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Interests => Hobbies => The Book Club => Topic started by: Chris_ on December 26, 2010, 01:38:27 AM
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What's on your to-do list of books you want to check out once they hit the shelves?
I'm looking for a copy of The Hunger Games (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1919156-1,00.html), but it's not at my library. I'll have to see if I can catch it on the after-Christmas sale at Barnes and Noble. (There aren't any book stores in the ghetto. I have to drive to the fancy part of town if I want something to read.)
Also, Amity Shlaes has a new book about Calvin Coolidge coming out soon. She has a blog about it here (http://silentcal.com/about/).
How to Modify Your Nissan/Datsun OHC Engine (http://www.amazon.com/Modify-Your-Nissan-Datsun-Engine/dp/1555612377) is a book I should have picked up last year instead of the companion rebuild book. I'm really interested in seeing what kind of stuff is buried in there.
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For Christmas, I received Sarah Palin's new book, and "The Faith and Values of Sarah Palin." I think I'll be reading about Sarah! :-) :-)
And we also now have Pres. Bush's book, "Decision Points." I'll have to read that one when my hubby is done with it.
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Got two books to add to the stack of 'going to read' ;
"Your Government Failed You", by Richard A. Clark and;
"Broke", by Glenn Beck
Will be reading them after I finish the short read I'm doing now - "China Marine", by E.B. Sledge. His sequel to "With the Old Breed", where he fought at Peleliu and Okinawa, about his experiences while stationed in China after the end of WWII, before finally being sent home.
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I just started "Broke". I have about a dozen others to read still, and received 3 B&N gift cards for Christmas. I iz happy!
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What's on your to-do list of books you want to check out once they hit the shelves?
I'm looking for a copy of The Hunger Games (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1919156-1,00.html), but it's not at my library. I'll have to see if I can catch it on the after-Christmas sale at Barnes and Noble. (There aren't any book stores in the ghetto. I have to drive to the fancy part of town if I want something to read.)
Also, Amity Shlaes has a new book about Calvin Coolidge coming out soon. She has a blog about it here (http://silentcal.com/about/).
How to Modify Your Nissan/Datsun OHC Engine (http://www.amazon.com/Modify-Your-Nissan-Datsun-Engine/dp/1555612377) is a book I should have picked up last year instead of the companion rebuild book. I'm really interested in seeing what kind of stuff is buried in there.
Walmart has the paperback Hunger Games for 6 something. My kids (really me) got it for Christmas!
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I couldn't find it at the store. I did pick up a copy of Rick Riordan's newest Olympian book.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is still on my reading list. I've heard really good things, so I just need to start reading. I have the first book of the Sookie Stackhouse series that I want to try as well.
I'm in charge of the bookstore at my church, and I'm hoping to to start doing book reviews in our bi-monthly bulletin this year, so I need to choose a book to read for that as well.
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I have been reading Vince Flynn's .... Mitch Rapp Series, still have his newest book to go the American Assassin..It is the 11th book in the series of political thrillers, if you love American and believe we should be fighting the terroist you will be a big fan of Mitch Rapp and the CIA.....
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2010/10/book-review-american-assassin-by-vince-flynn.html
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"While America Aged" by Roger Lowenstein.
Got it for Christmas.
Only turned a few pages but like it already. :-)
NYT Book Review
Empty Nest Egg
By JEFF MADRICK
Published: May 4, 2008
The future of Americans’ pensions has not become a serious campaign issue so far this election season. It’s hard to get retirement issues to the front of the line when the nation faces soaring health care costs, global warming, $100-a-barrel oil, a likely recession and collapsing housing prices. There is also the little matter of the worst credit crisis since the 1930s.
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Paul Sancya/Associated Press
WHILE AMERICA AGED
How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis.
By Roger Lowenstein.
274 pp. The Penguin Press. $25.95.
That is too bad, because, as Roger Lowenstein nicely illustrates in “While America Aged,†the country “is sitting on a retirement time bomb.†He is not talking about Social Security, which, he writes, is among the more manageable of future concerns. He is addressing the large-scale failure of America’s once-enviable private pension system.
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Link here> (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/books/review/Madrick-t.html)
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I have at least 150 books in my TBR stack and just ordered some more books off Amazon this morning. Hey, my daughter gave me a giftcard. She dedicated it to "Mom, to enable your addiction" :thatsright:
Having finally received Book Five, the series finale, I am going back and rereading all the previous books in the Tairen Souls series by C.L. Wilson. First one is Lord of the Fading Lands. It kind of reminds me of Tolkein, albeit much more romantic and free of dwarves, orcs and the like.
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2 new cookbooks that I got for Christmas....one on Scandanavian cooking and the other a long time New York diner.
American Assassin
David Baldacci's new book that I can't remember the name of :thatsright:
And I'm hoping my favorite authors will have some new ones out soon.
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This week I'm going to start reading "Dracula The Un-Dead" by Dacre Stoker. It's for my book club meeting at the end of the month.
Other books that I'd like to get to pretty soon are "The Harlequin" by Laurell K. Hamilton, "America Alone" by Mark Steyn, and "Moonlight Mile" by Dennis Lehane. I'm especially interested in that last one because it's the sequel to "Gone Baby Gone," one of my favorite Lehane books.
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I got "Broke" and "Pinheads and Patriots" for Christmas. Halfway through P&P. Also got the new Stephen King "Full Dark No Stars." Read it all on New Year's Day. Pretty good, the last story is very disturbing. I haven't liked his stuff for a while, but I was pretty engrossed in this one. It was completely apolitical.
Never finished "Under the Dome," a gift from last year. I finally googled the ending, and am I glad I didn't waste my time. Sounded lame.
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Still working on The IRA by Tim Pat Coogan and The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive And The Secret History Of The KGB by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, and considering this for my B&N gift card:
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I've had enough of deep reading for the moment so the book I'm currently reading on Kindle is "Love to Love You Bradys: The Bizarre Story of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour". :-)
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I'm still trying to get through The Disciple. Not because it isn't any good, but I haven't just sat down with it and read it until I finish it, instead of doing something else. Don't know if I will make it though, it's "too real". It's a novel, but it's about whether or not Iran has armed nuclear warhead missles. :(
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Took a break from reading for awhile, so just finished "China Marine", by E.B. Sledge. Have now started :The Terrible Hours", by Peter Maas; about the submarine rescue of the USS Squalus crew, just before World War II
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I've had enough of deep reading for the moment so the book I'm currently reading on Kindle is "Love to Love You Bradys: The Bizarre Story of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour". :-)
You're joking! :lmao: