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[stormhawk]

Hey, Dawn, welcome!

Please enjoy looking around and joining in here! We're friendly and don't bite ... much!

There is a separate thread for 2010 reading, and you might want to check out the 50/100 Challenge threads ... since you are a more-than-one-at-a-time reader, you'd probably find the Challenge not much of a Challenge!

stormhawk
(not a moderator, just feeling chatty today)

[Em]

Welcome Dawn!

I just started The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen today. I'm excited- I loved Garden Spells and The Sugar Queen by her.

[Eva]

I am reading Bitten by Kelley Armstrong and I'm finding it hard to get into. I don't really like the pack dynamic she is setting up and I'm finding the plot difficult to get through.

[L.J.]

I'm reading a Darker Domain by Val McDermind and liking it a lot. The writing is lean, yet the characters feel very real.
L.J.
http://ljsellers.com

[Jack]

Although I love reading great books, I only manage time for a precious few each year, so I try to make sure they really count. I particularly love books that open my eyes to a new or deeper understanding of the world around me, with my top 3 being " Chaos " by James Gleick, " Complexity " by Mitchell M. Waldrop, and most importantly " The Final Theory " by Mark McCutcheon.

Why these three?

* " Chaos " because it very accessibly brought into broad awareness key phenomena in nature, such as 'fractals', 'strange attractors', 'the butterfly effect', and all that great stuff.

* " Complexity " because it also very accessibly introduced the next range of concepts beyond "Chaos", such as 'order, intelligence and complexity emerging from random processes', 'genetic algorithms', ' artificial life', etc.

* And " The Final Theory " because, well, where do I begin? It puts all of today's science and its legacy of beliefs and theories under the microscope and shows why our science is now filled with quantum paradoxes, relativity mysteries, exotic 'dark matter', mysterious 'dark energy', etc. It shows how ideas from far simpler times, coupled with formal logical fallacies of human thought, have taken science way off track. But that's not the half of it. The book actually presents a very compelling and surprisingly simple new scientific theory in plain English that re-explains gravity, the nature of electricity, magnetism and light, atomic structure, the theories of quantum mechanics, special and general relativity, and, well, everything really! It actually claims to be the final 'Theory of Everything' (hence the name of the book), and as incredulous as I know it sounds, I have a solid science background and I couldn't really dispute it at this point.

If interested, you can check out my Squidoo lens where I discuss these great books and ideas further, with much more information, links, free chapters, etc.:

squidoo.com/important-and-influential...

[Mawgojzeta]

I am on a reading super spree with the great weather and a break before my next certification exam. Today I am reading Venus Envy and expect to finish it tonight. Very enjoyable (fun) read.

[Kristina]

I just finished "The Homeplace" by Gilbert Morris and am going to start "Wi'tch Fire." Finally!

[Kathy Anne]

LJ
I really like Val McDermid and I think I`ll go ahead and get that book,it sounds good

[southpaw285]

I'm currently listening to Beyond the Highland Mist by Karen Marie Moning and loving it! Great book!

[John]

Hi Everyone,

My name is John Cicero and I am a fantasy/adventure author. My passion for writing is driven from the joy I receive from reading my stories to my children.

Watching the expressions on their faces as I take them on a journey through the magical pages of my imagination is what drives me to find the time to write.

My recently released novels are in the Rainbow's Shadow Trilogy. They are Rainbow’s Shadow and the Tablets of Fate and Rainbow’s Shadow and the Covenant of Wisdom.

As a passionate writer in Northeast, Ohio I have been fortunate to hit the Best Sellers list with 'Tablets of Fate' and am on track currently with the 'Covenant of Wisdom'.

The final novel in my trilogy is Rainbow’s Shadow and the Other Side of Paradise which is currently in development.

If you have a moment check out my website and Rainbow's Shadow Trilogy today at... www.RainbowsShadow.com

Take care, John

[Arch]

I'm still reading Mr. Perfect by Linda Howard.