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Book Talk - AimsHigh - 08-30-2008
What are you reading right now?
I'm working on Hells Angels by Hunter S. Thompson, and I'm liking it so far. It's different from what I am usually reading, and I am really enjoying it so far!
Book Talk - jadechow - 08-30-2008
I just read The Time Traveler's Wife and it was awesome! Also, I am about 3/4 of the way through The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova and it's fantastic too. It's a book about Dracula (no....not an Anne Rice-type vampire) and it's really riveting. So much so that I can't read Barron's Business Law now even though I really should be. :o
Book Talk - cookderosa - 08-30-2008
I just read Who Moved My Cheese, what a great book. You can read it in an hour, I really enjoyed it.
I just got 3 James Fenimore Cooper books that I hope to dive into ASAP.
Book Talk - WendyR - 08-30-2008
I'm currently alternating between this week's People magazine and a managerial accounting textbook. :o
Book Talk - jadechow - 08-30-2008
WendyR Wrote:I'm currently alternating between this week's People magazine and a managerial accounting textbook. :o
By the way, what is Britney up to this week? Still crazy or still cured? It changes every week. hilarious
Book Talk - Ruddigore - 09-25-2008
AimsHigh Wrote:What are you reading right now?
A book which collects four of the tales from Chaucer's main work into one, well-annotated volume.
I recently finished the Seamus Heaney translation of Beowulf and enjoyed it immensely. What poetic and effective writing! I hope the rest of British Lit is just as good.
Book Talk - mapalo - 09-26-2008
I am reading "Crashing through"; a true story of Risk and Adventure and the Man who dared to see. Written by Robert Kurson, it is a very good book
I am also Reading what Makes the Great Great by Dennis Kimbro.
I have read many motivational books but non has had such an impact on me as this way.
It has just opened my mind in a way I could never say.
I got this Book from the Library, but I am going to buy one for myself as a Gift to me.
I love one sentance is the book by an Englist poets "My Mind to me a Kingdom is!!!" I found this to be a very powerful statement and very revealing and provoking
Mapalo
Book Talk - barcotta - 09-26-2008
I just finished reading "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls. Easily one of the best books I've read. It's a true story of how Jeannette grew up under the most dire of home circumstances (sometimes homeless--sometimes living in the desert--sometimes in a cabin with no indoor plumbing that only occasionally had electricity--and when it did the appliances in the kitchen would shock the children due to faulty wiring--and constantly hungry) and grew up to be a very successful columnist. What makes it great is that her parents--who stayed together through almost their entire life--were brilliant but also quite tweaked--and the stories she tells about the great values that were instilled in her by them in the midst of unthinkable neglect are amazing.
Book Talk - Drummerboy - 09-26-2008
cookderosa Wrote:I just read Who Moved My Cheese, what a great book. You can read it in an hour, I really enjoyed it.
I just got 3 James Fenimore Cooper books that I hope to dive into ASAP.
I read that book before. It was pretty good, but I never figured out who cut the cheese.
Book Talk - Lindagerr - 09-29-2008
In the past month and a half I have been looking for inspiration and ideas for the rest of my life. I have read some excellent books including Who moved my Cheese, The Last Lecture, MY TIME Making the most out of the rest of your life, LEAP What will you do with the rest of your life, Gift from the Sea, Second Careers-new ways to work after 50, and A Year by the sea thoughts of an unfinished womenThese were all great books with lots of ideas. For enjoyment I have also been reading some Tony Hillerman novels about navaho indians and some Catherine Coulter FBI novels. In between I am reading, Cliff notes, REA books and other LOL Exciting LOL books on Physics and calculus.