What are you reading right NOW?!?!

[Guest rpackrat]

Just started it, but it's a good read. The book was written almost 50 years ago, but it remains highly relevant.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

cooby - "Is this a new series? Did the first one end yet?"

Babylon Rising is the newest series of books by Tim LaHaye. I believe the tenth and final book of the Left Behind series was written in the spring of 2004. I have not read any of the Left Behind books, but I have been told they are quite good. He was in the fourth or fifth book of the series when I first heard about them. To be honest, I was too lazy to start reading them when I was that far behind from the start.

When I heard he was starting a new series, I decided to get on board at the beginning. I have fallen a little behind, but I'm currently making good time on book two and then I plan to read the third and latest book in January. Then I'll be back on track.

[Guest cooby]

Left Behind was good, for a while, in fact they were hot reading amongst my family. But I got the impression (wrong, perhaps) that they were milking that cash cow and what could have been a three or four book series turned into far more, and people just lost interest. Even my dad said that, and he rarely says a mean thing about anyone.


I might give this new series a try

[Willets Point]

The adventures of two brothers as they drive across Boston's suburbs to score some weed. During the Blizzard of 1978. Disguised as Red Cross workers. One of the funniest books I've read in a while.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I took the boys to the middle school book fair yesterday, and we found this -





It has a chapter on Turk Wendell. How could we not buy it <g>

[Willets Point]

He's classified as "Just Plain Crazy" I hope. Who else is in there?

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I haven't had much of a chance to look at the book (my MLIS readings are taking up most of my time), but I did notice a chapter on Mark Fidrych, one of my favorites from the past.

[Theoldmole]

An odd assortment:


Lovely, sad, inspiring, the story of a beautiful young Cuban girl who becomes a cleaning woman in New York and grows old.



Watching Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead on cable the other night -- I saw the play on Broadway in its original run, thought it was one of the best things I'd ever seen in the theater. But Stoppard was just warming up. He's grown so much as an artist since then.



Assigned reading for my blues class...a really significant piece of scholarly advocacy.




Decided to try reading an online text, and went with this one, from the [url=http://www.infomotions.com/alex2/?cmd=authors]Alex catalog[/url]. Just started it...enjoying the old-fashioned storytelling.

[seawolf17]

Willets- I'm going to second the call on [u:0754f086ef]Puff[/u:0754f086ef]. Just finished it, and it's really well done. Thanks for the tip.

[Theoldmole]

Looks good. I'll check it out too.

[Theoldmole]

Any of you who have teenagers who don't yet know about these, the greatest of all baseball novels, by [url=http://www.brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/127/Kid%20from%20Tom.htm]John R. Tunis[/url]?

[Guest sharpie]

I read those books but I was in 5th or 6th grade, not a teenager. My teenaged son never read them. Prolly should have.

[Guest cooby]

I'm always looking for something good for my son to read, sports is one topic he hasn't lost interest in. Thanks for the hints, Old Mole.

I also have to get a copy of Hahn Solo's book ordered for him

[Theoldmole]

I gave them to my grandson when he was in 5th or 6th and he wasn't quite ready for them. But some kids will be.

I just reread "The Kid Comes Back" and still loved it.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I cut some teeth on a few installments of Duane Decker's series following two generations of the fictional major league Blue Sox. Each book would be the story of how a player would find his way into the team's lineup --- often the player who is willing to sublimate his game to meet the team's needs would beat out a more arrogant multi-talented player who couldn't spell team without an I.

Ms. Met would've loved them.

[Willets Point]

I'm such a geek.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Ooh - that looks good!

[Willets Point]

You're such a geek!

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

After a semester of IT and Human Information Behavior, I'm starved for something about actual libraries!

[seawolf17]

Hey, if you're going to be a librarian of the future, it's all about information, not books. Sounds like your program is on the ball.

(I shoulda been a librarian.)

Working my way through Michael Connelly's Detective Harry Bosch series right now. I'm up to book four, The Last Coyote, and it's really starting to get interesting. I think it's pretty basic police procedural novel stuff, but I haven't read anything else in that genre, so I'm enjoying them.

[patchyfogg]

Run, don't walk, and pick up[u:9b2ebaae9d] 52 Weeks [/u:9b2ebaae9d]by Dave Hollander. It contains 52 interviews with some of the giants (and not so giants) in the Sports World. The questions that he asks the athletes (past and present) are like nothing you've ever read before.

The book just came out on Tuesday.

He's also a longtime Mets fan to boot.

Check out his website at www.davehollander.com

[Willets Point]

[Elster88]

The Last Shot by Darcy Frey.

An easy read and very interesting. Very sad too. I recommend.

[url]http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618446710/103-1791422-4047062?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance[/url]

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

I started this last night. It is a collection of memories, interviews, and photos of the devastation that Hurricane Floyd wreaked upon our small city. This is of particular interest to me because I know many of the contributors as friends and neighbors.

My family was among the fortunate that escaped the wrath of this storm with little more than inconveniences. I had many friends that were not as lucky. Many of my close friends lost their homes and/or businesses to the flood waters of Hurricane Floyd. Our entire city was changed forever by the damage left in the wake of the receding flood waters.

[Guest cooby]

This is pretty good. I found it in the breakroom, too.


I sent for the book Patchy recommended above, 52 Weeks, along with Hahn Solo's book.

[Guest sharpie]

Cooby's colleague: Where'd my copy of Proof Of Intent go? I left in the break room while I went to the bathroom, came back and it was gone.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

You could have brought it into the bathroom with you, but then Larry David would consider it contaminated.

[HahnSolo]

Cooby -- Thank you! I really mean it.

Well, while I'm here, I just finished State of Fear by Michael Crichton. It's not his best book, but I think it's better than Prey, which was his most recent book. He also injected quite a bit of science fact into his fiction, even more than usual. Some of his revelations about the environment were quite eye-opening.

[Guest cooby]

My co workers would probably be quite surprised to learn that some of their abandoned books are temporarily distributed to various places in Pennsylvania, my mom has some, my daughter has one...

The Martha Stewart book has proven to be quite popular in my family.


Actually, though, except for a few of them lying on the break room table, and the ones on the unused desk, all of the ones I took were off the "borrowing shelf"

[Guest sharpie]

]Actually, though, except for a few of them lying on the break room table, and the ones on the unused desk, all of the ones I took were off the "borrowing shelf"

I'm talking about those ones on the break room table. Having a nice break, reading Proof of Intent, leave it on the table for, like, two minutes, and poof it's gone.