What are you reading?

[gopher_yarrowzoo]

Hmm last book I probably read was the last Harry Potter one, that and the latest (at the time) of the Kinsey Milhone series - R is for Ricohet.. good book, good series. I do have the last Douglas Adams book - interesting concept they did with it . I got too many DVD's and CD's so never bored enough to read + at work Im never gonna be able to do that :P

[birdman2584]

Well, I am on to two new books...The first is called: The Youngest Science, which is about the progression of the medical field and its progression from house visits and the such to full-scale research and scientific study. It is a sort of boring book...to me anyways...but I have to read it for school.

The next book, which I have yet to start, but must finish by Monday, is called Neighbors, in which this true story is set in poland in 1941 and the citizens of the town decide to murder all of the Jewish men, women, and children. The people who killed them were their neighbors and people the knew very well. I think this will be a pretty intersting historical account of the attrocities committed by the Nazis in WWII.

I hope everyone elses books are going well!

[Moogie]

Ok, so I'm the oddball out here. I just got thru reading Running with Scissors which is supposedly a memoir. Very odd book. Before that I read: gods in Alabama. That was pretty good.

Both of those books are somewhat off of the beaten path of what I normally read.

Like DP...most of what I read are books geared towards kids these days. Not sure what I'll read next.

[birdman2584]

Well, I have finished both of my previous books, and have finished two shorter ones since I last posted. I just finished Darkness Visible, which is about the illness of depression, or melancholia as the author likes to refer to it as. It was a fairly sad book, but helped give a lot of insight into why and how people who are depressed act.

The next thing I read was a play called "W;t". This play is about a woman who is terminally ill with ovarian cancer and the experimental treatment she goes through. This was not the happiest play to read, but it helped show how many medical patients today are treated more like guinea pigs than like humans.

I am getting closer to being able to do pleasure reading again now that the fall semester of school is beginning to wind down. I hope everyone elses books are going well!

[Angus]

Technical books - got into collecting old mechanical watches, and doing some self taught watch repair.

Got a nice little collection going of automatic (self-winding) watches from the 50's to current: some old Heuer chronographs, Omega Speedmaster, Hamilton and Elgin automatics, and whatever strikes my fancy.

[Paratima]

OT Hey, Angus.

Just waiting for my Seiko Bellmatic to get back from the shop. Late 60's vintage, self-winding with mechanical alarm.

Even has its own website: www.bellmatics.com

/OT