whatcha reading?

[ChrisT]

Well we all know that Squid is reading W&P and usually this time of year the epic reader Lummox will start a thread about books but he and his boobs have been curiously missing from the board lately (must be in Mexico or something). So I'm curious to know what y'all are reading these days.

 

I'm flipping between 2 books: "The Botany of Desire" which I finally got at the library and "The Love you Make: An Insider's story of the Beatles" which I picked up on a whim but turns out to be nice and juicy.

 

Share your current picks.

[klenke]

I'm reading this post. That's what I'm reading. Kind of dry. But the laffing graemlin saved it.

[olyclimber]

The second post in this thread is all fluff. It was empty and hollow. I was left wanting both more and less.

[ChrisT]

o puh-leeze! A smart guy like you? Hanging on this board all day and all night? Not even a topo map or guide book or Becky tome?

 

BTW it's a *grlaf*

[klenke]

Is less enough for ya?

[klenke]

Not even a Beckey tome

Actually, I do have to read up in some guidebooks for my weekend plans. That comes after I finish dinner.

[olyclimber]

The Making of Modern Japan

[ChrisT]

nice - whatcha got cookin'?

[olyclimber]

and what are you wearing right now?

[klenke]

Cookin' is finished. Gormandizing almost finished too. Steamed broccoli and a chicken pot pie. Does it get any more gourmet than that?!!!! <--laffing graemlin

[ChrisT]

you must be from England

 

I'm about to cook me up a nice corndog

[klenke]

and what are you wearing right now?

If you're talking to me: straightjacket. Nothing more. Jockstrap fell off a couple of hours ago. Helmet also slipping too.

[ChrisT]

nothing like a good menage-a-tois

[klenke]

you must be from England I'm about to cook me up a nice corndog

Corndog! Damn, girl! I'm jealous. I might just have to run down to the local 7-11. You know, where you bought yours.

 

My mother is English so I'm half English (and half Texan, believe it or not) and I use to live in England in the early 80s.

[ChrisT]

I lived in England - Cornwall - in the 80s too! I had an English boyfriend named Rod.

[klenke]

That would explain why you say corny things on this site sometimes.

Can you speak Cornish? (No one can, actually; the language died not too long ago).

 

Cornwall is nice country--moors and cliffs. Tintagel and King Arthur. What towns did you live in? I'll consult my mapbook.

 

I lived in the Cotswolds for a couple of years then in Norfolk for a couple more. We also lived in Wolverhampton for a while at my late grandmother's house (29 Mancroft Road; I still remember). Those were some good years.

[ChrisT]

[Billygoat]

Sting, by Sting.

 

He's from Wallsend, Newcastle.

 

Not as bad I thought it might be. Quite good and had a few funny bits.

[ChrisT]

Billygoat!

 

How was Colorado?

[Billygoat]

Really great!

 

I need to live there two months every winter and two months every summer.

 

Shit I was in Portland last w/e for a wedding. We gotta hook up one of these days.

 

[skykilo]

I'm reading the new Harry Potter. I just bought Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

 

Besides that, Theoretical Nuclear Physics Volume I: Nuclear Structure by deShalit and Feshbach.

[Billygoat]

Physics becomes an empty pursuit once you come around to believing in magic, eh Sky...

[Norman_Clyde]

I'm reading the new Harry Potter. I just bought Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

 

Besides that, Theoretical Nuclear Physics Volume I: Nuclear Structure by deShalit and Feshbach.

 

Ford's in his flivver, all's right with the world.

Am I properly pneumatic?

Centrifugal bumble-puppy

 

Just don't give away the ending for the rest of us. I mean of the physics book, of course.

[MADman]

Oly- if you're into Japanese history, "Rich Nation, Strong Army" by Richard Samuels is a great exploration of Meiji reformation through 1980s.

 

I'm occassionally cracking "Collapse" - Jared Diamond's follow-up to Guns, Germs and Steel. Damn if that guy doesn't know how to beat a dead horse.

 

I'm thinking I'd like to pick up one of the new Shackleton books. Any reviews?

[cj001f]

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

 

I bought an advanced copy of the new Chouinard book - interesting ideas, not well edited. Others include Anna Kernina, The Russia House, Out of Africa, The Wheel of Life (Great White Hunter Safari memoir), and the Nikon D70 manual. And the usual geeky Optics books for work.