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  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    Nixon in China, The Week That Changed The World by Margaret MacMillan
    1998 ~ Barrie
    2003 ~ Toronto
    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
    2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
    2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
    2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
    2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Detroit
    2019 - Chicago X 2
  • gregkitefan
    gregkitefan Posts: 1,122
    Shoeless Joe.

    About half way through right now.
    This was made into the movie Field Of Dreams.
    Good book, but I think I like the movie more so far.
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  • gleemonex
    gleemonex Posts: 848
    smarchee wrote:
    Nixon in China, The Week That Changed The World by Margaret MacMillan
    Good book. MacMillan is a very good writer and historian.
    “Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’” - Kurt Vonnegut
  • gleemonex
    gleemonex Posts: 848
    I'm 250 pages into The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I've been putting off reading it for a long time, but finally had nothing else to read. I'm waiting for Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, Eating Animals by Jonathan Safron Foer and Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith to free up at the public library.
    “Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’” - Kurt Vonnegut
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    gleemonex wrote:
    smarchee wrote:
    Nixon in China, The Week That Changed The World by Margaret MacMillan
    Good book. MacMillan is a very good writer and historian.

    yeah I really like Paris 1919
    1998 ~ Barrie
    2003 ~ Toronto
    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
    2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
    2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
    2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
    2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Detroit
    2019 - Chicago X 2
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    smarchee wrote:
    gleemonex wrote:
    smarchee wrote:
    Nixon in China, The Week That Changed The World by Margaret MacMillan
    Good book. MacMillan is a very good writer and historian.

    yeah I really liked Paris 1919
    1998 ~ Barrie
    2003 ~ Toronto
    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
    2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
    2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
    2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
    2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Detroit
    2019 - Chicago X 2
  • dasvidana
    dasvidana Grand Junction CO Posts: 1,356
    theoceansmademe wrote:
    Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer.

    Just finished it. A great read. Tillman was a great thinker and someone who will not be soon forgotten.

    Now back to the Dome along with another non-fiction book Mountain Top- about strip mining for coal in TN, WV.

    I just finished this too and I loved it. I only knew a little about Tillman and the propaganda machine that the Bush Administration tried to fuel. Krakauer does a great job explaining what went down......Bush belongs in jail.
    It's nice to be nice to the nice.
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,377
    Rereading Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine. OMG! How does she come up with her language - it's beautiful and powerful, insightful, and sharp. I last read it in 2000.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Less Than Zero....once again, I'm disturbed... :wtf:
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • Nastasja
    Nastasja Posts: 9,668
    Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

    Voices of a people's history of the United States by Howard Zinn
    You can spend your time alone, re-digesting past regrets,
    Or you can come to terms and realize
    You're the only one who can't forgive yourself
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    just finished: foreign correspondence - geraldine brooks
    just started: the italian affair - laura fraser
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • Irish Al
    Irish Al Posts: 6,236
    Just finished cormac mccarthys the road. I'm usually a very slow reader but I have not been grabbed by a book like that in years. Very cleaverly written, bleak as hell but stunning...a must read and you'll read it in a couple of days...get it!
    I need a coffee!
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    Irish Al wrote:
    Just finished cormac mccarthys the road. I'm usually a very slow reader but I have not been grabbed by a book like that in years. Very cleaverly written, bleak as hell but stunning...a must read and you'll read it in a couple of days...get it!

    I agree, bleak but could not put it down and an easy read
    1998 ~ Barrie
    2003 ~ Toronto
    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
    2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
    2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
    2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
    2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Detroit
    2019 - Chicago X 2
  • NCBRI
    NCBRI Posts: 1,902
    "Hard Work" - Roy Williams biography :D
    Brian
  • battan1120
    battan1120 Posts: 310
    Doomsday Key by James Rollins
    The bus came by and I got on!!!!!
  • Stonerlady
    Stonerlady Posts: 240
    The doors of perception right now. Last one was I'm with the band - confessions of a groupie.
  • rhcpjam1029
    rhcpjam1029 Posts: 1,982
    Irish Al wrote:
    Just finished cormac mccarthys the road. I'm usually a very slow reader but I have not been grabbed by a book like that in years. Very cleaverly written, bleak as hell but stunning...a must read and you'll read it in a couple of days...get it!

    haha i just started this!
    Beavis: All my friends are brown and red? What does that mean?
    Butthead: It means that his friends are like turds and that they like suck.
    Beavis: Heh heh. Oh yeah. Yeah! Get those spoons out of my face before I shove them up your butt!
    Butthead: Huh huh.
  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    Tolstoy's War and Peace.
    These cuts are leaving creases. Trace the scars to fit the pieces, to tell the story, you don't need to say a word.
  • Hitch-Hiker
    Hitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
    Currently reading the memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It's a collection of short stories, and I must say, is highly entertaining.
    I'll Ride The Wave Where It Takes Me
  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    Too Big To Fail - Andrew Sorkin

    A comedy/tragedy of the failures of the banking system.
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