Whats everyone reading now or read lately

[iris]

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Right now I'm reading the celtic shaman by John Matthews, just started it this evening.
For university I'm reading paradise lost and... and I just finished an essay on the merchant of Venice.
For leisure I'm reading the magician's guild by trudi canavan... again. One of my favourite books

[Ophidia]

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chemistry.

I'm not sure what I am now, since I can't fully grasp anything in the Complete Idiot's Guide. I think I need the Half-Wit's Guide to Chemistry.

[Medusa]

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So now that my work commute went from 2.5 hours a day to 15 minutes a day...my audio listening has dwindled off quite a bit! But fear not, I'm starting to listen to my stories before bed time and while getting ready. Finally...and I do mean finally finished off Scott Sigler's Pandemic. No more blue triangles. Great adventure especially toward the end when I could not stop listening!

Now starting off on Mercy 6 by David Bajo. A bunch of people drop dead in a hospital. People try to cover it up. Why? Me thinks it's a viral outrbeak!!!!

And here we go again...

[Medusa]

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Mercy 6. I gave it 20 minutes and had to bail. I don't like the weird writing style. And the narrator is like reading a blank chalk board. Just so boring and monotone. Some narrators read a book to you. Some act it out. Some make you feel like you are in high school listening to your teacher explain triangles.

So.........a new audiobook. This audiobook combines my two loves: Zombies and Dante's Inferno. Yup. Valley of the Dead: The truth behind Dante's Inferno. Apparently Dante wrote about hell and dead people eating corpses from PERSONAL EXPERIENCE! Dante's adventures with the zombies. Oh man. I threw all logic and critical thinking out the door. This is just pure fun!

[habbalah]

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I'm trying to get through my massive pile of books that I own, but have never even cracked the covers. Right now, I'm reading "A Dictionary of Gnosticism", by Andrew Philip Smith. Gnosticism is a path I know very little about, so I'm looking forward to learning.

[Medusa]

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Finished the Dantes Inferno w/ zombies audiobook. Now onto Joe McKinney's Plague of the Undead.
About zombie, duh

[Ophidia]

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Back to trash fiction - Revival by Stephen King.

[iris]

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Poetry.. "The convergence of the twain", writing an exam paper about it.

[Shahaku]

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I've been reading Giesha: A Life. It's a memoir. And has very little to do with sex.

[Aeran]

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The Tao of Physics. A few decades out of date, but a really good look at the convergence of mysticism and modern science.

[B. de Corbin]

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Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation, by Bill Nye the Science Guy.

A nice, accessible, clear look at the evidence for evolution, although, of course, one must be able to put two & two together in a rational way.

[iris]

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Got "city of heavenly fire" as an early birthday present from my uncle, so I'm starting that now.

[Aeran]

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Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation, by Bill Nye the Science Guy.

A nice, accessible, clear look at the evidence for evolution, although, of course, one must be able to put two & two together in a rational way.

Have you read Dawkin's Greatest Show on Earth? It's basically the same concept (an in-depth examination of the evidence for evolution), but as someone with no background in biology at the time of reading (beyond 10th grade science class, which I mostly slept through) I found it not only perfectly understandable but extremely engaging and entertaining (something I had never found in a science text before), his brilliance as a biologist and his vibrant love of his field of study really shine through and grab the reader. It actually inspired me, as someone with no previous interest in the field, to take up Biology as an elective for a semester (which for the most part I enjoyed thoroughly, something I would never have suspected had I not read his book).

[Noir]

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Went to the thrift store this Saturday and bought Nummits and crummits; Devonshire customs, characteristics, and folk-lore by Sarah Hewett. It's has quite the personality already!

[B. de Corbin]

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Have you read Dawkin's Greatest Show on Earth? It's basically the same concept (an in-depth examination of the evidence for evolution), but as someone with no background in biology at the time of reading (beyond 10th grade science class, which I mostly slept through) I found it not only perfectly understandable but extremely engaging and entertaining (something I had never found in a science text before), his brilliance as a biologist and his vibrant love of his field of study really shine through and grab the reader. It actually inspired me, as someone with no previous interest in the field, to take up Biology as an elective for a semester (which for the most part I enjoyed thoroughly, something I would never have suspected had I not read his book).

I haven't read it, but I was looking at it before I went to the Nye book. I picked Nye because I've never read anything he's written but I've read a bit by Dawkins before.