Posted on 01/23/2012 8:52:51 PM PST by WilliamEaton
What books are people currently reading? Any particular fiction or non-fiction of note? Any recommendations from some recent reads?
I just downloaded the novel Hunter by Robert James Bidinotto for my kindle. It's an indie novel and has received good reviews on Amazon. Will report back once I finish up.
I’m writing one.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks....
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons—as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.
Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave
Call of the Wild
and Hunger Games
“Lucifer’s Hammer”
just finished “The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo”.....convoluted...tedious...won’t be seeing the movie...
The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship
1984
Wow I read that thirty years ago and it is in my top ten.
Just finished “Children of the Mind” by OSC.
Just finished “Children of the Mind” by OSC.
I’m slogging my way through Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. I prefer lighter fare.
“The Old Man and the Harley.”
Good Book!
Read that a couple times years ago. Good book.
Forgot to add. I’m reading them in numerical order, not any kind of suggested reading order. I’m up to The Fifth Elephant.
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Bible - Life Journal Reading plan (android app: youversion)
Brad Thor. Just re-read Foreign Influence, now on Full Black.
Last week read Connelly’s latest 2, The Fifth Witness and The Drop.
Working on:
The Civil War series, by Shelby Foote (for the third time)
The Reformation, by Diarmaid McCullough (struggling get through it, though)
The Great Gatsby, by F Scott Fitzgerald
I'm currently reading On Bended Knees by Bill Cunningham, which is about the Black Patch Tobacco War of 1904-9, and Choices of One, which is Timothy Zahn's newest Star Wars novel.
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