Speaking of books

I'm re-reading "The Golden Ratio; the story of Phi, the world's most astonishing number" by Mario Livio.

Seeing threads about math phobia and giggling over math references in Phd Comics ( www.phdcomics.com ) and XKCD ( www.xkcd.com ) made me hungry for "ooh, ahhh" math again.

Also going over my notes from the course I took last weekend ("The Female Athlete") so I don't forget everything.

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"Died in the Wool" by Ngaio Marsh from my collection of classic mystery books.
"Three to Get Deadly" by Janet Eveanovich is my lunch break at work book.
And I just now this minute downloaded "The Book Thief" by Marcus Zusak on to my e-reader. I have been on the waiting list at my library for this book.

I just read "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand", by Helen Simonson. It's a wonderful, gentle British comedy of manors about a retired major and a Pakistani woman.

The one before that was Nick Harkaway's "The Gone Away World". I LOVED it. How many books can put together the Apocalpse, ninjas, mimes and have a love story? The best way to describe it is Catch-22 meets Kurt Vonegut. It's very bizarre, but well written, and it has an ending that you don't expect, but it fits perfectly with the rest of the book.

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I just read "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand", by Helen Simonson. It's a wonderful, gentle British comedy of manors about a retired major and a Pakistani woman..

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I really enjoyed Major Pettigrew...

Alone on my Kindle App on iPad

Don't have time to check to see if these have already been suggested, but:
Cutting for Stone, probably one of the best books I've read.
The Art of Racing in the Rain. Everyone I know who has read this has loved it.

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I just read "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand", by Helen Simonson. It's a wonderful, gentle British comedy of manors about a retired major and a Pakistani woman.

The one before that was Nick Harkaway's "The Gone Away World". I LOVED it. How many books can put together the Apocalpse, ninjas, mimes and have a love story? The best way to describe it is Catch-22 meets Kurt Vonegut. It's very bizarre, but well written, and it has an ending that you don't expect, but it fits perfectly with the rest of the book.

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Thanks for the suggestions. I just ordered both--the former for me and the latter for DH for his birthday. I also ordered a relatively new book by Dave Eggers about Hurricane Katrina. Now, I have no business buying more books right now; I have an addiction.

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Thanks for the suggestions. I just ordered both--the former for me and the latter for DH for his birthday. I also ordered a relatively new book by Dave Eggers about Hurricane Katrina. Now, I have no business buying more books right now; I have an addiction.

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At least books are less expensive than bikes or computers :)

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At least books are less expensive than bikes or computers :)

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But you forget that I also own six bikes--one of which cost more than the other five combined.

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But you forget that I also own six bikes--one of which cost more than the other five combined.

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Hmmmm, we seem to have the same addictions :o I don't have 6 bikes, but I was a little shocked when I figured out about what I have invested in the 3 bikes plus all of my gear as I consider how much I need to raise my renters insurance...

reading (rather studying out of) two e-books. "Land of Lisp" and "Learn You A Haskell for Great Good".

Lisp and Haskell are programming languages.

Common Lisp wasn't created when I was using Lisp for work. The new updated Lisp is much nicer and I thought I would brush up on Lisp.

Haskell is an exacting language based on mathematical formalism thus you will not find side-effects (bugs) in your code.

yes my name is ***** and I'm a geek without any hope...

Oh I'm still reading "Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith (original manuscript was back in 1776). A true classic.

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Oh I'm still reading "Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith (original manuscript was back in 1776). A true classic.

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I'm reading that right now, too!!!

According to my iPod (via "Free Books" app) I'm on page 500-something of 4,000-something.

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At least books are less expensive than bikes or computers :)

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And they don't spoil or go out of style!

Finding Jack by Gareth Crocker has become my new favorite.

One lazy Sunday morning in bed, I read it then handed it to my husband and he read it.

Beautiful.