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I feel when I'm not writing well enough, I realize it's because I don't read enough. So it brought me to the idea that I wonder what people are reading these days. So, I'd liked to know. Currently I'm reading, "The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious," by C.G. Jung, "Crank," by Ellen Hopkins, and Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. I was reading, "Menmoch the Devil," by Anne Rice, but I lost the book awhile ago and recently found it. Haven't started reading it again, yet.
What are you reading these days?
What are you reading these days?
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Wed, February 18, 2009 - 8:37 PMSlowtrain to Arcturus by Dave Freer & Eric Flint -
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Thu, February 19, 2009 - 10:57 AMI just finished The Snow Leopard. Books is like one long meditation on the stark beauty of the high Tibetan region. Just amazing writing. Very simple, very direct, very beautiful.
Just finished The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham. Interesting book, older style, more slow-paced. Great descriptions of Paris life...all with the underlying context of this guy's spiritual search. I actually like the movie version...with Bill Murray. I thought Murray was great. Hard to get over his comedy background, but still....I think it worked.
Now I'm working on Washington's Crossing. Won the Pulitzer for history. Great history book, if you like that kind of thing. I like the factoids of history. Like, for example, most of the soldiers who crossed the Delaware did not know how to swim!! Pretty weird, huh? Or that Washington, a huge guy, was actually dwarfed by one of his own generals, who was 6' 8" and over 300 lbs! Just fun little factoids. But hey, I am a huge geek, so what do I know??
peace and happy reading everyone!
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Sun, February 22, 2009 - 7:03 PMYou might like:
The Liberators by Robert Harvey it's on the various men it took to kick the European powers out of south America.
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The Good War by Studs Terkel a collection of oral histories on WW2. -
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Thu, February 26, 2009 - 12:17 PMthanks for the recommendations!
I love Studs...
gonna focus on all the books here that I haven't read. I think a Civil War one is going to be next..."Battle Cry Of Freedom."
have a good one,
Jon -
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Thu, March 5, 2009 - 2:10 PMI'm right in the middle of "Jefferson's Great Gamble" Charles A. Cerami great book. -
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Mon, March 16, 2009 - 8:26 PMCatherine MacCoun wrote a book last year
called,,,on becoming an alchemist ,,,
highly recomended, she is easy to read, humerous and
while alchemy is a personal acceptance of ones own energies,
she accepts that its not about trying to out meta-physical the next person,
and also doesn't make those staring eyes like she can read your soul better than someone else
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Re: What are you reading?
Mon, March 30, 2009 - 1:25 AMI am doing what I always do when I am between 'meatier' books. Reading short stories. I have returned to old favourites. Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and the less well known but simply brilliant Brigadeer Gerard.
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Mon, March 30, 2009 - 9:24 AMThe Graveyard Book, by Gaiman. The kids and I read Coraline for part of our home school work, they were so ready for this one!
