DMarcella

Not counting any book you may be reading now what is the next book on your list you plan on reading? Mine is, The Shack, the book I had in the showcase. Also tell whether you have put any book from the showcase on your reading list.

lynnspotter

I just began Angels Watching Over Me by Michael Phillips. Hooked by the first page! You will enjoy the Shack~ read with an open mind!

DMarcella

I'm going to check out that book you just mentioned. My pastor already warned us of the pit falls of the book The Shack saying it isn't all scriptural based that it is just a story and to keep that in mind.

Baldur

'Ragtime', by E.L. Doctorow

lynnspotter

How's the reading coming along?

Baldur

Well I'm about halfway through 'Ragtime' now and am really surprised about the amount of carnal activity mentioned (should have read this years ago LOL).
Next on my booklist is Either F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' or 'The Devil in the White City' by Erik Larson.
I'm also tempted to reread Susanna Clarke's 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' or Gregory Maguire's 'A Lion Among Men', though it may be too soon to reread those yet.

I heartily recommend Susanna Clarke's book, it's fascinating. The footnotes are as good as the story itself. I wish that I had as good a library.

DMarcella

I picked up, "Leading With My Chin - Lay Leno", and another book at the Salvation Army store. I heard today that Lay checked himself into the hospital and canceled his show for tonight so he could probably use some prayers. I just have always liked him so much, he just seems like a kind heart.

lynnspotter

Sounds good Baldur! DM, what happened to the Shack?

DMarcella

Lynn..., it is next on my list. I didn't put Jay's book in front of it. That is a typo Jay checked into the hospital Thursday.

anotherronism

Just recently found a John Grisham book called An Innocent Man. I'm not a true-crime freak but I literally could not put this book down. I read it straight through.

I've never read Capote before but I think it's time to get my hands on "In Cold Blood" as it started the genre and as I enjoyed the Grisham so much.

I also need to do some research and find a lay-science book about Bose-Einstein Condensates which were explained to me on a recent episode of Nova on PBS here in the States.

Dragon

Ron "In Cold Blood" was a thouroughly facinating book, it made me want to see the movie "Capote".

My next read is the book "The Gathering Storm" by Kate Elliot. It's the 5th in a series, as soon as I finished the first book I immediatly went out and bought the rest of the series. If you like Katherine Kerr books you'd probably enjoy this series (The Crown of Stars) as well.

solosater

The cereal box. There's always good stuff on the cereal box.

Baldur

solosater, I have to admit that my box of Special K with Red Berries was quite a good read. You should try reading Celestial Seasonings's 'True Blueberry' tea box. I had thoroughly enjoyed 'Sleepytime' but this box was just as good.

anotherronism

Shampoo bottles. "Rinse an repeat." is a truly profound bit of literature.

I will admit to being a bathroom reader. My ex-wife had a sign in the bathroom which read "Please keep reading limited to short stories and poems. Others might need the facility..."

There are times when I find myself in the bathroom with no reading material and some time to kill. That's how I discovered shampoo bottles. And women's toiletries are so much more fascinating than men's.

But my all-time favorite was in a workplace and there was a first-aid kit right there. Inside was a basic guide to first aid.

There was a paragraph on scraped, bruises, shock and, of all things, "evisceration". This was a basic first aid pamphlet and here was a section on what to do if you were sliced open, alone and your bowels were out. Apparently - you gather them up as best you can, wrap them in a wet towel, then seek medical help immediately. Truly - one of the funniest things I've ever read. But who knows - it might come in handy one day.

anotherronism

Oh yes. This is important. Bundle the bowels into the towel (strange rhyme there) and hold them 'against' your torso. Do not, repeat; do not try to reinsert the bowels into the cavity.

On a lighter note: I was at a Burger King (popular fast food in the US) and they have these paper crowns for kids to wear. I've seen them before but never really looked at one. We ate there inside the restaurant and there was a crown on the table. I noticed the inside is completely covered with text. Turns out there is a game associated with the crown. The basics are - whoever gets the crown on first and loudly declares they are the king is, in fact, the King. What follows is a series of funny and witty rules about keeping your crown, losing it and being overthrown. The king has absolute power of choice of radio stations, "shotgun" (riding up front), sitting next to the baby, etc... It's ingenius.

Dragon

Ron, you really need to get a couple of issues of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. If you haven't seen them they're full of interesting little tidbits of information from around the world and they're organized so you can read for a few minutes or for hours. (Though I really don't want to know if you're in there for hours)

anotherronism

Oh Dragon - long have I been an initiate of the sacred Uncle John. I have imbibed on his elixir for years. He is wise and profound and I am humbled when I read his sage words.

Dragon

Ah yes, Uncle John's sage bathroom elixir. Actually when I put it that way I'm not sure I'd want to imbibe on that.

Qsilv

read? like, a... book??

oh.
yeah.
hmmm...
well, not counting the bathtub stash of Nat'l Geog & Forbes (I'm into long soaks), what is technically on my list would be the documentation for a proprietary database.

BUT, as it's written in a style that is utterly mind-blowingly blood-pressure-raisingly idiotic (and tends to repeat the same name for different things at various levels), AND refuses to offer even a basic glossary of its terms, not to mention provide visuals with call-outs...

...I feel a re-reading of Eric Raymond's 'The Cathedral & the Bazaar' coming on (um, and I'd be willing to bet that's not what you're expecting it to be either)

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ThinkDraw

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solosater

To Baldur, I love, Love, LOVE the Celestial Seasonings' boxes, and of course my favorite is “Sleepytime” but as I take cream in my tea I avoid fruity ones (curds and tea? I don’t think so!), so I have to rely on my stepfather’s taste to come around to a new flavor, he’s pretty adventurous, I’m sure I’ll get to read the “True Blueberry” soon.

And as for bathroom reading, I try not to because I’m a little ADD and I find I forget to leave (dead numb legs and sore butt) so I just don’t do it. However, I was pet sitting at a friends house one time and in her bathroom in a little basket near the toilet was a book that caught my eye, “How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art” by Kathleen Meyer.

Well, I’ve had a little trouble all my life “going” out of doors. My body just WON’T do it. Now that may seem kinda like a problem that wouldn’t really be a problem but it really made it hard for me to go even on day hikes and camping without a “potty” of some sort was out of the question, I’d actually get very sick. So I though, “this I’ve got to see”. I took that book out to the sofa, you know, to avoid the dead numb legs and sore butt, and sat down and read the whole thing. Fabulous! It was really more about leaving the earth as you find it and not polluting and so it didn’t help with the whole ‘I can’t go’ thing though.

As for that, I had a little help from a friend, she assessed (no pun intended) my technique and corrected it. I’m proud to say I can now go anywhere, anytime. It’s all in the posture, who knew?