What are you reading?

[YmoBeThere]

Decided to drag this thread back from the dead. I have a bunch stacked up on my nook...(newer one than the one I mentioned at the start of the thread)

So what are YOU reading?

I

Ahh, a fellow Nook owner. I am infamous for buying into dying technologies, see HD DVD, Palm phone, etc.

[DukieInKansas]

The Heart and the Fist by Eric Greitens

I also have a Nook but it may be getting close to time to replace it with a newer one.

[windsor]

Just finished "Cell" by Robin Cook. Enjoyed it but his fiction sometimes is dangerously close to reality and this book was one of those!

I read that. All of Robin Cooks books teeter very close to reality.

I just finished The Boys in the Boat - about the Univ. of Washington 8's that won gold in Berlin. It was quite good.

[lawgrad91]

I just finished reading The Guns of August, about the beginning of WWI.

I think my next book will be Always Get the Name of the Dog.

[windsor]

I read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks...having actually worked with HeLa cells...it was fascinating stuff.

[DukePA]

I read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks...having actually worked with HeLa cells...it was fascinating stuff.

That is so cool!

[DevilWearsPrada2.0]

I will read the Girls Box Score from tonight soon. I am still disapointed.

[windsor]

Decided to drag this thread back from the dead. I have a bunch stacked up on my nook...(newer one than the one I mentioned at the start of the thread)

So what are YOU reading?

I

Ahh, a fellow Nook owner. I am infamous for buying into dying technologies, see HD DVD, Palm phone, etc.

I love my nook. i have the small plain I- don't -do- nothing- but -read -books one. I bought that one (replacing my first gen nook about a two years ago) because ALL I want it to do is deliver reading material. I own a tablet (two actually) and a smart phone and a laptop (two actually) and an all in one. I wanted small, light and easy to read books on...very long batterly life is a big plus too. Hence, the Nook.

[Bob Green]

I'm stuck in the past so I have a library card and read my books in the form of books. Currently I am reading a John Lennon biography by Tim Riley. It is very good. The story is in the middle Beatles years now 1966/67 with the making of Rubber Soul, Revolver (my absolutely most favorite Beatles album) and Sgt Pepper's. I'm amazed someone who has the whole world in their hands can be so unhappy. His marriage to Cynthia Lennon was a complete train wreck long before Yoko Ono entered the picture.

[windsor]

I'm stuck in the past so I have a library card and read my books in the form of books. Currently I am reading a John Lennon biography by Tim Riley. It is very good. The story is in the middle Beatles years now 1966/67 with the making of Rubber Soul, Revolver (my absolutely most favorite Beatles album) and Sgt Pepper's. I'm amazed someone who has the whole world in their hands can be so unhappy. His marriage to Cynthia Lennon was a complete train wreck long before Yoko Ono entered the picture.

I read a print newspaper with my morning coffee. I will not criticize.

[TillyGalore]

Just started 12 Years A Slave.

[DukePA]

Just started 12 Years A Slave.

We saw the movie a few weeks ago. I believe it is an extremely important addition to our historical archives. I plan on reading it soon.

[TillyGalore]

Just started 12 Years A Slave.

We saw the movie a few weeks ago. I believe it is an extremely important addition to our historical archives. I plan on reading it soon.

A friend told me the book is worse than the movie. I will decide later if I want to see the movie, though I do love me some Benedict Cumberbatch.

[DukePA]

Just started 12 Years A Slave.

We saw the movie a few weeks ago. I believe it is an extremely important addition to our historical archives. I plan on reading it soon.

A friend told me the book is worse than the movie. I will decide later if I want to see the movie, though I do love me some Benedict Cumberbatch.

The movie was hard to watch because it was so devastating. I just can't imagine what the slaves went through.

[DevilWearsPrada2.0]

Everything about Wojo to Marquette!

[TillyGalore]

The movie was hard to watch because it was so devastating. I just can't imagine what the slaves went through.

For a really long time, I avoided reading about the slaves or the holocaust as I just cannot begin to imagine what it was like for the blacks and the Jews. I have always cringed when hearing about the cruelty one person can levy against others, and to animals. But, I feel I owe it to those who have suffered to learn more since I have been blessed with a charmed life in comparison.

What is interesting, is the way Northrup wrote. The style and prose is very different than how authors write today.

[DukePA]

The movie was hard to watch because it was so devastating. I just can't imagine what the slaves went through.

For a really long time, I avoided reading about the slaves or the holocaust as I just cannot begin to imagine what it was like for the blacks and the Jews. I have always cringed when hearing about the cruelty one person can levy against others, and to animals. But, I feel I owe it to those who have suffered to learn more since I have been blessed with a charmed life in comparison.

What is interesting, is the way Northrup wrote. The style and prose is very different than how authors write today.

Oh wow! You stated what I have been feeling, but unable to articulate. I too feel we owe it to those who have suffered.

[IowaDevil]

The movie was hard to watch because it was so devastating. I just can't imagine what the slaves went through.

For a really long time, I avoided reading about the slaves or the holocaust as I just cannot begin to imagine what it was like for the blacks and the Jews. I have always cringed when hearing about the cruelty one person can levy against others, and to animals. But, I feel I owe it to those who have suffered to learn more since I have been blessed with a charmed life in comparison.

What is interesting, is the way Northrup wrote. The style and prose is very different than how authors write today.

I need to develop that kind of attitude and start to learn. My stomach just turns to see humans treated the way they were in both situations.

[TillyGalore]

I finished "12 Years a Slave." What a powerful book! It's one thing to hear from historians about what happened to slaves, but to read it from an actual slave makes it all real.

I was sad at the end because all the other slaves were left behind. I know this story was written by Solomon about his experience and hte other slaves were part of HIS story, it still saddens me that we don't know what happened to them. But I can guess. There is no doubt in my mind that some of Epps's slaves were beaten as he really wanted to know who sent the letter to New York about Solomon/Platt.

I just started reading "The Good Nurse," another true story. It is about a male nurse who was a serial killer, not an angel of death or into mercy killings, just a killer. Per this article from the NYT, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/books ... .html?_r=0, it appears the book is more about how hospital administrations failed. I wonder if I should pass this along to our CEO, I would hate to see someone at Duke get away with something like this.

[windsor]

I just finished two books:

The Orphan Master's Son

and

The Witness Wore Red.

Orphan Master is set in North Korea, and is a fascinating book. It was great. Not an easy read but a superb work.

Witness Wore Red - the story of one of the key witnesses that brought down Warren Jess of the FLDS (she was at time one of 20 something wives of his father, Roulon Jeffs -she was 19 he was 80 something). This was one of this books that had me wanting to reach in a smack some of the people. It was quite good. The militant feminist atheist in me did a lot screaming at the pages