Whats On You're Holiday Reading List?...

Rabbi Dali Rick · Post by **Rabbi Dali Rick** » Sat Dec 25, 2010 12:09 pm

Ahh, now down too some nice quiet reading during the week long Holiday respite, I've downloaded some light reading to the iReader on my iPhone, to get the weekend started; "The Gun" Philip K. Dick, "My Bondage and My Freedom" Frederick Douglass, "Relativity: The Special and General Theory" Albert Einstein.

I thought I'd go back to reading more books to help kick off a positive replacement of some of those negative return habits, for the New Year.

the rebbi

goathead · Post by **goathead** » Sat Dec 25, 2010 12:25 pm

Process Safety Management

read, review, update, make corrections.

and I wonder why my eyes bleed.

Post by **Eric** » Sat Dec 25, 2010 12:28 pm

Just finished The Greatest Show on Earth by Dawkins, now reading 40; A Doonesbury Retrospective. Love me my Doonesbury!

Don't know whats next, usually I spend a couple hours puttering around the bookstore (mainly in the history & non-fiction areas) seeing what grabs my attention.

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Sat Dec 25, 2010 12:30 pm

The Cosmic Serpent- DNA and the origins of Knowledge by Jeremy Narby

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Sat Dec 25, 2010 3:09 pm

The Color of Blood, Declan Hughes. I intend to find the 5th through 7th Bernie Gunther novels soon.

burner von braun · Post by **burner von braun** » Sat Dec 25, 2010 6:59 pm

Warped Passages by Lisa Randall

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sat Dec 25, 2010 7:35 pm

And the truth shall set you free: Icke

geospyder · Post by **geospyder** » Sat Dec 25, 2010 9:57 pm

Just finished "A Place Called Freedom" by Ken Follet. Currently reading "A Brief History of Time..." by Stephen Hawking. The next two in line are "Wild Fire" by Nelson DeMille and "Found Wanting" by Robert Goddard.

Post by **Elderberry** » Sat Dec 25, 2010 11:38 pm

"Bounce" by Michael Syed.

JK

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Sun Dec 26, 2010 1:04 am

â€œEdible Gardening for Californiaâ€

daratheresa · Post by **daratheresa** » Sun Dec 26, 2010 6:45 am

"Vellum, the Book of All Hours" by Hal Duncan

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Sun Dec 26, 2010 8:34 am

The Superorrganism..The beauty elegance and strangeness of insect
by Hlldobler & Wilson(2009)

Next
The Presidency fo F.D.R. by George McJimsey(2000)

Then
The Christmas Star.. by John Mosley(1987)

Elorrum · Post by **Elorrum** » Sun Dec 26, 2010 8:37 am

Eric wrote:Just finished The Greatest Show on Earth by Dawkins, now reading 40; A Doonesbury Retrospective. Love me my Doonesbury!

Don't know whats next, usually I spend a couple hours puttering around the bookstore (mainly in the history & non-fiction areas) seeing what grabs my attention.

I went to get the 40 Doonesbury on 24th after work, sure, traffic, lines, mall... for Doonesdbury ONLY. Sticker SHOCK. ("Wouldn't a Gremlin have been more sensible?") That's gonna have to be delayed gratification. Love my Doonesbury as well, and love the folks I shared it with. I think I'll just dig out my 10 year anthology paperback, and enjoy it again. I think I'll try to get a hold of the Original True Grit novel after I see the latest movie version.

shykat · Post by **shykat** » Sun Dec 26, 2010 9:17 am

Feakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

C.f.M. · Post by **C.f.M.** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 7:12 am

Appetite for Profit

A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan

Nasty Bits - Anthony Bourdain

I got two new cookbooks last night and am rereading A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby, Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs - Chuck Klosterman.

There's a couple more I'm reading but they're also non-fiction and I can't think of the titles.

C.f.M. · Post by **C.f.M.** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 10:19 am

Post by **Elderberry** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 8:50 pm

C.f.M. wrote:

That's funny!

When I was in basic training in the army, we would buy Kotex pads to tie around our knees and elbows to keep from getting tore up when doing the obstacle course. I wonder if that's in the book?

JK

fuck-head. · Post by **fuck-head.** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 12:05 pm

Rule By Secrecy by Jim Marrs

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 1:49 pm

http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Dawn-Prehisto ... 0061707805

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 1:50 pm

)(&%$^ triple post

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 1:51 pm

http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Dawn-Prehisto ... 0061707805

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 1:54 pm

)(&%#%^( thripple host

pizzamancer · Post by **pizzamancer** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 5:55 pm

I ordered my kindle as a Yule gift to myself on Nov 27. Still not delivered. Grrrr.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 8:13 pm

I think they underestimated the demand, because that's what I've been hearing.

C.f.M. · Post by **C.f.M.** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 6:17 am

Last night added

And one or two more I don't remember right now...

MisaBlue · Post by **MisaBlue** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:41 pm

I just get 1st part of Millenium - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - so it seems that is on my list now

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:41 pm

Aw man, CfM, now I'm hungry!

(When should we show up to eat?!?

)

C.f.M. · Post by **C.f.M.** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 1:36 pm

MisaBlue wrote:I just get 1st part of Millenium - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - so it seems that is on my list now

I didn't like those, at all. Much too much sexual violence for my tastes.

You can show up to eat when I have the money to buy some groceries and make some dinner, right now all the surplus is being hoarding for a BM ticket.

Post by **Elderberry** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 1:42 pm

C.f.M. wrote:Last night added

And one or two more I don't remember right now...

I really enjoy cooking, but it seems to me that whenever I buy cook books I never get to trying even 1/2 the recipes in any book I own; so I stopped buying them and subscribe to Cooks Illustrated on-line. Just seems to be more bang for the buck. (at least for me)

JK

C.f.M. · Post by **C.f.M.** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 1:52 pm

Those are all library books, I don't buy cookbooks (not new ones, anyways).

When I'm out of food I look through my cookbooks and pick recipes and try them, so I do end up cooking a lot from the cookbooks I have.