What book are you currently reading?

[Wattle]

The Twilight series....

I have an obsessed 14year old, so I wanted to know what all the fuss was about.


Ohhh Edward       

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rereading some of The Daily Coyote

[glitter]

John Edwards' one last time'- I am a skeptic, but right now I can wish 

[pelagia]

Anyone ever read any of Ursula Hegi's books?  I just finished "The Worst Thing I've Done" and really enjoyed it.  I've also read her books "Floating in My Mother's Palm" and "Stones From a River."  Her stories are mostly about complex human relationships.  This last one is set in the U.S., while the other two are set in Germany.  Hegi, who is of German descent, touches on issues relating to the Holocaust and Nazism, but always through the eyes of "average people."   

[Wallyz]

Flat Earth: The history of an infamous idea, By Christine Garwood.  Interesting study of flat earth proponents, and the enduring social structures that they adapt and create in order to maintain their theoretical base.  It helps you think and consider counter- cultural thinking and approaches.

[David13]

Anyone ever read any of Ursula Hegi's books?  I just finished "The Worst Thing I've Done" and really enjoyed it.  I've also read her books "Floating in My Mother's Palm" and "Stones From a River."  Her stories are mostly about complex human relationships.  This last one is set in the U.S., while the other two are set in Germany.  Hegi, who is of German descent, touches on issues relating to the Holocaust and Nazism, but always through the eyes of "average people."   

I have read her books.  She is a stupendous writer.

[monrein]

I've read "Stones from a River" and "The Vision of Emma Blau" but now I'll try to find the other two you mentioned Pelagia.  Hegi simplifies nothing about the human condition and makes me think in new ways.  Good suggestion for people who love to read.   

[MIbarra]

I've read Stones from a River. Loved it. I'm on Spring break now.. might have to run by the library tomorrow to find something to read.

[pelagia]

I'll have to get "The Vision of Emma Blau" because I have not read that one.  I was in a book club for the last year and I decided to quit.  They were reading books that I just could not get excited about and at the same time I have all these books sitting around that I want to read.  I also just finished David Sedaris' "Me Talk Pretty One Day," which is pretty funny.  Now I am reading "Einstein's Dreams," which is interesting, maybe a bit metaphorical.  I love reading books by foreign writers - South America's like Gabriel García Márquez and Isabelle Allende the "magic realists" and there have been a bunch of good books in the last decade by Asian writers or Asian Americans.  The last one I read was Snowflower and the Secret Fan.

[monrein]

That's so funny Pelagia.  My cousin recently gave me the 6 CD set of David Sedaris' "Me Talk Pretty One Day".  I confess that I've only listened to the first one so far but it's pretty good.

[kimcanada]

I just finished "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle".  I found it OK but I had higher expectations of it.

I agree, I am still trying to get in the grove of this book

[Bill Peckham]

Salt: A World History

It's interesting. The production and distribution of salt has been a pillar of all economies since prehistoric times. You had to have it to preserve food. Without being salted food - meat and fish mostly - will spoil in a few days. Unlike the production of food which is widely dispersed salt production was centered in certain areas which made it easy for governments to control and tax. Salt funded the development of political entities.

I've just been reading the role salt played in the Civil War. One of the South's problems was that the North kept attacking their salt works. Without salt the South had a hard time supplying food to the soldiers.

[pelagia]

That's so funny Pelagia.  My cousin recently gave me the 6 CD set of David Sedaris' "Me Talk Pretty One Day".  I confess that I've only listened to the first one so far but it's pretty good.

He's a tad off kilter, but then he goes to France.  You'll love that part.

[pelagia]

Salt: A World History

It's interesting. The production and distribution of salt has been a pillar of all economies since prehistoric times. You had to have it to preserve food. Without being salted food - meat and fish mostly - will spoil in a few days. Unlike the production of food which is widely dispersed salt production was centered in certain areas which made it easy for governments to control and tax. Salt funded the development of political entities.

I've just been reading the role salt played in the Civil War. One of the South's problems was that the North kept attacking their salt works. Without salt the South had a hard time supplying food to the soldiers.

Some irony in this, Bill!  Have you read Guns, Germs and Steel?  My husband liked it, and it's still on my list...

[kitkatz]

I bought Twilight...Oh my God! I do not believe it! 

[Bill Peckham]

Salt: A World History

It's interesting. The production and distribution of salt has been a pillar of all economies since prehistoric times. You had to have it to preserve food. Without being salted food - meat and fish mostly - will spoil in a few days. Unlike the production of food which is widely dispersed salt production was centered in certain areas which made it easy for governments to control and tax. Salt funded the development of political entities.

I've just been reading the role salt played in the Civil War. One of the South's problems was that the North kept attacking their salt works. Without salt the South had a hard time supplying food to the soldiers.

Some irony in this, Bill!

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles
Sun Tzu: The Art of War

Have you read Guns, Germs and Steel?  My husband liked it, and it's still on my list...

Oh yeah. And Collapse. I think he made a strong case in both books but less strong in Collapse.

[Romona]

I just read Jihad in Brooklyn. It was about a terrorist plot before 9/11.

[Beth35]

I'm currently reading, "Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man, by Steve Harvey.  It's about what men really think about love, relationships, intimacy and commitment.  I thought I could use some tips in this department.  Plus he's a funny guy!

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here kitty, kitty
please let me know if the book or the movie is the best
I always find the book to be so much better than the movie

The Pretty Fat
The Well and the Mine
Coraline it is a children's book -- but it is creepy

[jbeany]

Got two going a the moment - "Inkspell" and "A Game of Thrones"  Both are good.

[Rerun]

What I would like to see is something about the book and if you recommend it.

Title, Author, Fiction or non,

The Zookeeper's Wife, by Diane Ackerman: A War Story based on a true story.  Historical WWII story about the Zoo in Warsaw and it's function in the underground saving Jews from murder.  It was pretty good except the writer is also a poet and so it was a little too descriptive.  How many ways can you say it was raining outside?  I get a little tired of that. 

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Rerun's book review   

[kimcanada]

anyone into downloading audiobooks?  I think I am going to get one from Itunes and listen to it in dialysis

[jbeany]

Anything new and interesting on audio for i-tunes is pricey!

[Jill D.]

I am reading "Waiting to Exhale" - saw the movie years ago, the book is pretty funny.