sirchris Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Just finished Slaughterhouse 5 and just started Catch 22. I only read books with numbers in the title or my family will die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Lena_Zep Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Finishing Nicci French's The Red Room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broken Levee Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Just finished Slaughterhouse 5 and just started Catch 22. I only read books with numbers in the title or my family will die. I'm not sure if you were joking or not, but I have the same problem with numbers. I have to put the radio or television volume on an even # or my family will die. Should this be in the Ask Auntie thread? What I'm currently reading: My Medical Office Coding textbook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirchris Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 I'm not sure if you were joking or not, but I have the same problem with numbers. I have to put the radio or television volume on an even # or my family will die. Should this be in the Ask Auntie thread? What I'm currently reading: My Medical Office Coding textbook. It's the same disorder that dictates that I can only kill on the 14th and 20th of every month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spalove Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Just finished reading The Paradisio going to decide what to read next Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ledzepfvr Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Just finished Slaughterhouse 5 and just started Catch 22. I only read books with numbers in the title or my family will die. I like to read Janet Evanovich's Plum series. Each one has a number in it. One for the Money, Two for the Dough. Just finished Finger Licking Fifteen. They're a quick read and pretty funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Hartman Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 (edited) Meditations On First Philosophy - Rene Descartes Something to share http://books.google.com/books?id=t4r9iLV2ZXYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Meditations+On+First+Philosophy+-+Rene+Descartes#v=onepage&q=Meditations%20On%20First%20Philosophy%20-%20Rene%20Descartes&f=false The Talisman - Stephen King Edited September 14, 2009 by Mary Hartman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spalove Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Just started reading The Hobbit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggie29 Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGDAN Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 Just started reading The Hobbit Hi Spalove, Best read i ever had, enjoy. Regards, Danny PS, You'll love it when he, no wait, i'll only spoil it for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUCK'EYE' DOC Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown Hey Reggie29, You must be the first one on your block to get this book! Isn't today the official release date? (September 15th arrived in Australia first, LOL). Let us know how you liked it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggie29 Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 Hey Reggie29, You must be the first one on your block to get this book! Isn't today the official release date? (September 15th arrived in Australia first, LOL). Let us know how you liked it. G'day Buckeye! What's up Doc!? Dunno about being the first, yeah it was released here today, which is yesterday there! It's a space / time continuum thing! I like Brown's style of writing, he is similar to Crichton in that the narrative is fast paced and are easily transformed into screenplays for movies. I'll let y'all know how it goes without giving too much away. It features Freemasonry? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Hartman Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 The Eight Gates Of Zen - John Daido Loori Jizo Bodhisattva - Jan Chozen Bays How To Expand Love - The Dalai Lama Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJC455 Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Chris O'Dell new book about recovery and her decades with rock 'n' roll royalty due out 10 /6/09 Chris O'Dell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spalove Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 halfway done with The Magician's Nephew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikiBelucci Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Tao of physics, for the third time.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alinds Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotplant Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 Went to the library today and got three beginning German. I know I'll suck at it, even though my mom spoke it, she would never teach me. I wonder if those Rosetta videos work like they claim. The three or so different dialects would/will make me looney. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxie Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 I just finished Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol". As usual, I got sucked into it. Some of it was predictable. But for future reference, I really need to NOT look at Wikipedia before I finish a book. Accidentley read some spoilers on there that ruined it for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alinds Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGDAN Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virginia Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Another one of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books; love her! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manderlyh Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 (edited) Went to the library today and got three beginning German. I know I'll suck at it, even though my mom spoke it, she would never teach me. I wonder if those Rosetta videos work like they claim. The three or so different dialects would/will make me looney. Rosetta Stone works very well, especially if you get the software and practice on a regular basis. I sub at the Boise Language Academy, which is a school for new immigrants to the United States who are not fluent English speakers. Today, the teacher I subbed for has two classes where she takes the kids once a week into the computer lab and they do the Rosetta Stone for English. The kids wear a headphone/microphone headset and they do the lessons independently. This is just part of their "English Language Development" class, but it's quite interesting. I was sitting in the back of the room while I listened to a Vietnamese boy said, "What are you doing?" over and over again until the software decided it was satisfactorily pronounced. At one point, he took his headset off, (after saying it about twenty times), and said to the boy next to him, "will you say 'what are you doing?' for me?" I was in the back of the room, kind of just watching them, cracking up. Later on in the day in a different class, a girl from Iraq was stuck on the same thing. She was getting irritated, and I thought she was saying it just fine, and she kept looking at me like "WTF?" Finally, in a really, really high-pitched voice, she said, "what are you doing?" and it went to the next exercise. We laughed. So, Hotplant, long story longer: Rosetta Stone is used in the public schools in Boise for English Lanugage Learners. I'm thinking it works pretty dang well. Oh and more: German is pretty hard for English (language 1 /L1)speakers to learn, even though English is a Germanic language. German L1 speakers can read Old English easier than English L1 speakers. ******** What I came in here for: I'm STILL reading Grapes of Wrath. I've had a bit of ADD with books lately, but I'm almost done. Man, I need to finish this book up, because it's starting to really depress me, (I'm almost done, I think I have less than fifty pages left). I LOVED it the last time I read it when I was in high school... edited: I left the Joads in their high-ground barn...I finished it. Edited October 6, 2009 by manderlyh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotplant Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 (edited) Thanks for the info Mandy. But after checking out the prices, even used on Amazon...like 200 -300 bucks used. Forget that! So I found "Babbel.com" it is pretty cool. It's visual also, which is how I learn so I've been doing that. I like the features they have. Like when a picture pops up with the German word or phrase you can change the picture until it's one that will stick in your mind. It doesn't have a speak back function...maybe it does, I've only started last week or so. But, it's a start and it's free. I'll be happy if I can just get 'travelers conversation' down. I just read In Her Wake, a true story about a daughters search for answers to her mother's suicide. By Nancy Rappaport. Kinda creepy. Edited October 8, 2009 by Hotplant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a clockwork tangerine Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 Rosemary's Baby. So far, it's really similar to the movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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