What are you reading? (December 2008)
 

Just started:

Classic of the month, 1984 by George Orwell

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History of the month, Thomas Jefferson and His Time : Volume 3: The Ordeal of Liberty by by Dumas Malone and Anna Fields

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I finished reading Little Girl Lost and immediately started the sequel, Songs Of Innocence, by Richard Aleas.
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Nearly finished with...

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Just finished:

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A very, very quick and good read.

Just started "The Disposable Male" By Michael Gilbert

Re-reading Blood Work by Michael Connelly.

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Moved on to A Darkness More Than Night.

Just Finished:
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
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Getting ready to start:
Watchmen by Alan Moore
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Forgot this came out -- need to pick myself up a copy. :up:

About to start:
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just finished Twilight and now reading New Moon.

this series is damn addictive so far.

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I started this with another book last month. Since the other was more Christmas related (and from the the library), I read that first and put this on the back burner. Now I'm picking it back up again. So far, so good.

Tom Banjo - Where in the series is this Ender novel? I read the Ender series years ago: Enders game, up through when he went to the colony with the bugs and found the new queen, but stopped when I began reading Enders shadow

Did I miss anything good by stopping there?

This one takes place between Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, BUT it also takes place after Shadow of the Giant. This is his first attempt at trying to bridge the Shadow series back into the Ender series. There is supposedly a sequel to Children of the Mind coming that will complete this bridge.
So I'm not sure I could recommend this one without reading everything that's come before.
As for whether or not you missed anything good... honestly, the Shadow series is a very different beast compared to the Ender series. It's a lot more action-oriented, and can get convoluted to the point where it's hard to keep track of everything. I loved Ender's Shadow and Shadow of the Giant, but the 2 in between are only average IMHO.

Thanks Tom Banjo!!

My reading list this month:

Don Quixote
Our Oriental Heritage (vol 1 of 11 vol set, The Story of Civilization, by Will Durant)

Currently reading

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Our local library branch shut down on the last Saturday of November, and they won't reopen until the new building is finished sometime in January. Because of this, they allowed us to keep books until the new building is open and I checked out three titles. I finished Johnny Cash's "Man in Black" overnight and the finished off Alec Guinness's "Blessings in Disguise." Now, I've turned my attention to Ronald Reagan's "An American Life."

Just finished:

Spook by Mary Roach
Freakonomics

Starting:
Kill Bin Laden
Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent

Just started Fifty-to-One by Charles Ardai.

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Finished that book and started "The Last Shot" by Darcy Frey

Currently rereading a couple of my favorites:

The Reason Why - Cecil Woodham-Smith - Anyone the least bit interested in history should read this amazing account of the personalities and events behind the charge of the Light Brigade.

The Light that Failed - Rudyard Kipling - From back when novels didn't have to concern themselves with "the human condition" in order to be considered great. About work and Art and love, when they intertwine.

Still getting though Leo Strauss's Natural Right and History.

Just finished:

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Finished The Last Shot and now started "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Just finished Leather Maiden by Joe R. Lansdale.

Superb mystery with a heart of mold.

Just finished this book, starting this one by Dean Wareham.
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