Reply With Quote
The Historian
The Historian
It's a toss up between Blue Like Jazz and Velvet Elvis. I'm in the middle of This Beautiful Mess and loving that.
I'm in the middle of that series right now, a quarter of the way through A Storm of Swords. Martin's supposed to be nearly finished with the fifth.
I also somewhat recently finished the last volume in Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel series, very nice.
The Kite Runner.
Not bad.
Curious George at the Aquarium
Ooh a classic!I tend to buy alot of books and then forget I bought them, then go out and buy more. I just finished the Jean Rhys (The Wide Sargasso Sea) series I bought in London about 20 yrs ago. It was all so depressing I am balancing it out now with an Al Franken book I bought at Dollar Tree about 3yrs ago!
I'm still waiting to see if I can find the rest of the Skylark series by E.E. Smith. I already have 2 of them and I can't read them yet (neither are the first in the series)
Great book, I highly recommend it.
A synopsis:
As a young man, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. It was the early part of the great Depression, and for Jacob, now ninety, the circus world he remembers was both his salvation and a living . A veterinary student just shy of a degree, he was put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie.
It was there that he met Marlena, the beautiful equestrian star married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. And he met Rosie, an untrainable elephant who was the great gray hope for this third-rate traveling show. The bond that grew among this unlikely trio was one of love and trust, and, ultimately, it was their only hope for survival.
This is what I am currently reading...
Excellent book.
Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan - Path of Daggers.
I've always thought that Steve Martin was one of the greatest comedians of my lifetime. His biography is fantastic.
"T and Me" by George Peppard
"For the Last Time, I'm not Mr. T" by Ving Rhames
The Wycliffe Bible
The Book of Law
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/boo...12936150&itm=2
Best book I've read in a long time. great TRUE historical facts behind it. Mithridates was the last REAL badass king to ever live.
FACTS: At age eleven, he inherited a small mountain kingdom of wild tribesmen whom his wicked mother governed in his place. Sweeping to power at twenty-one-years-old, he proved to be a military genius and a man intent on ousting the Romans from the Black Sea coast territories. For over forty years, Rome sent its greatest generals to contain Mithridates, but time and again he embarrassed the Romans with devastating defeats. Each time Rome declared victory, Mithridates considered it merely a strategic retreat and soon came roaring back with a more powerful army than before.
David Sears grew up in the shadow of his brilliant younger sister, Diana, convinced by their father that she would accomplish great things. Instead, she married and had a son, Jason, who—like David and Diana’s father—is schizophrenic. Her husband, Mark, a geneticist, never made peace with Jason’s condition.
Perhaps this is why, when Jason drowns, Diana will not accept the authorities’ conclusion that his death was accidental. Or perhaps Diana is going mad. She begins to send David faxes and e-mails about ancient murders, driven by her growing belief that the earth is Gaia, a living witness to her son’s murder who could give evidence in the case she is building against her husband. David soon fears for his own family’s safety as the seductive qualities of Diana’s manic energy become impossible to ignore.
In The Cloud of Unknowing, Cook explores the power of blood and family mythology.
--------------------
Julia Scheeres stumbles across these signs along the side of a cornfield while out biking with her adopted brother, David. It's the mid-1980s, they're sixteen years old and have just moved to rural Indiana, a landscape of cottonwood trees and trailer parks — and a racism neither of them is prepared for. While Julia is white, her close relationship with David, who is black, makes them both outcasts. At home, a distant mother — more involved with her church's missionaries than with her own children — and a violent father only compound their problems. When the day comes that high-school hormones, bullying, and a deep-seated restlessness prove too much to bear, the parents send Julia and David to the Dominican Republic — to a reform school there.
In this riveting memoir, first-time author Scheeres takes us with her from the Midwest to a place beyond our imagining. Surrounded by natural beauty, the Escuela Caribe is governed by a disciplinary regime that demands its teens repent for their sins under boot-camp conditions. Julia and David's determination to make it through with heart and soul intact is told here with immediacy, candor, sparkling humor, and not a note of malice.
My Pet Goat
I read that a couple months ago, it was really good.
I am reading Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. It is very good thus far
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
