I'm currently reading 'The Testament' by John Grisham and also 'The Slave Trade'-'The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440-1870' by Hugh Thomas. Just thought I'd like to mention that. The next books I'm gonna read well..I'll have to think about it....Haven't made my mind up yet...

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Do What Thou Will Shall Be Whole of the Law.

I am still reading "Red earth and Pouring Rain"..It is a difficult one to read.

But I like the story line.

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Sandalwood's Cosmic Creations: Working with the magic of love....

Thanks for comming to the Book Corner Scott! Normally I would have moved your topic to the thread already started about what we are currently reading. But that topic was getting a bit long and it's about time to update it I'll move it to the top so you can find it easier.

Currently I'm reading Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende. It's on Oprah's reading list. I just finished Midwives which was also on her list, I liked it.

Next up? A suggestion from somebody here...How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and then the sequel, Yo!.

Keep in touch!

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A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.

Things change very quickly at Goat Central. At the present moment:

Peter Viertel, White Hunter, Black Heart
Gunter Grass, Show Your Tongue
Claude Simon, Connecting Bodies
Nicholson Baker, The Mezzanine

and between the last post and this one, I started and finished J. N. Williamson's anthology Masques IV.

R

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31 December 2000... The Holy Door opens
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I am reading Hannibal by Thomas Haris

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Sandalwood's Cosmic Creations: Working with the magic of love....

JITTERBUGa novel of Detroit by Loren D. Estleman.

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He who laughs, lasts.

CAMP FEAR by carol ellis

Just finished a really lovely book by Sebastian Faulks, called 'Charlotte Gray.' Wow what a wonderful writer. It's the third one of a set (not linked, except they are all set in France) The first was 'Birdsong" which was just great.

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Apathy will be the downfall of mankind, But Who Cares! ***

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ooh! I just got Birdsong at a university book sale...

R

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31 December 2000... The Holy Door opens
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Currently "Dead Babies" by Martin Amis and "Jim's Journal" by "Jim" aka Scott Dikkers.

Will probably be followed up with Seamus Heaney's new translation of "Beowulf" or perhaps "Affliction" by Russell Banks (one of the most underrated American writers alive today).

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Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

Brave New World - trying to catch up with stuff I bluffed not having read when I was doing my degree.

However, when my stuff from Amazon arrives I'll probably have three or four things on the go at once again - I just have a bit of a book shortage on at the moment.

Well, yesterday, I started rereading The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien. I finished the first book, The Fellowship of the Ring yesterday and right now I am half way through the second book, The Two Towers. I am also reading at the moment, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. After reading the trilogy and Don Quixote, I plan to reread War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy and a new book I haven't read yet, The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. All and all, it should keep me occupied for the rest of the week.

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"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Thomas Edison

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Show off!

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A day without sun shine is like, you know, night.

Reading three books at present:
Dawn of the Century (fiction)
The Death of Lincoln: history and myth
Listen to Her Voice: Women of the Hebrew Bible.

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...those who hear not the Music think the Dancers mad....

Currently on Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein, and it's an odd one. I'd like to finish it soon. Next up is a good sf one, Brother Assassin by Fred Saberhagen. I have a very long to-read list!

Oh, my TBR (To Be Read) stack is actually about 1500 books, but I try to narrow it down to 50 or so at any given time... which is easy right now, I just consider the 50 newest (the Case Western Reverse U. book sale was three weeks ago, and I got a box of 42 for $5, and then I got those wheedling "we want you back" letters from BOMC and QPB, so I sent those in... time to cancel again and wait another year... heh).

Anyway, since things have changed again, as usual:

just finished: Claude Simon, Conducting Bodies (Grove Press, 1971) *
Gunter Grass, Show Your Tongue (HBJ, 1988) ***

presently reading: Tolkien, The Silmarillion (Ballantine, 1977)
Peter Viertel, White hunter, Black Heart (Macfadden, 1963)
Jon Winokur, The Portable Curmudgeon (NAL, 1987)
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (Vintage, 1985)

next on the docket: oh, who knows? Probably:
Lin Carter, Tolkien: A Look Behind the Lord of the Rings
Dava Sobel, Galileo's Daughter
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm (want to read it before the movie comes out)

or one of the many, many others sitting closest to the book room door...

R

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31 December 2000... The Holy Door opens
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Just finishing up with Blue Moon by Jill Marie Landis, I liked it, an easy read.

Next up: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Yay! I got the large-print edition, easier to read!!)

Now all I've got to do is get a stack together for the long 4th of July weekend.

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A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.

I've currently got several books going:
Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End
The 3rd Harry Potter book, ...Prisoner of Azkaban
Some short stories by Garrison Keillor
and I've just begun David Brin's Glory Season.

Currently: Robin Cook's "Sphinx Fever" and Isaac Asimov's "Azazel".

I very impressed to see that I am not the only one who reads more than one book at a time!! Keep on reading everyone...

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"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm..."

I'm currently reading an excellent re-accounting of history (it won a Pulitzer, people)

"Germs, Guns, and Steel"--the author essentially says, sure, the Europeans took over the New World because of their greater military strength, and drive to do so, but WHY didn't the Aztecs/Incas conquer England? What factors made Europe what it was, and what made Africa, South America, and Australia the way they were?

Great read.

Also, because I've never recommended it: "Riddley Walker" by Russell Hoban. The most criminally under-read novel ever. A book so good I get scared when I think how lucky I was to have even heard of it.

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I Need Some Partners!
--JoJo

At present:

Just finished up M. R. Montgomery's _Jefferson and the Gun-Men: How the West was Almost Lost_, which intertwines the Lewis and Clark expedition, Zebulon Pike's two expeditions, and Aaron Burr's plot to go to war with Spain and overthrow the American government. Pretty durned good, though Montgomery's diction sometimes gets annoying.

Presently have put everything else aside, as the new Peter Sotos book, _Tick_, hit my doorstep a few days ago. When there is new Sotos, it takes precedence. Always.

After that, I'll go back to McCarthy's _All the Pretty Horses_ and Harry Turtledove's _Guns of the South,_ which have been criminally neglected as I pursue my CNN.com duties.

R

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FINALITY

I just finished reading "Trans-sister Radio" by the same guy that wrote "Midwives". It was really different - I learned a lot more about transsexuals (esp. the surgery involved) than I think I really wanted to know.

For a change from that I started #2 In the Harry Potter series: Chamber of Secets. I love these books!

I just finished reading "Trans-sister Radio" by the same guy that wrote "Midwives". It was really different - I learned a lot more about transsexuals (esp. the surgery involved) than I think I really wanted to know.

For a change from that I started #2 In the Harry Potter series: Chamber of Secets. I love these books!

I'm just about through Agatha Christie's The Labor's of Hercules.

Next I'll probably head to the library for something on Marie Antoinette due to Vendome's influential thread!

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I went to the bookstore and asked the clerk, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose.

Tomije I read that book "Guns, germs and steel" and foudn bits of it really interesting, but other bits were just too hard going.

I'm currently reading "Ghostwritten" (can't remember the author at the moment) and it's a really interesting book - a collection of completely different short stories, but one is linked to the other, and so on. It's really well done, and quite an interesting idea.

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Little girls become young women, little boys have the job for life.