jami0mckay said:

im re reading his dark materials trilogy getting ready 4 "golden compass" at the flixs later in the year

im in a "kids books" mood at the moment
when i finish the amber spyglass (book3) this is my next book


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I am gonna start "we need to talk about Kevin" this week

Nikki Sixx's The Heroin Diaries

Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer

Neil Gaiman - Stardust

Bangkok 8


Harry Potter , book 1


and

Lord of the Flies... again

yeah, only because there's going to be a movie based on it. i don't want to see it without reading the book.

I just finished reading Six Easy Pieces, one of Walter Mosely's Easy Rawlins novels. I've been steadily going through Mosely's Rawlins ouevre (I just love that word). I think I'm going to read Little Scarlet & Devil in a Blue Dress and reread Black Betty and Bad Boy Brawley Brown, before picking up Blonde Faith, which is the series' closer.

And, I'm still also reading Howard Thurman's A Strange Freedom. Mosely's writing is just so fluid, though, it's hard to go from that to Thurman's book, which is a compilation of the late theologian's essays.

Just wrapped up a historiography on Thomas Jefferson by E.M. Halliday and bought this book...



Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography, Michaelis

I'm fascinated in Schulz's back story and am curious to learn about his past. The man was very enigmatic, I'm discovering. I grew up loving the Peanuts and there's some ideas and thoughts I want to explore -- especially the tidbits of his own life that he injects in his Peanuts strip. So far, I'm learning about his childhood in St. Paul and early family life.

They're generally apalling people and it's been a gripping read so far. I'm very interested to see how it's all going to end up.

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I just started a biography of the actor Montgomery Clift.

scififilmnerd said:

Those are excellent. I am a huge fan of hers.

Mara said:

I've met Charles! I live just a mile or two from his museum and ice skating rink.
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something dirty.

I just finished a novel by Magnus Mills called The Restraint of Beasts about these three guys who work building high tensile fences in Scotland and England.

They are always getting behind in their work or going off to smoke or anticipating the pub or accidentally killing someone etc.

It's a wonderfully funny novel that I recommend heartily!

Still flipping occasionally through A Strange Freedom by Howard Thurman.

But I also just started Walter Mosely's Little Scarlet.

"Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert. The author goes through a guilt-ridden divorce, travels to Italy,(eat) then India,(pray) to find herself, then falls in love. Im still on the Ashram meditation/pray chapters.
I'll never understand how women have such low self esteem....of course, I haven't finished the book, yet.

evenstar said:

I still don't get why I absolutely loved this one and thought 'Hundred years of solitude' was terribly boring.

I'm reading 'Atonement' by Ian McEwan right now. I've only read one third of it, but the book is already sending shivers down my spine. I don't know what will happen, but it will probably be a very bad ending.

I have just really started it, so cannot say much about it yet.

No Disrespect by Sister Souljah

My next book:
“Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a Parody.”"
by Steve Lyons. It's supposed to be pretty funny.....

for political science class

Karl Marx By Francis Wheen

Karl Marx:Selected Writting.

Karl marx and fredich Engels- The Communist Manifesto.

Cloudbuster said:

i have this book, my cousin gave it to me when she finished her philosophy class, its a required reading for that class..i read it..pretty good, very informative..lol still buddhist thought.

for school.

Everybody should read Noam Chomsky, he is the consious of the nation.

Dex, that last book sounds kinda nutty. lol