stories to my girl. Charlotte's Web and A Wrinkle In Time; fine stories, those.

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/2/2012 10:35:43 PM   
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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/3/2012 1:25:12 AM   
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it's a sci-fi meets real science. i love his books, but these days i don't tend to get alot of reading done. i tend to read in my breaks at work, but apparently i'm considered anti-social if i do. if they all just realised that i am not a crowd of people person and left me alone it would be better for all round. i do love reading though and can get totally submerged in a good book. along with horses books have always been my escape. i'm a very visual reader, as in; as i'm reading i'm picturing everyone and the places so that i am there following them, walking through a woodland, on the bridge of a lighthugger etc i think this is why i'm often disappointed by the films made from books. my imagination is so much better lol

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/3/2012 3:14:06 AM   
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I have been too busy writing to read anything.

On the plus side, I have done some reading - bedtime stories to my girl. Charlotte's Web and A Wrinkle In Time; fine stories, those.


I think you might enjoy sharing The Girl Who Circumvented Fairyland in a Ship of her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente with her.

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/3/2012 5:13:57 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm reading the latest John Sandford novel "Stolen Prey". I love his "Prey" books, but can't seem to get into the others that he's written.

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/3/2012 5:25:42 AM   
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Status: offline 		We love the John Sanford books too and have acquired most of them, including the latest. Himself puts them on special order so the second they come out, they get shipped (not that we're book nuts or anything!).

You mean you don't just love his Virgil Flowers books? I mean, he's "that *fuckin* Flowers."

Great reads all, and ones I can easily re-read when I'm in the mood.

I am also re-reading The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes, along with several non-fiction books on the Victorian era. That's research for some of my own writing.




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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/3/2012 5:53:54 AM   
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Status: offline 		I finished reading the Hunger Games trilogy recently. So I started on reading Stranger in a Strange Land (been meaning to read it forever).

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/3/2012 5:58:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		Oh I love Stranger in a Strange Land. I need to re-read it.

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/3/2012 6:00:55 AM   
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ORIGINAL: RemoteUser
I have been too busy writing to read anything.

On the plus side, I have done some reading - bedtime stories to my girl. Charlotte's Web and A Wrinkle In Time; fine stories, those.


I think you might enjoy sharing The Girl Who Circumvented Fairyland in a Ship of her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente with her.


Thank you for the suggestion!

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/3/2012 7:19:41 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm going back and forth between Thackery's Vanity Fair (I try to read 1 classic to every 1 modern book) and a history book called "To Marry An English Lord", which is great stuff if you're a Downton Abbey fan.

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