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What are you currently reading?
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Pheidippides
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What are you currently reading?
I'm enjoying Bleak House by Charles Dickens. 200 pages to go, might get it done this weekend. How about you
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northeaster49
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Re: What are you currently reading?
The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers. A novel of war and freindship , set in Iraq where Powers served himself. Very well written. I am about half way through it right now. Highly recommend.
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mrvictor60
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Re: What are you currently reading?
Work out, lose weight, and stop being single By John D. Captain. I was looking for a you know "new year" book. Its a good read, read wells, has some good tips and is useful. Would like to know what others are reading as well.
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Aomame
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Re: What are you currently reading?
On the classic side:
Thomas Mann: The Buddenbrooks
On the reflective side:
Robert Rowland Simith: Breakfast with Socrates
Non-fiction:
Alex Vilenkin: Many worlds in One
Fancine Prose: Reading Like a Writer
For fun:
Thomas Pynchon: Inherent Vice
...plus there are a couple more, but these are the main ones.
[edited to correct a typo]
Thomas Mann: The Buddenbrooks
On the reflective side:
Robert Rowland Simith: Breakfast with Socrates
Non-fiction:
Alex Vilenkin: Many worlds in One
Fancine Prose: Reading Like a Writer
For fun:
Thomas Pynchon: Inherent Vice
...plus there are a couple more, but these are the main ones.
[edited to correct a typo]
Currently Reading:
Orhan Pamuk: My Name is Red/G.K. Chesterton: The Man Who Was Thursday/Jared Diamond: The World Until Yesterday/Bill Lauritzen: the Invention of God/Michail Bulgakow: The Master and Margarita/Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy/Leonardo Padura: The Havana Quartet/Thomas Mann: The Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family/Robert Rowland Smith: Breakfast with Socrates
Recently Finished:
Baratunde Thurston: How to Be Black/Norah Vincent: Self-Made Man/Elizabeth George: Well-Schooled in Murder
New on the shelf:
John Jeremiah Sullivan: Pulphead/Alex Vilenkin: Many Worlds in One/Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace/Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim/Neil Shubin: Your Inner Fish/Penn Jillette: Everyday Day is an Atheist Holiday
Orhan Pamuk: My Name is Red/G.K. Chesterton: The Man Who Was Thursday/Jared Diamond: The World Until Yesterday/Bill Lauritzen: the Invention of God/Michail Bulgakow: The Master and Margarita/Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy/Leonardo Padura: The Havana Quartet/Thomas Mann: The Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family/Robert Rowland Smith: Breakfast with Socrates
Recently Finished:
Baratunde Thurston: How to Be Black/Norah Vincent: Self-Made Man/Elizabeth George: Well-Schooled in Murder
New on the shelf:
John Jeremiah Sullivan: Pulphead/Alex Vilenkin: Many Worlds in One/Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace/Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim/Neil Shubin: Your Inner Fish/Penn Jillette: Everyday Day is an Atheist Holiday
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Theomanic
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Re: What are you currently reading?
I have just started Otherland by Tad Williams. It's interesting (I'm on page 223) though I wish I'd read it when I first heard about it a decade ago. A lot of the concepts introduced thus far have been explored in more depth in recent novels I've read, so I feel a bit like I'm moving backward in the evolution of that sort of story...... if that makes any sense. Maybe it will move on and explore some new facets of the concept, but so far it's a bit "unoriginal". I say that in quotes because I think it was not at all unoriginal when it was published, but since then other things have sprung from it so it now seems a bit expected.
"Beware those who are always reading books" - The Genius of the Crowd, by Charles Bukowski
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WendyJoIA
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Re: What are you currently reading?
I am debating between 3 books right now. A Theory of Relativity by Jacquelyn Mitchard, Songs Without Words by Ann Packer or Secrets She Left Behind by Diane Chamberlain.
I can't decide! I might have to have my husband pick for me!
I can't decide! I might have to have my husband pick for me!
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thebookwheel
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Re: What are you currently reading?
I just finished Y by Marjorie Celona, The World Without You by Joshua Henkin and am starting The Good Father by Noah Hawley.
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sportourer1
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Re: What are you currently reading?
Just finished Up Country by Nelson DeMille and have a question about something.
