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Free Republic Book Club: (1/16/07) What's on Your Reading List for 2007?
Tanniker Smith

Posted on 01/16/2007 8:38:52 AM PST by Tanniker Smith

The Free Republic Book Club is an informal gathering of readers and lovers of all genre of books, which meets on an irregular basis, which would whenever I remember to post something. The last meeting, "What did you read in 2006?" was a big success with over 200 posts over the week.

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This week's topic: What's on your Reading List for 2007?
Any "Must Reads" or "Hope to Get To's""?


TOPICS: Books/Literature
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To: seanmerc

After two and a half years of textbooks, God's Word is the first on my list, too.


21 posted on 01/16/2007 9:22:43 AM PST by Ladysmith ((NRA, SAS) "If God is not, everything is permitted." Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
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To: Tanniker Smith

Currently - "The Truth About Muhammad" by Robert Spencer.
Next - "How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization" by Thomas Woods.


22 posted on 01/16/2007 9:25:32 AM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3rd Bn. 5th Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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To: Kevmo
Oh, thank you so very much for naming our book, Timothy!

Hugs!!!

23 posted on 01/16/2007 9:30:32 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Tanniker Smith

I'm in the middle of "Thomas Paine" by Craig Nelson. If you're the least bit interested in the the story of the birth of America, this is a must. Even if you've alredy read "Founding Brothers" or bios of Washington or Adams or Jefferson or Franklin, you'll definitely want to read this one too.


24 posted on 01/16/2007 9:42:05 AM PST by Califelephant
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To: Tanniker Smith

last year

Hillary's Secret War
The Clinton Conspiracy to Muzzle
Internet Journalists
by Richard Poe
Foreword by Jim Robinson

Warlord: No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy
by Ilario Pantano and Malcolm McConnell

Ann Coulter's most controversial (and entertaining) book ever: a withering assault on the established
"Church of Liberalism" and its false prophet, Darwin
Godless: The Church of Liberalism
by Ann Coulter

Reread Atlas Shrugged
By Ayn Rand


Maybe 100 more books for entertainment mostly western, adventure and science fiction
Too many to list



Now reading
The Tyranny of Tolerance
A Sitting Judge Breaks the Code of Silence to Expose the Liberal Judicial Assault

Written by Robert H. Dierker, Jr.


25 posted on 01/16/2007 9:54:16 AM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: Tanniker Smith

Hopefully in todays mail will be,

Three years among the Comanches

and,

Scalp Dance: Indian Warfare on the High Plains 1865-1879


26 posted on 01/16/2007 10:07:58 AM PST by ansel12 (America, love it ,or at least give up your home citizenship before accepting ours too.)
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To: Tanniker Smith
I'm currently reading Flags Of Our Fathers by James Bradley.

After that (if they're available at the library yet) I'll read either The Broker or The Innocent Man both by John Grisham.

27 posted on 01/16/2007 10:11:09 AM PST by MotleyGirl70
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To: Tanniker Smith

I just started "The Last Jihad" by Joel Rosenberg.
After that, "Next" by Michael Crichton.

After that, I'm not sure....too many books piled up.


28 posted on 01/16/2007 10:22:28 AM PST by iceskater (One person's mess is another person's filing system.)
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To: Ladysmith

Most excellent!


29 posted on 01/16/2007 10:30:42 AM PST by seanmerc
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To: Tanniker Smith
I discovered bookmooch.com.

I posted 97 books to get rid of.

So far, I have mooched 31.

My husband does not find this an acceptable ratio.
30 posted on 01/16/2007 10:39:55 AM PST by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: Tanniker Smith

I will read the Potter book as well. :) I have discovered two other children or juvenile genre authors that I really like as well. Cornelia Funke(Inkheart, Inkspell author) and Christopher Paolini(author of Eragon and Eldest). Both of them have books in the works for this year also.


31 posted on 01/16/2007 10:51:57 AM PST by EmilyGeiger
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To: FLOutdoorsman

Interesting list...thanks


32 posted on 01/16/2007 10:54:33 AM PST by dakine
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To: Tanniker Smith

Since I sell books for a living, and am at my Library weekly (if not more) it's never been a problem to find lots of books to read! Glad to get your ping again. :)

Currently in my library queue:

Postcards from Mars (photography of The Red Planet)
Morning Foods: Breakfasts, Brunches & More
America Alone (I'm finally 2nd!)
Crochet Squared
Eat, Pray, Love
Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story
The Sidewalk Artist


33 posted on 01/16/2007 10:58:31 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: CindyDawg

I read OPB's (Other People's Books) from the thrift stores. I just read "The Life of St. Paul" by James Stalker.

Although I believed it to be Catholic breathed, I wanted to learn more about the Apostle Paul. Why would a man make such a vast turnabout in his life? Especially, when he knew he would be persecuted, as he had once done to others.

I thoroughly enjoyed the book, which was reprinted in 1983. Prof. Stalker died in 1927. This is not a novel. It required great research.

It is a part of his trilogy. The other two books are "The Life of Christ" and "The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ", which I am looking for right now. "The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ" does not appear to be in print any more.


34 posted on 01/16/2007 11:27:24 AM PST by wizr (Do what you love, your God given talent, and God will provide the rest.)
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To: Tanniker Smith

Currently finishing up George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones

On the list for me to read:
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogal
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis (reread)
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lawrey

This will take me through April


35 posted on 01/16/2007 12:38:01 PM PST by Portnoy (Fahrenheit 451...Today's Temperature is hotter than you think...)
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To: Kevmo; Alamo-Girl
LOL Kevmo! Thank you for the moral support!!!

I have a great book suggestion for when you're done reading Timothy: Abraham Paix's Subtle Is the Lord, a world-class biography of Albert Einstein, including the history of his thought. I'm about a third of the way though it. It is simply magnificent!

Thanks again, kevmo, for your very kind words!

36 posted on 01/16/2007 1:25:38 PM PST by betty boop (Beautiful are the things we see...Much the most beautiful those we do not comprehend. -- N. Steensen)
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To: FLOutdoorsman

Now that's planning. I used to stack them up, but I never seemed to read them in the order that I stacked them. And I'd find new things along the way and bump others down a bit.


37 posted on 01/16/2007 1:27:34 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: Xenalyte
Reminds me of this little old man that had this little bookshop under the elevated train station. It was mostly, if not all, used books. He had a system where you could bring in any 2 books and trade them for 1 paperback (which later became 3 for 1, which was fine with me).

I once brought him 18 books, walked out with 6, which I later returned a couple months later, and walked out with 2 more.

Sadly, he closed up shop. I wonder how much he sold, and how much were just traded. Two nice things about him: he once offered me a part-time job (which I had to decline, but it was nice of him to offer), and I found a Doc Savage omnibus for 50 cents that I could have (but didn't) sell on eBay for between 10 and 20 bucks.

TS

38 posted on 01/16/2007 1:32:11 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: Xenalyte

Oh, and with all the rambling, I forget to mention: thanks for the link!


39 posted on 01/16/2007 1:32:34 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: Tanniker Smith

Currently:

Finishing off Hemingway's short stories.

Started Jack London's short stories.

Started "Never Come Morning" by Nelson Algren, after Christmas. A great book about the tough life in the neighborhoods of Chicago in the 1940's.

"Images of 66" by David Wickline. A book of photos and brief texts detailing the history of Route 66 and the businesses and attractions, past and present, along its path.

I saw "Glory" last night, so I'm probably going to pick up something new on the War Between the States.

The Bible in the KJV.


40 posted on 01/16/2007 1:38:46 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (Great nations cannot choose to lose wars simply because they've lost interest in them)
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