Just finished... The Family Trade by Charles Stross. (Waiting for vol. 2 of the series to come from the library.)
Hood by Stephen Lawhead. (Snooze... finished it, but not going to bother with future volumes)

In progress... Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett.

In the on-deck pile.... Ghost, by John Ringo
Mountains of the Pharaohs, by Zahi Hawass

My book group is currently in the middle of reading "The Chicken Qabalah"

http://www.amazon.com/Chicken-Qabala...e=UTF8&s=books

So far we have found the humor and easy writing style of this book to be helpful in understanding more about Qabalah from a layman's perspective. Most of us are interested in learning more so that we can better interpret Tarot and Astrology information.

Harold Lloyd's Hollywood Nudes in 3D! (Hardcover)

I saw this in Barnes and Nobles today for $10 and I had to buy it. Part of it was prurient interest, and part was my fascination with Harold Lloyd. I knew him as a fearless comedian who did his own insanely dangerous stunts, but I had not heard anything about nude photographs, especially not 3-D nudes.

The book even includes the 3-D glasses:cool:.

Did I mention that I bought it for the articles?;):blush:

Hey, I have a copy of that!

It's a shame they did it in the red-blue format. I always preferred the side-by-side because there's no monkeying with the color.

Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves - Alan Dean Foster, ed.

Collection of Short Stories from 1991 or so, which I read when I purchased it, but not since. It migrated to the front of the linen closet and I was looking for something light and fluffy and there it was.

Interestingly, thus far none of the short stories have involved a Smart Dragon or a Foolish Elf.

They are fantasy tales with a humorous bent or wry twist to them, overall, not bad, but few of the stories are truly memorable. Except Djinn, No Chaser by Harlan Ellison, of course.

I just started the Da Vinci Code.


Your stories sound like fun wolf.


What is Lords and Ladies about Stevedallas?

Hi Perth!

"Lords and Ladies" is a euphemism for elves in Discworld. The book examines what happens when some elves decide to visit Discworld.

Been kinda' stressed about trying to read again. I used to read a book a day (I don't sleep much). Once my pain levels reached a certain point my concentration reached a point where I was not retaining the last page I read. It was like someone killed my best friend without telling me.
It has been about a year since I finished a real book... I have been dipping back into my old comic collection from time to time (a long shot from ancient religious texts, great fiction and new physics journals).
I am pretty scared/apprehensive about this... in a way it would just be easier not to truly know it was gone.
I am not used to being scared of anything. I have a couple of choices I have been thinking of, couple by His Holiness The Dalia Lama or Thich Nhat Hanh. Perhaps re-reading an old favorite like the Three Pillars of Zen?
I miss the constant support of my path by these readings.
However, I wonder if reading some fiction may be "easier"... not what I think about when I think of reading, which I often do.

It seems like graphic novels should be a good direction to go. A good strategy might be to not mark your page when you put it down. When you pick it up again, just flip through until you get to the last part you clearly remember.

I tried that just before I stopped... it is why I stopped. I was reading the same passages over and over and over again. It became very frustrating.
I'm pretty sure I'm better with the pain and meds now... I hope so.

christ. it took him 3 hours to read it. from my stop at wawa 15 minutes from home, all the way back to work the next morning(1.5 hours) and all the way home again (1.25 hours) and there was no new information.

this part, though seems to be the real message of the book. if you just want her message, and politics, you could just read that part, i think. it's just really dry. I may actually re- listen to that part at some point, because there were a few times when things he said clicked.....but i was so drowsy from work, or the rambling manner of the speech, that it didn;t stick with me. it reminded me of one of radar's more lengthy posts about libertarianism.

I wonder if she wrote that first built the novel around it and then didn't delete it when it became superflous?

I see that no one has posted for a while, and as I'm insanely bored, waiting to become tired enough to pass out, I figured I'd post. Pretty much just becuase I can.

The last book I read was "Cursor's Fury", by Jim Butcher. Excellent freaking book, as are all of his books.

I'm currently waiting for Laurell K. Hamilton's next book to come out--tomorrow! "Mistral's Tears", I think it's called. I've abandoned her vampire books, but I'm completely hooked on the Meredith Gentry series.

I read the whole of Hamilton's vampire series (whole until 2001 anyway) while I lived in London. It was recommended to me by my local bookshop and although I never really rated it, it was a habit. She has great ideas for storylines, but never had the quality of writing to really appeal to me. They were Tube books (ie books I could read on the Tube without worrying I'd miss my station)

Is Meredith Gentry better, or does she still have a habit of duplicating descriptions from one book to another?