What are you reading ?

[Miss*Bijou]

I bought this one online and just received it today:

The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World by Chris Guillebeau

If you've ever thought, "There must be more to life than this," The Art of Non-Conformity is for you. Based on Chris Guillebeau's popular online manifesto "A Brief Guide to World Domination," The Art of Non-Conformity defies common assumptions about life and work while arming you with the tools to live differently. You'll discover how to live on your own terms by exploring creative self-employment, radical goal-setting, contrarian travel, and embracing life as a constant adventure. Inspired and guided by Chris's own story and those of others who have pursued unconventional lives, you can devise your own plan for world domination-and make the world a better place at the same time.



Looks really interesting! (Has anyone else read it?)

 

[sevenofnine]

I just started reading Patrick O'Brian,
He wrote Master and Commander.

I love the way he writes.
One of the best writers I have come across in a long time.

He has got a series of twenty some books with those two characters the doctor and captain Aubry.
Very well written and researched.

 

[HunkyBill]

BTW, do people still read books? ound:

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

Well I'll leap in on that note.

Yes, some of us still read hardcopy. You can't fold down the corner page on a Kindle, and I don't want to learn how to highlight an e-book...Right now I am reading Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine". I like to reread certain favourites over again, and two I am due to restart soon are Stephen King's "The Stand" (unabridged, of course!) and Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett's "Good Omens." If I knew who had my copy of "American Gods" I'd reread that first.

 

[HunkyBill]

You can't fold down the corner page on a Kindle

no, but what's even better is you can bookmark it

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

Call me old-fashioned...but I like books. Actual books. With pages....RIGHT UP UNTIL the time they start to get loose and fall out, and when you reread novels repeatedly over a long time, the spines get rather battered. Anyone wants to gift me with a Kindle or other e-reader, I'll adapt. For now, I'll stick with my hard copies.

 

[HunkyBill]

I do think the Kindle is really awesome looking. I seen the b&w version at Chapters a year or two ago. The text was so clear, the reading "felt smooth". It looked like something I would use if I read a lot of books. And you save a lot too when travelling bcuz books are heavy unlike the Kindle. You also can get hundreds of books on a kindle. However, since I only look at the pictures I'll stick with a tablet. :eyebrows:

 

[PuntMeister]

Call me old-fashioned...but I like books. Actual books. With pages....RIGHT UP UNTIL the time they start to get loose and fall out, and when you reread novels repeatedly over a long time, the spines get rather battered. Anyone wants to gift me with a Kindle or other e-reader, I'll adapt. For now, I'll stick with my hard copies.

Punt is with you on the Real Books Ms. Erica.

The luxurious feel of the pages.

The tempting pasticity of a nice stiff spine.

The subtle texture variation of the cover.

The way the chapters flick by as my thumb edge dances with the pages.

Mmmmm, we are one in escapism, the book and I.

Reading is not just an activity, it is a gift, a pleasure, a passion to be experienced.

....so please don't anyone ever give me a kindle. I will just shove it up your ass, with the battery hanging out, and follow it up with the amazon bubble wrap for wadding.


Lovingly,

-Punt.

 

[amigo67]

Ancillary Justice
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/031624662X

A paper book ... for gawd sake!

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-reading-brain-in-the-digital-age-why-paper-still-beats-screens

 

[HunkyBill]

Punt is with you on the Real Books Ms. Erica. .

Who's this Punt you're referring to? I certainly hope you're not referring to yourself in the third person.

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

Punt is with you on the Real Books Ms. Erica.

The luxurious feel of the pages.

The tempting pasticity of a nice stiff spine.

The subtle texture variation of the cover.

The way the chapters flick by as my thumb edge dances with the pages.

Mmmmm, we are one in escapism, the book and I.

Reading is not just an activity, it is a gift, a pleasure, a passion to be experienced.

-Punt.

I completely agree with you Punt! I spent more of my childhood than I would like to admit alone in my room reading...and my adolescence, too, for that matter. I was a geeky weird kid who could read before starting kindergarten and by 4th grade, I was reading and writing at a first year university level. (I read much faster than most people and retain much more information too) That summer, we went away on a family vacation, and before we'd been in the car for 2 hours, I had finished every 'YA' novel I had with me and I was driving my parents crazy! In desperation, my mother threw the latest Robert Ludlum she'd been reading (yes, "The Bourne Identity" long before Matt Damon ever read the script!) That was it. I read adult books from then on, and didn't start reading YA fiction again until I started my first professional career. (As opposed to my CURRENT profession! ;D)

Reading has always been my second favourite escape, and I can completely lose myself in a good book to the exclusion of just about everything else. Now give me a great book and my SOAKER TUB, and we are talking two absolutely blissful hours.

 

[PuntMeister]

Who's this Punt you're referring to? I certainly hope you're not referring to yourself in the third person.

Yes indeed. one does need to break the rules at times to make a point stand up.

 

[HunkyBill]

Yes indeed. one does need to break the rules at times to make a point stand up.

There's a chinese proverb on that: A nail that stands up quickly gets hammered down.

 

[PuntMeister]

Reading has always been my second favourite escape, and I can completely lose myself in a good book to the exclusion of just about everything else. Now give me a great book and my SOAKER TUB, and we are talking two absolutely blissful hours.

Yes! Let's toss in some babbly bath, a smattering of rose petals, and a little ylang ylang essential oil. Some chilled chardonnay on the side, handcrafted chocolate truffles, soft candle light, and we can read & relax all afternoon. A good read requires nothing, yet a beautiful read begs for the pomp and trappings of decadence.

Ahhhh.

 

[PuntMeister]

There's a chinese proverb on that: A nail that stands up quickly gets hammered down.

I prefer to live by the words of Theodore Roosevelt:

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

Yes! Let's toss in some babbly bath, a smattering of rose petals, and a little ylang ylang essential oil. Some chilled chardonnay on the side, handcrafted chocolate truffles, soft candle light, and we can read & relax all afternoon. A good read requires nothing, yet a beautiful read begs for the pomp and trappings of decadence.

Ahhhh.

Double truffles for me, extra chardonnay for you, while you read me something beautiful...