LaMere Academy Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey. It's going to hurt, but we're doin' it. Oh I got that from PBS and read ch. 1 and then put it down. Why is it that the books I NEED to read, I put down and forget?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frontier Mom Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 "A Confederacy of Dunces" from suggestions here, "Son of Charlemagne" along with the dc's, and "A Fine and Pleasant Misery" on the nightstand to start next. I just finished "The Blessing" which was wonderful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E_Edgerton Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Are you enjoying the Condfederacy of the Dunces? I love that book! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoughCollie Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 I am reading Lone Wolf, by Linwood Barclay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torikei Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan, epic fantasy at it's best. Of course there are 11 or 12 books and probably 10,000 pages. I think it will keep me busy for a while. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CactusPair Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Devotion by Howard Norman. Taking a break from Go Down, Moses by Faulkner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fractalgal Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 "Atlas Shrugged". I figured now was a good time. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom to Aly Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 This what the Wall Street Journal says about this author's book. "Filled with clever wordplay, literary allusion and bibliowit, The Eyre Affair combines elements of Monty Python, Harry Potter, Stephen Hawking and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Its quirky charm is all its own." It does have the occasional cuss word in the book. The D word and BS. That being said, I still allowed my 14 year old daughter to read them. They have heard worse than that from sister....:glare: Here is the description from the back of the book. " Meet Thursday Next. She's part Bridget Jones, part Nancy Drew, and part Dirty Harry. Welcome to a surreal version of Great Britain, circa 1985, where time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem, militant Baconians heckle performances of Hamlet, and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection, until someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature. When Jane Eyre is plucked from the pages of Bronte's novel, Thursday must track down the villain and enter the novel herself to avert a heinous act of literary homicide." http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Eyre-Affair/Jasper-Fforde/e/9780142001806 http://www.jasperfforde.com/index2.html Thanks, G, this sounds great!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vida Winter Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 I just finished reading "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom. This was the first book I've read by this author. I think he's fantastic. He's a new favorite author for me. The next book I'm going to read by him is "Tuesdays with Morrie". I hope it's as good as the last one. So what's everyone else reading?:001_huh: I loved this book. Mitch Albom is wonderful. I'm battling my way through "The Count of Monte Cristo" - on audio, no less. (It's about 40 hours long). I do like it a lot. My other reads include some "Victoria" decorating books and I am re-reading "Protecting the Gift" by Gavin deBecker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennefer@SSA Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Just finished David Baldacci's newest book (release date Nov. 4 but a friend works for Time Warner and got me an early release copy! :D), Divine Justice. If you are a David Baldacci fan, this book is one of his best yet!!!! Just started Right Brained Children in a Left Brained World: Unlocking the Potential of your ADD Child and it is the best book I've have read so far on ADD/ADHD. I have always know so many of the "whats" behind my child's seemingly strange behavior but this book has been the first to explain the "whys" and give real/tangible solutions! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 (edited) "Five people you meet in Heaven" was a great book! Better than I was expecting. I'm afraid I do have a tendency to judge a book by it's cover... At the moment I'm reading "Playing Chopsticks," a travel story of China. It's nice to get a peek into places I'm never going to get to see for real. Next on the list is a book on paganism. The religion threads from the other week inspired me. Oh, and a "Raw food diet" book. I've been meaning to look into that for a while. :) Rosie Edited October 12, 2008 by Rosie_0801 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TN Mama Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 I'm about halfway through "The Other Boleyn Girl" by Phillipa Gregory.So far it's a really good read. We read this for book club and I really enjoyed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzie in Ma Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 It was recommended here to read because of the bullying situation with my dd. I am listening to "All Creatures Great and Small" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Catcher in the Rye, for my book group; Last Child in the Woods; Garden Plants for Scotland; How to Talk Dog. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laylamcb Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Currently reading The Great Tradition (slowly, over the year), The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower, and The Omnivore's Dilemma (a reread). Oh--and Pippi Goes on Board. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 I would hear nothing but grief and complaints if *I* assigned such a long book. It was recommended to him by a pretty girl from summer camp. I am reading The Federalist Papers, some Anti-Federalist, and various US history books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remudamom Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 "Stonewall" by John Dwyer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle in GA Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Re-reading The Good Earth with my ds for World Lit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiegirl Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 I"m reading Socrates' Cafe by Christopher Philips. I love this book! I am also reading Plato's Dialogues. Next up is a fluff read: Serenity Bay by Bette Nordstrom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Hood Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 I am on page 443 of Church History in Plain Language. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Don Quixote, Putnam translation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTMindy Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Details please--haven't heard of this--Jane Eyre related? I did a light read--"Remember Me?" by Sophie Kinsella--from the Shopaholic series (I adore her! Hey, I was on pain meds! I've progressed from Archie comics!!). It was wonderful! Oh, you HAVE to read the Jasper Fforde series. They are just wonderful!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTMindy Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Les Mis. Still. 980 pages read. 483 to go. Interesting ideas and characters. Great language at times. But if ever a writer needed an editor . . . Very true!! LOL!!! But, the best part of the book is still to come. I loved the ending!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apiphobic Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 (edited) A couple of fluffies, Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography and Marilyn Monroe: Private and Undisclosed, to offset some recent depressing ones. Although, some of the subject matter in these books is kind of sad in its own way. Edited October 12, 2008 by Apiphobic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiguirre Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes is a history of the Great Depression that's critical of FDR. IMHO, it's a bit too detailed to be an enjoyable read, but it's definitely timely. The Flaneur is an essay about Paris. If you're a francophile, this book's for you. Comforts of a Muddy Sunday is the latest Isabel Dalhousie book by Alexander McCall Smith. I just got it from the library, but I've loved all the others in the series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeacherZee Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Don Quixote, Putnam translation Me too. Only the Penguin Edition. Also about to start Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller for Grad school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amie Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Bauer's History of the Ancient World and Ussher's The Annals of the World Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gandpsmommy Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 I just started re-reading Jane Eyre. I read as a teenager. I'm still slowly working my way through Climbing Parnassus and The Story of Philosophy. I'm also slowly savoring The Story of Art. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Hood Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Where are you in the book? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janie Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Phinn is the James Herriot of English schoolteachers. Humorous, light reading. And slowly trying to finish The Shaping of a Life: A Spiritual Landscape by Phyllis Tickle. Tickle has a captivating, erudite gift of composition. I've moaned and groaned over my lack of time and alertness to read since I began teaching in a traditional classroom. The time I do have usually is limited to the few minutes in bed before I fall asleep with book in hand. :sleep: In school, I am reading with the children Genevieve Foster's The World of Columbus and Sons and Abraham Lincoln's World in 7th and 8th grades. This is slower going with them than I anticipated. Also reading Rifles for Watie, The Hobbit, and soon to begin Pilgrim's Progress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Where are you in the book? About 1/4. I've saved this book for years for when I was trapped with little to do. I'm post-op this week and have to rest a lot. What a delight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janie Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Please let me know how this is. I've had it, and his Robert E. Lee, on my hopeful list for a long time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Wisc Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Marley and Me (a great laugh...not for kids) Beowulf A Sand County Almanac Signs and Seasons and problaby 30 other books scattered around the house.... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frontier Mom Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Are you enjoying the Condfederacy of the Dunces? I love that book! I just finished about 5 minutes ago and it was funny. Not sure if loving Ignatius is allowed, but the whole book is just crazy! Thanks for the suggestion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MNClaire Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission To Promote Peace One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin The Shack by William P. Young Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melora in NC Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Cold Comfort Farm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffeefreak Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett For the Children's Sake by Susan Schaffer McCauley Various Romance novels:blush: (I always have several going at once) A book I read this summer that I couldn't put down was, The Book Thief. It is my current recommendation to anyone that asks. I LOVED it!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelda Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Cold Comfort Farm. I just read that! Did you like it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffeefreak Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 To Live is Christ - by Beth Moore. I haven't been able to get into it like some of her other stuff I've read but I still keep trying. I did that as a Bible study with the workbook and really liked it. You might try that if you still can't get into it in book form. I really liked Get out of that Pit. I read it last summers. Talk about a kick in the pants! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beth in SW WA Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 St. Augustine The Confessions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PamJH Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Just finished Candide (what a terrific, gossipy, vindictive little story) and now I'm going to start a Perry Mason mystery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chocolate Lover Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 I am one of those people who can't sleep without reading...so I have three great feminist science fiction writers that I love. They are Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anne McCafrey, and Mercedes Lackey. My only problem is that I read faster than they write. I have run out of Bradley and Lackey books. Am currently trying to figure out what else I can read of McCafrey. Luckily, McCafrey's son has started writing of the same world.:001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 I just read that! Did you like it? It was fine, but I'm not sure how much I would have liked it if I hadn't seen the movie. The movie was durned fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelda Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 It was fine, but I'm not sure how much I would have liked it if I hadn't seen the movie. The movie was durned fine. Oooh, a movie. I'm on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johanna Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 the secret life of bees Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdWTMer Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Tsar by Ted Bell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
langfam Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 http://www.amazon.com/Kristin-Lavransdatter-Wreath-Penguin-Classics/dp/0141180412/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_c In Kristin Lavransdatter (1920-1922), Sigrid Undset interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a colorful, richly detailed tapestry of Norway during the fourteenth-century. The trilogy, however, is more than a journey into the past. Undset's own life-her familiarity with Norse sagas and folklore and with a wide range of medieval literature, her experiences as a daughter, wife, and mother, and her deep religious faith-profoundly influenced her writing. Her grasp of the connections between past and present and of human nature itself, combined with the extraordinary quality of her writing, sets her works far above the genre of "historical novels." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackie in AR Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Crazy for God by Frank Schaeffer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Oooh, a movie. I'm on it. I think it was the movie that put Rufus Sewell on the map, and Ian McKellen just smokes (of fire and brimstone) I wonder if Rufus is any relation to Anne? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelda Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 I think it was the movie that put Rufus Sewell on the map, and Ian McKellen just smokes (of fire and brimstone) I wonder if Rufus is any relation to Anne? I'm so uninformed about film. Do you mean the author of "Black Beauty"? Is it an old film? Is it a young McKellan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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