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#1368289 - 04/01/10 10:22 PM Re: What are you Reading 2010 Cowboys Fan
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Not too long ago, I finished A Cold Day in Paradise by Steve Hamilton. It's the first mystery I've read as an adult and I really liked it.


The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan. It reads a lot like Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver but is still pretty good.
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#1368498 - 04/02/10 02:39 PM Re: What are you Reading 2010 Bacon Boy
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I've almost finished 'Economics of Baseball' (talks about the different Sabermetrics statistics and applys econ theory to test if they are good statistics or not).

Makes me really like Derrick Lee more. And A-Rod a lot less.
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#1368518 - 04/02/10 02:54 PM Re: What are you Reading 2010 Skunk Boy
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Have you read Money Ball? It sounds like something you might be interested in.
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#1368521 - 04/02/10 02:55 PM Re: What are you Reading 2010 renniks
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I thought the name sounded familiar - someone here at work mentioned his name.

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#1368533 - 04/02/10 03:02 PM Re: What are you Reading 2010 madukes
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The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.

I have to keep my reading light these days. After reading Regs during the day my brain needs to relax and have fun when it's not working.
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#1368540 - 04/02/10 03:12 PM Re: What are you Reading 2010 bOaty
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Just finished Leota's Garden by Francine Rivers. Good book.
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#1368542 - 04/02/10 03:13 PM Re: What are you Reading 2010 waldensouth
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I'm about to start Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
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#1368547 - 04/02/10 03:18 PM Re: What are you Reading 2010 A_G
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Let me know how you like it! I've got that on my radar screen for after the Discworld series.
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#1368548 - 04/02/10 03:19 PM Re: What are you Reading 2010 E.E.G.B
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I have a feeling that I'm going to jsut by reading this on wiki:

A subplot features the gathering of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse — War, Famine, Pollution (Pestilence having retired in 1936 following the discovery of penicillin), and Death...

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#1368566 - 04/02/10 03:40 PM Re: What are you Reading 2010 A_G
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Death's featured heavily in Discworld. grin HE TALKS IN ALL CAPITALS.
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#1368628 - 04/02/10 04:47 PM Re: What are you Reading 2010 Cowboys Fan
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Just finished the new Harlan Coben book "Caught" it's a great read.

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#1368707 - 04/02/10 05:49 PM Re: What are you Reading 2010 Mr. E.
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I'm finishing Patricia Briggs' "Silver Borne" now and anxiously awaiting Jim Butcher's "Changes" next Tuesday!
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#1368808 - 04/02/10 07:04 PM Re: What are you Reading 2010 E.E.G.B
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Originally Posted By: E.G.B.
Have you read Money Ball? It sounds like something you might be interested in.


no, but that's on my list. There's a lot of quotes from it in the book i'm readying.

I'm almost done with this one, i'm not sure what i'll move onto next.
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#1369056 - 04/05/10 12:17 PM Re: What are you Reading 2010 E.E.G.B
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Some light-hearted summertime fare:

Unintended Consequences by Ross

Seven Days in May by Knebel and Bailey (a re-read)

Term Limits by Flynn
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#1372467 - 04/12/10 11:40 AM Re: What are you Reading 2010 LZ_Xray
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Just finished Wake Up Dead by Roger Smith. Excellent crime novel, reminded me of Jim Thompson's books.

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#1372468 - 04/12/10 11:42 AM Re: What are you Reading 2010 Hrothgar Geiger
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Just finished Greg Iles' The Devil's Punchbowl, it was a great suspenseful read. smile
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#1372474 - 04/12/10 12:03 PM Re: What are you Reading 2010 Retired DQ
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Heart and Soul by Mauve Benchy- good read


Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon- A must read if you read the Mitford Series. Such a great series.

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#1372489 - 04/12/10 12:52 PM Re: What are you Reading 2010 pjs
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Loved "Home to Holly Springs" - of course I enjoyed the entire series. It's like I KNOW these people or folks just like them!
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#1372503 - 04/12/10 01:27 PM Re: What are you Reading 2010 waldensouth
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Crazy Love by Francis Chan

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#1372520 - 04/12/10 01:55 PM Re: What are you Reading 2010 Mr. E.
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Originally Posted By: Yaz8
Just finished the new Harlan Coben book "Caught" it's a great read.


Is it a Myron Bolitar?
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#1372523 - 04/12/10 01:58 PM Re: What are you Reading 2010 HappyGilmore
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I just pre-ordered the paperback. Yes, it is a Bolitar.
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#1372543 - 04/12/10 02:33 PM Re: What are you Reading 2010 Retired DQ
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I'm still reeling from "Changes" - the most recent of Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden novels. I just can't get my head around it....and that's surprising since it's just urban fantasy.
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#1372558 - 04/12/10 02:57 PM Re: What are you Reading 2010 RR Becca
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Originally Posted By: RR Becca
I'm still reeling from "Changes" - the most recent of Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden novels. I just can't get my head around it....and that's surprising since it's just urban fantasy.


That makes two of us.
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#1372560 - 04/12/10 02:58 PM Re: What are you Reading 2010 RR Jen
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I'm still reading Discworld books. I also got about a third of the way into The City & The City by China Mieville and can't get any further. I'll have to pick it up again in a week or so.
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#1372685 - 04/12/10 05:32 PM Re: What are you Reading 2010 E.E.G.B
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I'm close to finishing "Blaze" by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman). It's the last of the Bachman books, written in the early 1970's but not published until a couple of years ago. Really really good, and not in the "horror" genre at all. It's sort of an oddly gentle look at violent crime. Hard to explain LOLoad.

Next up is "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett - highly recommended by several friends and my mom... waiting for me on the nightstand.

Also in progress is "A History of Mathematics" by D.E. Smith - really cool and interesting!

Recently read "Still Alice" by Lisa Genova and "Drowning Ruth" by Christina Schwarz (both on my sister-in-law's recommendation). Both were excellent and I'd highly recommend. "Still Alice" is a fabulous book to give some small insight into Alzheimer's for those with a family member touched by the awful disease.

I'm on the waiting list at the library for Michael Crighton's "Pirate Latitudes" and for Sarah Blake's "The Postmistress". Also, I'm anxiously awaiting publication of the new Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum novel (Sizzling Sixteen) coming in mid-June and of the new John Sandford Lucas Davenport novel (Storm Prey) in mid-May!!!
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