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10-15-2007, 02:43 PM
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Re: what are you reading?
I'm bouncing between a book called Everyday Japanese and Jim Butcher's Fool Moon. I'm trying to understand some of the language and culture that belong with some of my swords and Fool Moon is book tow of the Dresden Files. Can't resist that.
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12-12-2007, 07:24 PM
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#272 (permalink)
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Re: what are you reading?
I just finished "Specials" by Scott Westerfield....its a book targeted at young teenagers and all three books in the series are really really easy reads but I enjoyed the story. Originally I had started reading the first in the series because my young sister was reading it and I was bored but I liked it so I read the others too!
Book 1 - "Uglies"
Book 2 - "Pretties"
Book 3 - "Specials"
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12-20-2007, 09:24 PM
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#273 (permalink)
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Lady of Autumn
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Lincolnshire
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Re: what are you reading?
Recently finished rereading some Masamune Shirow graphic novels, as well as China Miéville's Iron Council, several of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series and All she Was Worth, by Miyuki Miyabe, to name a few.
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05-13-2008, 08:57 AM
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#274 (permalink)
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 955
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Re: what are you reading?
I returned to the books I missed somehow.
Recenty, I've finished "Island in the Sea of Time" by S.M. Stirling (Nantucket trilogy)
Now, I am reading "Carrion Comfort" by Dan Simmons.
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05-16-2008, 12:00 PM
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#275 (permalink)
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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Re: what are you reading?
I don't know the title of the books, but I've been reading a textbook on income tax and one on macroeconomics (the first is confusing, the second is an excellent sleep aid) for an accounting student who happens to require major visual assistance on campus.
I'm also reading several manga translations (just for the fish.  )
Phyllis Sidheuaine
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05-19-2008, 02:24 PM
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#276 (permalink)
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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Re: what are you reading?
Having read probaby too many textbooks in my life, now I engoy my little freedom of reading fiction exclusively thus giving my poor brains some rest and keeping them from overheating under the top of my skull. 
To keep that idiotic state of non-thinking happiness as long as I can, I have even put off Toynbee's "A Study of History" and " The Island of the Day Before" by Umberto Eco. Too serious and requires hard thinking. Oh!
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06-26-2008, 02:50 AM
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#277 (permalink)
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Alien investigator
Join Date: Oct 2004
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Re: what are you reading?
"Adelaide", by Marie Laberge. The second volume of the trilogie: "Le goût du bonheur". A novel about love, money, treason, war, religion, the life of a single mother in Québec during WII, etc
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08-09-2008, 02:55 PM
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#278 (permalink)
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Alien investigator
Join Date: Oct 2004
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Re: what are you reading?
"La louves des mers", by Claudine Douville. The story of a pirat woman.
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08-10-2008, 11:48 AM
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#279 (permalink)
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FreeCafe forums
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 117
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Re: what are you reading?
The 3 Mistakes of my life by Chetan Bhagat
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08-16-2008, 01:52 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: here, there...and everywhere..
Posts: 8
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Re: what are you reading?
Half way through Tess Gerritsen-The Mephisto Club..
Have read a few of hers before...and found them enjoyable.
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