NVR - What are you reading right now? (Fiction or non-fiction)
Posted by Beans and Greens on May 12, 2007 · Member since Apr 2007 · 169 posts
I'm reading 'Raising Vegan Children in a Non-vegan World' by Erin Pavlina.
I'm curious what everyone else has their nose in at the moment! :)
I picked up John Robbins' Diet for a New America and The Food Revolution. I haven't read anything by him, but he's been recommended on a lot of different threads. I'm going to start with Diet for a New America.
I picked up an old copy of Diet for a New America at a book sale for 75 cents! I'm almost done it now... very good read. very, very good.
I'm reading "PopCo" by Scarlett Thomas. I just finished "Everything is Illuminated" by Jonathan Safran Foer. I am reading "Pythagoras' Trousers" on the side, and after that I'm reading "The Universe Nextdoor".
I just finished "Everything is Illuminated" by Jonathan Safran Foer.
I feel kind of lame stating this on a book thread, but I saw that movie. I heard the book is better (when aren't books better?).
The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
If you like to read you should try http://www.bookcrossing.com/ . You can trade and find out where people have left their used books for you to pick up and read. It's members are world wide. It's great. That's how I got the book I'm reading now.
Oh, and I'm also part-timing Adam's Curse by Bryan Sykes, and For The Love Of A Child by Betty Mahmoody; her second book (which I picked up for a dollar among the library's cancelled books). Now I wanna read her first one. And watch the movie again.
i'm reading a book called c*nt by inga muscio... it's pretty good so far.
ummm... this site censors cunt
it is c u n t w/o spaces.... that is inconvenient.
"Pawn Of Prophecy" by David Eddings. Yeah, I'm walking into acres upon acres of mefiocre fantasy writing here, I know.
I'm keeping it balanced out with a collection of Monster themed short stories, and another out loud reading of The Hobbit.
I'm reading the 'Abstinence Teacher' by Tom Perotta. He also wrote 'Little Children' and 'Election'-both of which I loved!
The other day I was listening to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast (yup, I'm one of *those* people) and he mentioned something about how Einstein proved that time doesn't exist and that everything that has happening, is happening, and will happen all are happening at the same instant. So, under that rationale, time travel is completely logical. And that Nostradammus' may have just found a way to tap into those future events happening at the same time to make his predictions...I really wish I understood math at times like this...
ANYWAYS, that same night I was walking around B&N looking for some gift ideas to go order used online (I'm cheap like that). And one book caught my attention out of no where. That book was, A World Without Time- The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein!! I bought it and it turns out to be about just about the exact same thing I listened to that morning. I'm almost done with it, and was pretty entertaining. Just another one of those creepy life coincidences.....
That book was, A World Without Time- The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein!! I bought it and it turns out to be about just about the exact same thing I listened to that morning. I'm almost done with it, and was pretty entertaining. Just another one of those creepy life coincidences.....
That looks good. I just put it on my "to read" list. Thanks for the tip.
I see it's been quiet here for a week or so. Hopefully, you all got beaucoup des livres for Christmas (or Hanukkah or Festivus or Kwanzaa or Winter Solstice). I know I did.
Just finished two YA books -- one for soccer fanatics called Keeper and a mystery written by a writer (Peter Abrahams) who's written a lot of books for adults. It's called Down the Rabbit Hole and it holds up for adult readers as well as kids. The protagonist is an 8th-grade girl who is a big fan of (guess who?) Sherlock Holmes and gets to solve a murder when one occurs in her hometown in Connecticut (yay, Connecticut!).
Also, if you're a classics lover, you'd enjoy Michael Dirda's Classics for Pleasure, where he gives 2-5 page reviews on his favorite, off-the-beaten-trail classics. Talk about setting yourself up with a To-Do List for good reading!
Right now I'm reading one of my favorite contemporary "breezy" writers, Tom Perrotta. It's his latest, The Abstinence Teacher, about a sex ed. high school teacher who falls for the head of a conservative religious group that is out to bring down her course. Only in America, eh? If you haven't read Perrotta (Little Children, Joe College, etc.), you owe yourselves!
Just finished two YA books -- one for soccer fanatics called Keeper and a mystery written by a writer (Peter Abrahams) who's written a lot of books for adults. It's called Down the Rabbit Hole and it holds up for adult readers as well as kids. The protagonist is an 8th-grade girl who is a big fan of (guess who?) Sherlock Holmes and gets to solve a murder when one occurs in her hometown in Connecticut (yay, Connecticut!).
I love the Down the Rabbit Hole series! It so fun...have u read the 2nd one new england?
I finished PopCo (and now want to read all Scarlett Thomas books), 5 people you meet in heaven, and am now reading The Universe Nextdoo. I've also been watching a crazy amount of movies (considering I hadn't watched one since August I believe). I watched Amelie, Pan's Labyrinth, Waking Life, Oceans 12, Nausicaa, and I think something else that I can't remember.
humboldt_honey -- I haven't seen the movie to Everything Is Illuminated, and didn't even know there was one. While I was reading I was actually wondering what the movie would look like if they made one (I wonder that about a lot of books for some reason).
Waking Life
one of my favorites
I just started reading 'welcome to the monkey house' by vonnegut
Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner
I love Vonnegut, he's my favorite
The other day I was listening to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast (yup, I'm one of *those* people) and he mentioned something about how Einstein proved that time doesn't exist and that everything that has happening, is happening, and will happen all are happening at the same instant. So, under that rationale, time travel is completely logical. And that Nostradammus' may have just found a way to tap into those future events happening at the same time to make his predictions...I really wish I understood math at times like this...
ANYWAYS, that same night I was walking around B&N looking for some gift ideas to go order used online (I'm cheap like that). And one book caught my attention out of no where. That book was, A World Without Time- The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein!! I bought it and it turns out to be about just about the exact same thing I listened to that morning. I'm almost done with it, and was pretty entertaining. Just another one of those creepy life coincidences.....
you should check out this book called "einstein's dreams" by alan lightman. its a good one.
he has also written some novels, which sort of put einsteins theories into the real world, b/c "einsteins dream" can get kinda abstract....
violin24242 --
No, I haven't read Peter Abrahams' sequel to Down the Rabbit Hole (or, as it's called, Behind the Curtain), but I will be picking it up with a Border's gift card I rec'd for Christmas for sure). If it holds up in quality to the first, that's good news! We all know how sequels tend to be weaker cousins to their forefathers. Thanks for the rec!
'Invasive Procedures' by Orson Scott Card (damn he's talented). A believable, not-too-far-in-the-future science fiction about genetic manipulation... of humans.
I am reading twilight by Stephanie Myer.
Headstrong, sun-loving, 17-year-old Bella declines her mom's invitation to move to Florida, and instead reluctantly opts to move to her dad's cabin in the dreary, rainy town of Forks, WA. She becomes intrigued with Edward Cullen, a distant, stylish, and disarmingly handsome senior, who is also a vampire.
I love this book and I am only2/3 finished!
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