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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1185 on: December 15, 2019, 06:59:43 PM »
A biography of Carrie Fisher.
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« Reply #1186 on: December 17, 2019, 08:40:12 PM »
The Only Girl in the World by Maude Julien. It's a true story and super creepy in the way she's controlled by her parents.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1187 on: December 18, 2019, 12:55:12 AM »
A long way to go yet for me.

I have avoided reading in the order I discovered Niven. I have gone back to the beginning and I am reading forward, from his early career.

Discovering things I had missed.
Jimi Hendrix: When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. 

Ghandi: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The end result of life's daily pain and suffering, trials and failures, tears and laughter, readings and listenings is an accumulation of wisdom in its purest form.

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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1188 on: December 18, 2019, 10:06:10 AM »
Roosevelt and the Royals.......about the history and friendship between FDR and the US and the British Royal family from post WWI until his death. 
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1189 on: December 18, 2019, 04:31:41 PM »
Still nothing.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1190 on: December 18, 2019, 04:37:25 PM »
Still nothing.
That makes me sad. I hope it passes for you sooner vs later
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1191 on: December 18, 2019, 04:38:56 PM »
Still nothing.
That makes me sad. I hope it passes for you sooner vs later

Thanks, I appreciate it.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1192 on: December 23, 2019, 09:19:44 PM »
Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie

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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1193 on: December 24, 2019, 06:41:20 AM »
14 pages into Die Wise by Stephen Jenkinson and I realized I need to take that on at another time. He's super wordy in a run on sentence kind of way and it takes him forever to get to the point and I don't have the patience for it right now. It's really deep and thought provoking. Will return it to the library for now.

Currently reading The Selector of Souls by Shauna Singh Baldwin
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1194 on: December 25, 2019, 07:02:26 AM »
"Crime in Progress", about the origins of the so-called Steele dossier. Good read, so far.

And yes, I'm finally able to read more than a page again. :woohoo:
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« Reply #1195 on: December 25, 2019, 03:24:50 PM »
"Crime in Progress", about the origins of the so-called Steele dossier. Good read, so far.

And yes, I'm finally able to read more than a page again. :woohoo:
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1196 on: December 25, 2019, 08:20:25 PM »
The Skies of Pern by Anne McCaffrey. I've had it for years in hard cover but just never read it.

Odeon, I may understand your reading woes. After I finished uni, I was all read out. Sooooo much reading I did while I was there, my brain had had enough of it. It's only in recent months that I have started reading again and actually enjoying it. I'm not as quick as I once was though.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1197 on: December 26, 2019, 04:20:27 AM »
The Skies of Pern by Anne McCaffrey. I've had it for years in hard cover but just never read it.

Odeon, I may understand your reading woes. After I finished uni, I was all read out. Sooooo much reading I did while I was there, my brain had had enough of it. It's only in recent months that I have started reading again and actually enjoying it. I'm not as quick as I once was though.

Honestly I don't know. I sometimes think it's the ADD but it could be any number of things.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1198 on: January 18, 2020, 01:09:33 AM »

Still going with the Niven works.
Jimi Hendrix: When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. 

Ghandi: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1199 on: January 18, 2020, 02:36:14 AM »
"Agent Running in the Field" by John Le Carre.
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