What are you currently reading?

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mn dave

Have finished the solid thriller Skin by Mo Hayder...

Now revisting Vonnegut: God Bless You, Mr Rosewater

stingo

Finished A Game Of Thrones - planning on starting A Clash of Kings soon.

Ten thumbs

Just finished reading Emmeline again. Already I'm tempted to start on those opening scenes: you just can't beat some of these old novels!
A day may be a destiny; for life
Lives in but little—but that little teems
With some one chance, the balance of all time:
A look—a word—and we are wholly changed.

Philo

The seminal work on CIA relations with Congress:


Continuing the work of Jaworski and Saville-Troike:

Wakefield

These two:

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Both of them in Kindle edition and Spanish translation.  :)
"One of the greatest misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowards. They complain, keep quiet, dine and forget."
-- Voltaire

Philo

Simply a brilliant book with insights galore:



A rare book written by an insider (former CIA director) lending a key historical eye to an oft overlooked (rather misrepresented) position of the DCI through the W years:


stingo

Finished Mort. Going to concentrate on A Clash Of Kings and Shift now.

Karl Henning

QuoteIn the conquest of knowledge of the human mind this CD will be most helpful to you.

Oh. Kay.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

mn dave


Fëanor


listener

#5890
Ben Aaronovitch   RIVERS OF LONDON
London Police with wizardry.   Author  wrote  one of the Dr. Who series
"Keep your hand on the throttle and your eye on the rail as you walk through life's pathway."

Brian

A few recent reads...

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Easy, breezy read with an amiable host. Natalie MacLean meets with winemakers in Burgundy and Napa, serves as sommelier for a night at a fancy restaurant, meets with the Riedel glassmaking family, and very frequently gets a little too drunk for her own good. It's refreshing to read a wine writer who admits to enjoying getting drunk, and the book is a lot of fun, although experts and geeks may find that it's not worth more to them than the $6 Amazon bargain book price.

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Collection of short stories by one of Mississippi's great recent writers. So far they range from okay to outstanding. Some of these are true classics.

The next book I'll be reading...

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kishnevi

Quote from: listener on March 04, 2014, 02:46:07 PM
Ben Aaronovitch   RIVERS OF LONDON
London Police with wizardry.   Author  wrote  one of the Dr. Who series

These sort of stories interest me, so I looked it up.  Your copy has the UK title;  Yanks should look for it under the title "Midnight Riot".  And it's the first of a series.

Ken B

Genetics a conceptual approach

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Bogey

Quote from: listener on March 04, 2014, 02:46:07 PM
Ben Aaronovitch   RIVERS OF LONDON
London Police with wizardry.   Author  wrote  one of the Dr. Who series

Just downloaded a sample on my Kindle.
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

mn dave


North Star

Grabbed this from a bookstore sale, since they were practically giving it away.
(Finnish Conductors: From Sibelius to Salonen, Kajanus to Franck)
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Philo

Now that my thesis is finished I actually have some time to read for pleasure. First up:

Hardy - Jude the obscure
Scott - The art of not being governed
Schoots - Living dangerously

Artem

Finished these two books recently: