Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?

[lilac_jive]

Originally Posted by Tattncat

Is she any good? I've not read any of hers.

Currently I am half way through The Count of Monte Cristo. I have finished The Hound and Twilight (a re-read)and planning on the Sherlock Holmes Series and rereading Atlas Shrugged as well as the Jan. choice.

She's ok. This was one of her older books, and some of her newer ones are better.

[BlackVoid]

Just read Black on Black by K. D. Wentworth
It is pretty good, I rate it 7/10 and available for FREE from the Baen free library.

[Mindy]

I'm ambling along quite enjoyably with Mma Ramotswe, as you can see from below. Loving it. Should have the published ones all read up before 'Tea Time for the Traditionally Built' comes out next year.

(Aren't the titles just fantastic?!?!?!)

[macthekitten]

I'm reading "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy... and when I get to the point where I want to kill myself (it's a smidgen depressing LOL) I read some of the ridiculous Twilight books - yes I'm 12!!! heheheheh

[Slite]

Originally Posted by macthekitten

I'm reading "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy... and when I get to the point where I want to kill myself (it's a smidgen depressing LOL) I read some of the ridiculous Twilight books - yes I'm 12!!! heheheheh

You don't look 12 from your avatar

And currently reading the Sherlock Holmes Omnibus available on MobileRead thanks to HarryT

[lilac_jive]

I'm on to Hound of the Baskervilles (for the book club) and it is quite awesome! I've already read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, so I'm glad to say hello again to one of my favorite characters.

Up next is a Christmas Carol by Dickens. Figure I should try and finish it for the holidays.

[Greg Anos]

I am revisiting some of the juvenlines from my youth. I am currently reading The Horse Without A Head (in translation) by Paul Berna. The original is in French - Le Cheval Sans Tete. Even as a middle-aged reader, it's still a good read...

[DixieGal]

So is Hound the Dec book? When's the deadline? (I was like this in college also.)

Finished: A Dangerous Man by Charles Huston, one of the free downloads from Books on Board last week. Rated R for violence. I enjoyed it very much, despite the very very dark subject matter. I did not realize that it was the 3rd book in a 3-book series until the author's note at the back of the book. It absolutely can stand alone.

Click here if you want some details:

Spoiler:

The author did a magnificent job of making me actually end up rooting for the protagonist, which is a sign of some pretty good storytelling. I had to keep reminding myself to hate him. The man is a natural born victim on a pity party from hell. When his athletic aspirations end due to injury, he spirals downward, ending up lower than all but the worst men end up.

Quit after a couple of pages: Free Range Chickens by Simon Rich, another of the BoB freebies. It blows chunks. OK, that wasn't a helpful review, was it? This is a series of what the book description calls "humorous" essays. I just found the guy to be pathetic, whiny, and self-absorbed. (Reminded me of our recent "Genius") I would not want to be his friend in real life, so I surely do not care to read a disconnected string of his musings over the most trivial of childhood memories.

[lilac_jive]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

So is Hound the Dec book? When's the deadline? (I was like this in college also.)

Finished: A Dangerous Man by Charles Huston, one of the free downloads from Books on Board last week. Rated R for violence. I enjoyed it very much, despite the very very dark subject matter. I did not realize that it was the 3rd book in a 3-book series until the author's note at the back of the book. It absolutely can stand alone.

Click here if you want some details:

Spoiler:

The author did a magnificent job of making me actually end up rooting for the protagonist, which is a sign of some pretty good storytelling. I had to keep reminding myself to hate him. The man is a natural born victim on a pity party from hell. When his athletic aspirations end due to injury, he spirals downward, ending up lower than all but the worst men end up.

Quit after a couple of pages: Free Range Chickens by Simon Rich, another of the BoB freebies. It blows chunks. OK, that wasn't a helpful review, was it? This is a series of what the book description calls "humorous" essays. I just found the guy to be pathetic, whiny, and self-absorbed. (Reminded me of our recent "Genius") I would not want to be his friend in real life, so I surely do not care to read a disconnected string of his musings over the most trivial of childhood memories.

I think the deadline is the 22nd. It's not very long though.

I'm glad I didn't download either of those, I'm not a fan of violent books, and not a fan of crappy books

I did get Prague and the Foreign Correspondent. They looked promising.

[nekokami]

You don't want to know what I've been reading. Really.

But I'll tell you anyway.

Gigerenzer, G. (2007) Gut feelings: the intelligence of the unconscious. New York: Viking Penguin.

Gilovich, T. and Griffin, D. (2002) Introduction—heuristic biases: then and now. In Heuristics and biases: The psychology of intuitive judgment. Gilovich, T. Griffin, D. Kahneman, D. (eds). Cambridge: The Cambridge University Press.

Gladwell, M. (2005). Blink: The power of thinking without thinking. New York: Little, Brown and Company.

Kahneman, D. and Frederick, S.(2002) Representativeness revisited: attribute substitution in intuitive judgment. In Heuristics and biases: The psychology of intuitive judgment. Gilovich, T. Griffin, D. Kahneman, D. (eds) Cambridge: The Cambridge University Press.

Paul, R. (1993) Critical thinking: what every person needs to survive in a rapidly changing world (3rd revised ed). Santa Rosa, CA: Foundation for Critical Thinking.

Paul, R. (1994) Teaching critical thinking in the strong sense: a focus on self-deception, world views, and a dialectical mode of analysis. In Re-thinking Reason: New perspectives in critical thinking. Walters, K.S. (ed). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Paul, R. & Elder, L. (2006). Critical Thinking: Tools for tacking charge of your learning and your life (2nd ed). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.

Riding, R. & Cheema, I. (1991, September). Cognitive styles—an overview and integration. Educational Psychology 11(3/4), 193. Retrieved November 2, 2008 from Academic Search Premier database.

Sloman, S. (2002) Two systems of reasoning. In Heuristics and biases: The psychology of intuitive judgment. Gilovich, T. Griffin, D. Kahneman, D. (eds). Cambridge: The Cambridge University Press.

Witkin, Moor, Goodenough, Cox (1977) Field –dependent and field-independent cognitive styles and their educational implications. Review of Educational Research 47(1).

Zhang, L, and Sternberg, R.J. (2005) A threefold model of intellectual styles. Educational Psychology Review 17(1).

At least I was able to get the journal articles in electronic form.

Now I'm reading The Hogfather to put me in the proper holiday spirit.

[lilac_jive]

Originally Posted by nekokami

You don't want to know what I've been reading. Really.

But I'll tell you anyway.

Gigerenzer, G. (2007) Gut feelings: the intelligence of the unconscious. New York: Viking Penguin.

Gilovich, T. and Griffin, D. (2002) Introduction—heuristic biases: then and now. In Heuristics and biases: The psychology of intuitive judgment. Gilovich, T. Griffin, D. Kahneman, D. (eds). Cambridge: The Cambridge University Press.

Gladwell, M. (2005). Blink: The power of thinking without thinking. New York: Little, Brown and Company.

Kahneman, D. and Frederick, S.(2002) Representativeness revisited: attribute substitution in intuitive judgment. In Heuristics and biases: The psychology of intuitive judgment. Gilovich, T. Griffin, D. Kahneman, D. (eds) Cambridge: The Cambridge University Press.

Paul, R. (1993) Critical thinking: what every person needs to survive in a rapidly changing world (3rd revised ed). Santa Rosa, CA: Foundation for Critical Thinking.

Paul, R. (1994) Teaching critical thinking in the strong sense: a focus on self-deception, world views, and a dialectical mode of analysis. In Re-thinking Reason: New perspectives in critical thinking. Walters, K.S. (ed). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Paul, R. & Elder, L. (2006). Critical Thinking: Tools for tacking charge of your learning and your life (2nd ed). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.

Riding, R. & Cheema, I. (1991, September). Cognitive styles—an overview and integration. Educational Psychology 11(3/4), 193. Retrieved November 2, 2008 from Academic Search Premier database.

Sloman, S. (2002) Two systems of reasoning. In Heuristics and biases: The psychology of intuitive judgment. Gilovich, T. Griffin, D. Kahneman, D. (eds). Cambridge: The Cambridge University Press.

Witkin, Moor, Goodenough, Cox (1977) Field –dependent and field-independent cognitive styles and their educational implications. Review of Educational Research 47(1).

Zhang, L, and Sternberg, R.J. (2005) A threefold model of intellectual styles. Educational Psychology Review 17(1).

At least I was able to get the journal articles in electronic form.

Now I'm reading The Hogfather to put me in the proper holiday spirit.

Yikes.


How is Blink? I read the Tipping Point, and really enjoyed it.

[nekokami]

I liked Blink. I found it quite readable, and thought it made some good points.

(Actually, I liked the other things I read, too. I just wish I'd had access to more of them earlier. I'm getting too old for these all-nighters. But hey, the power was out for a week, due to the ice storm, so I'm glad I had access to a lighted, heated, internet-capable office in which to work.)

[ficbot]

I just finished a Fictionwise multiformat book called 'Rx for Murder' by Renee Horowitz. It's book 1 in a three-book series about a pharmacist sleuth. It was pretty good! I just got the other two in a sale for like 2 bucks each. Those multiformat books are such a good value.

[Peadar Ó Guilín]

Originally Posted by lilac_jive

Yikes.


How is Blink? I read the Tipping Point, and really enjoyed it.

I really enjoyed both Blink and Tipping Point. I'll be getting his new one too -- Outliers.

[Elsi]

Originally Posted by BlackVoid

Just read Black on Black by K. D. Wentworth
It is pretty good, I rate it 7/10 and available for FREE from the Baen free library.

The sequel, Stars Over Stars is also in the Free library at Baen.