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Loveofalifetime ( member #6644) posted at 12:01 AM on Monday, June 14th, 2010
Trying to finish Eat, Pray and Love.
Also started Sara Palin Going Rogue...I dont even care about political views but always wanted to visit Alaska...so far very intersting.
So that is on my night stand right now. Hard to make time to read with the kids and so much on my mind.
Pinocchio=WH 39/ BS(me)38
M 8yrs /known for 20yrs
D-day 6/20/04(yes Father's day!)
..In God's Hands..Amen
layla22 ( member #19765) posted at 4:00 AM on Monday, June 14th, 2010
I'm in a vicious mood lately so I have been reading a lot of violent crime novels by faye Kellerman and her husband.
Silence is golden and duct tape is silver (courtesy of my 13 year old son)
cantlivewithouth (original poster member #11939) posted at 8:55 PM on Thursday, June 17th, 2010
I'm currently reading "A Game Plan For Life" by John Wooden.
It's really amazing and I'm learning a lot about mentors and what we learn from them.
Next up is a biography about Natlie Coughlin or Mark Spitz. Haven't decided yet.
Married a truly wonderful and loving man Sept. 19, 2010. Not only survived, but thrived.
My new mantra: Argue Your Limitations.
neverendinghurt ( member #15859) posted at 9:43 PM on Thursday, June 17th, 2010
I am currently reading "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer. It is about young man, Christopher McCandless. On finishing college, he gave all of his savings to Oxfam, gave away most of his belongings and set out on new life. Two years later, he hitchhiked into the Alaskan wilderness, where he perished.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
James M. Barrie
island_girl ( member #22616) posted at 10:16 PM on Thursday, June 17th, 2010
I hear Into the Wild is amazing! It's on my "to-read" list!
I'm in the middle of way too many things now.
"Incest and Sexuality"
"A Travelers Guide to New Zealand and other South Pacific Nations"
"The Philosophy of Sex and Love"
They are all pretty dense so every once in a while, I'll breeze through a novel for fun. 
Are any of you guys on Goodreads.com? It would be cool to keep up with you on there!
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - Mahatma Gandhi
Tesa ( member #10002) posted at 10:17 PM on Thursday, June 17th, 2010
LOVE to read. I go through books a week.
Right now I'm reading The Queen's Lady
Here for awhile, still feel the sting from scars every so often.
Healed, healing, living...
capri ( member #14940) posted at 6:14 AM on Friday, June 18th, 2010
I was inspired by the historical fiction thread to actually read the Phillipa Gregory I've had lying around-- The Boleyn Inheritance. It follows Anne of Cleves, Jane Boleyn (wife of George, sister in law of Anne), and Kathryn Howard, each in 3rd person.
I'm loving it. It inspired me to read a little more about Anne of Cleves. For someone initially laughed at and ridiculed by Henry's court, maybe she had the most brains and class of all of them, excepting maybe Katherine of Aragon.
Me: free of the secrets and lies!!!
Divorced 10/2011
millienotboo ( member #22415) posted at 1:31 PM on Friday, June 18th, 2010
Wow, heavy reading here.
I used to read 70-80 books a year but since infidelity I've only managed 6 in a year and a half.
But right now I'm reading another Bourne novel.
I did manage to get through Atlas Shrugged for the second time in Dec.
M-8 yrs together 11
Me-45 BW
Him-49-WH
D-Day 10-10-2008
In R
GreenT ( member #27996) posted at 4:44 PM on Saturday, June 26th, 2010
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Very funny, while simultaneously very maddening.
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Absence is to love what wind is to fire: when it is a small fire the wind kills it, but when it's a real fire the wind intensifies it. - DVF
Hope24 ( member #9344) posted at 6:15 PM on Saturday, June 26th, 2010
I am currently reading "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer.
I've heard about this story, on tv, I believe. Just ordered the book from Amazon...via SI, of course.
Thanks for the recommendation! 
She packed up her potential and all she had learned and headed out to change a few things.
Kuwaited ( member #5491) posted at 9:47 PM on Saturday, June 26th, 2010
I’m in the middle of “Miracle at Philadelphia – The Story of the Constitutional Convention May to September 1787”, Catherine Drinker Bowen.
Been working on this one for awhile. It’s been my business trip reading for awhile.
I’m going on vacation next week for 8 days so I should be able to finish it off.
The other one, which one of my kids got me for Father’s Day is: “The Dream Machine – The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey”, Richard Whittle
Now, this one should be very interesting. I worked that program for 15 years (almost from it’s beginning) and I scanned the index and noticed many names of people of I worked with every day (…mine was not in there, fortunately). It’ll be interesting to see if my recollection of significant events squares with what is in the book, if I find any glaring errors or misrepresentations and to see how much I didn’t know about what was going on behind the scenes.
Obviously, I’m doing the historical stuff these days. Last time I went on a real vacation (same place as this year) I read “1776” --- a rousing good read.
"For every trip to the vet, there's a car ride.", Satchel Pooch.
"At some point in life, everyone has gambled on a fart and lost." -- Tad.
"When the bad stuff happens, you walk it off any way you can"
Skye ( member #325) posted at 11:53 PM on Saturday, June 26th, 2010
"The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest." I just started it, but expect to like it as much as the first two of the trilogy.
metamorphisis ( member #12041) posted at 1:29 AM on Sunday, June 27th, 2010
Skye.. every time you post something you're reading I end up loving it 
I think we have very similar reading taste 
Go softly my sweet friend. You will always be a part of who I am.
looking forward ( member #25238) posted at 2:32 AM on Sunday, June 27th, 2010
I'm starting the latest Edward Rutherfurd historical novel, New York.
He interweaves history with the same fictional families through succeeding generations.
Author of:
Sarum
London
Forest
Ireland
Rebels of Ireland
Heavy....but fascinating!
Together more than 57 years, Married 52 years. Sober since 2009. "You've always had the power, my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself." (The Wizard of Oz)
wantmore ( member #5939) posted at 7:36 PM on Sunday, June 27th, 2010
Fluke, or I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings. by Christpher Moore. Very funny.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Of course it helps to know you *have* enemies.
notgonnabreak ( member #26699) posted at 11:49 PM on Sunday, June 27th, 2010
LOVED "Water for Elephants."
Jan Karon's novels are sweet and very light for a feel-good.
"The Shack" helped me think a lot.
And "The Help" is awesome - kept me up way too late last night!
Skye ( member #325) posted at 2:40 PM on Monday, June 28th, 2010
meta, anytime you want to "talk" books, just pm me. I love books.
wantmore, do you read Christopher Moore often. I think he is hysterical, though I didn't care for his newer book "Fool."
HardenMyHeart ( member #15902) posted at 5:27 AM on Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies & the Truth About Reality by Brad Warner
Me: BH, Her: WW, Married 40 years, Reconciled
Maia ( member #8268) posted at 5:30 AM on Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
A Chance to Die - Elisabeth Eliot.
The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.Psalms 34:18
Ballerina Girl ( new member #28940) posted at 4:24 PM on Thursday, July 1st, 2010
The Gaslight Effect.... and finding out that I am both a Gaslightee and a Gaslighter too 
Me-BW-34
Him-WH-49
Married 5yrs-together-8yrs
D-day #1 2/08
D-day #2 7/09 (my b-day no less)
D-day #3 4/10
All known OW - sex workers
An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind~ M.Gandhi
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