What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

[SteveB]

Finished reading that boring as ass book Post-Captain I mentioned oh so long ago. I also read The Accidental Billionaires between reading that boring book.

Now unto Death by Black Hole by Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

[Bella Fortuna]

Currently in the midst of three books.

Audio: Jeffrey Eugenides' The Marriage Plot http://www.amazon.com/The-Marriage-Plot ... riage+plot

Reading: Accustomed as I Am: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Speaker by Basil Boothroyd http://www.amazon.com/Accustomed-Am-Lon ... ed+as+i+am

and Ballantyne's Folly by Claud Cockburn (so obscure Amazon had no good link!)

[SteveB]

Three!? Blonde? Scatterbrained?

[Bella Fortuna]

Three!? Blonde? Scatterbrained?

You? Dead man?

[SteveB]

Only Nazis read book three books at a time. That's ALL I'm saying.

[rasetsu]

I've missed three book clubs this month. I haven't been feeling well.

Just finished "Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows" — it was a horribly melodramatic Vegan screed. (The consensus opinion of the club was that "Fast Food Nation" was a better book.)


Not much on the calendar for this month. One book club is reading Rousseau, but it conflicts with an archeologist's presentation on archeology and the bible. I've joined a Sci-Fi book club (below), it's an hour and 15 minute drive, but they seem to have good books, and the city it's at is gorgeous.


When She Woke by Hillary Jordan

Hannah Payne's life has been devoted to church and family. But after she's convicted of murder, she awakens in a new body to a nightmarish new life. She finds herself lying on a table in a bare room, covered only by a paper gown, with cameras broadcasting her every move to millions at home, for whom observing new Chromes--criminals whose skin color has been genetically altered to match the class of their crime--is a sinister form of entertainment. Hannah is a Red for the crime of murder. The victim, says the State of Texas, was her unborn child, and Hannah is determined to protect the identity of the father, a public figure with whom she shared a fierce and forbidden love.

The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children by Katherine Stewart

In 2009, the Good News Club came to the public elementary school where journalist Katherine Stewart sent her children. The Club, which is sponsored by the Child Evangelism Fellowship, bills itself as an after-school program of “Bible study.” But Stewart soon discovered that the Club’s real mission is to convert children to fundamentalist Christianity and encourage them to proselytize to their “unchurched” peers, all the while promoting the natural but false impression among the children that its activities are endorsed by the school.

Astonished to discover that the U.S. Supreme Court has deemed this—and other forms of religious activity in public schools—legal, Stewart set off on an investigative journey to dozens of cities and towns across the nation to document the impact. In this book she demonstrates that there is more religion in America’s public schools today than there has been for the past 100 years. The movement driving this agenda is stealthy. It is aggressive. It has our children in its sights. And its ultimate aim is to destroy the system of public education as we know it.

The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation by Thich Nhat Hanh

[macdoc]

not bad for 99 cents

http://www.amazon.com/Hegemony-ebook/dp ... 194&sr=8-1

Hard sci-fi

[Tyrannical]

They have a new series of high quality hard cover reprints of Carl Bark's work, ~230 pages and a steal at ~$17 on Amazon.

[Clinton Huxley]

Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian

Kinda boring so far.

I'm also not a fan of the long-ass sentence style he uses.

I may have to kill you.

[Clinton Huxley]

Currently on Babylon: Mesopotomia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek

[SteveB]

Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian

Kinda boring so far.

I'm also not a fan of the long-ass sentence style he uses.

I may have to kill you.

Given your taste, I'd imagine it would take too long.

[Pappa]

[anna09]

Just started "The Plague" by Albert Camus.

[Ian]

[anna09]

Brighton Rock by Graham Greene


I'm running out of books! I NEED TO BUY MORE BOOKS!!