What are you reading?

[lizziegrace]

I found a biography at the library of June Carter Cash written by her son John Carter. It chronicles the history of the Carter family in SW Virginia starting in the 1920's. Interesting reading something written by someone so close to her. I had a lot of respect for June Carter and this book has made my respect even deeper.

[Midlodemocrat]

1. Just finished Eclipse.

BabyM forced me. :eyes:

Now I'm reading the latest Wally Lamb. I really like him.

[lizziegrace]

3. I remember "She's Come Undone"

it haunted me for a long time after I'd finished it.

[Midlodemocrat]

7. My all time favorite is I know this Much Is True. Outstanding book.

I just started 'The Hour I FIrst Believed'. So far, it is excellent.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

2. Does it talk about the family band?

I have a song by the Carter family... it's delightfully old timey. :P

[lizziegrace]

5. It does

her father was the first to bring electricity to their little corner of Virginia. He dammed up a nearby river and ran a line to their house and the neighbors. Finally it was bought by a power company.

She was so funny. Wicked sense of humor.

(See my new sig line. ;) )

[redqueen]

4. Giving the Love that Heals: A Guide for Parents

Also my biology textbook, but that doesn't count does it?

[lizziegrace]

10. I guess the biology textbook counts ;-)

what are you studying?

And what do you think of "Giving the Love that Heals"?

I'm also slogging through an ADD book - how to organize work and home to accommodate the way my brain works. I keep fighting myself...

[redqueen]

21. Taking prerequisites to get into nursing school.

It's exciting. :)

I love the parenting book... it's kinda new agey but the information seems very, very good.

I need to think about getting organized again. Someday. :P

[lizziegrace]

27. Then you might like this link posted on Facebook

http://www.procrastinators-anonymous.org/

I thought I'd look at it - eventually. ;)

Good luck with school.

[Beer Snob-50]

6. if this book is true the man was a true psychopath

but it is confession of mafia contract killer about richard kudlinski.

[lizziegrace]

14. I don't think I could read anything that intense right now

the economy and life is just too intense.

Is the author claiming this is true or is it a fictionalized account?

[Beer Snob-50]

18. the author claims it is true

he interviewed the subject. i have seen articles from some who claim the guy did nothing like he said here.

[lizziegrace]

25. Gotcha

I hope it isn't true. That kind of sociopath is terrifying.

[Beer Snob-50]

29. i won't share the details

but yeah there is a special place in hell for him.

[zingaro]

8. I'm about to start Unaccustomed Earth. A holiday gift, so it's about time. nt

[lizziegrace]

16. That's okay

many still have their outdoor Christmas decorations up around here. ;)

[ZombieNixon]

9. This thread.

I'm not multitalented and able to read different things with different eyes. :eyes: :P

[lizziegrace]

11. Don't be a smart-ass

;)

Good thing I like you. :hug:

[ZombieNixon]

15. Hey, I can't help it.

Better than being a dumb-ass, though, right? :P :hug:

[lizziegrace]

17. You analytical, linear thinkers

:P

I refuse to correct my OP to reflect the fact that I was implying that one was reading these books outside DU time. ;)

[ZombieNixon]

24. OK, fine

Nothing. I finished the last book I own that I haven't already read a week ago. :P

[LadyoftheRabbits]

26. Oh, btw, maybe you could bring me another one?

I'm almost done with Reaper Man. :P

[ZombieNixon]

34. Sure.

Just pick one?

[LadyoftheRabbits]

37. Hrm...

I think I might stick with the Death arc, so maybe another Death one? :P

[ZombieNixon]

41. Yeah, I'll bring one.

(BTW, don't you have class?)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

46. Good

:P And not until 2:30... (leave at 2). I stopped PMing you because I thought you had to work. :blush: :P

[ZombieNixon]

47. I er...well, I do.

OK, I'm out. I think. :P

[LadyoftheRabbits]

50. *snort*

I, er... OK. :P :loveya:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

12. Whoo, someone's racking up brownie points today

:P

[lizziegrace]

19. You found him

I didn't. ;)


:hug:

[ZombieNixon]

28. Oops, wrong place

[LostinVA]

13. Acedia & Me -- Kathleen Norris

From Amazon:

Kathleen Norris had written several much loved books, yet she couldn’t drag herself out of bed in the morning, couldn’t summon the energy for daily tasks. Even as she struggled, Norris recognized her familiar battle with acedia. She had discovered the word in an early Church text when she was in her thirties. Having endured times of deep soul-weariness since she was a teenager, she immediately recognized that this passage described her affliction: sinking into a state of being unable to care. Fascinated by this “noonday demon,” so familiar to those in the early and medieval Church, Norris read intensively and knew she must restore this forgotten but utterly relevant and important concept to the modern world’s vernacular.

Like Norris’s bestselling The Cloister Walk, Acedia & me is part memoir and part meditation. As in her bestselling Amazing Grace, here Norris explicates and demystifies a spiritual concept, exploring acedia through the geography of her life as a writer; her marriage and the challenges of commitment in the midst of grave illness; and her keen interest in the monastic tradition. Unlike her earlier books, this one features a poignant narrative throughout of Norris’s and her husband’s bouts with acedia and its clinical cousin, depression. Moreover, her analysis of acedia reveals its burden not just on individuals but on whole societies— and that the “restless boredom, frantic escapism, commitment phobia, and enervating despair that we struggle with today are the ancient demon of acedia in modern dress.”

An examination of acedia in the light of theology, psychology, monastic spirituality, the healing powers of religious practice, and Norris’s own experience, Acedia & me is both intimate and historically sweeping, brimming with exasperation and reverence, sometimes funny, often provocative, and always important.

[lizziegrace]

23. That's going on my list

There's so much to learn and explore. :)

[LostinVA]

38. VERY interesting book

I really liked her last book, and this is similar in theme.

[Fire Walk With Me]

20. Just finished "Last Watch" and wasn't as impressed as I'd hoped to be.

Don't know what to read next...

[lizziegrace]

30. Maybe something on this thread will inspire you

:)

[Lucian]

22. A few books on Archaeology (I'll be majoring in that in the fall)...

and A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle.

[lizziegrace]

33. Good for you!

I'm not familiar with Peter Mayle. Do you like the book so far?

[Lucian]

44. Oh I love the book.

Makes me want to move to Provence in France. Too bad I don't have any money. :(

[lizziegrace]

53. I know the feeling

:)

[Tangerine LaBamba]

117. The first Mayle book is great fun,

but, be warned - the two he wrote as sequels are very, very disappointing.

[Scout]

31. Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon

very good reading!

[Scout]

32. hey someone, thanks for the heart!! n/t

[lizziegrace]

36. True story?

:hi:

[Scout]

88. yup, many true stories

the subtitle is:
"Gripping accounts of all known fatal mishaps in the most famous of the World's Seven Natural Wonders"

i've been to the canyon before, just on the rims.

November '09 i'm doing the mule ride to the bottom for a two-night stay at Phantom Ranch.

So far, the odds of a successful trip are in my favor. I'm not a male, and I'm not young but not too old. I'm not tempted at all to stand at the edge and see how far out/down into the canyon i can pee! I'm going to stay on the trail, I'm going to carry enough food and water, and I've learned some of the signs of an impending flash flood. I'm not going to climb on, over or around any barrier walls.

[leftyclimber]

97. If you enjoy that,

check out Michael P. Ghiglieri's Death in Yosemite, which is essentially the same thing in Yosemite National Park. Fun stuff for us morbid folks. ;)

[Scout]

144. Ghiglieri is the co-author of the Grand Canyon one, cool!

I will have to check out Yosemite too, thanks

:hi:

[av8rdave]

153. You'll have a great time. A few years back,

I hiked from the south rim to Phantom Ranch, then rafted the river for 6 days. Trip of a lifetime!

[Whoa_Nelly]

35. The Almost Moon-Alice Sebold

and am waiting to get the latest James Patterson/Alex Cross novel (when it goes to paperback.)

[lizziegrace]

40. I'm past even waiting for something to come out in paper back

and going to the library. Free is the only way I read now. x(

How are you?? :hug:

[Whoa_Nelly]

63. Was just wondering how YOU are doing!

Am okay. Went to Union rep last week. She wants me to talk with the head of our local, and to email the principal for a letter of recommendation for before March 1, si I can have ot for the upcoming local job fairs. Rep says that because of the way the principal handled things, I could parley this into keeping the job, but I don't want to take on that fight,a nd I sure as hell don't want to work under that jerk. Last year when he was hired as principal over all those who applied for the position (he was ass't vice-principal at our school), 10 or more teachers immediately resigned and found positions at other schools because he is a jerk.

Anyway, am still strongly leaning toward moving to Tucson; it's cheaper, I have friends there, there is work. CA is too damn expensive, and both the union rep and I agree, due to slashing of education funds here, the jobs available AFTER the postings are filled with intra-district transfers, will be slim to none.

Will know my exact plan by April 1.

What's going on with you (besides no furnace :hug: for warmth and caring), and your dryer situation?
Have you decided or have a plan for the end of this month?
(I do keep up with my DU friends even if I don't always post :pals: )

Hey! Move to Tucson with me! Houses there allow pets, and there are places for $1200/mo. with 2,000 sq. ft. plus in decent neighborhoods!


I :loveya: Lizzie! :hug:

[lizziegrace]

70. You are amazing.

I don't think I could handle Tuscon. To drastic a change for me. I don't handle the heat well and have decided that I'm a Midwesterner at heart and always will be. I'm trying to muster the courage to just move back to Columbus and look for something once I arrive. (I'm applying there now.)

I just can't muster the courage today to make that leap. And it would be a leap without a net. :(

[Whoa_Nelly]

83. When i think of Tucson and the heat

It doesn't bother me.

I know I will be able to wear sandels almost year-round no matter what the job.

My BFF in OKC has been looking for jobs for me there. She's convinced (has been for years) that she needs me near her, and we can retire to Santa Fe, NM or southern CO someday.

While OKC would be awesome in terms of cultural events (symphony, ballet, the Old Paseo District and Bricktown and all the other music and arts that happen weekly and are slated to be put in place), not to mention my love of wild weather, especially tornado season, it's just too far from my babies.
At least Tucson would only be a 10-hour drive to see them (not bad, a drive I'e made many times), and am totally familiar with Tucson.

I used to think I was a small town country kind of gal, but have learned over the years (especially during these past 4 years being back here after gone for 23) that I'm a country person in terms of enjoying camping, and am a big city kid at heart.

[lizziegrace]

89. That's good

I wouldn't even consider Oklahoma or Texas. Yeah, the heat is that big of a deal. I'm more of an Illinois, Ohio person. ;)

ZombieNixon is from New Mexico, near Durango, CO. He knows Santa Fe and that area very well. I've only driven through it on my way to Pagosa Springs for a job interview several years ago.

[AirmensMom]

39. Your thread.

:hide:


Actually, I was interrupted from reading the 6th Harry Potter book. I'll have to get back to it once things calm down.

Your book sounds interesting. :thumbsup:

[lizziegrace]

43. You're just too funny

;)

It *is* a good book. John Carter is no author, but he's able to convey the tough, loving, grounded, kind, funny woman his mother was. That's an art and true love.

[AirmensMom]

51. Teehee.

:blush:

I may have to put it on my list.

I'm SO far behind in my reading these days! I have a stack of books waiting for me to crack them open.

[foxfeet]

42. Just finished "Angela's Ashes."

I know, I'm late to the party. Or wake, in this case. Still, I very much liked the book.

[lizziegrace]

54. I've got a long list of

classics and recent classics. Angela's Ashes is one of them. I'll get to it eventually. :)

[destinationunknown]

45. A book by Ram Dass about the Bhagavadgita

It's really cewl.

[lizziegrace]

56. Had to look him up

:hi:

good to know!

[ghostsofgiants]

48. I've been re-reading Chomsky's "Hegemony or Survival"

Such a good book.

[lizziegrace]

55. ...

delinquent. ;)

[ghostsofgiants]

61. It's just a break from listning to David Harvey's lectures on Marx really.

http://www.davidharvey.org

(I'm serious, haha.)

[leftyclimber]

101. Oo! Another Harvey fan?

I'm rereading Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Distance right now. Great stuff.

:hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

116. He's a colleague of one of my old sociology professors, who turned me onto his work.

He is great.

[azmouse]

49. Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara

[lizziegrace]

60. Civil War or am I thinking of a book with a similar title?

:shrug:

[azmouse]

66. Yep, Civil War.

Michael Shaara wrote the first book in the series in 1974 about Gettysburg called The Killer Angels. His son Jeff has written two other books - God and Generals and The Last Full Measure to round out the series.

[lizziegrace]

78. I've read "Killer Angels"

I saw the other two and didn't know if they were part of a series.

I have relative who is a pretty interesting character who lead troops during the Civil War. General Daniel Sickles. If you know anything about the man you'll understand that when we say we're crazy in my family, we mean it. :evilgrin:

[Aristus]

52. Current Diagnosis & Treatment - Emergency Medicine, 6th Edition.

Studying...

[lizziegrace]

62. I love it when you talk medical

*swoon*

[Aristus]

68. Would you care for some Essentials of Radiology, 2nd Edition?

:evilgrin:

[lizziegrace]

71. Sure

:evilgrin:

[Aristus]

76. I also have some Obstetrics and Gynecology, 5th Edition - Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins.

That's right, you want it, you know you want it... :+:silly::crazy:

[lizziegrace]

79. Actually...

no. Been there, done that, almost died having Lelapin. There's a reason she's an only child. x(

[Aristus]

84. She's one-of-a-kind all right. Would you rather have...

The Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, 3rd Edition?

I could give you a CMP, CBC, TSH and a sed rate. You'd like that, wouldn't you? :P

[lizziegrace]

90. Why yes...

yes I would. :P

;)

[Z_I_Peevey]

57. Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life

by Dacher Keltner.

Interesting, and hopeful.

[lizziegrace]

64. I like that . Hopeful is something we all need

I have another one lined up "The Power of Kindness". Since I can't change who I am, I might as well find something to celebrate in it. :)

[VenusRising]

58. Nuthin'.

I've run out of books to read, and just haven't found anything that really interests me lately. I was on a really good book run for a while.

:hi:

[azmouse]

69. What types of books do you like to read?

I know the Duers here could recommend enough books to keep you busy for the rest of your life. They sure keep me busy reading all the good stuff they rec. :hi:

[VenusRising]

86. I'm not picky about genre.

About 7 years ago, I decided that I just wasn't well read enough. I decided to start reading more. I read many of the classics that I knew by name recognition, most of which I loved, and just branched out from there to non fiction, biographies, best sellers, etc.

I think I'm just in a funk when it comes to reading.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

118. Read Dickens

He wrote his stuff as serials that were published in newspapers, so it's easily read.

And he is brilliant and timeless.

[av8rdave]

154. Try some Steinbeck or Vonnegut if you haven't already

Those guys never disappoint!

[deepthought42]

59. W.B. Yeats poetry.

for Lit. class. I really have no interest in poetry. For fun "Living Dead in Dallas" by Charlaine Harris. Next I'm thinking "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" by Alison Weir.

[lizziegrace]

72. My daughter (LadyoftheRabbits) has every Alison Weir book

She's a history major and that era is her love. :)

[deepthought42]

161. Sweet!

So far I've read The Children of Henry VIII and Innocent Traitor, which is fiction of course. I enjoyed both. :)

[southpaw]

65. The Harry Potter books, for the first time.

I'm finishing 'Chamber of Secrets' and my goal is to have finished 'Half Blood Prince' before the movie comes out.

My reading time is somewhat limited, but we've got quite a wait for the movie. I'll probably be able to get through 'Deadly Hallows' by then, as well.

[lizziegrace]

74. I haven't read a single Harry Potter book

I don't know why I can't get into them.

I have seen the movies and think they're great. :)

[Paladin]

67. I'm Re-Reading "The Gates Of The Alamo".......

....Stephen Harrigan's brilliant historical novel, with vivid depictions of the real-life characters: Jim Bowie, Sam Houston, Davey Crockett, Santa Ana. Told from the perspectives of both the Texians and the Mexican forces.

Any of you who like McMurtry's historical works will love this book, I promise....

[lizziegrace]

75. I like what I've read by McMurty

Thanks for the recommendation. :)

[abq e streeter]

120. First Elvis and now just noticed McMurtry--obviously a person of outstanding taste, Ms. Grace

You probably know this, but Larry McMurtry's son, James, is an outstanding songwriter...

[av8rdave]

156. I got hooked on McMurtry with Lonesome Dove (never did see the miniseries)

I love his style. I even liked "Cadillac Jack," which wasn't one of his more successful efforts.

[ScreamingMeemie]

73. Simon's Family

[lizziegrace]

81. Hey stranger!

:hug:

Tell me about the book. Who's the author?

[Hestia]

77. "Paths Not Taken" the 5th of Simon R Green's Nightside Series

[AlCzervik]

80. "Don't know much about history" by Kenneth Davis

i plan on reading the whole "Don't know about" series, very entertaining and informative.

[lizziegrace]

82. I've got errands to run and have spent too much time here

this thread is fun. I'll be back later to catch up.

:hi:

[MorningGlow]

85. A very boring book about how to keep a journal

I'm checking it out for my editor--she's considering doing a piece on the author or running an excerpt in our magazine. At this point I'm saying no way, Jose. It's :boring:

Just finished Michael Palin's Diaries 1969-1979. That was fantastic--blasted through it really fast (and it's huge). I miss it. I can't wait till the next volume, 1979-1989, The Movie Years, gets to this side of the pond. I am in so much Palin withdrawal I might order it from Amazon UK!

[Tangerine LaBamba]

119. What on earth

can you put in a book about how to keep a journal?

My head is spinning. I mean, does the word "superfluous" have any meaning here? Or "redundant"?

[MorningGlow]

141. Precisely

"Write whatever you want, however you want, in whatever type of notebook you want." Repeated over and over and OVER for approximately 290 pages. Even the suggested excercises blew chunks.

My book on journaling will have one sentence: "Don't read this--go write!"
:rofl:

[tigereye]

87. Three Cups of Tea by Gregg Mortensen

Walking the Bible by Bruce Feiler (fascinating blend of history, travelogue and Biblical scholarship), Dune, and Handbook of Infant, Toddler and Preschool Mental Health Assessment.

[leftyclimber]

102. Every American should read Three Cups of Tea.

GREAT book.

[Tsiyu]

91. Just finished "Ten Little Indians"

by Sherman Alexie. The short story "Do Not Go Gentle" would be appreciated by teh Lounge. ;)

Getting ready to begin Organic, INC. by Samuel Fromartz.

[sniffa]

92. Evidence and Procedures for Boundary Location (5th edition)

Exciting stuff.

[SoxFan]

93. "What the Gospels Meant", Gary Wills

"Intruders", Budd Hopkins

Report on the impact of proposed elimination of Meals & Rental Tax revenue on the city and school district financial situation (subtitle: "We're Screwn!")

[lizziegrace]

94. Kick

:kick:

[leftyclimber]

95. Two things.

For mindless fun: Jack Whyte's Camulod Chronicles (A Dream of Eagles, for you Commonwealthers), which is a speculative/quasi-historical Arthurian series and very well-written.

For intellectual/dissertation fun: Rereading David Harvey's, Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Distance, which examines Marxian dialectics in terms of space-time and place as well as being an apologetic wherein he moves from structuralism to more of a Giddens-esque structuration intellectual framework.

[enigmatic]

96. Brains Benton- The Case Of The Waltzing Mouse

[susanna]

98. Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks

It's a compilation of a lot of articles she wrote for the Missouri Ruralist from 1911 to 1923. Everyone knows her from the "Little House" books, but this is a definite change of pace (and voice) in articles for other farming families of the time. Fascinating.

ETA: my nephew and I are working our way through Jenny and the Cat Club...very sloooooowly. He's kind of hard to pin down. Actually finishing a book is rare LOL.

[femmocrat]

99. "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle"

It is really inspiring me to put in a bigger garden and to become more self-sufficient.

Great book! :)

[NNadir]

100. Your post.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

103. I have a waiting line.

3 Discworld books, H20 Man's book on the O&W Railway, and hmm, gimme sec...

*Dashes into the SCEcave*

60 seconds later...

Ah yes LMAO

Where the Right went wrong by Pat Buchanan (hey it was a present lol) The Golden Years of Baseball (Foreword by Ernie Banks) and Worse Than Watergate by John Dean.

Just need free time (HA!)

[libodem]

104. The Covenant

by James A. Mitchener. I read, The Source, last year. It was a history of Israel. The Covenant, is about south Africa. His books are small type, single spaced, and over 1000 pages. I enjoy quicker reads most of the time but it is nice to take a while to digest a long slow book.

[bluesbassman]

105. Mao: The Unkown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday

Facinating imformation about the rise of Communism in China.

[underpants]

106. The Gamble by Thomas Ricks

the Iraq war 2006-208

[justabob]

107. Harry Potter book 7 for the zillionth time

I alway fall back to good ol' Harry when I am depressed.

[bluesbassman]

108. I love those books.

My son and I read every one together. Since then, I've reread all of them at least once.:)

[justabob]

109. me too

Read them all to my son and reread them often. I just love them. The Goblet of Fire and The Deathly Hallows are my favorites, but they are all great and I always feel better after I read them.

[abq e streeter]

110. got 3 going--The Republican Noise Machine, Last Train to Memphis (The Rise of Elvis Presley)

and A Freewheelin Time, by Suze Rotolo; her reminiscences of the 60's Village scene ( she was Dylan's first NY girlfriend). And just finished two really good autobiographies: Levon Helm's This Wheels on Fire, and Ray Manzarek's Light My Fire ( lots of wheels, and fire on my reading list these days I guess) . David Brock's The Republican Noise Machine should be required reading for the millions out there who are too naive ( at best) to know how they've been, and continue to be, manipulated into believing whatever the wielders of money and power want them to believe.

[lizziegrace]

111. I'll have to look for Last Train to Memphis

I lived in Memphis during the 70's and when you lived there, you remember the moment you heard that he had died. I was turning in to my neighborhood when they broke through on the radio. I was just about to start my senior year in HS and it was a typical hot Memphis day.

[abq e streeter]

115. Its by Peter Guralnick, one of the top music writers around

so shouldn't be hard to find. He also wrote Sweet Soul Music , about the southern soul music of the 60's ( as opposed to Motown etc), Lost Highway, Searching for Robert Johnson, as well as a few of the entries in the Rolling Stone History of Rock and Roll, so his stuff should be real easy to find. I remember very clearly hearing about Elvis's passing too, even out here in Albuquerque. It was the night before I was about to leave on my first ( of what turned out to be not a whole lot of) road gigs. Played all the entertainment capitals of the southwest; (actually some very nice little towns;) Ruidoso, New Mexico, Anthony, Texas, Telluride, Colorado, (it was still a sleepy mountain town then)...and a couple others I don't remember. I remember thinking how odd it was that I was starting what I thought was going to be a new phase of my life in rock and roll the very next day after the King of rock and roll died.

[lizziegrace]

121. You've hit on all my favorites

I spent Jr High, High School and college in the south. Listened to southern rock, the blues and jazz. I graduated from Ole Miss loved a lot of things about southern culture. I went to college on a music scholarship even though I wasn't a major. It's just part of who I am. I can do without tv and *gasp* the internet if I had to, but I can't give up my music.

What do you play?

[abq e streeter]

125. I sing and play harmonica ,sax and flute

Which favorites? Towns or music styles(guessing the latter)? The ones I mentioned are just things Peter Guralnick has written. I've never met Peter ,but his brother is an acquaintance of mine here in Albuquerque ( I think Peter lives somewhere in the northeast). Tom is a badass jazz sax player ( way better than me-I'm just a barroom rock n soul honker). BTW, there's a website of a semi-defunct band I was in ( and I guess we haven't officially disbanded) till recently; you can check it out at bluerhythmkings.com if the spirit moves ya, or you're hopelessly bored, or both........ I miss it musically but the two newest members were people I didn't particularly get along with ( both republicans, although the bass player was a conservative Christian , and he's a sweetheart of a guy, just misguided), and it always did sort of feel somewhat creepy to be playing black music with republicans. In fact the only other real progressive ( out of 7 people) was the lead guitar player, ( if you check the website out its pretty easy to look at any band pic and figure out which one's Big Dan).......switching gears here, I have a CD called Southern sampler 2000 that came inside an issue of either Oxford Journal or Oxford American or something like that; a journal of southern culture ; I assume being an Ole Miss grad that you're familiar with it. An incredible eclectic bunch of stuff; Starts with Doc Watson, and ends with Alison Krauss. In between it runs the gamut including Todd Snider, Mose Allison, , ,Tom Petty, Dolly Parton,Ronnie Millsap, Alejandro Escovedo,The Derailers, Asie Payton...and Gov. Jimmie Davis......I love blues and soul but I'm pretty eclectic myself ,( huge Dylan, Springsteen and Clash fan)but on a random evening I might listen to, I don't know... Rancid, Elmore James, Marty Robbins, REM, The Doors and Wilson Pickett... I made a pilgrimage to Memphis about 3 years ago, and was in awe of being in the Sun studio....hoping to get back someday... Did you sing , or play, or both , to get a music scholarship? Do you still play ( or sing)? Have a good rest of the evening........abq e streeter

[lizziegrace]

127. My sister dated a DJ in Memphis years ago

she was at a Christmas party with him and Sam Phillips was there. He made some very inappropriate comments to her and from that point on, every time she looked around, he was right there. Following her around the party. She left. Quickly. ;)

I'm not familiar with the Oxford Journal or American. I know the local paper is the Oxford Eagle. I left just after the 1994 ice storm. I've only been back once a few years later.

I've been itching to get back to Memphis and have reconnected with some people I went to HS with since they had a milestone reunion last year. Once my life settles down (hehe...), I might have to make a pilgrimage myself.

I'll check out the band.

Thanks!

[Blue-Jay]

112. I'm reading Hamburger Helper instructions.

Apparently, you need some hamburger to make it work. I emailed them, but they weren't very helpful. I'm beginning to think it's some kind of elaborate ruse.

[BarenakedLady]

113. I finished Blindness recently

I really recommend it though. It's about what would happen if everyone suddenly went blind (like a contagious disease). Wild stuff.

I also read Nation by Terry Pratchett. That was pretty good as well, but very different from the usual Pratchett novel.

[netania99]

122. Now you've got to read "Seeing"

I love Jose Saramago.

[Lyric]

114. At the moment: "Primitive Mentor" by Dean Young, plus

a couple of plays for my Theatre Tour class ("The Changeling" by Thomas Middleton and "Roundheads and Peakheads" by Berthold Brecht.) I'm also reading "New Sudden Fiction," which is a collection of modern short-short-stories, and "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. That's all school reading, though.

My strictly-pleasure reading this week has been: "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin, "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, "Bastard out of Carolina" by Dorothy Allison, and "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker. Oh--and a book of short stories titled "River of Lost Voices" by Mark Brazaitus.

:hi:

[mvd]

123. Twilight

It's getting s little better towards the end, but still not very well-written. The writing is pretty childish even though you do want to see what happens,

[av8rdave]

124. Airplane manuals, company policies and FAA regulations

Recurrent training will be coming up soon.

However, on vacation in Cabo over the holidays, I got some great reading in:

"Look Me in the Eye: My life with Asperger's Syndrome," by John Robison

"The Things They Carried," by Tim O'Brien

"Fight Club" (finally!)

"Einstein," by Walter Isaacson

[lizziegrace]

130. YAWN...

manuals, policies and regs ;)

If we had stayed in Dallas, I'd at least have my private pilot's license. I might have even gone commercial or become an air traffic controller. A friend of my father's had a Piper Cherokee and a Cessna 150 that my dad and I took up frequently. I loved doing touch and goes (how do you spell that?) at DFW right after the airport opened. All the big jets and us in this little single engine...

[av8rdave]

137. You spelled it right!

There is a certain fun factor in light plane flying that you can't capture in anything else.

Here's hoping that license happens some day!

[lizziegrace]

151. Not likely

money, access to a plane and fear drive this one. I was invincible when I was in HS. Today, I've got way too much to lose.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

126. Just going to start

"An Independent Man: Adventures of a Public Servant" by Senator Jim Jeffords

I've flicked through the book and it looks both interesting and well-written

[Left Is Write]

128. Schlock. Pure schlock.

I finished my most recent Ann Rule book and was looking around for something new to read this past weekend. I grabbed a book I've had for a while but hadn't bothered to pick up - The Romanov Prophecy by Steve Berry. I read his book The Third Secret, which was a steaming pile of crap. I'm now a third of the way into The Romanov Prophecy and I'll have to see it through, now...

[MrSlayer]

129. "The Two Swords" by R.A. Salvatore.

Which is a Drizzt Do'Urden fantasy adventure. Brilliant stuff.

[lizziegrace]

131. There are so many titles and authors on this thread

I don't know where to start. I don't think I have enough years left to read all I still want to...

:)

[MrSlayer]

135. Well, if you like fantasy, Salvatore is one of the best.

You would have to start with the Dark Elf trilogy. http://www.amazon.com/Trilogy-Collectors-Homeland-Exile-Sojourn/dp/0786915889

The one I'm reading right now is the third book in the fourth Drizzt trilogy.

[Zomby Woof]

132. "Lincoln" by David Herbert Donald

[Mollis]

133. Fast Food Nation

...yaay....

[Brother Buzz]

134. Nuclear Jellyfish by Tim Dorsey

I believe I used to time travel with Serge Storm. Ha, I remember some of the joints he is forgetting. I remember none of the killing other than when it was absolutely necessary (which may have been all of them, but I forget). Times have been better.

Fasten your seatbelts: Serge A. Storms, Florida's manic tour and history guide as well as its most inventive and prolific serial killer, cruises at warp(ed) speed through bestseller Dorsey's 11th thriller (after Atomic Lobster). Serge's primary target is a tattooed thug called Jellyfish (behind his back) or Eel (to his face), whose gang rips off diamond couriers. But along the frantic way, Serge and his pal, the always-buzzed Coleman, remove a variety of societal pests, including skinheads beating a homeless man, auto repair shysters preying on tourists and bargain motels that don't deliver on their bargains. Serge's instruments of vengeance include garden hoses, pigs, aerosol sprays and lots of duct tape. Dorsey's inspired insanity certainly won't appeal to everyone, but Serge's antics give vicarious satisfaction to those who too often see misdeeds go unpunished. In short, Serge continues to pummel convention and evildoers with exuberant abandon and wit. 9-city author tour.

[crimsonblue]

136. I'm reading your OP.

Duh.

[Gonzo Gardener]

138. Two...

The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club by Laurie Notaro

and

The All-American Outhouse - Stories, Design & Construction by Bob Cary.


:hi:

[RetroLounge]

139. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

Kind of a modern Hamlet set in northern Wisconsin with dogs.

Amazing book.

:hi:

RL

[yellowdogintexas]

140. just finished 'Plum Lucky' by Janet Evanovich, made me laugh out loud on

the treadmill last night. Next: I have 5 to choose from, I will report back when I select.

I have read ALL the Sookie Stackhouse novels and they are a riot by the way.

[PRETZEL]

142. The Russ Baker book about the Bush Family,

so far nothing spectacular.

[Chorophyll]

143. "Yesterday's Weather" (short story collection) by Anne Enright.

She is a scary-talented Irish author. I just finished her novel "The Gathering."

I've heard John Carter interviewed on NPR. Interesting guy; interesting family!

[old mark]

145. Book by a young Southern writer named Ace Atkins.

He was a reporter for a Florida paper and has written a series of pretty good novels with a lot of blues music content. This book is about Tampa/Yorba/ Cuban gangsters in the mid 1950's, and is based on fact. Called "The white Shadow", it is not a series novel, but may be his best work to date. He is improving with each book he writes, and started out pretty good.

mark

[peacefreak]

146. Just finished Mockingbird

the biography of Nelle Harper Lee. Very good read. It was interesting to read about the friendship between Truman Capote & her. She was instrumental in the writing of In Cold Blood & didn't get nearly the credit she deserved for it.
I just started a book called Charlatan. This one is about a flim flam man who made a great deal of money "restoring" virility by implanting goat testes in men. He sounds like a real character. The book reads like fiction, but it is true.

[av8rdave]

157. I need to read that

I love biographies, and To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the greatest works by an American author, IMO.

If you enjoyed that, believe it or not another you may like is "The Electric Koolaid Acid Test" by Tom Wolf. It deals a lot with the history of LSD (Owlsley, Grateful Dead, etc), but one of the interesting stories within it is the friendship between Ken Kesey ("Cuckoo's Nest) and Larry McMurtry.

A lot of very familiar names cross paths in that book. Great read!

[peacefreak]

162. That's one of my faves of all time.

You're either on the bus or you're off the bus.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

147. Re-reading "Catch-22" for the first time in ten years.

I also periodically flip through Studs Terkel's "Working," which is easy to do because of the short stand-alone chapters.

:hi:

[lukasahero]

148. 'Animal, Vegetable, Miracle' by Barbara Kingsolver

"The Little Green Book (365 Ways to Save the Planet)", "The Complete Dog Book" and "Izzy & Lenore: Two Dogs, an Unexpected Journey, and Me" by Jon Katz. Oh and a bunch of Thyroid books.

[mentalsolstice]

149. The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent

It takes place during the Salem witch trials...very good so far. :hi:

[SteppingRazor]

150. I'm in the middle of four books right now.

God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert, The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald, The Return of Depression Economics by Paul Krugman, and I'm re-reading The New Journalism by Tom Wolfe.

[MrCoffee]

152. Agincourt: Henry V and the battle that made England

[Deep13]

155. This thread.

And a case I have been working on for moths that will be due Monday.

[ismnotwasm]

158. Let's see

Two re-reads, "In Conquest Born" and "The Wilding" by C.S. Friedman.
Just finished "American Gods" by Neil Daimon


And just for brain food (on a recommendation) I'm going to try to get through "The Possessed" by Dostoevsky.

[applegrove]

159. I've been reading paperbacks lately. Just a phase I'm sure.

[Sheltiemama]

160. "The Scent Trail"

The author had a bespoke perfume created, then traveled the world tracking down the history of the notes. Fascinating. Last night, I learned that nutmeg taken in large quantities is a hallucinogen. And that Coke and Pepsi are the largest buyers of nutmeg oil in the world. I don't like nutmeg, so maybe that's why I don't like Coke.