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About half way through:
The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule by Thomas Frank.

And have just opened:
Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe by Robert Gellately.

So far I would recommend both books to almost anyone who can read.

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I have pledged to start reading more this year. I only finished 12 books last year!! And more than half were audio books. Prior to that I read 40-50 a year.

Right now, to start my pleasure reading off, I am reading "The Blank Slate" by Stephen Pinker. I just missed this book awaaay back when Booktalk discussed it just before I joined. I picked it up in 2004 and it has sit for all that time.

I love Pinker. Excellent ideas, presentation and rational thinking.

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Right now I am not reading anything but I just finished Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule.
My next book is going to be The Burning Bed when it gets here.
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Mr. Pessimistic wrote:Right now, to start my pleasure reading off, I am reading "The Blank Slate" by Stephen Pinker.
Excellent choice. That was a fun book to read.
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Just starting The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced By War By Andrew Bacevich. Expecting another great read by an author who's book has recently been discussed on this site.

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I read several things at once typically, but the most fun thing I am reading right now is The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination by Wallace Stevens.

Here is a link that explains a little.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=9KAZxUt ... &ct=result

I am also reading Gadamer on Celan. That is also truly delightful.

http://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&id=l ... lt#PPA1,M1
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I have 3 books on the go at the moment.

1- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon- Stephen King
2- The Volunteer: My Secret Life in the Mossad- Michael Ross
3- Wizard and Glass (Dark Tower book 4)- Stephen King

I'm going through a big Stephen King stage at the moment.
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Mainly All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot, and a few others I am going to and from.
Books are my life
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Will be starting Spiritually Incorrect: Finding God in all the Wrong Places by Dan Wakefield tomorrow.

Realizing that I now have 5 books on the go it will become necessary to do less and less school work. Actually I realized that I got seriously bogged down in the tome which is Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler - The Age of Social Catastrophe which I am almost done marathoning through.

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I generally have too many books on the go! Lately I have not been reading at all, that is one of the reasons I joined this site...to inspire me to read more!
I just joined another book group which is solely based around horse books, so we have chosen "Hunter Seat Equitation" by George Morris. This book is the bible of the hunter/jumper world.
It is a bit of a dry read, but very in depth and written by a brilliant horseperson.

I am looking forward to any of the new non fiction selections that are in the process of being chosen right now. They all look like good reads!
Though, if I had enough posts, I would be choosing 'God is not Good'
I'm a bit of a religion junkie, when it comes to reading!

Good thing too! as that is my main section at the library...I'm a librarian :bananadance:
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