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What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Survey
10/03/11

Posted on 10/03/2011 7:39:10 AM PDT by MplsSteve

Hi everyone! It's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" survey.

As you know, I consider Freepers to be among the most well-read of those of us on the 'Net. I like to get a feel as to what everyone is reading right now.

It can be anything - a technical journal, a NY Times best seller, a class work of fiction, a trashy pulp novel. In short, it can be anything.

Please do not respond to this thread by posting "I'm reading this thread" - or any variation thereof. It became really unfunny a long time ago.

I'll start. I'm reading "The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the making of a secret American Empire" by Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman. It's part history, part biography and part expose of the Boswell family of Central California, a mega-farming corporation in the Central Valley. It's fascinating reading.

Well, what are YOU reading right now?


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: books; godsgravesglyphs; literature; magazines; pages; vanity
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To: MplsSteve

Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose


121 posted on 10/05/2011 7:10:45 PM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (The emperor has no pedigree.)
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To: KC Burke

It’s a fairly fast read, I had trouble putting it down.


122 posted on 10/06/2011 7:42:27 AM PDT by FrogMom (There is no such thing as an honest democrat!)
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To: Pollster1

Re-read all of the Ender books earlier this year and added both the Shadow and Giant portions of the franchise.

Had a month’s worth of Ender immersion!


123 posted on 10/06/2011 7:45:19 AM PDT by FrogMom (There is no such thing as an honest democrat!)
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To: FrogMom

I got the Nook Touch a few weeks ago and have become a e-reader convert with all my travel.

Just got done with a big project at Fort Lost in the Woods and am now looking at a really really big one.


124 posted on 10/07/2011 7:08:42 AM PDT by KC Burke
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To: MplsSteve

I am simultaneously reading Erik Larson’s “In the Garden of Beasts,” and Sherrilyn Kenyon’s sci-fj romans, “Born of Shadows.” Recent reads have included Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” and “The Girl Who Played with Fire,” Paolo Bacigalupi’s “The Windup Girl,” and Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee’s “Forbidden.”

Next on my list are Dick Cheney’s “In My Time,” and Michael Connelly’s “The Drop.”


125 posted on 10/08/2011 5:48:13 AM PDT by ixtl (You live and learn. Or you don't live long.)
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To: SMARTY

House of Sand and Fog. Page turner!


126 posted on 10/21/2011 9:04:42 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: martin_fierro

Get Some!!


127 posted on 10/21/2011 9:09:54 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Rick Perry engages in corporate welfare via Texas TEF/ETF)
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To: MplsSteve

Bump!


128 posted on 06/16/2012 3:22:56 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: MplsSteve

“The Amateur” by Edward Klein. Excellent book.


129 posted on 06/16/2012 3:29:55 PM PDT by Dante3
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