What book are you reading now

[WiccanLiberal]

I'm currently tackling Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander, the first of his Aubrey/Maturin Novels and the partial basis for the movie. Other later novels have more elements. V4R is engaged in S.M.Stirling's The Tears of the Sun. If any of you have not read Dies the Fire and it's sequels please do. I have read that NBC is doing a new TV series called Revolution. It sounds like a complete rip-off of Stirling's universe except that network bigshots obviously believed the pagan influence permeating Stirling's post-apocalyptic world wouldn't play in Iowa. For sure they couldn't have the witchy folk be the good guys. Only funny thing is the book V4R is into is on my Nook. I know now I have to get him one for his birthday next month. Then I can just loan him the copy from mine.

[Abbey Marie]

The Borgias: Two Novels in One Volume
by Jean Plaidy

I am always fascinated by the Popes from a long time ago. They certainly led "interesting" lives.

[Nukeman]

Mistborn trilogy by Branden Sanderson

[Robert A Whit]

Some of you may know of this scientist that loves cooking. He published a full 5 volumn set that goes into full details as to what cooking is, what it does and has recipies.

I watched a program on PBS so if anybody is interested in the science of cooking, you might want to check it out.

I know he has been on some major shows such as Jimmy Kimmel and I think Jay Leno.

Martha Stewart had him on and claims she is a huge fan of his books.

In that one hour, I learned a lot about cooking science that I did not know about.

I will see if I can get the title to anybody that wants it. I expect his books are not cheap. He did say he has a home edition though that I hope is cheaper.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Currently I am down to reading only two books, Ishi by Theodora Kroeber
and The Purple Land by W.H. Hudson. --Tyr

[Robert A Whit]

the title of the book is

The science of cooking

I located it on Amazon but won't post it since I am not trying to advertise and besides the book is available all over. I won't post the author but you can figure it out.

Check out the reviews.

[aboutime]

Waiting for my copy of KILLING LINCOLN.

[CSM]

Currently reading "James Madison: A Biography" by Ralph Ketcham. Very interesting.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Sons of the Yellow Emperor, A history of the Chinese Diaspora by Lynn Pan, 1990 first U.S. edition.
Quite simply fascinating and well written.

[darin]

Proof of Heaven - Eben Alexander

A highly trained neurosurgeon who had operated on thousands of brains in the course of his career, Alexander knew that what people of faith call the “soul” is really a product of brain chemistry. NDEs, he would have been the first to explain, might feel real to the people having them, but in truth they are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress.

Then came the day when Dr. Alexander’s own brain was attacked by an extremely rare illness. The part of the brain that controls thought and emotion—and in essence makes us human— shut down completely. For seven days Alexander lay in a hospital bed in a deep coma. Then, as his doctors weighed the possibility of stopping treatment, Alexander’s eyes popped open. He had come back.
Alexander’s recovery is by all accounts a medical miracle. But the real miracle of his story lies elsewhere. While his body lay in coma, Alexander journeyed beyond this world and encountered an angelic being who guided him into the deepest realms of super-physical existence. There he met, and spoke with, the Divine source of the universe itself.

[revelarts]

The Plan of Salvation
By Benjamin B. Warfield
1914

..."There are fundamentally only two doctrines of salvation: that salvation is from God, and that salvation is from ourselves." This is pretty much Warfield's passion in this book. It is written by an intellectual zealot for the Christian faith and the Reformed Tradition. Warfield's erudition may mean that his modern readers get stretched a bit, but if you want to understand how the various denominational distinctive views on salvation are fundamentally to be understood, this book is where to start.

The book is based on a series of lectures, as with Kuyper's Stone Lectures on Calvinism, and are therefore oriented toward an audience inclined to systematic study. The language on the whole is accessible and not overly technical. The lecture format gives the material a "bite-sized" nature which allows for reading in segments rather than having to carry a theme through the whole. All in all, this book will become indispensable to anyone who cares about the doctrines of salvation and needs grounding for their own understanding or for presenting it to others....

[Gaffer]

Under the Dome by Steven King.

[tailfins]

http://www.amazon.com/Life-Code-Dr-P...ords=Life+Code

“I call these people BAITERs: Back stabbers, abusers, imposters, takers, exploiters and reckless,” Dr. Phil says. “They are people that will sell a patient fake medicine and are just being reckless with life itself.”

“One of the things I want to do is teach people how to spot these folks coming and how to understand specifically how they do what they do,” Dr. Phil says.

Detect a BAITER by noticing these telling characteristics:


The Evil 8

1. See the world through a lens of entitlement.
2. Lack of empathy.
3. Incapable of feeling remorse or guilt.
4. Self-destructive behavior.
5. Feed off drama and crises.
6. Try to brag and outsmart you.
7. Have short-lived relationships.
8. Have delusions.

The Nefarious 15
1. They infiltrate your life with promises and flattery.
2. Define you as a conspiratorial confidant.
3. Are focused on getting your approval.
4. They gather data to build a file on you.
5. Misdirect and maintain a mystery about who they really are.
6. Constantly blame others when confronted.
7. They will lie to the point of destruction.
8. Tendency to cheat and steal.
9. Isolate their victims to foster dependency.
10. Abuse positions of power.
11. Know your hot buttons to gain leverage.
12. Selective memory.
13. Two-faced: Spread lies and gossip.
14. Paranoid.
15. Passive aggressive.

[Nukeman]

Just received my copy of "A memory fo Light" the 14th and final installment of The Wheel of Time series started by Robert Jordan (James Rigney) and finished by Braden Sanderson. I have been waiting over 20 years for this epic tale to come to a conclusion. I have mixed feelings of not getting a new book to read vs seeing the end of the story....

[mundame]

Currently I am down to reading only two books, Ishi by Theodora Kroeber
and The Purple Land by W.H. Hudson. --Tyr

Ishi! I remember the cover of that book well because my stepmother was always trying to get me to read it. But I never did; don't know what it's about.


I'm reading "Citizens," by Schama, a history of the French Revolution that came out in the bicentennial year. (1789--1989) I'm making a whole study of the French Revolution, and it's verrrrrrrrry instructive about things going on now here. They guillotined well over 10,000 people, catching the heads in large wicker baskets day after day. Once mob terror starts, it takes an effective strongman dictator (Napoleon) to stop it.

I want to read the new novel "Pure" as soon as I get up to Bastille Day in the histories -- it's about a young engineer who comes to Paris before the Revolution, hired to move all the thousands of corpses from the cemetery of Les Innocents, where they had grossly polluted the whole area, to a seriously disgusting point that had to be dealt with. He did that and dumped them into a gravel quarry where they still are, a tourist attraction today. He gets caught up in the Revolution, of course, that's the relevance. And getting rid of the old, polluting bodies is a metaphor or symbol for the French getting rid of the Old Regime and ushering in modernity.