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I am reading The Green Pharmacy. It is very good to have as a referance book!

I just finished one called, "You don't need a Lawyer!"

It is about fighting companies by writing letters, and it has 85 sample letters as referance.

It actually worked! We avoided being sued in SCC by a large firm!!

I recently finished _The Red Tent_, which I had wanted to read for years, but just never got my hands on until recently.

I'm about to start reading _You Just Don't Understand Me_, a book about communication styles of men and women and how they are different, but first, I'm devouring my April and May issues of "Elle" magazine, which I love.

Jen M.

I just read Mudbound. Has anyone read it? Really good! Also Peace like a River, also excellent.

I loved Red Tent. I am just starting In A Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson.
And just finished a book of short stories called Moving Targets based in the Mercedes Lackey Valdemar world. (Her short story in it was quite amusing, especially the last page with the "punchline")
Also need to check what we are reading for book club.

I read every single book in the "No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" series in 8 days. I haven't read the most recent one, yet, because it's still checked out of the library.

I just finished "Q&A", otherwise known as "Slumdog Millionaire". REALLY GOOD! Makes me not want to see the movie because it might ruin the book for me - Great book - stayed up late just to read it every night.

Right now I'm reading "Animal Vegetable Miracle" by Barbara Kingsolver and "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel. Both very good so far.

I just finished The Soloist. GREAT BOOK!!! Wow. Loved it!

I'm currently reading a slew of self-help books: 1 for weight loss, 2 for codependency, and 1--which is assigned reading for one of my Temples this year--called True Love by Thich Nhat Hanh. All are helpful, but my next read will be fiction. LOL!

Oh, yeah--the book I'm reading for pleasure is a book on different conversation styles that men and women have. It's written by a sociolinquist--NOT that John Gray person. Her name escapes me, but the book is called You Just Don't Understand. It's a bit dry, but it's pleasure reading for me, because I'm a social sciences geek. (Indeed, if I'd stayed in college, I might have been a social scientist by now!)

Good times.
Jen M.

Clancy's Teeth of the Tiger. Really liked Rainbow 6, and this one is good so far.

I'm currently reading Watchmen. Really good so far for being a graphic novel. Almost done with it actually. Will need to find something new to read or maybe finally finish reading the Silmarillion.

Joe, we recently saw an interview with Alan Moore. Fascinating man. (He's the artist behind "Watchmen.")

Jen

I just finished Revolutionary Road.
I found this book I have been wanting to read for a while: Absolute Convictions: My Father, A City and the Conflict That Divided America(it's about the author's dad, an OB-Gyn who was a colleague of Dr. Slepian[the last abortion provider assassinated before Dr. Tiller, also about abortion debate in general]).

Just got done with The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society for my book club. A really nice read. A novel done in letters. It is set in the year after WW2 ends. And while I enjoyed it, I had a hard time with some of the characters' ages. I got that the main character was around 30, but for some reason some of the other characters (even when their ages were given) were - in my mind - 80's. Think that is just me.

I've started Contact by Carl Sagan. It's interesting that he is so dead on about the religious types.

A while ago I read "The Tea house Fire" and I really enjoyed it. I also read "A Child Called It." That was good. I just started "Three Cups of Tea" and I really enjoying that one.

Carl Sagan was a great guy, Eddy. I haven't read the book but heard him speak at Cornell a couple of times - amazing dude. He had this incredible house - it was built into the wall of a gorge. It had to have been quite something to live in.

I'm reading Risk Pool, yet another in my Richard Russo series. I've nearly read all of his now in less than a year. I can't help it.

catsnotkids Wrote:Carl Sagan was a great guy, Eddy. I haven't read the book but heard him speak at Cornell a couple of times - amazing dude. He had this incredible house - it was built into the wall of a gorge. It had to have been quite something to live in.

I'm reading Risk Pool, yet another in my Richard Russo series. I've nearly read all of his now in less than a year. I can't help it.

I've said it before. There is no god because no god would allow W to live while taking Sagan away.

Also did you know that he was a marijuana user?

I think Contact was the Sagan book that I read, also. I don't remember, though. It was back in high school or college. Really fascinating stuff!

JMK, I read the back cover for A Child Called It and decided that it would probably be too intense for me. (Yes. Me. The big horror fan! I guess when it's real, it's just much harder to deal with.) I'm glad you liked the book.

Jen M.

I just finished All the Living by CE Morgan. I didn't like it that much - great setting (rural KY) but the characters were very self-centered and I wasn't thrilled with the lack of character development of everyone except the protagonist.