Currently Reading

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What non fiction do you have on the go at the moment? Do you love it/hate it?

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Oh! I have (runs and grabs kindle!) :

Banish Clutter Forever: How the Toothbrush Principle Will Change Your Life Not really far enough into this to form an opinion...

Housework Blues: A Survival Guide Didn't like this so it's getting shelved. There wasn't really many 'lightbulb moments' so I lost interest.

Critical Thinking This is for University but it's an easy read.

and finally:

The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands which is proving a bit of an eye opener!

How about ou Rose?

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I've got a Marilyn Monroe biography and a Walt disney one on the go.
I just finished sole survivors:children who murder their families. Very creepy book, awful some of the things in this book.
I'm on the lookout on kindle for something to hook me at the moment too.
I'm also in the process of finishing off a few of the free books from goodreads I've received to review. No non fiction in that yet. I've just finished the lemon grove, which was good in places. Fairly well written. So I need to write a review for that. Then I'm reading the dark and distant shore by Reay Tannahill. I'm awaiting arrival of another one too.
An last but not least my current hooked on Game of Thrones. It's amazing.

I like the sound of the clutter one. I have OCD I have certain requirements from any space. MY friend loves when I go to her place. She's super messy and disorganised. I go round and order everything because it frustrates me so much. Alphabetising is my weakness!

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I often joke i have OCD without the C bit. The disorganisation bothers me to the point of depression but I don't have the energy to do anything about it. I have counting problems though, I have to count things or it feels wrong :-/

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Just about to start The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World. I just finished The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History which was very well written, and it's a topic I deeply care about.

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Mine used to be really bad, the checking things and stuff but I went to some behavioural therapy and read some books about it to help me understand it better.
A lot of people thinks it's just obsessive cleaning but it actually characterised by lots of different habits.
It can cause lots of problems, mine caused really bad insomnia. But I'm much happier now. Getting it sorted really changes your life.

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I can also identify with the OCD. Sometimes it's the only thing that will relieve my anxiety.

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I just shelved the Housework Blues book. I wasn't getting on with it at all. Am I the only person who does this? I can't seem to finish a book that I can't get into....

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I haven't finished Diane Setterfield's second book. But I wasn't in the right frame of mind for it. I will try again as I love her first one.
The other book I never finished... The Lord Of The Rings, I always get rubbish from people for not finishing this one. The only book where I loved the film and found the book tedious. So tedious.
Normally I persevere, just in case it gets better.

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I can never finish LOTR either so don't panic lol....

I just started 'preventing Bipolar Relapse' a book I got through NetGalley for a review. Fell asleep after 4% though as I had taken my bipolar meds. Slightly ironic!

[Sabrina]

Currently reading a fascinating book called "Stiff: The curious lives of human cadavers" by Mary Roach. A sometimes humorous book about what happens to our bodies post-mortem & the many scientific uses for donated cadavers.

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Sounds grim but interesting!

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See I'm quite interested in reading that one Sabrina but wondering if it's too gruesome?

[Sabrina]

It's detailed, but humorous. Though I must warn you if you read it in public, will get some funny looks if you laugh out loud at a book about human cadavers.

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*sniggers*

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That sounds enjoyable I'll have to put on my list. If I want to finish my to read list I think I may need to become a vampire.

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This is also true. I saw a woman on the news who is the worlds fastest reader. I need her to teach me!

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My boyfriend just bought me a copy of 12 years. Slave. Really looking forward to that one. Anyone read it? I've been stuck in my fiction ATM, game of thrones is calling!

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I just finished Twelve Years a Slave and liked it very much. Now my nonfiction read is The Songlines. It's about a man exploring the Australian outback and learning about the Aborigines. It is also very good.

[GeneralTHC]

Just started Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art. I'm only 20 pages in, but I think it's going to be good.

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I'm reading Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World. It has really great period detail.

[ReyChase]

Currently I am reading The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, by Charles Duhigg and Why Nations Fail, by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson.

I am halfway through, and so far cannot complain about anything.

[RachelvlehcaR]

I'm currently reading Cleopatra: A Life. So far I'm really liking it. Looking forward to the rest of it.

[GeneralTHC]

Alrighty, it's about that time to really start working on my non-fiction challenge. I have A LOT of stuff lined up. I just started a book about AIDS. I don't know why it interests me so--I've never even known anyone that had it. I'm fascinated by the origin of it and especially interested in the geological spread of the disease. Anyways the book I'm reading is: It's really interesting so far. Who knew there are so many different forms of it? I certainly didn't.