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  • Nastasja
    Nastasja Posts: 9,668
    The Motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto Guevara
    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
  • he.who.forgets
    he.who.forgets Posts: 4,593
    unlost dogs wrote:
    small town beck wrote:
    Bill Bryson's The Mother Tongue

    Oooh! How is this? I love Bryson, just listened to his new one about the history of the home.
    +1...I havent heard of this one but I've read several others (In a Sunburned Country, I'm a Stranger here Myself, A Walk in the Woods)
    We were but stones your light made us stars
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    unlost dogs wrote:
    small town beck wrote:
    Bill Bryson's The Mother Tongue

    Oooh! How is this? I love Bryson, just listened to his new one about the history of the home.


    listened??? well that just sounds weird to me.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    chime wrote:
    Just starting Tale of Two Cities

    Thanks to Oprah?
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • PilateOfTheStorm
    PilateOfTheStorm Posts: 4,319
    Nastasja wrote:
    The Motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto Guevara

    saw the film with the beautiful gael garcia bernal
    it was wonderful


    I'm reading
    The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Cradles Broken Glass
    Cradles Broken Glass Posts: 1,409
    The Monsters of Templeton, so far it's a good read.
    Hearts and thoughts they fade....
    fade away...

    I am at peace with my lust.....for Eddie.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Cradles Broken Glass wrote:
    The Monsters of Templeton, so far it's a good read.

    I have that book. I started it last year and didn't get very far. It wasn't because I wasn't into it, I just moved on to something else. I need to pick it up again.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    rrivers wrote:
    chime wrote:
    Just starting Tale of Two Cities

    Thanks to Oprah?

    :? ... I'm in the UK so don't know what that means ... sorry

    I've had it on a shelf for years and just picked it up a couple of days ago ... don't know why.
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
  • mikalina
    mikalina Posts: 7,206
    The Christmas List By Richard Paul Evans

    About a man who "died" but the newspapers got the "wrong" person. He "played" dead for a few days and was able to read his own obiturary - He realized no one really liked him at all. It was a wake up call and when he got back home - decided to make amends.

    Its a good, easy read for the Holidays. :D
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  • number1PJfan
    number1PJfan Posts: 3,748
    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
  • number1PJfan
    number1PJfan Posts: 3,748
    he.who.forgets wrote:
    unlost dogs wrote:
    small town beck wrote:
    Bill Bryson's The Mother Tongue

    Oooh! How is this? I love Bryson, just listened to his new one about the history of the home.
    +1...I havent heard of this one but I've read several others (In a Sunburned Country, I'm a Stranger here Myself, A Walk in the Woods)


    I would like a report as well. I have read a few of his others as he.who.forgets has. Let us know how it is.
  • Back_Pedal
    Back_Pedal Posts: 1,171
    The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson and Xenocide by Orson Scott Card simultaneously. They contrast each other well enough to motivate me to read faster, somehow...

    EDIT: Was reading through some older pages of this thread, and saw Ayn Rand's name, and was wondering...does Atlas Shrugged get any better? I got about 150ish pages through it and absolutely no part of it caught my attention, so I'm curious as to whether or not the other 800+ pages are worth reading.
    Thanks EPOTTSIII!
    "Vinyl or not, you will need to pay someone to take RA of your hands" - Smile05
    424, xxx
  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    number1PJfan wrote:


    I would like a report as well. I have read a few of his others as he.who.forgets has. Let us know how it is.

    I will let everyone know. Been slow going as I am in the midst of some serious school work. So far not loving it as much as his other books but still okay.

    I am now just making a book list in my head for Christmas holidays!
  • Black Pearl
    Black Pearl Posts: 116
    I hardly ever read a book. Made an exception for this one :): This all encompassing trip (I'm at show 14 ;)).
    "Change what you can't accept, accept what you can't change"
    (Arnhem 2006 - Antwerpen 2006 - Verona 2006 - Düsseldorf 2007 - Werchter 2007 - Berlin 2009 - Nijmegen 2010 - Amsterdam II 2012 - Berlin 2012 - EV Amsterdam I 2012)
  • cropdustress
    cropdustress Posts: 4,339
    Black Pearl wrote:
    I hardly ever read a book. Made an exception for this one :): This all encompassing trip (I'm at show 14 ;)).
    Haha. I'm exactly the same. Just read All Encompassing Trip by Jason Leung 8-)
    "I surfaced and all of my being was enlightened"
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,264
    The 19th Wife - 2 stories in one: the fictional modern day murder of a polygamist in mesadale (aka hilldale), UT and a semi-fictional account of brigham young and the mormon pioneers. very interesting book!
    If I had known then what I know now...

    Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
    VIC 07
    EV LA1 08
    Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
    Columbus 10
    EV LA 11
    Vancouver 11
    Missoula 12
    Portland 13, Spokane 13
    St. Paul 14, Denver 14
    Philly I & II, 16
    Denver 22
    Missoula 24
  • One Song Glory
    One Song Glory Posts: 710
    "TOC: A New Media Novel" by Steve Tomasula. It's on a DVD-ROM and it is blowing my mind. And yes, it absolutely 100% counts as a book! :)
    2003: Toronto
    2005: Kitchener/Hamilton/Toronto
    2006: Toronto 1 & 2
    2008: Hartford/EV Toronto 1 & 2
    2009: Toronto/Philadelphia 3 & 4
    2010: Buffalo
    2011: Montreal/Toronto 1 & 2/Hamilton
    2013: London/Buffalo/Vancouver/Seattle
    2016: Toronto 1 & 2
    2022: Hamilton/Toronto
    2023: EV Seattle 1&2
  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    Want a great book to put you in a holiday mood? A Secret Gift by Ted Gup. The only negative - it makes you cry. A lot.

    From Amazon:

    Shortly before Christmas 1933 in Depression-scarred Canton, Ohio, a small newspaper ad offered $10, no strings attached, to 75 families in distress. Interested readers were asked to submit letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author's grandfather Sam Stone was inspired to place this ad and assist his fellow Cantonians as they prepared for the cruelest Christmas most of them would ever witness.

    Moved by the tales of suffering and expressions of hope contained in the letters, which he discovered in a suitcase 75 years later, Ted Gup initially set out to unveil the lives behind them, searching for records and relatives all over the country who could help him flesh out the family sagas hinted at in those letters. From these sources, Gup has re-created the impact that Mr B. Virdot's gift had on each family.
  • Cradles Broken Glass
    Cradles Broken Glass Posts: 1,409
    catefrances wrote:
    the first third - neal cassady

    I assume you have read,"The Scroll" (the unedited version of On the Road). You can't make a character like Neal Cassady up, absolutely one of my all time favorite characters.
    Hearts and thoughts they fade....
    fade away...

    I am at peace with my lust.....for Eddie.
  • stargirl69
    stargirl69 Posts: 6,387
    Keith Richards Autobiography "Life" ... great read,wonderful quote on the back cover
    "This is the life,believe it or not I haven't forgotten any of it"
    “There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen”

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