What are you reading now - and then

I'm not a reader for pleasure, and I prefer articles over books in the non-fiction realm, but my favorite book is Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. If you've never heard of it, you will... when the movie comes out next year. ;)

~BB~

From Last to First by Charlie Spedding, bout a marathon runner from the North of England

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Originally Posted by BellaBellucci

I'm not a reader for pleasure, and I prefer articles over books in the non-fiction realm, but my favorite book is Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. If you've never heard of it, you will... when the movie comes out next year. ;)

~BB~

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Wasn't his work heavily influenced by the Book of Mormon?

I just re-read ""Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K Jerome.

I read it about once or twice a year. Slim volume, funny stuff.

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Originally Posted by BellaBellucci

I'm not a reader for pleasure, and I prefer articles over books in the non-fiction realm, but my favorite book is Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. If you've never heard of it, you will... when the movie comes out next year. ;)

~BB~

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Read that a fews years back. It's a solid read.

Just started, "Cloud Atlas," also soon to be a movie.

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Originally Posted by danthepoetman

One of the most fascinating book(s) I’ve ever read that was simultaneously so immensely boring… I still have a hard time not having nightmares about the 25 straight pages descriptions of flowers, for instance. Yet, in many instances about the constitution of self, memory and identity, much better than Freud ever could be…

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It is absorbing. I am absorbed in it. I often feel like I am reading it in a trance. I think Alain Robbe Grillet owes more to Proust than he would care to admit.

The book lovers among us ,I would assume , have been able to catch up on some reading over these holidays . Any recommendations?
I have been on holiday for the last month and managed to squeeze in a lot of reading between squeezing into Bangkok bargirls .
So here's some:
"An Appetite For Wonder" The Making Of A Scientist , A Memoir. Richard Dawkins
"Cooked", A Natural history Of Transformation. Michael Pollan.
"The Tell" The Little Clues That Reveal The Big Truths About Who We Are. Matthew Hertenstein .
"From Strange Simplicity To Complex Familiarity" A Treatise On Matter ,Information , Life And Thought. Manfred Eigen.
The math is a bit challenging , probably better appreciated by someone like Trish , (forgive my presumption ,Trish).
"The Better Angels Of Our Nature" A History Of Violence And Humanity. Steven Pinker
See in the 'Great Bible verses' thread #8 under Politics and Religion.

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this book got a lot of shit when it came out because it falls into a lot of the cliches of western storytelling- but i'm really enjoying it. it's a little long winded (to be expected from bova) and at times it's like "i wish we can just get on with the story rather than this romance crap" so either bova's editor is in love with him or is just incapable of actually doing some editing.

I cracked open The Thomas Guide fairly recent.

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The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante... A stunning modern novel by a reclusive writer widely considered the greatest living Italian novelist. This is an incredible narrative about a wife's descent into near madness as her personality splinters when her husband of fifteen years leaves her for a younger woman. A truly remarkable and terrifying piece of writing. Before that Americanah by the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie which looks are race in America from a female African perspective. It is also intriguing for its portrait of modern Nigeria. It is honest and funny and moving.