I get my copy of Charles Churchill's Rosciad tomorrow.

Some not so serious stuff for a change. Just a little Aussie romantic novel set in the 1850's

Miles Franklin's  My Brilliant Career

Hummm. Those days of sweet innocence

Be safe, well and happy

Lotsa huggs
Catherine

Quote from: Jennifer on June 10, 2012, 09:55:32 AM
State of the World 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity by The Worldwatch Institute.

Thank you so much for correcting the spelling of the title of this thread!

THANK YOU !

Jennifer

I have such a hard time refraining from correcting thread titles. I fail so hard at posting news lately (cuz it makes me sad) I should probably be doing something more useful. 

I just started the 3rd book in The Hunger Games trilogy on my Kindle and I'm listening to the 2nd Dresden Files audio book.

Quote from: dalebert on June 14, 2012, 01:50:52 PM
I just started the 3rd book in The Hunger Games trilogy on my Kindle

I just finished that one on Monday. And oww that hurt. Collins is very good at making you feel like ->-bleeped-<-.

Think I'll probably go to The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud next.

I'm still reading A Wild Sheep Chase, but I keep getting distracted by Get Fuzzy and also random manga here and there. We spend a ton of time at the library and I expect that'll continue now that school's out.

I just finished The Giver by Lois Lowry. It was a pretty good read. It reminded me a lot of Brave New World, but it was different in it's own way.
Still, it certainly poked thought at the concept of individuality in terms of the pain that it brings versus the safe, although not-very-happy, concept of uniformity.

Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins by Steve Olson

A Discover "Best science book of the year"

On preparation of seeing the film this weekend ...

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter

by Seth Grahame-Smith

Mosby's Comprehensive Review for Veterinary Technicians by Monica Tighe

OK it is a textbook, but that is all I have read over the last year.

"more than it hurts you" by Darin Strauss.

I initially put it away 2 or 3 times, than reading the dust cover intro ... hello, this is all about Münchhausen Syndrome by Proxy.

It appears there is such a lingering case in my extended family ... so after this bit of info, actually even the first chapter starts to make sense.
This first chapter is VERY long-winded and without the added info one might think all could have been said in a few paragraphs.

First time for me, that the reading the dust cover info up front actually help to get into the book without really pre-empting the story

Axélle
PS: I now give it ~ 4 / 5

Translated ancient Greek love poems, quite a nice thing for a Saturday afternoon.

Quote from: Ms. OBrien on June 23, 2012, 07:19:18 AM
Mosby's Comprehensive Review for Veterinary Technicians by Monica Tighe

OK it is a textbook, but that is all I have read over the last year.

One of my all time favorites!  I particularly like the part on "Hoof and Mouth Disease". 

I just finished The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, and I never want to eat anything again
Now I'm getting myself into the Divine Comedy

Richelle Meade's Bloodlines Series.  The second book in the series recently came out.  It's a great series to come out of the Vampire Academy series.

Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger

Quote from: Lisbeth on January 18, 2009, 06:46:26 PM
Right now I am reading Neuromancer by William Gibson, published in 1984. This is the book that defined the cyberpunk genre and gave us such terms as "the matrix."

I just got that from Amazon today!!!

All One Wicca by Kaatryn MacMorgan

  The Prophecy of Zephyrus by G. A. Hesse, my cousin I didn't know I had two months back.  She gave me a signed copy to read when I visited her last month.  It is a good read so far, I'm halfway through it.  A fantasy about a Wyoming teenage boy who is transported to another world with its prophecy and the usual mix of Gothic royalty, wizards, transformations, warriors and the like.
  Joelene

Going back and forth between finishing the 3rd Hunger Games book and reading a book my friend wrote and is publishing today called Infinity Squad. It's pretty good so far. It has clones and psychic spiders.