What have you read recently?

[Free To Canoe]

I am reading Genetics for Dummies (curious about it) and Steel Phoenix by Chris Hall. Steel Phoenix is a book about the steel industry.

Free to canoe

[Eagle43]

The English Major, by Jim Harrison. It's a road novel. An old phart hits the road after a divorce; meets up with Marybelle in Minnesota, who just loves to, ahem, fornicate. So much so that the guy gets... well read it. You'll laugh, I did.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/bo...ew/Egan-t.html

The English Major | Minnesota Reads

Currently reading Banquo's Ghosts.
Banquo's Ghosts

[WhoDaresWins]

Just finished, The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage. It is more than a biography of two fascinating (ill-suited) individuals. It also gives many insights into the most tortuous period in American history.

[boont]

"Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors" by Nicholas Wade

Masterfully answers many questions about human origins. Makes a good stab at answering the three most important questions of mankind...

Who are we?
Where did we come from?
Why are we here?

It "does a great job of synthesizing the discoveries of paleoanthropolgists with the findings of geneticists--in some cases, examination of human DNA has confirmed what paleoanthropolgists have long believed, in others it has raised new and sometimes disturbing questions."

This topic is my favorite subject and I'm on the board of an institute that studies just this topic. Exciting read.

[Free To Canoe]

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Originally Posted by boont "Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors" by Nicholas Wade Masterfully answers many questions about human origins. Makes a good stab at answering the three most important questions of mankind... Who are we? Where did we come from? Why are we here? It "does a great job of synthesizing the discoveries of paleoanthropolgists with the findings of geneticists--in some cases, examination of human DNA has confirmed what paleoanthropolgists have long believed, in others it has raised new and sometimes disturbing questions." This topic is my favorite subject and I'm on the board of an institute that studies just this topic. Exciting read.

Sounds interesting. Thanks for your input. Good to have a good reference on a topic. Like this thread.

Free to canoe

[lsbcal]

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Originally Posted by Free To Canoe I am reading Genetics for Dummies (curious about it) and Steel Phoenix by Chris Hall. ...

Got curious too and checked Genetics for Dummies out of the library. It looks like something I really want to read through slooo..wly and carefully. Although I have an advanced technology oriented degree, somehow squeaked through schooling without even a biology course.

Read Kissed a Sad Goodbye by Deborah Crombie. The female head of a tea company is killed in London. Flashbacks to the WW2 past of some primary characters. Well written and engaging mystery.

[Chester_A._Riley]

Summer reading? Everything that I can get from my local library by PG Wodehouse, particularly if it includes Bertie and Jeeves. Funny stuff. Wish I had paid more attention to this fellow earlier in life.

[Meadbh]

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Originally Posted by Chester_A._Riley Summer reading? Everything that I can get from my local library by PG Wodehouse, particularly if it includes Bertie and Jeeves. Funny stuff. Wish I had paid more attention to this fellow earlier in life.

See if you can catch some reruns of Jeeves & Wooster, with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie (aka House).

BFI Screenonline: Jeeves and Wooster (1990-93)

[vicente solano]

I´m listening to "Kane and Abel" by J. Archer and reading "The dogs of Riga" by H. Mankell. Passable both.

[Chester_A._Riley]

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Originally Posted by Meadbh See if you can catch some reruns of Jeeves & Wooster, with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie (aka House). BFI Screenonline: Jeeves and Wooster (1990-93)

Thanks! I also enjoy "Jeeves & Wooster" on YouTube. Very funny.

[DRiP Guy]

My girlfriend handed me "The Kite Runner" -- guess the boy had to buy and read it for high school English -- I thought it was okay. A little simplistic and stereotypical, but a decent read. Have not seen the movie.

[Oldbabe]

"Stardust Lounge" by Deborah Diggs. A memoir about a single mom raising her hellish teenage son. Amazing writing. She was so brave and unconventional. Diggs is the beautiful poet who committed suicide in April of this year.

[Moemg]

Just finished Lisa Gardner's "Survivors Club" light reading but great for a bumpy airplane flight .

[Life_is_Good]

James Patterson's The Lake House.

Pretty out there for Patterson!

[Charlotte]

I am in the middle of "The Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett. It's enormous, 970-something pages, and I'm about halfway through it. It's wonderful, and I'm losing sleep to stay up late and read it...

Charlotte

[REWahoo]

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Originally Posted by Charlotte I am in the middle of "The Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett.

That's great book.

[CuppaJoe]

I'm about halfway through "Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese. Got into it after hearing an NPR interview with Michael Krasny which is available on his website:

Abraham Verghese

[Moemg]

I went to the library and got an old Harlem Coben book " No second chance " . As usual I can not put his books down .

[heyyou]

Sun Chief, an autobiography of a Hopi Indian born in 1890. He spent the first ten years at home, then ten years in English speaking, Christian boarding schools for Native Americans, then came home and found that he liked the Hopi ways/religion better. Edited by a Yale professor, first published in 1942. It is probably required reading for freshman anthropology students but this is my first exposure to it.

[Ed_The_Gypsy]

The Slurry Handbook.
The Rheology Handbook.
Slurry Transport Using Centrifugal Pumps.
(Really! I read them for fun.)
The People's Guide to Mexico.