NONFICTION--Currently reading Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D. A must-read for anyone in the mortgage collections racket like me.
Just finished two Stephen King novels, 'Salem's Lot and The TommyKnockers. I highly recommend 'Salem's Lot. It will give you nightmares and is one of his best books. I also enjoyed The TommyKnockers which surprisingly had a sci-fi storyline, not King's usual horror stuff. And I don't know if I saw something that wasn't there, but the plot actually came across to me as a satire of liberalism.
I just started “The Bookseller of Kabul”, and “Why Do They Hate Us?”, both very good so far. Next I have “Three Cups of Tea” and then “The Pillars of the Earth”. I like historical books rather than fiction, also political ones (hey, I am a long time freeper!)
Spidey loses the wedding ring
TDS Metrocom | 01/10/2008 | David Colton
Posted on 01/10/2008 3:33:03 PM EST by pgyanke
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1951611/posts
Book Smarts Lacking On Gender Equality [barf alert]
Washington Post | Tuesday, January 15, 2008; Page HE01 | Laura Sessions Stepp
Posted on 01/15/2008 5:48:14 PM EST by fgoodwin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1954264/posts
Got three books out of the library (despite the backlog of unread here) and got a book on WWI “Miracle at Belleau Wood: The Birth of the Modern U.S. Marine Corps” by Alan Axelrod, “Shakespeare and Co” by Stanley Wells, and “Shakespeare the Thinker” by A.D. Nuttall, and have been reading them in that order. Around Christmas I read “Pompey the Great” by John Leach, and of course have a goodly pile of other stuff I haven’t quite finished for a long while.
Frankenstein
book of Acts (bible)
Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio by Terry Ryan
it is the author’s account of how her mother raised 10 kids
(1950’s) on chicken scratch earned by chancing into prize money earned in various
box top/coupon contests. Mostly her mom wrote jingles and slogans. Really terrific book.
The Last Battle of Cabin Creek ~ Steve Warren.
Next: NO ORDINARY TIME / Doris Kearns Goodwin