What book are you currently reading?

[YLGuy]

I'm reading a couple self defense books on Brazilian Ju-Jitsu (yes I am a UFC/MMA fan) and The Art of War. Such a classic and honest book. Thinking about reading Count of Monte Cristo too. Never got the chance to read it

Okay, I have to ask: Lesnar or Dos Santos?

I love Dos Santos in that fight. Lesnar doesn't like to get hit, and Dos Santos has probably the best striking game right now. Add the fact he's been training with Nogueira for so many years, I'll give him the fight. Who do you like?

I like Dos Santos.  Just the fact that Lesnar came from WWE is a real turn off for me. Looks like we might have to start a UFC or MMA thread!

[Chris]

Chris - I access my email all the time through my Nook through the web browser.  My only complaint is that my work wi-fi is locked down so I can't hook my Nook up to it if I forget to download the newspaper before I leave for work LOL

OMG I bought the Nookcolor and I love it.  I can adjust the print and background and buy or borrow huge books and it won't get heavy.

Unbroken is a great book.  If you have a nook email me and we can try this borrowing thing.

Rerun

I bought that for my mom for Christmas and she doesn't use it. I need to learn how to use it so I can get the email portion to open. It seems easy to use for the short time I got to use it when setting up.

If I can snag it away from her, I would find out why I can not access her Yahoo mail. I'd use it for myself for the paper or a magazine while at the doctors office.. Everything else was easy to do.

[YLGuy]

Is anyone reading Genesis of the Artificial Kidney ? Nursewratchet sent it to me the Christmas before last to read and then sent onto another IHD member.  It was for them to sign, read and then forward to another IHD member.  I followed it for a little while and was wondering if it still was being circulated.

I got a reply:


Thank you for contacting Baxter Renal.  Unfortunately, this book is no
longer in print or available.


Internet Liaison
Baxter Healthcare Corporation
Renal Business Unit

[KarenInWA]

I'm reading "Naked Heat" by Richard Castle.  I'm almost done with it and I can't wait to see how it ends!

[Chris]

Is anyone reading Genesis of the Artificial Kidney ? Nursewratchet sent it to me the Christmas before last to read and then sent onto another IHD member.  It was for them to sign, read and then forward to another IHD member.  I followed it for a little while and was wondering if it still was being circulated.

I got a reply:


Thank you for contacting Baxter Renal.  Unfortunately, this book is no
longer in print or available.


Internet Liaison
Baxter Healthcare Corporation
Renal Business Unit

I had a thought, but doubt hat it is available online. I was thinking the library of Congress where you can access some books online.
 
If I had a copy, there is a place that takes the book apart and scans every page so it is computer accessable for the blind/ low vision, or anyone who has an account.

[Sugarlump]

I'm reading "Naked Heat" by Richard Castle.  I'm almost done with it and I can't wait to see how it ends!

Interesting title!!! Is it as hot as it sounds !

[KarenInWA]

I'm reading "Naked Heat" by Richard Castle.  I'm almost done with it and I can't wait to see how it ends!

Interesting title!!! Is it as hot as it sounds !

Yes it is/was! I highly recommend it!

[cariad]

Reading Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction and loving every page. It has helped me get through my latest illness with sanity intact.

[MooseMom]

Just finished The Informationist and have just downloaded Susan Lucci's memoirs, "All My Life", onto my Nook Color.

[cariad]

Downloaded The Truth (with jokes) by Al Franken. It's an audiobook, so it's effortless. No opinion on how good it is yet.

[kitkatz]

I am reading Michael Palmer's book The Fifth Vial. It is about transplant issues. People being killed for certain blood types and organs.

[Rerun]

I downloaded (From the Library) "The Secret Gift" into my Nookcolor and it was really good.  True story about a man in Canton, OH, who during The Depression gave away some money at Christmas.  I wasn't quite done when The Library snatched it back.  I guess my 14 days were over.  One good thing is I won't have any late charges. 

[HouseOfDialysis]

Re-reading Anarchy Evolution by Greg Graffin and The Omega Point by John Gribbin.

[willowtreewren]

Reading "Irreligion" by John Allen Paulos for a book club discussion.

[monrein]

Just finished "The Help" and also "The Elegance of the Hedgehog".  Really enjoyed them both.

[thegrammalady]

ok, so i'm visiting oregon and have lots of time to read my sisters books....... in the last 2 weeks i've read...

the weed that strings the hangman's bag and a red hering without mustard by alan bradley (first book in the series is - sweetness at the bottom or the pie)

hevan is for real by todd purpo

i'm proud of you; my friendship with fred rogers by tim madigan

fablehaven by brandon mull

[Chris]

I like book on facts/ history. Does anyone have a suggestion for a book regarding history of a certain time period?
Or even automotive history. Hopefully I can purchase in large print.

[Poppylicious]

I'm reading Genesis of the Grail Kings: The Astonishing Story of the Ancient Bloodline of Christ and the True Heritage of the Holy Grail, by Laurence Gardner.  I've had it for ages but it's been collecting dust on my bookcase.  I'm halfway through and really getting into it, despite it being non-fiction.  There's some brilliant theories in it, and it's probably a load of tosh, but it's enjoyable tosh.  I'm full of tosh myself, so this alternative/pseudo history makes sense to me. 

 

[cattlekid]

I just finished The Bretheren by John Grisham (can't put his stuff down!) and am working on The Broker, also by John Grisham.

On my Nook, I have "A Reliable Wife" by Robert Goolrick.  Got about 1/3 of it done on my lunch hour today.  Couldn't stop reading it.

For work, I have to read the ITIL Service Operations guide by the first week of June.  Not nearly as much of a page-turner as the rest.   

[jbeany]

ok, so i'm visiting oregon and have lots of time to read my sisters books....... in the last 2 weeks i've read...

the weed that strings the hangman's bag and a red hering without mustard by alan bradley (first book in the series is - sweetness at the bottom or the pie)

hevan is for real by todd purpo

i'm proud of you; my friendship with fred rogers by tim madigan

fablehaven by brandon mull

The sweetness at the bottom of the pie series rocks.

Sniffled and laughed my way through The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.

Currently rereading Rococo by Adriana Trigiani.  Purchased it used so I could get the recipe for Our Lady of (Drown Your) Sorrows Cake again.  I finally have someplace to take it, and I want to try it.

Chris, I'm no help - all I ever read is fiction - although The Guernsey book was historical fiction - how are you on that?

[KarenInWA]

I read and finished Alonzo Mourning's "Resilience".  I found it at a Big Lots store for 50 cents.  I couldn't pass that up!  I highly recommend it.  It was a good read.

Right now, I'm reading Edward Rutherfurd's "New York".  It's a historical novel about the great city stemming back 350 years or so.  Fascinating read.  It starts around 1664 and goes on up to 2009. 

KarenInWA

[fc2821]

"ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism"   Not light reading but it tis interesting when you come to realise how economic theory can be uwed to promote self interests and interest of certain groups pushing social agendas.  Do not read this book if you beleive in the "Chicago theory of economics" , you'll get upset...if you don't know what it is do read this book, then realise how it is ruining day to day life, destorying the middle class in the US, and damaging our economy.   

[jbeany]

"ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism"   Not light reading but it tis interesting when you come to realise how economic theory can be uwed to promote self interests and interest of certain groups pushing social agendas.  Do not read this book if you beleive in the "Chicago theory of economics" , you'll get upset...if you don't know what it is do read this book, then realise how it is ruining day to day life, destorying the middle class in the US, and damaging our economy.   

All right, we need cliff notes for this!  We want a short definition of "Chicago theory of economics" and a two sentence explanation of how self interest is killing capitalism, please.....   

[kitkatz]

Rihannsu- The Bloodwing Voyages  a Star Trek novel.

[Bruno]

"Travels with my Aunt" by Graham Greene, I'm trying to include some Literature in my reading. GG writes so brilliantly and originally.
I tried Proust starting with 'Swann's way" but try as much as i could, I found I was unable to get into it.
I'm using a Kindle and it gives such wonderful access to a range of great reading and is really easy to handle on dialysis.
I read detective stuff for light reading and like Michael Connelly and the Swedish authors.