What is everone reading ?

“CBC was playing that book (Voyageur) a few months ago; i used to listen on my way into work. i missed the beginning and unfortunatly the ending too. but the middle was really really good.
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“Shame of Man by Piers Anthony- evolutionary stages of man in story form

Conspiracy Theories by Mark Fenster (yes you can get interesting books at the local library) Conspiarcy theory fails as a political and cultural practice- it fails to inform us how to move from the end of the uncovered plot to the beginning of a political movement, it is also unable to locate a material position at which we can begin to organize people in a world divided by complex divisions based on class, race, gender, sexuality, and other social antagonisms.

and

Secrets of Plant propagation-
How to have your own nursery- free
(of my 6 cottonwood cuttings- 3 are budding after 5 months)”

“"Continuity and Change in Family Relations: Theory, Methods, and Empirical Findings."


Also "Theories of Society"


If anyone wants the ISSNs let me know.

:-)”

“Rasing a child for dummies”

“Combat Jui-Jitsu by Norman Leff

"True self-defense doesn't mean winning the fight, it means stopping the confrontation before it escalates into a fight."”

“right now i am reading trail talk, the subject changes so much it's hard to stay focused.”

“I enjoyed Seven Summits too.”

“One Man's Wilderness. It is from the journals and photographs of Dick Proenneke. PBS shows the movie as Alone in the Wilderness. It took me over 2 months to get it from the library. I was number 17 on the waiting list.”

“"Stitch 'N #&%!$" and "Knit Socks!"... 2 book about Knitting.. :-)

Also starting on "Wet: On Painting, Feminism and Art Culture", by Mira Schor. It's an art history book.

And, for my class, I have to "read" a book about HTML.”

“Has anyone read a book called Dress your Family in Corderoy? It's written by a real funny guy who's on NPR all the time.”

“A Walk In The Woods by Bill Bryson. Just finished it. Amazing.”

“Rereading A Tale of Two Cities.


"Well, I got a great looking new book called "Voyageur" from the library about a diary of an English quaker who came to the Northwoods to find his missing missionary sister (she went missing on my favorite place to take the kids camping). It started off wonderfully but then I had to start reading for school and I haven't had a chance to pick it up since. I think I'm going to have to buy it so I can read it bit by bit. Looks like a fantastic story though.”
Sassafras
7:19:18 AM
3/07/05
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Sass, Where is your favorite place to take kids hiking? North Manitou Island?”

“I've finaly started reading my wifes books. They are very short and expensive, but they have been on the market a while and I think she will be suprised that I read them when she finds out.”

“Ruby, yes. And the title is actually "Voyaguers".
Forgot the "s".

Nigal, that's by David Sedares (how does he spell his last name?!), great book! All of his books are good, some a bit sad at times though.”

“Thanks Sass. He is so funny on NPR.

I scored a Hardback book that has three of Harlin Cobin’s books in it. He’s my favorite suspense writers. They are the kind of books you read in a day and a half because you can’t put it down.”

“Saving Cascadia - John J. Nance

This story is set around Washington state and on an island just offshore. After a developer builds a report on this fragile island, ignoring the theory that this island is a trigger point for unleashing 300 years of stored up energy along a fault line, earthquakes start rocking the state. meanwhile, a whistleblower at the engineering firm who designed the resort and said the island was safe is on the run with data that proves the company was negligent, or worse. Its up to a lone seismologist from the U.S. Geological Survey to save the day.

This story started out interesting enough, but it jumped around a lot while introducing the characters, but once the action got rolling I couldn't put it down until i had read the 2nd half of the book in one setting. That 3 hour sleep night sucked, but I couldn't stand the thought of sitting around all day wondering what was happening on poor Cascadia Island.”

“I usually don't drink, so I am very affected right now by a tiny bit of wine and will soon be reading he inside of my eyelids:)”

“sunshine-- my kid is reading "survival!earthquake" by k. duey & k.a. bale.

i think there's a series of these survival stories...titanic, blizzard, fire, flood.

kid is flying through it. he says it's great”

“Art of War (Thomas Cleary)”

“I checked out "Into Thin Air" today at my library - i've been wanting to read that book for ages now.”

“roam, check out The Climb too, read it as soon as you are finished Into Thin Air”

“so noted. thanks”

“I thought Art of War was by Sun Tsu, or something similar? That's been on my to-do list for a while.”

“I just started A PATH WITH HEART by JACK KORNFIELD

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553372114/qid=1110733805/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-8757480-4291150”

“Dave Ramsey
Total Money Makeover

I'm 36 and I've been living debt free for two years now. I'm hoping Dave gives me a few more ideas. I plan to be a professional adventurer by the time I am 50. Slack, Bubba (213) and I had a drunken conversation about investment, peak oil and the real estate bubble around the campfire at Sipsey. Slack hates Dave Ramsey so I decided to read his book and form my own opinion. Do yourself a favor and pay yourself first. Nothing you buy except for your home is worth debt. Like NowSlimmer says nothing tastes as great as fit feels. Nothing you buy with debt is as fun as debt free feels.

FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!”

“I can't stand Dave Ramsey. Annoying man. I'm debt free too, always have been. Feels good, but the way he acts is just too condescending. His flagship station 99.7 is here in Nashvegas so i get to see his ugly mug every day on the way to work, so maybe I'm a little biased.

"into the wild" is an amazing book. Love it. Read it in one sitting. Couldn't put it down. I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats. I read it again and again...:)”

““roam, check out The Climb too, read it as soon as you are finished Into Thin Air”
hyway

Yea what hyway said. Read them in that order and it will make sense. Great books.”

““I can't stand Dave Ramsey. Annoying man. I'm debt free too, always have been. Feels good, but the way he acts is just too condescending. His flagship station 99.7 is here in Nashvegas so i get to see his ugly mug every day on the way to work, so maybe I'm a little biased.

bionicear

We don't have a station that carries him but I've listened to him once on the internet. I believe most backpackers by their nature are less likely to fall into the traps of keeping up with the jones.

Happy Trails”

“I read Into the Wild recently and am now reading Walk Across America. Lots of similarity between the two: College graduates from well to do families, one disillusioned with America, the other disllusioned with Capitalist America, both turn away from the paths they were supposed to lead to find something else beyond their normal paradyme (sp?). Both seem to make friends easily on the road. Neither can stay in one place too long.

The difference, Peter Jenkins didn't throw away his previous life, nor did he turn his back on his family.

One died young, the other didn't.”

“terrance mkenna


also:
the celestine prophecy”

“I’m reading a good book called Why the Jews Rejected Jesus. It takes the perspective of a 1st century Jew when considering all the big issues of the day and how a 1st century Jew might react to Jesus.”

“Interesting concept Nigal.

I just finished Little Tree. I'll probably start Bourne Supremacy next. Last time bit joked that he would check it out at the library so I couldn't. Someone beat him to it which is why I did Little Tree. If it's still checked out then I think a re-read of Pillars of the Earth is in order.”

“I just finished reading the book, Cell Church Solutions. It discusses how to implement effective small group Bible studys in your home and have it as a church wide ministry.”

“I finished Alone in the Wilderness las week. Great book but I wish it covered more about his time there than the first 16 months.”

“Guns of August by Barba Tuchman

Great book for those wanting to know anything about WWI.”

“I am reading Dean Koontz's "Frankenstein: Book one Prodigal Son". So far, so good!

I always like to get paperbacks to see if they say the book had made the bestseller's list, which doesn't always mean anything, but then I got a regular sized book and was so happy that I could lean it up against a pillow at night and read it in bed with my headlamp as hubby sleeps.

THEN, if the book is available in large print I get that. It's not that I can't read small print, but it's quicker reading with big print. I think your eye catches the next line and you read quicker.”

“i've been putting myself to sleep with a book on the history of niagara falls. interesting stuff, but it's a good thing it is a paperback (doesn't leave bruises).
i have this big pile of books waiting to distract me but i'm too bored & antsy to read :(”

“I'm about to finish, Ghosts of Everest; Northdurft, W.E. et al: The Mountaineers' Books, Seattle, 1999.

It was a 10$ Special at Chapters (Montreal) two Saturdays ago. I wanted to eat at a nice restaurant before my high school rugby season started and I would be reduced to lunchtimes for groceries and laundry (luckily, I have a cleaning lady now) and no other free time.

It's about the 1999 expedition to Everest in search of Mallory and Irvine. It is very well written indeed and a great story to boot. I hadn't expected anything that good. In it they make a strong case for the possibility that htey summitted and fell while returning in darknes.

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in mountaineering.

Doug”

“I'm still reading Bourne Supremacy. Dang it's a long book.”

“This is a good week.

I lent Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue to a friend (liber praestatvs liber perditvs and it never came back and it was out of print. To be fair there were two moves involved.

I saw it advertised anew in Climbing and ordered a copy.

Now that my high school rugby season has begun all domestic affairs must be conducted at lunch time. I decided to swing by my PO box in Chateaugay, NY and it's in. Happily it is an enlarged new edition: Glacier Mountaineering; Tyson, A., Climbing Magazine, 200.

Fantastic!”

“Undaunted Courage.”

“HPM - great book.”

“It's a bit thick language and style wise.
Interesting stuff though.”

“I just finished reading a book called Walk To New York by Charles Wilkins.”

“Sword of Shahananahasndashan (sp?) by Terry Brooks. Total rip off of LotR... but enjoyable none the less.”

“From the Swamp to the Keys: Paddling through FLorida's History.

and

finishing up, "Life of Pi"”

“Finished Stone by Stone by Robert Thorson. A geologic history of the stone walls in New England.


Now reading:

"One Man's Meat" By E. B. White.


A collection of essay written from the time he moved to his farm on the coast of Maine to write.

You may remember him as the author of Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, and Trumpet of the Swan.


The essay's are wrtten beginning 1939. Interesting pre-war perspective on the goings on in Euorpe.”

“Just finished Dan Brown's Angels and Demons Now I'm working on finishing Jane Austen: A Life before I start on some books di and my coworker lent me. So much to read. Good thing I'm commuting by bus most days. Lots of reading is getting done. Yay!”

“i need a good book to take to the beach next week! something funny, but not too idiotic.”

“Books, newspapers, magazines, food wrappers, emails, TT, stuff like that.”