Does anybody read books here?

[mimitabby]

We can't do it Shooting star, then we'd have to live without chocolate!

Borrowers was one of my favourite bks. when growin up.

Right now I'm reading the 100-mile diet. http://100milediet.org/book/
It's about a couple who for environmental sustainability try eat food grown within 100 mile radius. I'm not sure I could do this....I like rice much more than potatoes as my staple. Guess I would have to grow curry leaves or somthin'. But at least there's seafood nearby...a meat type that I would pine for eventually.

[uk elephant]

or move closer to a chocolate grower.....

[carpaltunnel]

Has anyone mentioned World War Z by Max Brooks? I couldn't put it down, and I don't normally read horror. It was more than the usual horror story.

Also anything by Nelson DeMille - great smart-aleck characters running around solving crimes, sometimes even saving the world.

Some of Victoria Moran's books - I especialy loved Creating a Charmed Life
Sensible, Spiritual Secrets Every Busy Woman Should Know.
http://www.victoriamoran.com/books.html#book2 Wish I still had it - I loaned it to someone...

[carpaltunnel]

I've hoarded boxes and boxes of books in my 59.9 years, and a few years ago started parting with them. With the forests coming down so fast to make wood and paper products, resulting in the loss of habitat for wild birds and animals, I decided to get my paper hoards back into circulation. What good will it do me to hang onto them until they fall apart? That description fit nearly every book I had obtained from age 5 through about 25. The glue and bindings had gone bad. They went to Goodwill in the hopes that someone will take them anyway. The newer books, purchased from age 25 + were in better shape and went to the Literacy Council's annual book sale.

I figure by putting them back in circulation I'm reducing the demand for new paper products just a little bit and reduce the impact on the environment of my reading habit.

I hung on to a few favorites, and yup, I keep buying books; but now I pass them on when I've read them a few times. Well, most of them And I now buy a lot of books at the used book stores, thrift stores, and garage sales, whereever I can find them. When you pass books on, other books start coming your way too. I hung on to those boxes of books through so may years and moves, and you know what - I find that I didn't need them and don't even miss them.

I've turned over a new leaf!

[salsabike]

Has anyone mentioned World War Z by Max Brooks? I couldn't put it down, and I don't normally read horror. It was more than the usual horror story.

World War Z was GREAT!

[OakLeaf]

Anything by Barbara Kingsolver, fiction or non-fiction. Michael Pollan's last two (The Botany of Desire and The Omnivore's Dilemma); I haven't read anything else of his. Water for Elephants, for any fiction reader.

[TriMom217]

I just finished Kite Runner. I could not put it down, it was that good.

[KnottedYet]

LOVE Barbara Kingsolver's essays. "High Tide In Tucson" is high on my list. I haven't read "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" yet, but I sure want to!

Right now I'm re-reading "Going Postal" by Terry Pratchett.

[crazybikinchic]

Hey, does "Biology for the Radiologic Technologist", "Radiologic Positioning", and "Human Anatomy and Physiology" count? At least for the next week and a half. Then it is "Bicycling" for the next month.

[ummbnb]

I'm currently re-reading The Ethical $lut. It is the Dec. selection for my bookclub amazingly enough.

eta - had to edit because the board didn't like the S-word

[OakLeaf]

LOVE Barbara Kingsolver's essays. "High Tide In Tucson" is high on my list. I haven't read "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" yet, but I sure want to!

Right now I'm re-reading "Going Postal" by Terry Pratchett.

Ha! I just finished Pratchett's latest, "Making Money." I thought it was one of his satirical best, on a par with "The Truth."

"Animal, Vegetable" is really beautiful, and if you ever run across a copy of Kingsolver's book about the women in the copper mine strike, that's worth reading, too.

[Xrayted]

Hey, does "Biology for the Radiologic Technologist", "Radiologic Positioning", and "Human Anatomy and Physiology" count? At least for the next week and a half. Then it is "Bicycling" for the next month.

Yes they absolutely count! So, when do you graduate? Congrats on making it into the program. Only the best of the best become xray techs. I could be biased though.

Actually, I am in the Dune series. My partner loves it and has me reading them. I'm at the end of book 2 and am hooked. Very Sci-fi.

[kelownagirl]

I read Dune way back in my early 20's. Loved it then, not sure if I'd like it now or not.

[kelownagirl]

I just finished Kite Runner. I could not put it down, it was that good.

I've heard nothing but good stuff about that book. Must track down a copy...

[salsabike]

KG, you would still love Dune. We fans periodically reread it.

And I have an extra copy of The Kite Runner. PM me if you want it--I'd be happy to send it, and it is a really wonderful book.