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Weedscreamer
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Books, books, books...
What are you currently reading? Do you have a list of books you'd like to read or books you have read? Any particular genre? Do you use a scrap of paper or an actual bookmark when you are reading? And...do you prefer absolute peace and quiet, or can you read with disturbances around you?
- Educating Alice by Alice Steinbach
- A short list of books I'd like to read
- Mystery, humor, travel, biography
- I use both...depends on where I am reading. (I've been known to use a scrap of toilet paper. NO...not used!)
- Peace & quiet
Your turn! 
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05-10-2007, 02:50 PM
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Goddess Bitch
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I read alot of different books
I read some vampire horror fantasy.
I read alot of nora roberts .love her as author..
I love anything by Laurell Hamilton. her new one is due out.. 
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Frankly my dear i don't give a damn *Rhett Butler to Scarlett O'hara."
"Tomorrow is another day" Scarlette O'hara monologue..
socrates last words.. " i drank what?!"
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05-10-2007, 02:53 PM
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pixie of the wood
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i dogear. 
i need to get to the library and get me some reads but i'll read anything. any genre, any author, any length. hell, i've been known to read tool manuals just to have something to read (zip it, WI! no tool jokes...i KNOW how to work that tool thankyouverymuch  )
i get completely lost in a book. there could be a fire and my book would hafta go up in flames before i noticed. 
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05-10-2007, 02:56 PM
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Goddess Bitch
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you and me both wyndhy.. i love reading..
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Frankly my dear i don't give a damn *Rhett Butler to Scarlett O'hara."
"Tomorrow is another day" Scarlette O'hara monologue..
socrates last words.. " i drank what?!"
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05-10-2007, 03:05 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wyndhy
i get completely lost in a book. there could be a fire and my book would hafta go up in flames before i noticed. 
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I'm the same way, wyndhy!
For years I would devour books - now that I am doing my masters' I don't have a lot of time to read for pleasure though.  I do have a pile of books that I keep buying anyway that I will read someday!!!
I don't use any bookmarks - I remember the page number. Can get complicated since I am usually reading 98326 books at once, but I am just so used to it that even when I try to tell myself I will use a bookmark, I always end up just forgetting it.
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Si dans les jeux d'enfants on entend encore l'accent...
Si nous sentons encore l'espoir de nos grands-parents...
Si dans les voiles du large souffle encore le vent...
Y'a jamais eu de Grand Dérangement.
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05-10-2007, 03:11 PM
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Mama Mia!
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I just finished Stiff by Mary Roach
I may read it again. Found it fascinating.
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05-10-2007, 03:16 PM
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Leo was right
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Just finished:
Who Moved My Cheese?-- Spencer Johnson, M.D.
The Voice of the Night -- Dean Koontz
Just Started:
Atlas Shrugged -- Ayn Rand
Private Eyes -- Jonathan Kellerman
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Confucius say, "He who masturbate into cash register come into money."
An optimist looks at the glass and says it's half full. A pessimist looks at the glass and says it's half empty. A Cubs fan looks at the glass and says, "When's it gonna spill?"
Deus Impetitio Esuritori Nullus
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05-10-2007, 03:20 PM
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Goddess Bitch
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wow iowaman. i thought you were going to say just finished playboy. hehhee
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Frankly my dear i don't give a damn *Rhett Butler to Scarlett O'hara."
"Tomorrow is another day" Scarlette O'hara monologue..
socrates last words.. " i drank what?!"
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05-10-2007, 03:21 PM
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Leo was right
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Eastern
wow iowaman. i thought you were going to say just finished playboy. hehhee
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No, you never actually "finish" an issue of Playboy. 
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It takes a gutless mouse to play only when the cat's away.
No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. ~~ Francois Mocuriac
Confucius say, "He who masturbate into cash register come into money."
An optimist looks at the glass and says it's half full. A pessimist looks at the glass and says it's half empty. A Cubs fan looks at the glass and says, "When's it gonna spill?"
Deus Impetitio Esuritori Nullus
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05-10-2007, 03:36 PM
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This morning I finished "Consent to Kill" by Vince Flynn.
This evening, I'm starting "Act of Treason" by Vince Flynn.
I'm also halfway through "A Falcon Flies" by Wilbur Smith.
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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.
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05-10-2007, 07:45 PM
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Weedscreamer
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"Consent to Kill" was recommended to me by a friend. How was it?
"Atlas Shrugged"...wow!
How was "Stiff"?
Hmmm...bet you've read "Interview With a Vampire" to "Queen of the Damned" and beyond?
*Note...I do tend to growl if anyone interrupts me when I'm reading.
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05-11-2007, 07:24 AM
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pixie of the wood
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i read stiff... loved it....funny, interesting, enlightening
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05-11-2007, 09:16 AM
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Oh, I'm reading five or six different books at any given time...mostly natural history, military history, or reptile-related stuff. Yeah, big surprise there, I know...
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05-11-2007, 09:43 AM
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is not this trim anymore!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mae
"Consent to Kill" was recommended to me by a friend. How was it?
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If you've read the preceding 6 "Mitch Rapp" novels, then you'll like it. ha ha If this would be your introduction to the series, then I'd suggest starting with "Transfer of Power". There is a preceding novel called "Term Limits" that features many of the ongoing characters, but Mitch Rapp doesn't make an appearance until the second book.
They're all good. About as believable as anything else in that genre, but that goes without saying. It's a blend of "that technology probably does exist" and "he has unrealistic connections that make impossible things happen way too fast". Overlook that and it's good. 
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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.
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05-12-2007, 04:45 AM
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Registered User
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Mae,
I have just finished “The Trouble with Physics”. An interesting criticism of String Theory, and the University practice of Tenure.
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