What are you reading at the moment?

[MissHoneychurch]

Me, I am reading "The Island at the Center of the World : The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America" by Russell Shorto.

Great read

[MrScorpio]

1. David Bassin's playlist

Some nice choices

[MissHoneychurch]

2. for your show?

I have to catch your show soon. I don't wanna miss out on that :)

[MrScorpio]

5. Click on the scorpio link in my sigline to see mine

David Bassin's is in there too

[SeattleGirl]

3. "The Politics of Truth" by Joseph Wilson

Been working on it for awhile, because I have been lured by the siren song of DU! Been trying to cut back on DU a bit to get more reading in. Just finished "London Bridges" by James Patterson (fiction), with his character Alex Cross. Love that series!

[MissHoneychurch]

7. I can't get into James Patterson

tried it but no chance. But I read a novel by his wife Faye Patterson and I liked her mystery.

Did you ever read anything by Ian Rankin?

[SeattleGirl]

12. I believe you are thinking of Jonathan Kellerman

His wife's name is Faye, and she is also a novelist. I have all the books by both of them. Jonathan's main character is Alex Delaware; Faye's main character is Peter Decker, along with his Jewish wife Rina Lazarus. I point out her religion because it's a very big part of the stories.

I have heard of Ian Rankin, but not read anything. Any recommendations?

[MissHoneychurch]

14. Right

mixed them up. But still, James Patterson hasn't captioned me yet. Maybe I give it another try.

All of his John Rebus' books. Maybe start with the earlier ones, his character is developing over the books.

[SeattleGirl]

16. That's what I like to do

when there is a series of books following the same character -- follow along from the beginning.

It's funny, but I initially resisted Faye Kellerman for a long time, then one day on impulse, I picked up her first book, where Peter and Rina first meet after the rape at the Mikva. Absolutely fell in love with her and her characters!

[MissHoneychurch]

18. so far I only read her book

where she is introducing Peters daughter as investigator. I liked that one. Guess I need to start the other ones too.

[SeattleGirl]

24. You definitely should!

They are a nice mix of crime story and personal story. And I love Rina! One of the things I really like about the books is the "education" about aspects of the Jewish faith. I have been fascinated by religion since I took a "Bible as Literature" class in high school, and another class in college studying the major religions of the world. There's no sense of trying to "convert" or anything, just information about the Jewish faith, which I find interesting.

[Az]

Recently picked this book up to reread it

The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark by Dennis R. MacDonald

It is a book that suggests that the oldest of the Gospels (Mark) may have been an attempt to restate the stories of Homer but with a pacifist hero instead of Homer's aggressive warrior. Interesting theory.

[SeattleGirl]

6. That does sound interesting!

[WCGreen]

34. Check out the Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels....

These are a good step into early Christian mysticism and could add to the thesis of Mark and Homer...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. DU Lounge threads

:evilgrin:

[Seabiscuit]

22. What other answer is there?

The question *did* say "at the moment".

[NMMNG]

8. "Diet for a New America"

Eye opening and quite troubling in places.

[Fox Mulder]

9. The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

I'm re-reading it for the Halloween season.

[Omphaloskepsis]

10. Book 1 - Agile Web Development With Rails.

Book 2 - Programming Ruby: the Pragmatic Programmers’ Guide

That might make me slightly geeky. But, I can live with that.

[MissHoneychurch]

11. are you reading it for work?

or are you programming in your spare time? Nothing geeky with that.

[Omphaloskepsis]

19. Most of my work is PHP and MySQL...

I'm slowly making the switch to Ruby on Rails. When I get better at it all of my projects will be Ruby on Rails apps. So now, I'm learning RoR in my spare time with creating some personal apps and doing simple projects with it. Oh, to answer the question. I do this stuff to pay rent and kill some time. So, a little bit of both.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

13. " Gnostic Philosophy : From Ancient Persia to Modern Times "

Written By Tobias Churton .

Very interesting read .

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1594770352/qid=1130483816/sr=8-10/ref=pd_bbs_10/002-1767139-0243257?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

[hfojvt]

15. The Social meaning of Modern Biology

but I am not reading it very fast.
Good to see you back.
Did you see the unfounded rumour about you being a soviet spy? What can I say to that but 'ja lublu tiebya'?

[MissHoneychurch]

23. no I haven't seen that

but "Ja taksche lubju tiebya" (I wanted to type it in the Kyrillic letters but DU doesn't let me do that)

[hfojvt]

30. well your Russian is suspiciously good

Was bedeutet taksche?
Kyrillic letters? yee-ouch! Before I took my first year of Deutsch I tried to study it from the library, but all the books there were written in old script. My thought was 'if I have to learn that, I am dropping out of this course.'

The rumour:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4216787&mesg_id=4216896

[MissHoneychurch]

32. "taksche" means too

I learned Russian in school. I am not speaking or understing very much anymore, but I still can read and write the Kyrillic letters. But that about it. And I think, Russian is a good sounding language.
Thanks for the link. I answered WCGreen's rumor :)

[WCGreen]

35. See there... I am all knowing...

[MissHoneychurch]

37. psssst ....

don't tell anybody :hide:

[WCGreen]

40. I'll be Boris if you be Natasha....

[Scoots]

17. Mostly just my textbooks, but when I get a minute I've been

re-reading Different Seasons, from Stephen King.

[SeattleGirl]

20. Good book

but then, I love almost everything King has written.

[Scoots]

21. Same here, but

his stories about kids (It, The Body) are the ones I keep going back to.

To paraphrase Glenn Dakin, what was it that was so simple that we understood then, that we don't understand now?

Stephen King seems to know.

[SeattleGirl]

26. Wish he'd tell the rest of us!

I loved "It"!

[Robeson]

25. Hey MissHoneychurch! I'm actually rereading a favorite book of mine...

...which always inspires me. It's called "Resistance of the Heart - Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany"..

Its a true and often overlooked story of intermarriage in Berlin between Germans and Jews. In 1943, the Nazis tried to send all Jews to concentrations camps, specifically aiming on those who were intermarried to Germans. It created wild protests, largely unknown by many people, which resulted in the Nazis releasing the Jews back to their German spouses. What's most interesting about it, is that the majority of the protest were from female Germans. They protested in the streets, and created a real problem for the Nazi leadership, since it wouldn't seem appropriate for them to shoot down their own women. The Nazi's capitulated, and the women won.

In a distant way, it makes me think of what a Cindy Sheehan is doing. And how it is more effective when women lead the front. It really creates a conundrum for the ruling elites.

[MissHoneychurch]

27. that sounds really interesting

let me write this title down. I will for sure look for that book, since I am interested in this period of time in Germany. I just watched "Sophie Scholl: the last days" on DVD. It is a German movie from last year. Very good movie. I just don't know if it is avaiable in English.

[Robeson]

29. The author is Nathan Stoltzfus, and it is/was published by....

...W.W. Norton & Company. I'd highly suggest reading it. You'll enjoy it, and it gives us all hope. If these German women could win over Nazi Germany, in the midst of the war in 1943, then hope is not lost now.

[MissHoneychurch]

28. ordered n/t

[Robeson]

31. Here's a big....

....:hug:

[Skittles]

33. well I just read something oneighty wrote

amazing, poignant stuff....very powerful

[WCGreen]

36. Yes, stark and utterly fascinating.....

[In_The_Wind]

38. Good Morning

I'm reading post on DU

[MissHoneychurch]

39. good morning to you too

read anything interesting?

[In_The_Wind]

43. *giggle*

www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4216892&mesg_id=4216987

:thumbsup:

[hippywife]

41. I'm reading

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1594200513/qid=1130498486/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-9536671-5693620?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

"Oh, The Glory Of It All" by Sean Wilsey

I was looking at the info on another book on Amazon and this was one of those that were listed as "Reader who bought this book also bought.." kind of things. It sounded interesting so I checked it out at the library. I'm not getting vey far in it because I only have so much energy left in the evening and we also got 3 of the I think 5 DVD's of "500 Nations" and the hubband has been wanting to watch those. They are only 7 day loan so need to watch those first.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002S65WC/ref=ase_bookstorenow52-20/002-9536671-5693620?v=glance&s=dvd

[Jamastiene]

42. This post. Well, I had to make a joke, but really

I'm reading anything and everything I can find about Jeffrey Dahmer for a research paper for English class in college. I wish I had his father's book to actually use for the assignment. Otherwise, I'll be pouring over magazine articles I can find online and web sites and a couple of books from the (cough) pitiful excuse for a (cough) library we have in this half horse town.

[Callalily]

44. Just finishing up

"Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini, excellent book, I highly recommend it.
http://www.khaledhosseini.com/

Starting "Rowing to Latitude" by Jill Fredston.
http://www.getlostmagazine.com/reviews/2002/0203latitude/lat.html

[Nikia]

45. Wicked

by Gregory McGuire. I've heard about his books but this is the first one that I've read.

[LeftyMom]

46. A Feast for Crows

I special ordered it from the UK to get it faster, it doesn't come out in the US for a few more weeks.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

47. Just about to start "Exquisite Corpse" by Poppy Z Brite nt

[seemunkee]

48. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Not to far into it yet.

[Greyhound]

49. The Dog Listener, what else? n/t

[NYdemocrat089]

50. I just finished "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."

...and we just read "The Importance of Being Earnest" in class.

In a few days I'll be starting "Anthem" by Ayn Rand. I'm reading "Anthem" for an extra credit project in English (I know she's a DU favorite :sarcasm: ).