Ok, msolga...I am still learning how to navigate around this new site, but I will give it a try!
The Lovely Bones is over.... quite an odd
piece of work there .. but worth reading.
Now, on to Stephen King's, From a Buick 8
although, I also have 2 other books setting
on the shelf calling my name....not
to mention the one that stares at me in the
face every time I go near the books - called
MY MOTHER, MY SELF. I KNOW it is ancient, I
know that I need to read it. I know I do not want
to read it, so that means that I absolutely MUST
read it!!! There are just too few hours to read,
to be on the computer, to keep up with what day
it is, to keep in contact with family & friends, and
to make it to my meetings ... I am stressed, but
I must always make time to read!!!
OH dlowan!!, what an excellent
concept - but then, it IS hard
to justify that book buying is
dangerous to your health, or
welfare, although it CAN be to
your pocketbook. If anyone
starts a chapter of BB Anonymous
please do clue me in - I do belong
there, no doubt.
Just started a book called The Cooperative Gene, by Mark Ridley.
I need more book shelves.
turns out I have read a mote in god's eye..... sigh.
My dad got a bunch of sci-fi for xmas. Maybe I'll get to read some when he's done. I've already read some of them.
Hi, Vietnamnurse - but one can have too many books, as I discovered when we moved from a house to an apartment. One of the most painful things was deciding which to take, which not. My son would carry cartons to the curb; my husband would retreive them. Almost every wall here has bookshelves, not to mention those that stand by themselves.
So mostly, now I use the library. Here where I live in New Jersey, we have a library federation, so I have a wide choice of libraries to use using just my one card.
The Mote in God's Eye? That's a book I kept, so now I guess I'll go re-read it.
Hi Mamajuana! I know what it is like not to have room for books...and I suppose that will happen to me someday when we downsize! But oh nooooo...I do not want to think about that now! Picking out the ones that I want to keep would be very difficult. I had a realtor tell me, (this was more than a few years ago...) that if I wanted to show my house to better advantage, that I should get RID OF A FEW BOOKS! Horrors! The books were on neat shelves and the house sold the first day it was on the market! What that means, if anything, I do not know...but I am glad that I didn't even bother to hide them.
Books in the home a disadvantage when it's on the market? Perhaps only to the illiterate realtor. You were right to keep them, Vietnamnurse. I was running out of room for my books, had to give back two chairs that were on loan, bought one chair and a new book shelf. Problem solved!
I just finished last night "Bonecrack" by Dick Francis. I thought it was excellent and would make a good movie. An organized crime boss' son decides he wants to be a Jockey and win the big race. He threatens a stable with destruction if they don't make his son a winning Jockey.
I'm reading The Forsyte Saga. Pretty tough going.
I plan to read (or at least put a big dent in) Nicholas Nickleby before the film gets here...
William Dalrymple's "The White Mughals"
Cannot seem to stick to one book. Therefore am reading both Garcia Marquez' memoir "Vivir para contarla" and Bellows' "Adventures of Augie March." With great pleasure, both of them.
JRR Tolkien, "The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers"
I really liked Nicholas Nickleby....one of the best of Dickens. Oh, D'Artagnan...I read the complete works of Dickens during a time when I needed to read. One of Dicken's best, in my opinion.
I'm re-reading the first book of Shelby Foote's "The Civil War." I'm also thumbing through "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weight Training." Next on the list is Stephen Ambrose's book about the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, "Nothing Like It In The World."
currently perusing a book which is a study of canines and thier ability to listen to commands, although i think it's quite cruel to the canine in question. for example:
see spot,
see spot run
run spot run....
why make spot run? what purpose does that serve?
I am currently in the middle of reading two different books. At the same time more of a hobby
. Ten Philosophical Mistakes and also The Western Intellectual Tradition.
I find them quite interesting, a Hell of alot more better than watching television. Gives me time away from the thunderbox.
pueo, hee hee.
FINALLY started "Fury." Great so far. I'm going a bit bonkers though because my preferred novel-reading method is sit down in a comfortable chair, (preferably after a decent meal), open book, read book until I have turned the last page. Never mind if it takes all day and all night. I've taken "sick days" for this when I'm engrossed in a particularly good book. This is all IM-possible with a little un scampering about. So I'm reading it in bits and pieces, which is a new and strange experience, especially with an allusionary type like Rushdie, and I keep forgetting subtleties. But still good.
Long time, no see, soz. Just get back?
