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  • wavescamecrashing
    wavescamecrashing Posts: 440
    more love for the kite runner this way. i ordered the new one from work as well...a thousand suns?! cant wait

    right now im reading the poisonwood bible, about a third of the way in. its really well structured and is drawing me in..

    also reading 'an unconsidered people' about irish immigrants in london in past sixty years. just people's individual testimonies, which i always find v interesting.
  • Hitch-Hiker
    Hitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
    Finally started reading Northern Lights (His Dark Materials) the other day. Seems good so far.
    I'll Ride The Wave Where It Takes Me
  • nuffingman
    nuffingman Posts: 3,014
    rrivers wrote:
    Restless Soul,

    I have to say that I agree with you about The Historian. I am on page 340 and it has really gotten tedious. It is extremely well-written but it does get bogged down in the characters just looking through old texts.
    Must have been that stage I gave up with it. The Kite Runner was excellent. Just finished The Traveller by John Twelve Hawks which I enjoyed. I'm still looking for a book as good as The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon...magnificent!!!!
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    vmfury wrote:
    This Book Will Save Your Life ~ A.M. Homes

    The Science of Mind ~ Ernest Holmes

    vmfury, what do you think of "This Book Will Save Your Life"?
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Hitch-Hiker wrote:
    Finally started reading Northern Lights (His Dark Materials) the other day. Seems good so far.

    I read the first one, "The Golden Compass" earlier this year. It was pretty good. I have the second one but haven't gotten to it yet.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    rrivers wrote:
    I enjoyed A Million Little Pieces.

    Ms. haiku, I also started "Reading Like a Writer". It was interesting but I moved on to some fiction. I will get back to it.
    Have you read My Friend Leonard?? If possible, it's even better than AMLP.

    Ms. Haiku...if you want, I'll send you my copy of MFL. I'm done with it.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • vmfury
    vmfury Posts: 1,091
    rrivers wrote:
    vmfury, what do you think of "This Book Will Save Your Life"?

    I really like it so far. It puts life into perspective and creates a picture of appreciation as opposed to self-involvement. It's a reminder of the things that are truly important beyond the surface of what we put so much unnecessary energy into on a daily basis. Have you read it?
    We’ll meet again, but not yet…not yet. 
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,377
    AmentsChick wrote:
    Have you read My Friend Leonard?? If possible, it's even better than AMLP.

    Ms. Haiku...if you want, I'll send you my copy of MFL. I'm done with it.
    Very nice of you :) PM coming.
    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
  • Lukin66
    Lukin66 Posts: 3,063
    Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond....Some very interesting stuff in this book. Mostly a break down of how the wealthiest, most powerful countries got that way in the last 13,000 years of human history.

    Lord of the Rings Trilogy - Tolkien....just rereading it

    and every once and awhile just to feel uber-smart, I peck through a bit of A Brief Histroy of Time
    deep, deep blue of the morning
    gets to me every time
  • smithnic
    smithnic Posts: 1,565
    currently reading "hate mail from cheerleaders" ~Rick Riley
    The best sports writer.
    Go Get 'Em Tigers!
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,377
    Speaking of sports, anyone read the following:

    Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston by Howard Bryant

    ?

    I heard it was good. Was it?
    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
  • parel jam
    parel jam Posts: 7,223
    Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin.
    ♪♫♪♫♫

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=U_-WGNRyRzU

    ♪♫♪♫♫
  • IndianSummer
    IndianSummer Posts: 854
    tobbac wrote:
    bhagavad gita


    so... did you like it.
    I have faced it, A life wasted...

    Take my hand, my child of love
    Come step inside my tears
    Swim the magic ocean,
    I've been crying all these years
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    AmentsChick wrote:
    Have you read My Friend Leonard?? If possible, it's even better than AMLP.

    Ms. Haiku...if you want, I'll send you my copy of MFL. I'm done with it.

    No, I haven't read My Friend Leonard. It is on my to read list though.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    vmfury wrote:
    I really like it so far. It puts life into perspective and creates a picture of appreciation as opposed to self-involvement. It's a reminder of the things that are truly important beyond the surface of what we put so much unnecessary energy into on a daily basis. Have you read it?

    Yeah I just finished it over the weekend. I enjoyed it. I agree with what you said. I did have a problem with part of it, but I don't know how far you are into it so I won't tell you. It's nothing shocking just I hate to have books ruined for me.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • smokeabud
    smokeabud Posts: 253
    Naked Empire - by Terry Goodkind
    Vote for PJ to play in Alaska

    11/91 chicago
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    6/29/98 chicago
    5/30/00 london UK
    6/4/00 manchester UK
    10/8/00 alpine valley
    10/9/00 chicago
    6/18/03 chicago

    PLAY ALASKA U PUSSIES
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    The Name of the Rose

    and Transcending Anger: Heart Path (or some crap like that.)
    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle
  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    Re-reading The Sun Also Rises for the 20th time.
    I chose it for my bookclub this month.
    In my top 5 books.
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    atm i am ploughing through stephen king's lisey's story
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • parel jam
    parel jam Posts: 7,223
    Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq.
    ♪♫♪♫♫

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=U_-WGNRyRzU

    ♪♫♪♫♫

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