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Poll: How many books are u reading now?
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My favorite recent book is "The Professor and the Madman." It was so good that I don't want to talk to anybody who HASN'T read it.
I'd also like to talk to anybody who has re-read J.D. Salinger and found that he is a complete ass.
I adored him when I was young, but when I re-read him, it's tedious to hear about how everybody is a 'phony' if they aren't actively sabotaging their own lives.


I don't think I could ever stick to one and only one book! I try to have one for fun, one for thought, and maybe something for serious or classical literature as well. That way, if I'm zoned out, send in the trash! If I'm feeling brainless, I get out the Dickens or something, and for that sense of inner peace, I read the Eastern stuff.


Never Have Your Dog Stuffed and Other Things I've Learned by Alan Alda,Wild Harmonies by Helene Grimaud, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and The Portrait by Iain Pears. I did stop everything to read HP last weekend!
Um...i sort of read bits & pieces all over. Mainly I am reading:
1. Color: A Natural History of the Palette
2. Dummies Guide to PHP
3. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Other books that I am reading, but only everyonce in a while are:
1. Birthday Letters
2. William Carlos Williams
3. John Berger Essays
Since I work in Web Production, the PHP book is a HUGE priority for me and I have backed off from the other books right now.
1. Color: A Natural History of the Palette
2. Dummies Guide to PHP
3. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Other books that I am reading, but only everyonce in a while are:
1. Birthday Letters
2. William Carlos Williams
3. John Berger Essays
Since I work in Web Production, the PHP book is a HUGE priority for me and I have backed off from the other books right now.




Throne of Jade
Orphans of Chaos
The MasterHarper of Pern
The Golden Compass
The Devil's Heiress
Scandal
American Gods
Freedom's Ransom
Abhorsen
Love: Undercover
Highland Sword
The Mammoth Hunters
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs*



Right now I have the following books started:
Devil in the White City
This year I will...
Jesus for the non-religious
Agatha Raisin and the walkers of Dembley
Eat, pray, love
Black Dahlia Avenger
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
I just finished the last Harry Potter and am going to also listen to Terrier by Tamara Pierce. And, I want to take a look at a few of the YA series books (Uglies, Alex Rider, etc.
Barb

1) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2) Un Lun Dun
3) Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
It has not escaped my attention that each of these books revolves around a magical version of London.


1. The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl
2. Collapse by Jared Diamond
3. Women's Letters by Lisa Grunwald
I just went to the used bookstore last week and added to the collection so I may add another to the list. :)
Melanie


Occasionally I can't resist starting to read another one. Now I'm reading these two:
Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold
The Complete Jack the Ripper by Donald Rumbelow

The Climb (Paperback) Boukreev, Anatoli
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival Simpson, Joe
A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market Schlosser, Eric
Warrener's Beastie: A Novel of the Deep Trotter, William R.
Each of these offers me a different escape. The one I'm most surprised (because I enjoy it far more than I thought I would) is Warrener's Beastie. It's a huge book, but I'm moving through it at a good pace and it's one of those books I find hard to put down. I love those kind of books.

1. 2 minute rule
2. dance of the gods
dance of the gods is by nora roberts, and im not a big fan of hers, so its taking me a while :(


1. Shogun by James Clavell
2. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
3. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad

I'm chronically bad at starting books and then not finishing them - (and looking at that slightly hefty-looking list I'm beginning to see why), and I have just added an 'abandoned' shelf which I'm hoping won't fill up too quickly. I tend to buy one or two books week from local secondhand bookshop or from charity shops.





Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
A Walk in the Woods
Here They Come
Walk Two Moons

The Assault On Reason
The World Without Us
What The Buddha Taught
and
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Seems I can read several non-fiction books at a time
but only one fiction book.

Lady of the Forest by Jennifer Roberson (re-reading)
Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber
Lion in the Valley by Elizabeth Peters

Ahab's Wife; or, The Star Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Usually, I have at least three going: a thinker-fiction (like a classic or something somewhat intellectual), a fluff (chick lit or mystery), and a nonfiction.

I'm grouchy.





Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,
Female undercover (this is an indonesian version of self-made man), in search for fatima, & Life is beautiful (life management)



I try not to read more than two at a time but as I can typically read a book in a single day, two at the most, I still tend to move through them pretty fast.

I think earlier this summer I read 4 books because I was behind in my book club. We were going to discuss two books at our next meeting and I wanted to finish the last two books we had read so I was trying to get caught up. That was a little mind boggling. I got all of the plots confused.
Wait, does a knitting book count as far as the number of books I'm reading right now? I'm currently working on a scarf and I spend my evenings doing that, then my morning/evening commute I read. I read about 5 to 6 books a month though, mainly during the commute to work.





I plan to start them as soon as I finish "Poltergist" by Kat Richardson, which I also bought last night. That is the second book in her Greywalker series.
So you could say I am working my way through 7 novels at the moment. Makes me a very happy woman!