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Post by masq on Feb 18, 2017 17:10:52 GMT
The Street Philosopher by Matthew Plampin.
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Post by nillindeiel on Feb 20, 2017 1:23:19 GMT
Well, since I last posted in this thread, both #5 Silver Borne and #6 River Marked have been finished.....and I'll probably finish #7 Frost Burned tonight (told you I was on a role) Silver Borne:
River Marked: Frost Burned: In other news....went to the book store on Saturday (it was my sister's fault...she's the one that said she needed to go)... suffice it to say I walked out with a stack of books to add to my "To be read" pile (there were some sequels to some of the series that I have that I didn't realize had new books released recently and some books that I'd been planning on getting for a while but just hadn't gotten around to it) |
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Post by backroadjunkie on Feb 20, 2017 9:38:30 GMT
I don't have the time to read like I used to, but my last 5 books were:
Undaunted Courage, Stephen Ambrose.
Nothing Like It In The World, Stephen Ambrose.
Grave Peril, Jim Butcher (Butcher is like a guilty pleasure...)
Dream It! Do It!, Marty Sklar
Designing Disney, Imagineering and the Art Of The Show, John Hench
I do seem to read non-fiction more these days than fiction...
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Post by mrsbuckybarnes on Feb 20, 2017 17:56:26 GMT
my last book was a brief history of seven killings by marlon james. a very uncompromising novel about life in jamaica from the 1970s to the early 2000s. i understand hbo are planning to do an adaptation. that will be hardcore...
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Post by ayanami on Feb 25, 2017 0:06:45 GMT
One of my all-time favourites! My mother had it lying around (just the German translation, though, I suppose the original is better), so I decided to read it, but to be honest, I wasn't that much of a fan. It certainly had its charm, but in general I like my stories to be more logical than Alice was. There was just too much stuff that didn't make sense. Like, if she was just in a closed off room, where do all those animals come from? Why can't she just pick up that stupid key already??? Etc. I know the 'nonsense' factor is basically the point of the book, but it still bugs me to no end. |
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Post by TommyWizard on Feb 28, 2017 0:39:35 GMT
Finished or currently reading ?
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Post by nillindeiel on Feb 28, 2017 13:49:24 GMT
Finished or currently reading ? either  |
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Post by TommyWizard on Feb 28, 2017 14:07:35 GMT
Last book i've finished was something about medical liability.
Edit : Not really Litterature when i think about it...
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Post by Jemma Simmons on Mar 5, 2017 17:26:22 GMT
Heh, TommyWizard, I totally understand the "reading stuff for the real-life job" thing! I just finished reading a couple work-related books, too, so... |
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Post by TommyWizard on Mar 5, 2017 17:34:28 GMT
I wish :/
I'm not in med school but i think it's inevitable! (i'm 23)
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Post by haxemon on Mar 10, 2017 18:02:24 GMT
This is a topic that I frequently visit on another message board I go to. It's nice because you can respond to it as many times as you want whenever you finish a book and it can also act as a kind of book recommendation thread too So I will kick off... the last book I read was "Blood Bound" by Patricia Briggs (Book #2 in the Mercy Thompson series). Currently reading Great Expectations. Though on a recent vacation I did plow through a few Mercy Thompson books (thanks Nillindeiel for helping me find those). My reading pattern is wildly eclectic. A typical trip to the book store (yes, real books made from trees - no eReader for me) has me coming out with a biography or two (ranging from Anthony Kiedis to Benjamin Franklin), a few books I probably was supposed to read in high school but didn't (Moby Dick, The Sun Also Rises), books on human history (Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari is amazing though might be controversial for some), books on physics or mathematics, dystopian stories of any kind (from the Handmaid's Tale to Ready Player One), books that sort of are half way between "self help" and business reading (An Organized Mind, Switch), anything that's getting turned into a movie (Red Rising, The Son, Divergent etc.), plus every word Stephen King has written. I do get the odd raised eyebrow from cashiers at the book stores and of course the frequent double-take when people see me sitting in Starbucks reading teen-targeted pulp fiction well into my 40s. That in addition of course to the weekly visit to the comic book shop. |
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Post by bigvanray on Mar 23, 2017 2:54:18 GMT
I just finished reading "The Day The Sun Rose Twice" by Ferenc Morton Szasz. It's about the first atomic bomb explosion in New Mexico in 1945. I bought the book to go along with the piece of trinitite I bought. Trinitite is desert sand that was melted and turned to glass by the heat of the bomb. It's mildly radioactive but it is safe to handle. I figure that as far as coolness goes, the trinitite ranks right up there with my fragment of the meteor that blew up over Russia a few years ago.
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Post by caseyrook AKA Mechelle on Apr 10, 2017 4:05:52 GMT
The novelization of the ENT pilot, "Broken Bow."
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Post by aquaangel on Apr 10, 2017 4:52:25 GMT
Currently reading Shifting Shadows, which is a collection of short stories in the Mercy Thompson universe.
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Post by caseyrook AKA Mechelle on May 18, 2017 3:28:34 GMT
I just had to stop myself from reading 'K-PAX-a novel' by Gene Brewer in one sitting.
Why did I make myself stop? Because I know me and I'd still want to watch Netflix afterwards even if it's 4 in the morning...
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