I’m going to try an experiment here: I want everybody to post a comment on my blog and tell me what you’re reading.
If it’s a book: tell me the title, the author, and a little bit about it. Maybe even tell me why you chose to read it.
If it’s a magazine: tell me the title of it, the title of the article you’re reading, and why you chose to read it.
If it’s a text book: tell me what class it’s for, what you’re learning from it, and why you’re taking the class.
If it’s an instruction manual: tell me what it’s for, why you’re reading it, and what you hope to get out of it.
Lets see how many responses I can get!
I am reading "What's Science Ever Done For Us: What The Simspons Can Teach Us About Physics, Robots, Life and the Universe" by Paul Halpern.
ReplyDeleteThe author "quotes" an episode telling the reader what happened to one of the Simspons and then elaborates on why it was impossible to happen in real life. So it is really a scientific book. But that's actually not why I chose it, I was expecting it to be more of a quick funny read and not something that would teach me anything. I love the Simpsons, I think it’s a hilarious show, not educational at all and I guess that’s the point of the book …
Anne
I'm reading Jane Anne Krentz GRAND PASSION which is turning out to be a romance-mystery. What can I say, it was a free book at a used book vendor's table at the World Music Festival at CSUC last month. Can't pass up free books, and I just pass them along, too. Shelly
ReplyDeleteStallcup's Electrical Design, 2008 edition and National Electrical Code Handbook NEC 2008
ReplyDelete- because I'm installing a sub-panel in my shop, alarm system, and exterior lighting on my property.
Also, "ilife '08" so I can figure out how to get the hit-counter and email link to work when I publish to a non-.mac site
Lorna
The old History book that I refer to all the time is "A Peoples's History of the United States 1492 to Present" By Howard Zinn
ReplyDeleteA reprint of Harper Collins Publishers
This is a good one to have around the house at all times to settle arguments and just for the heck of it, read a page or two now and then. Readable.
This Years Home School Text Book is: "Alaska Studies" A publication of the North Dakota center for Distance Education Study Guide by Jill DAignault
My book from Yvonne is: "Sahara" by Clive Cussler. Really, really good plot: tied together well, easy to follow and remember who is who, lots of characters and locations and a huge book.
Mother
I am reading
ReplyDeleteThe Puppy Owners Manual - Solutions to all your Puppy Problems
and Save That Dog - Everything You Need To Know About Adopting a Purebreed Rescue Dog
because I adopted/rescued the Tasmanian Devil disguised in a puppy body
and Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter And Sweet
because it is good
and The Turn of The Screw
because I have to for book club
I'm reading and rewriting the instruction manual on how to do my job as I'm learning it LOL
ReplyDeleteAlso reading the Territorial Imperative, but I forget the name of the author and am feeling too lazy to google it ;P I bought in a little hole in the wall store in Juneau... which I guess really kind of describes most of the stores there! I picked it up because it it looked interesting and it hasn't proven me wrong yet :) It's the author's theory on how every living being is inherently territorial and discovering exactly what the need to defend said territory leads to, especially in humans. I'm only about 4 chapters in though, it's the book I have at work to read on days when I have nothing else to do at lunch.
I am reading Balzac and the Chinese Seamstress by a Chinese political refugee who ended up in France. It's very interesting.
ReplyDeleteWe just got back from Europe. We started off in Amsterdam, then to Krakow, Poland, then to Olomouc, Czech Republic, then to Croatia (Havar, Korcula, Dubrovnik), then to Kotar, Montenegro, and Mostar, Bosnia i Herzegovina, then to Budapest, Hungary, and back north to Brugge, Belgium and a final night in Amsterdam.
ReplyDeleteI tried to read James Mitch "Poland" before the trip, but was too busy with the GRE and UAF application. I brought it on the trip, but never got past the first chapter. I will read it one day. It was recommended to me by my friend who's family is from Poland.
On our trip, I read a lot of the International Herald Tribune (When we could get it). It usually takes me three days to read each paper. The articles are in typical NY Times fashion, detailed, relevant and interesting.
At home I have been reading a book my cousin wrote. His name is Rex Wyler and the book is "The Jesus Sayings". He explores the actual written record since the time of this guy or group of folks called Jesus and provides evidence of the how the messages and sayings were hijacked by various folks to meet their agendas. What we currently know as the bible is not original and the interpretations have been interesting over the years. It is a fascinating read and quite relevant to our current issues.
I have two shelves of books to read. I wish I had more time to devote to it.
Im working on "A primate's Memoir; Love, Death, and Baboons in East Africa" by Robert M. Sapolsky...what can I say, I'm a science nerd. This book is a about a grad student that loves primates and there behaviors.
ReplyDeleteA friend that I am staying with recommended it too me (she graduated and is a science nerd, especially in avian behaviors)...
cheers,
chris
I am currently reading the October issue of Outdoor Photographer magazine. It's my favorite magazine. The last book which I recently read was "Memories of Old Sunrise" which is about gold mining on Alaska's Turnagain Arm.
ReplyDeleteBritt :)
Last night I just finished the last book of the new Vampire series by Stephenie Meyer. There are four books in the series: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. My Daughter, Tara, bought the books and recomended them to me (and lent them to me.) I enjoyed them very much - they are aimed at a teenage audience and have plenty of teanager angst in them, but the story is good and a lot of fun to read. In the fourth book the story takes an unexpected turn that at first I was sceptical about, but it ends up working well. The author does a very good job of tying up all of the different threads in the story in the end.
ReplyDeleteNow I should think about doing some house cleaning, or talking to my husband, or interacting with real human beings in some way because I seriously did nothing but read - and work, of course - in every spare moment I could find.
Kelly
I have added another book to the list of what I am reading: "Notes From Underground" by Dostoesky.
ReplyDeleteKaty is reading it for a class and wanted me to read it so she could discuss it with me.
Noel
My reading lists :)
ReplyDeleteENGLISH
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Bent - Martin Sherman
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Blood and Guts in Highschool - Kathy Acker
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman - Angela Carter
American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis
PostModernism for Beginners - Jim Powell
PHILOSOPHY
Meditations on First Philosophy - Rene Descartes
Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Sacred Balance - David Suzuki
katy
reading a murder/mystery by Harlan Coben titled "No Second Chance"...pretty intense...almost done w/it...will read more of his stuff in the future.
ReplyDeleteBillie Corbin
Right now I am reading "The sharper the knife, the less it hurts"..Of course I'm enjoying it since it's in Paris where the writer is describing recipes they are "learning" daily in this renown cooking school.. by making them divided into small groups
ReplyDeleteto do the cooking etc.. Wows, the quiche sure sounded yummy as I was reading... this comment from chris marshal.
I just finished Hell and High Water. It is about global warming or climate change or climate destabilization. It was a good read and full of information.
ReplyDelete-Lisa
I am currently reading Finding Stefanie by Susan May Warren, it is one of a series she has written. I have read most of the books she has written and really enjoy them.
ReplyDeleteRight now I am re-reading my favorite Mary Brown books. (The author, not my cousin...LOL) The one I'm on right now is titled "The Unlikely Ones" I read it a long time ago in middle school I think so I'm a bit hazy on how it ends, but it is a good read. It's about a girl named Thing, and how she escapes from her evil witch-mistress along with an assortment of familiars including a cat named Moggett, a crow named Corby, a toad named Puddy, and a little carp in a bowl named Pisky. Also joining the group is the down trodden Snowy, the unicorn who's horn has been snapped off in the failed attempt to rescue his beloved prince from the witch. Traveling together they are trying to find a way to break the curses that the witch put on them before she died. It's the prequel to "Pigs Dont Fly" another of my favorite books.
ReplyDelete-Tara
I am reading "Fire in Alaska" K-12 Curriculum Guide for a class I took about Fire Prevention in our state. Excellent class by the way! I learned quite a bit about the different biomes in Alaska, tree identification, what our state does to fight fires, and how 'at risk' our homes and forests are to a potential fire.
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