Winter Reading

[Gnam]

It is too cold/dark/winter outside to play. Books?
I enjoyed John Grisham's - The Litigators, and Daniel Woodrell's - Winter's Bone.

[Andrew Longman]

747 by the project manager, John Sutter, who built it.

[Dvdb]

Ike's Bluff by Evan Thomas

Next up is The Admirals by Walter Borneman

[nrc]

Under the Skin

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004M5HKHK/

I got this as a suggestion from Amazon when I had nothing else on my Kindle to read. Isserley is a strange woman who travels the country-side looking for male hitch hikers to pick up - the larger the better and preferably with nobody to miss them if they should disappear. Her story makes a thought provoking tale examining empathy and humanity.

[KLang]

Lately I've been working through Jay Allan's Crimson Worlds series. Sci-Fi. Almost caught up with the writer.

[Andrew Longman]

I guess because she is my next door neighbor and she has basically adopted our little town with all sorts of good works I should promote her book. I haven't seen her much lately as she is on book tour and I am not home much. http://www.elizabethgilbert.com/the_signature_of_all_things_excerpt.pdf

BTW she looks nothing like Julia Roberts.

And she has a store in town that she and her partner stock with stuff "that has no practical value" they collect from all over the world. Pretty funny actually.

[Andrew Longman]

More shameless plug. In case you missed Colbert last night http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/431239/december-11-2013/elizabeth-gilbert

[Napoleon]

^^^

You got to ask her about that, if you see her around. Now we will see if she gets the Colbert bump.

[Racing Truth]

Currently reading The Luminaries. (http://www.amazon.com/The-Luminaries-Novel-Booker-Prize/dp/0316074314/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386886516&sr=8-1&keywords=the+luminaries)

On Winter's Bone, never read the book, but, purely by accident, did see the movie in late in '10. Phenomenal.

[dando]

Next on my list:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345526112/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0345526112&linkCode=as2&tag=madeyouclick-20

I also highly recommend All you Could Ask For (Mike Greenberg), That's Why I'm Here (Chris Spielman), and Toughness (Jay Bilas).

[Napoleon]

Currently working on the following:

Bruce - Peter Carlin

I have Landed - Stephen Jay Gould

E = MC2 A Bio of the World's Most Famous Equation - Bodanis

Railroaded The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America - Richard White.


If anyone has any good recommendations of a general history type of book on Native North Americans I am all ears.

[Anteater]

I just finished A Storm of Swords from the "Game of Thrones" series. These books are extremely bleak, but I keep reading them because I want to find out what happens next. Many surprising plot twists, and I admire the way the author created an entire world, complete with culture and mythology. But it is rather heavy going at times. I'm about ready to take a breather and read something fluffy for a change. Any suggestions? :)

[dando]

Currently working on the following:

Fifty Shades of Grey

Twilght Series

Fixed. We all know what happens north of I-30. :gomer:

[Gnam]

It's still winter, or at least not summer yet... ;)

The New New Thing by Michael Lewis.
It's 15 years old, but it's a great story about how one guy named Jim Clark changed Silicon Valley in the late 90's.

http://s16.postimg.org/tkj00v105/17986421.jpg

[stroker]

"Creativity, Inc." by Catmull about the formation and operation of Pixar. I can't recommend it enough.

[TravelGal]

The Sports Illustrated 60 anniversary issue has a very nice, though very long, article on its history. If you're not a big Vin Scully or Dodger, or at least West Coast fan, it might not be as fascinating but I found it a very good read. Even had one anecdote on Jackie Robinson I had not heard before. I admit I had to take two nap breaks between the beginning and the end but I still recommend it. It weaves all the major players (executives) in baseball and telecommunications together into one narrative over the last 60 years. Tricky, but he pulled it off. If you're not into the philosophy, the "oops" section is entertaining.