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If you'd like to share favorite books - fiction or non-fiction - and their appeal, whether or not you're one of society's under-appreciated two percent who can boast recessive allele on chromosome 16 and the resultant different take on the MC1R protein 🙂

If you'd like to share favorite books - fiction or non-fiction - and their appeal, whether or not you're one of society's under-appreciated two percent who can boast recessive allele on chromosome 16 and the resultant different take on the MC1R protein 🙂

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Read Heads
Jul 14, 2018Jul 2018

Posted by AmelieMatisse
This book was on a freebie pile. Great read but my guess is that women will enjoy it more than men. It is written in the omniscient first person plural and I really think it added so much to the story. It is a really great story of sisters but also ...
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Read Heads
Oct 26, 2018Oct 2018

Posted by snytiger6
Another book I read recently was "Prodigal Summer" once again a book by Barbara Kingsolver. I am really enjoying her books.
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Read Heads
Jun 10, 2018Jun 2018

Posted by Hellbent
One of the great potential benefits of groups like this is that we can tip one another off to the existence of authors that we would not otherwise have heard of. I'd like to nominate "The Last Blue Sea" by the Australian novelist David Forrest. It's ...
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Read Heads
Jul 19, 2018Jul 2018

Posted by weeman
Not long till the edinburgh book festival over 900 authors illustrators etc attending this year anyone else going?
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Read Heads
Aug 23, 2019Aug 2019

Posted by AmelieMatisse
My latest read. I really though I was well informed about this era. Sadly I was not.
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May 17, 2018May 2018

Posted by moNOtheist
A favorite book of mine, and one that I've read more than once over the years is Kurt Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse Five or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death', his beautifully honed reminiscence of surviving the 1945 Allied firebombing of ...
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Read Heads
Dec 9, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by snytiger6
LINK45 places you can download tens of thousands books, plays and other literary texts completely legally for free – nothing in the rulebook
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Read Heads
May 22, 2018May 2018

Posted by snytiger6
I recently re-read a book by John Green called "The Fault of the Stars", which is about some kids who all have cancer. It is surprisingly entertaining and not relly a downer kind of read, but fun and a little adventurous.
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Read Heads
May 18, 2018May 2018

Posted by moNOtheist
A book that's known rather more for its reincarnation as a notorious movie adaptation than the debate it proposed about free will, there's Anthony Burgess' 'A Clockwork Orange', still tarred in the collective memory for its realistic depiction of ...
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Apr 30, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by snytiger6
A good nonfiction book, which i just finished called "Why We're Polarized" by Ezra Klein, is vey good at explaining the current political climate here in the U.S. She starts by going back to when the two major politcal parties both had liberals and ...
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Mar 8, 2019Mar 2019

Posted by ninjarider1
I "check out" when I read!
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Read Heads
Jul 12, 2019Jul 2019

Posted by Marcie1974
This made me giggle
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Read Heads
Jul 13, 2018Jul 2018

Posted by snytiger6
So, I have read a few books now by Erich Segal. "Love Story", "Oliver's Story" (A sequel to Love Story", "Prizes" and "Man, Woman and Child", and am currently reading "Doctors". I am finding his books to be very entertaining and interesting. ...
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Sep 13, 2018Sep 2018

Posted by snytiger6
Two book recommendations. The first is "The Daydreamer" by Ien McEwen About the various day dreams of a tne year old boy. It's veyr imaginative an d fun. The second is "Lily and the Octopus" by Steven Rowley Lily is a Dachshund, owned by a middle ...
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Read Heads
Jun 7, 2019Jun 2019

Posted by snytiger6
I've read the first four of the Charlie Fox series by Zoe Sharp. They are all very enjoyable suspense books. By first four, I meant read them in chronological order. I dont' believe they were written chronologically, as the first three may be ...
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Oct 31, 2018Oct 2018

Posted by snytiger6
"Lending A Paw": A Bookmobile Cat Mystery by Laurie Cass I listen to audio books by downloading them to my phone. This one was a "pocket download", which is kind of liek a pocket dial, as ti worked the same way. i did nto look for this book, but it ...
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Nov 22, 2018Nov 2018

Posted by GreenAtheist
Just a few titles to share before any dueling quotes. ...GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT, .....JUDGEMENT DAY my life with Ayn Rand HANDBOOK FOR HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS. .....DENIAL OF DEATH. ....TRIAL OF TIMARKOS. ....AMERICAN ATHEIST MAGAZINE OVER 40 YEARS ...
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Dec 12, 2018Dec 2018

Posted by snytiger6
Just finished reading a book by Tom Hanks (the actor), called "Uncommon Types: Some Stories". I really enjoyed it a great deal. It is a collection of unrelated short stories, although some of them do reuse the names of characters, although ...
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Jan 22, 2019Jan 2019

Posted by snytiger6
Just read "This Fight Is Our Fight" by Elizabeth Warren. It seems she and I are almost completely in agreement on what has happened to our country (the U.S.) and where we are at. I am even considering volunteering for her 2020 Presidential ...
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Mar 8, 2019Mar 2019

Posted by ninjarider1
Twenty five percent? I'd say more than that!
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Read Heads
Mar 8, 2019Mar 2019

Posted by ninjarider1
Well, one can always hope!
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Posted by MynamehereAnyone really into reading apocalyptic fiction right now?

Posted by AmelieMatisseMy latest read. I really though I was well informed about this era. Sadly I was not.

Posted by AmelieMatisseI went to a lecture by author Richard Rothstein. If you are interested in learning how our government segregated this country, you will find this book fascinating

Posted by Marcie1974This made me giggle

Posted by Marcie1974This made me giggle

Posted by snytiger6With the current trend of the far right moving into the forefront of many countries aroudn the world, perhaps it is time for people to rediscover the book "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis.

Posted by AmelieMatisseAnyone who is an art lover will enjoy this book. And if you are anywhere near Baltimore MD a trip to the Baltimore Museum will get you the chance to see the Cone sisters amazing collection for free

Posted by AmelieMatisseJust finished a biography on Frederick Douglass and this seemed like a good followup.

Posted by GuyKeithAnyone here like Joseph Heller? You may be familiar with Catch-22, but have you read his other books, especially Something Happened? If anyone has read it, let me know. I would like to discuss it.

Posted by ninjarider1Well, one can always hope!

Posted by ninjarider1I "check out" when I read!

Posted by ninjarider1Twenty five percent? I'd say more than that!

Posted by snytiger6Instead of powering it up...

Posted by KodiamusCurrently reading

Posted by MoonTigerA REAL Read Head!

Posted by ninjarider1Any science fiction fans here?
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