What BOOK are you reading right now?

CrazyDiamond wrote:

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This is actually from an odd thing I noticed--I write poetry, but don't read it much. I hope to change this!

I've found you can't realy, truly appriciate reading poetry until you've writting little yourself, or at least experimented.

Ya' know. I gotta agree with you on this so far.

Maybe because I have a point of reference.

But I'm also getting ideas on form, etc that I may try and integrate into my own work.

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Didn't have time to read the whole thread, but right now I am reading:

Milton's Paradise Lost
Ehrlich's Human Natures
And some other stuff; basically text books

I don't have much time for Pleasure Reading right now, but I am really enjoying Paradise Lost. Over the winter break, I plan to get a huge chunk of reading done because I will be visiting my Dad in Vermont and its kinda boring up there with the Cows and Canadian Television.

I'll be reading:
Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
Femmes d'Alger dans leur Appartement by Assia Djebar
Lord of the Flies (yes I know its bazarre that I have never read it)
Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
and Mansfield Park

If I have time, and I am still bored, I'll read more than just those, but I don't want to overdo it.

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I'm doing loads of reading and much of it is of Terry Pratchett (here she goes again). I get sort of obsessive about authors I like. I read Small Gods and am reading the Color of Magic now with Equal Rites in the queue. Also in queue is Douglas Adams' The Salmon of Doubt and Robert J Sawyer's Calculating God (my dad said it was good....). I'm still reading Roy Blount Jr's Be Sweet as an alternative.

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I have just started "Abraham Lincoln -- The Prairie Years", by Carl Sandburg.

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Oh, that sounds exciting! <zzzz>

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gustavratzenhofer wrote:

I have just started "Abraham Lincoln -- The Prairie Years", by Carl Sandburg.

Good book, Gus. Sandburg can grow lyrical about his hero, honest Abe.

I just started on Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer. I'm amazed at how much American history of the Revolutinary War period I didn't know.

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I'm glad you appreciate fine writing and historical importance, Merry.

Unlike our uncouth, comic-reading friend from the Boston area.

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Prairie is a French word, I believe.

I just got 3 books from Waterstones (excellent 3 for price of 2 offer) and one of them is a collection of the Alistair Cooke "Letter From America" essays.

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Alistair Cooke -- another favorite of mine. In some ways he understood the American experience much better than most Americans do. And, yes, prairie is originally a French word. One has to bear in mind that most of what today we call the "Midwest" was part of New France until 1803 and the purchase of the so-called Louisiana Territory by Thomas Jefferson from Napoleon Bonaparte. That's why there are cities and towns with names like Dubuque, Iowa, and Detroit, Michigan. Not to mention St. Louis and St. Paul.

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And Illinois?

Gus, I don't read comic-books. Often. For some reason, I avoid historical accounts. When I do end up reading them, I often enjoy them.

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Pride and Prejudice

it's for English class

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littlek wrote:

And Illinois?

Gus, I don't read comic-books. Often. For some reason, I avoid historical accounts. When I do end up reading them, I often enjoy them.

Illinois is an Indian word, Li'l-k. So is Chicago. I have read that the word chicago means 'place of the skunk.' Go figure.

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illinois looks sort of french, then it also looks sort of like iriqois. So, perhaps an indian word transcribed by a francophone?

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Eden Close by Anita Shrieve..
>sigh<
yeah, I have stooped to romance novels.
oy vey..

but.. I finished that book in 2 days and actually LIKED it.
so, today i will start another book of hers.

Last week I also read Suzanne's Diary to Nicholas.
yeah.. yet another romance novel. Embarrassed

I cant help it.
I ran out of my OWN books to read, called mom and asked her for some.. and she sends a big ole' box full of kiss em up books. >sigh<

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You must need a little romance in your life, Shewolf! Very Happy

Have you checked out your local library? I've found mine a handy little source of good reading material when I'm broke.

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ms:

I agree. I got a library card so I could use the computers after mine crashed.

It's where I've borrowed all my books on CD and also "Handmaids Tale"

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Plus, the added bonus of not having to build an extra room to house the ever accumulating mountain of books, NeoGuin! Laughing

You have no idea how many books I had to get rid of when moving to a much smaller home! A nightmare! Shocked

Besides, how many of those books will we really read a second time? Even if we think we will.

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Angel's Crest... I just finished it and it was really good... I was kinda shocked as to how much I truely enjoyed it... I love books that you can get lost in because you can't put it down

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msolga wrote:

Plus, the added bonus of not having to build an extra room to house the ever accumulating mountain of books, NeoGuin! You have no idea how many books I had to get rid of when moving to a much smaller home! A nightmare! Besides, how many of those books will we really read a second time? Even if we think we will.

Well I tend to keep computer books, but I may see about getting rid of some of my books on tape.

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I listened to one book on tape. YUK it was boring. I hate being read to.
I'm now on the 5th book of the Dark Tower series "Wolves of the Calla"
I know most people will never re-read a book, but I collect mine so I can make sure I don't buy the same book again. That, and I like looking at all the books I have read.
If nothing else, this deployment has let me catch up on some reading. In less than a year I have read 15 books and completed 100 hours worth of distance learning. And that doesn't count all the military education I had to go through.

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