2007-03-08 15:52:39 · 14 answers · asked by Globetrotter 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The Years of Rice and Salt. It's based on the idea that the plague wiped out 90 percent of Europe instead of just one third of the population. It follows two souls as they travel through their different lives. It's actually really interesting.
2007-03-08 16:32:24 · answer #1 · answered by Kat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm reading a book called The Valley of the Kings. It is a historical account of all recorded excavations and the people involved from the early 1800's to about the mid 1970's.
Excellent book, if you like history.
2007-03-08 23:59:22 · answer #2 · answered by kiera70 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm reading "The Arabian Nights II" translated by Professor Husain Haddawy from the Syrian manuscripts (the sequel after Volume I of the same title I finished reading last week), a hardcover published by Alfred A. Knopf in New York in the Everyman's Library series. It's about adventurous stories in different lands and unimaginable episodes.
2007-03-09 03:00:47 · answer #3 · answered by Arigato ne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm reading several as usual, I have them stacked up open where my page is. I always have a variety going.
Working my way back through the Harry Potter books, I am on the first right now. Getting ready for the big SEVENTH.
Also reading some Zen books about active meditation, particularly with regard to homekeeping...as a way to center yourself. The one I am really learning the most from is called Sweeping Changes...talks about tasks like wiping dust and sweeping, being meditative motions...also how taking care of your stuff is a way of respecting it and yourself...and how the home is a metaphor for the larger universe, how patterns of dealing with things at home may explain how you do things away from home. It is very insightful...common sense spirituality.
I just finished Dinner with a Perfect Stranger...a modern day incarnate of Jesus invites this guy to dinner with him and he gets to know Jesus on a more personal stripped down level, gets some of his God questions answered.
I am reading two books by Bailey White. These are short stories about small town southern living and the weird little things and people there. Delightful. She has read these on NPR for years.
I am reading a book by Marianne Williamson called Everyday Grace. It is about recongizing compassion, forgiveness, getting a break, and how to do this for others in a very hostile world.
I am reading the Bible.
And last, I am hoping to dive back into Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...this I just cannot explain...but it is hilarious. 42 is about all I can do to describe it. ;)
2007-03-09 00:36:57 · answer #4 · answered by musicimprovedme 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wicked 2 Legacy & Spellbound by Holder & Viguie. They are about witches in the YA book section. I just finished Twilight and New Moon by Stephenie Meyers last weekend. Excellent books, I couldn't put them down. They are about Vampires, wearwolves, and a girl that attracts them like crazy in upstate Washington. My daughter brougt Twilight home from her book club at school. I started reading it (I try to read everything all three of my children read) and liked it so much I bought copies for us all to enjoy.
2007-03-09 00:06:46 · answer #5 · answered by Barbiq 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm reading Storm Front by Jim Butcher (just started it) because the Sci-Fi show "The Dresden Files" (Based on Storm Front's character Harry Dresden, who is a wizard) fascinated me.
I JUST finished "Everything Changes" by Jonathan Tropper who is a brilliant author in the style of Nick Hornby.
2007-03-09 00:07:58 · answer #6 · answered by §Sally§ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am currently reading The Wave. It's about a high school history teacher who is teaching his kids about the Holocaust. One day he decides to make an experiment. He decides to teach the kids about what hitler did to make people listen to him and vote for him. So the teacher sort of made the movement get out of hand. The kids think that their teacher is playing games with them> can he stop them>
2007-03-09 01:30:13 · answer #7 · answered by Alison I 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lisey's Story by Stephen King. The dark side.
2007-03-09 00:19:35 · answer #8 · answered by Studly Jim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Battle of Leyte Gulf. It recounts the battle between both US and Japanese forces in Leyte Gulf in 1944.
2007-03-09 03:43:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
rich dad poor dad!!! very cool book!!!!!
about how to get rich but the thing is it's actually makes sense
before that i read "the shadow of the wind" wonderful book it has love mystery drama everything!!!
2007-03-09 06:37:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋