Femme
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posted on September 10, 2001 10:59:13 AM new
1. What did you just finish?
2. What are you currently reading?
3. What's next?
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I like to keep it fairly light in the summer. 
1. Cold Case - Stephen White
2. ]Deadly Decisions - Kathy Reichs
3. Bone Cold - Erica Spindler, or
Special Circumstances Sheldon Siegel
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Saving for the dreary winter months  :
John Adams - David McCullough
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Meya
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posted on September 10, 2001 11:03:59 AM new
I just downloaded "Sense and Sensibility" from the Project Guttenburg site. I am also thinking about reading "Watership Down" again.
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saabsister
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posted on September 10, 2001 11:28:24 AM new
I'm reading Base Instincts, What Makes Killers Kill by Jonathan Pincus and Duane's Depressed by Larry McMurtry. White Trash, Race and Class in America is waiting in the wings.
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RainyBear
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posted on September 10, 2001 11:34:06 AM new
Currently reading: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Waiting in the wings: About a zillion books I'll never have time to read.
[ edited by RainyBear on Sep 10, 2001 11:34 AM ]
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kraftdinner
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posted on September 10, 2001 11:41:28 AM new
Does the new Ikea catalogue count Femme? 
Actually, you mentioned a book about becoming more organized and I can't find where I wrote it down  . What was that title again???
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Femme
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posted on September 10, 2001 11:46:25 AM new
LOL, RainyBear.
I love English history and keeping picking up books on the subject. Someday...
Shosh peaked my interest the last time we discussed books. If I remember right, it was Alexander the Great.
So many books...so little time. 
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Femme
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posted on September 10, 2001 11:55:06 AM new
Hmmm....
Are you reading the Ikea catalog or just looking at pictures? 
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Organizing from the Inside Out
Julie Morgenstern
If your bookstore doesn't have it, Amazon does.
[ edited by Femme on Sep 10, 2001 11:57 AM ]
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bunnicula
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posted on September 10, 2001 12:00:36 PM new
I just finished reading A Cry for Character: how a group of students cleaned up their rowdy school and spawned a wildfire antidote to the Columbine effect by Dary Matera
I am currently reading March to the Sea by John Ringo (SF novel)
Next on my agenda? Anything that catches my fancy at the time.
edited to correct author's name "John" *not* David"...
edited to add to put the "y" in "anything"
[ edited by bunnicula on Sep 10, 2001 12:01 PM ]
[ edited by bunnicula on Sep 10, 2001 04:31 PM ]
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Microbes
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posted on September 10, 2001 12:20:44 PM new
What are you currently reading?
AW Threads. 
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snowyegret
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posted on September 10, 2001 12:25:59 PM new
1. Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
(and I couldn't make it to page 21 of Billy Budd without falling asleep!)
2. Wolf Solent by John Cowper Powys
3. Bloomsbury A House of Lions by Leon Edel
Lelia The Life of George Sand by Andre Maurois
For winter, I'll reread Homer and try to reduce the stack in the playroom.
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Hjw
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posted on September 10, 2001 12:37:23 PM new
It's a great time to have a good book to read!!!
I just finished reading Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee.
Right now, I'm reading a book that Donny recently recommended...
The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow.
This is a a banned book that I missed reading when it was first published in 1971... based on the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg case and told from the perspective of the son, Daniel, as he and his sister try to reconcile the tragedy of his parents. It's a great book!!!
Next,I want to read Women Who Run
With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes...another old book but a subject that is of interest to me right now.
Helen
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Femme
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posted on September 10, 2001 01:07:51 PM new
LOL, Microbes. AW's RT is one of my favorite reads, also.
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Book of Daniel sounds good.
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I just bought at a flea market 2 books I've never read:
Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.
[ edited by Femme on Sep 10, 2001 01:10 PM ]
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chococake
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posted on September 10, 2001 01:49:34 PM new
The Nazi Doctors by Robert Jay Lifton - Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
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Microbes
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posted on September 10, 2001 04:53:13 PM new
Femme, Actualy, I'm reading "The Many-Colored Land" by Julian May.
Finished "The Shore of Women" by Pamela Sargent last week. (Great book if you want to explore the differences / simularities in how men and women think.)
Before that, "The Asgard Run" by Steve Vance.
All Sci-Fi / Fantasy
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busybiddy
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posted on September 10, 2001 07:07:51 PM new
I just finished Perfection Salad by Laura Shapiro. It's a look at women, food, cooking, and nutrition fads at the turn of the century. I thought it was interesting and a fast read in spite of being fairly scholarly.
I also just finished The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper. I read it aloud! to my son who still loves to be read to at night. The 5 book series is wonderful. I love juvenile fiction that's well done because I fall asleep pretty easily when I'm reading to the kids at night and this work was so engrossing that I'd even read ahead after the kids fell asleep!
I've got a few other partly read books lying around waiting to be finished; if I can find them.
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hepburn
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posted on September 10, 2001 07:39:43 PM new
Im presently reading the book ALMOST ADAM by Petru Popescu, and anxiously awaiting the new release by STEPHEN KING and PETER STRAUB (second half of The Talisman, due out on the 20th of this month).
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gravid
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posted on September 10, 2001 08:06:36 PM new
Just finished Futures Imperfect by Connie Willis
Am reading Stephen Coonts - Hong Kong because I got it free - next
Then I am going to read a James Mitchener I missed before - The Source
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Antiquary
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posted on September 10, 2001 09:25:20 PM new
I recently finished William Least Heat-Moon'sRiver-Horse. I thoroughly enjoyed hisBlue Highways and this chronicle of his adventures crossing the United States by boat from New York harbor to the Pacific near Astoria contains similar vivid description, philosophical and historical reflections, and humorous and colorful anecdotes.
I am almost finished with Jeff Shaara's Gone For Soldiers, his historical novel about the Mexican War. It's really fairly mediocre I think though it was a best seller. I picked it up because I had read Harrigan's The Gates of the Alamo a couple of months ago and decided to follow the details of Santa Anna's career a little further. The Gates of The Alamo is an exceptionally fine, complex novel of epic scope.
Next, I will probably read Merritt Ruhlen's The Origin of Language. Ruhlen's thesis is that all languages now spoken on earth are descendants of a single ancestral language and the book supposedly proves this belief which other linguists have maintained is unprovable. Regardless, the anthropological information looks interesting.
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Baduizm
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posted on September 10, 2001 10:24:33 PM new
I Wish I Had a Red Dress by Pearl Cleage in hardback.
Skin Deep by Kathleen Cross in paperback.
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busybiddy
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posted on September 11, 2001 04:22:16 AM new
Antiquary's post about the book The Origin of Language reminded me about a book I have on order at the library.
It's The Seven Daughters of Eve by an Oxford geneticist, Brain Sykes. By studying mitochondrial DNA, which we inherit from our mothers, he has traced back the origin of European humans to seven women who lived during the ice age.
He was on NPR a few weeks ago and the program was fascinating. This is the guy who helped identify the Romanovs and also the origin of the inhabitants of Cook Island. He also claims to have proved that no modern human has any connection whatsoever to the Neanderthals.
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