What BOOK are you reading right now?

I agree that's awkward - which was part of my noticing it.

Please don't ruin my fantasy that you are actually never serious and are just here to goad us all into giving you attention. I like to picture you as a lonely Monty Python type character who really adores women and drinks nothing but tea. I probably just got the lonely part right.



I'm a witch through education, not birth.

Sturgis - it's really good to see you!

Birth of the Chess Queen: A History by Marilyn Yalom

Is VERY interesting. I highly reccomend it to anyone whether you play the game or not.

I wouldn't mind being lonely for a while. It would make a relaxing change from the madness I'm embroiled in. There were 8 bloody monsters in my lounge yesterday ranging from 4 to 7 watching cartoons on my new 47" LPG telly. One of the little buggers, a female of course, hit me on the shin with a pan which they had been playing house with in a tent in the garden along with all the cushions, vases and and towels they could find.

I do drink tea but I prefer beer in the late evenings and I can do a range of funny walks when I'm in the mood.

My Ántonia -- Willa Cather

Soon I Will Be Invincible - Austin Grossman

great book, i loved it

"Graphic" novel?

nope

i grabbed the audio version at audible, the story is told from two different perspectives, so they had two narrators, very well done

What's the deal at "audible"?
I wanted to check it out but download sites are filtered where I am right now.

you can go straight download or you can buy programs that give you credits

AudibleListener® Gold
Monthly (Annual $149.50 a year ONLY $12.46 PER CREDIT You Get: 12 credits all at once)
$14.95 a month
You Get:
1 credit per month
This Plan Also Includes:
The ability to rollover up to
6 credits at a time for as
long as your membership
is active.

AudibleListener® Platinum
Monthly (Annual $229.50 a year ONLY $9.56 PER CREDIT You Get: 24 credits all at once)
$22.95 a month
ONLY $11.47 PER CREDIT
You Get:
2 credits per month
This Plan Also Includes:
The ability to rollover up to 12 credits at
a time for as long as your
membership is active

members also get reduced prices on books bought outside of credits

as a member you can get a free sub to either the new york times or wall street journal (daily podcast or download)

beyond books they also have a number of radio podcasts, you can subscribe to monthly or yearly plans

Thanks, dj.

I've started listening to audiobooks on my commute.
They make the drive semi-bearable.

The Spy Who Haunted Me~ Simon R Green
Anyone else read Simon R Green books or maybe Neil Giaman?

big neil gaiman fan

i've read almost everything he's written, waiting to get the graveyard book

huge fan of the sandman comic series, american gods and anansi boys especially

if you like gaiman you might like china mieville

i mentioned two of his books i just bought, one page back, here's the link

http://able2know.org/topic/1042-218#post-3696596

Read Anansi Boys a couple of weeks back. Just got American Gods from the used book store.

Why don't used book stores ever have Pratchett?

Soon I Will Be Invincible: A Novel

DrewDad, check out Powell Books' website. They had the best colelction of Pratchett I have ever seen (even better than my own collection). They had new and used as well as a graphic novel and at least one collection of Discworld art.

I bought Carpe Jugulum (OMG, I loved that one!), The Fifth Elephant, Hogfather, Jingo, The Last Hero (oversized graphic novel), and The Art of Discworld (oversized). Also bought some Larry Niven novels.

Bartleby the Scrivener & Other Stories
~Herman Melville

(including "The Lightening-Rod Man" and "The Bell-Tower")

Right now I am currently reading "Death By Black Hole....And Other Cosmit Quandaries" by Neil deGrauss Tyson

It's a fascinating book to read. Whereas most people if asked how they would like to die would say: "Surrounded by family" or "In my sleep" Neil deGrauss Tyson says "By black hole." Mr. Tyson is the host of NOVA now on PBS and one of the leading experts in Astronomy. In this book he goes on to explain how exactly one would perish if one actually did manage to die via black hole. Not only that but he elaborates further on many more subjects such as Intelligent Design, theory of relativity, and so forth.