Thanx to Anx, I'm reading...



and

The Long Road To Gayness by Imago.

Cloudbuster said:

it ain't THAT long

Anx said:

i hear it's pithy though. it has alot of pith.

Dune - Frank Herbert

again

Anx said:

For Dan it appears to be so.

what does pithy mean?

ZombieKitten said:

when you're really bitchy and you have a lisp.

Guy Gavriel Kay's latest, called Ysabel.

It is about a Canadian 15 year old that finds out a strange psychic ability while in France...

It is fun, somewhat more established in mythology and not so much in different worlds, like his Fionavat Tapestry books.

It is my first 'real' stepinto fantasy for some time now and I am liking it lots.

My fave books by Kay are Tigana and A Song For Arbonne.

Anx said:

Oh, the innuendo!

Anx said:

I want to read this again

Last thing I read was 'The Righteous Men' by Sam Bourne.

It was quite good for supermarket trash. Kinda has the whole religious conspiracy thing going on, a little spy stuff, but is really very readable. Or I was just bored as hell at the time with nothing else to do.

Oh, I'm also still reading Shambhala's 'The Essential Chuang Tzu' translated by Sam Hamill and J.P. Seaton. I like the translation.

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DanceWme said:

This sounds like a really bad TNT movie you catch late at night.

Imago said:

ZombieKitten said:

n.the soft, spongy substance in the center of plant stems; the essential substance; force or vigor.-y; a. consisting of pith; terse and forceful; energetic.

Just finished reading The Alienist by Caleb Carr. Very detailed story of how a group of people track down and capture a serial killer back in the late 1800's. Very well written.

Empress said:

I keep getting told to read that book. I mean, seriously in the past year, I've had at least 4 different people tell me to pick it up.

I think I'm going to now.

Imago said:

It's very long and very detailed, but I really enjoyed it. Take your time and don't try to rush through it.

Empress said:

Oh honey, after reading the Count of Monte Cristo last year, I'm up for anything.
That book had so many "Oh lord help me get through this" moments, but I still consider it one of the best reads of my life.

Imago said:

Yes, I can relate. I felt the same way when I read War and Peace. Great book, but it nearly killed me to get through it.

I'm reading SEX, DRUGS AND COCOA PUFFS by Chuck Klosterman. I'm really getting into it. His humor is kinda like mine and all of my friends.

M

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad) is a novel by Nobel Prize winning Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that was first published in Spanish in 1967 (Buenos Aires: Sudamericana), with an English translation by Gregory Rabassa released in 1970 (New York: Harper and Row). The book is considered García Márquez's masterpiece, metaphorically encompassing the history of Colombia or Latin America. The novel chronicles a family's struggle, and the history of their fictional town, Macondo, for one hundred years. García Márquez acknowledges in his autobiography Living to Tell the Tale that Macondo was based on the towns where he spent his childhood. Like many other novels by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude crosses genres, combining elements of history, magical realism, and pure fiction.http://en.wikipedia.org/w...de_soledad
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I'm reading the book in Spanish.

Ok I am reading hmm



Unveiled
Nuns Talking

by Mary Loudon

In this unusual collection of fascinating autobiographies, Mary Loudon gives nuns from varying backgrounds, orders and beliefs a chance to speak openly and uninhibitedly about themselves and their lives. Her questions are sharp, sympathetic and challenging -- those of an outsider who has managed to achieve unique access to a world about which we know little -- and the stories of these ten women are moving, bizarre and sometimes shocking. "Enthralling, thought-provoking and immensely readable . . . A refreshing introduction for people who may never have met a nun and a revelation to those who thought that women became nuns because they could not face the world."

"Unveiled will shatter the common assumption that nuns are frustrated inadequate human beings" - New Statesman



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followed by:

Im not enjoying it really, good job its short.