http://creativewriting.tribe.net/thread/c46a9a77-499e-4a7d-8f8e-87adddc7ac8e?format=rss Tribe.net. Local Connections http://CreativeWriting.tribe.net/thread/c46a9a77-499e-4a7d-8f8e-87adddc7ac8e#3118390a-3a2b-4601-a2e3-5364e23ce7c5 The Graveyard Book, by Gaiman. The kids and I read Coraline for part of our home school work, they were so ready for this one! Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:24:08 GMT http://CreativeWriting.tribe.net/thread/c46a9a77-499e-4a7d-8f8e-87adddc7ac8e#3118390a-3a2b-4601-a2e3-5364e23ce7c5 Kathy 2009-03-30T16:24:08Z http://CreativeWriting.tribe.net/thread/c46a9a77-499e-4a7d-8f8e-87adddc7ac8e#e3db0c66-ac11-4075-8cf5-780c88170767 I 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. Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:25:19 GMT http://CreativeWriting.tribe.net/thread/c46a9a77-499e-4a7d-8f8e-87adddc7ac8e#e3db0c66-ac11-4075-8cf5-780c88170767 nigel 2009-03-30T08:25:19Z http://CreativeWriting.tribe.net/thread/c46a9a77-499e-4a7d-8f8e-87adddc7ac8e#ed971c58-1979-4bf2-b2f2-7acbc85525bc Catherine 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 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:26:11 GMT http://CreativeWriting.tribe.net/thread/c46a9a77-499e-4a7d-8f8e-87adddc7ac8e#ed971c58-1979-4bf2-b2f2-7acbc85525bc Sol 2009-03-17T03:26:11Z http://CreativeWriting.tribe.net/thread/c46a9a77-499e-4a7d-8f8e-87adddc7ac8e#60366c73-34c1-4f31-91a1-1b2837eb2b47 I'm right in the middle of "Jefferson's Great Gamble" Charles A. Cerami great book. Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:10:25 GMT http://CreativeWriting.tribe.net/thread/c46a9a77-499e-4a7d-8f8e-87adddc7ac8e#60366c73-34c1-4f31-91a1-1b2837eb2b47 Mike 2009-03-05T22:10:25Z http://CreativeWriting.tribe.net/thread/c46a9a77-499e-4a7d-8f8e-87adddc7ac8e#1a2ca2dc-cff7-40c5-b887-d297a14b595b thanks 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 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:17:18 GMT http://CreativeWriting.tribe.net/thread/c46a9a77-499e-4a7d-8f8e-87adddc7ac8e#1a2ca2dc-cff7-40c5-b887-d297a14b595b Jon 2009-02-26T20:17:18Z http://CreativeWriting.tribe.net/thread/c46a9a77-499e-4a7d-8f8e-87adddc7ac8e#9ec66cde-289d-4108-a539-a6dfa5ae88f8 You might like: The Liberators by Robert Harvey it's on the various men it took to kick the European powers out of south America. and The Good War by Studs Terkel a collection of oral histories on WW2. Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:03:42 GMT http://CreativeWriting.tribe.net/thread/c46a9a77-499e-4a7d-8f8e-87adddc7ac8e#9ec66cde-289d-4108-a539-a6dfa5ae88f8 Mike 2009-02-23T03:03:42Z http://CreativeWriting.tribe.net/thread/c46a9a77-499e-4a7d-8f8e-87adddc7ac8e#f4abb58a-e0f7-4e50-8199-64edb3a7a926 I 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! Jon Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:57:02 GMT http://CreativeWriting.tribe.net/thread/c46a9a77-499e-4a7d-8f8e-87adddc7ac8e#f4abb58a-e0f7-4e50-8199-64edb3a7a926 Jon 2009-02-19T18:57:02Z http://CreativeWriting.tribe.net/thread/c46a9a77-499e-4a7d-8f8e-87adddc7ac8e#5ee07363-34ac-4e3b-b674-26013dd11178 Slowtrain to Arcturus by Dave Freer & Eric Flint Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:37:46 GMT http://CreativeWriting.tribe.net/thread/c46a9a77-499e-4a7d-8f8e-87adddc7ac8e#5ee07363-34ac-4e3b-b674-26013dd11178 Mike 2009-02-19T04:37:46Z http://CreativeWriting.tribe.net/thread/c46a9a77-499e-4a7d-8f8e-87adddc7ac8e#d00f93e6-3531-45f9-a9ee-81a6891c4df4 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? Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:52:03 GMT http://CreativeWriting.tribe.net/thread/c46a9a77-499e-4a7d-8f8e-87adddc7ac8e#d00f93e6-3531-45f9-a9ee-81a6891c4df4 Ashley 2009-02-18T22:52:03Z