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For people who want to talk about their favorite reads, their current reads and for those who need or want to give book recommendations.

For people who want to talk about their favorite reads, their current reads and for those who need or want to give book recommendations.

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Sep 18Sep 18

Posted by KateOahu
This was fun.
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Sep 3Sep 3

Posted by Julie808
I've been listening to the audio version of "The Better Angels of Our Nature; Why Violence Has Declined" By: Steven Pinker, published in 2011. It's a long book, 36 hours to listen to it, and I'm only about 10 hours in, but it's an interesting ...
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Jun 23Jun 23

Posted by AlanCliffe
I've been coming across about five million hatchet jobs on J.D. Salinger by hateful phonies—I mean, they've got to make sure everybody knows they're real hotshots, so what they do, they try to tear down what they liked themselves when they were ...
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May 16May 16

Posted by AlanCliffe
Sometimes I think this whole world Is one big prison yard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards. Bob Dylan, “George Jackson.” Some random thoughts on Jerome Loving's Jack and Norman. That is, Abbott and Mailer, the longtime ...
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Feb 11Feb 11

Posted by pamagain
Caste..The Origins of Our Discontents.....by Isabel Wilkerson. Nothing really new but well-put and carefully thought.
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Feb 11Feb 11

Posted by Julie808
We of Little Faith I Stopped Pretending to Believe (and Maybe You Should Too) By Kate Cohen. I just finished this book, and I found myself nodding my head a lot at the many subjects the author tackles in each chapter. I highly recommend this ...
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Mar 16, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by AlanCliffe
VALIS again, about forty years after my first time around. PKD's Exegesis extensively excerpted. An explication of an elaborate cosmology, or is it a cosmogony, that isn't true. Insanity recollected in a state of sanity? Maybe. But having an ...
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Oct 10, 2022Oct 2022

Posted by AlanCliffe
Coming to the end of Marilynne Robinson's Home. I might have said this before, but I'll say it again. The black sheep—or maybe the white sheep—of a family may see Jack Boughton in him/herself, or him/herself in Jack Boughton. But the difference...
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Sep 21, 2022Sep 2022

Posted by AlanCliffe
Marilynne Robinson's Gilead on the table. Written before Jack, but its events coming afterward. Interesting to a non-believer that the literary artefacts of a worldview foreign to one's own—as in, some religious people, including at least one ...
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Jul 29, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by dfross
I enjoyed "The Dictionary of Lost Words", a historical fiction about the creating of the Oxford-English Dictionary and the fight for women's suffrage in the UK.
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Jul 25, 2022Jul 2022

Posted by Julie808
Anyone else fascinated by Mary Magdalene? I always have been, and especially since texts have been discovered which are purported to be gospels according to Mary. While I'm not convinced there was a real historical Jesus, it's fascinating for me to...
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Apr 25, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Reignmond
A highly biased selection. Ely S. Parker is a significant but little known person in American History, and he is one of my ancestors ( I have many notable Haudenosaunee ancestors which is not too surprising since they are all related to each other). ...
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Apr 2, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Reignmond
I read this back in 2018. Absolutely loved it. It is an oddly small sized book, so it is good to travel with.
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Apr 2, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by Reignmond
A short Sci-Fi that is quite good even though it will only take about an hour to read. It is also kinda cheap.
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Mar 31, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Reignmond
Looking again at this book reminds me that I wanted to re-listen to it again. It is that good and instructive of our Nation's procedural institutions. The author's engaging dialogue is highlight of what ordinarily a dull subject.
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Mar 30, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Reignmond
This freebie ebook from Gutenberg Press and by the Master Sci-Fi writer Philip. K. Dick was later made into the 1995 movie "Screamers". Free ebooks like this are better enjoyed through the Gutenberg Press app which is freely available through your ...
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Mar 30, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Reignmond
At Home: a short history of private life by Bill Bryson. An enjoyable book about everyday things we don't even think about.
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Mar 30, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Reignmond
Just finished Bomber Mafia written by my genetic 4th cousin on both of our Fathers' side. I have been a fan of Malcome Gladwell's for some time before he popped up in my relatives list. This was a very interesting book with a lot of information I ...
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Mar 27, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Reignmond
I read this back in about 1983. Phenomenal book! Chapters alternate between a Sci-Fi story of an Ark spaceship and the problems that occur on their journey, and the earth-bound science behind the problem.
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Mar 26, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Reignmond
Very good. I have noticed that 12 step programs are ineffective.
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Mar 22, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by DarkMatter
Have you read C. S. Lewis' Space Trilogy?
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Mar 20, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Reignmond
Actually read this some time ago (46 years) while trying to figure out why I simply could not believe in Jesus or God or anything else I was being told by Bible Thumpers. I came to really like M.M. Mangasarian. This is a free ebook. You don't even ...
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BOOKWORMS
Mar 8, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Reignmond
This is one of my very most favorite books. In fact, I even bought a hard copy after listening to the audiobook so I could go over it in more detail. I have studied evolution for awhile, and even taught it some, but this book united some thoughts I ...
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Feb 15, 2022Feb 2022

Posted by yvilletom
By Colleen Coover, Small Favors: The Definitive Girly Porno Collection. Check it out. It’s for Kindles so a free sample is available. Google Colleen Coover.
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Jan 23, 2022Jan 2022

Posted by nicestuff
Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War IIBy Roger Moorhouse (2020) "As German and Soviet forces met on Polish soil and declared their eternal brotherhood - conveniently forgetting the preceding years of rabid antipathy - Poland ...
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Posted by Julie808We of Little Faith I Stopped Pretending to Believe (and Maybe You Should Too) By Kate Cohen.

Posted by dfrossI enjoyed "The Dictionary of Lost Words", a historical fiction about the creating of the Oxford-English Dictionary and the fight for women's suffrage in the UK.

Posted by ReignmondA highly biased selection.

Posted by ReignmondI read this back in 2018. Absolutely loved it. It is an oddly small sized book, so it is good to travel with. [amazon.com]

Posted by ReignmondI read this back in 2018. Absolutely loved it. It is an oddly small sized book, so it is good to travel with. [amazon.com]

Posted by ReignmondA short Sci-Fi that is quite good even though it will only take about an hour to read. It is also kinda cheap. [amazon.com]

Posted by ReignmondLooking again at this book reminds me that I wanted to re-listen to it again.

Posted by ReignmondThis freebie ebook from Gutenberg Press and by the Master Sci-Fi writer Philip.

Posted by ReignmondAt Home: a short history of private life by Bill Bryson. An enjoyable book about everyday things we don't even think about. [amazon.com]

Posted by ReignmondAt Home: a short history of private life by Bill Bryson. An enjoyable book about everyday things we don't even think about. [amazon.com]

Posted by ReignmondJust finished Bomber Mafia written by my genetic 4th cousin on both of our Fathers' side.

Posted by ReignmondI read this back in about 1983.

Posted by ReignmondVery good. I have noticed that 12 step programs are ineffective. [goodreads.com]

Posted by ReignmondActually read this some time ago (46 years) while trying to figure out why I simply could not believe in Jesus or God or anything else I was being told by Bible Thumpers.

Posted by ReignmondThis is one of my very most favorite books.

Posted by Julie808I'm currently reading "The Power Worshippers" by Katherine Stewart. Is anyone else reading this?
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