California's Wild Gardens I'm always reading something. Sometimes for fun, sometimes to be up on current events and then other times books on native plants, wildlife and environmental issues. I recently purchased the above book through University of California Press and it's fantastic! It covers all the plant zones in the state and their unique vegegation and geology. The photography is beautiful beyond description and takes your breath away. I love this book and I am so glad that I have a copy of it.
I've been reading I just finished reading what everyone else is "reading" and I'm impressed! Okay but no one mentioned and humor! I am a huge Bill Bryson fan and if you want to laugh your pants off, crack a rib and cry with unabashed laughter, read any of his books! He's a travel writer and everyone one of his books is harlarious to the extreme. Check out his book, "A Walk in the Woods", "I'm a Stranger Here Myself" and many others. You will become addicted to him and will find yourself impatiently waiting for his next book!
I am going to bu myself a Bill Bryson book for Christmas, Sespegal! I'll let you know how hard I laugh. I like Janet Evanovich for a chuckle too, Caselib.
Bill Bryson I would suggest that the first one you read, would be "A Walk in the Woods". It was his attempt to walk the Appalachian Trail with his old ( and not in very good shape) former college drinking buddy, "Katz". The preparation sequence is harlarious and the people that he and Katz meet along the trail, are unforgettable. Don't be reading in any public areas because you will find yourself laughing uproariously out loud and grabbing strangers to read them entire passages out of the book. You will run the risk of being arrested for being a public nuisance.
Hubby and I both read A Walk in the Woods and Loved it!!! :-D I just read an excellent book of tearjerker :'( fiction-Rose of Sebastopol by Katharine McMahon. She also wrote another super good read-The Alchemist's Daughter.
I just received a book from my girlfriend for a Christmas present because we won't be able to see each other on Christmas day. The book has three Jules Verne novels in it...Around the World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I'm really excited to start reading it. Actually I've started to read the introduction and even it's pretty good. I plan on reading them in the order he wrote them which would be Journey, 20,000 Leagues, and then Around the World. It should be a fun read. Wish me luck.
Going to start reading Kingdom of the Wicked by Anthony Burgess over the holiday break. Looks like its going to be a mindbender.
I finished Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger last night. It really started out well. I liked her writing. Then it started to slow and slow more. By the time I finished I was glad to be done. some of the charaters were interesting, some never developed and some were a mismatch of nothing. Over all it was just ok. Started The Local news by Miriam Gershow.
On the Road I'm currently reading, "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. It's pretty good so far! I'm a huge fan of "Dharma Bums," so I expect it to be pretty excellent.
Crazy Guy Did you read "A Clockwork Orange?" That book is so much worse than the movie... very twisted. He's a great writer, but I've never read anything else of his. Let us know how it is!
I always have more than one book going. Right now I'm reading SUNSHINE by Robin McKinley and COPYEDITING AND PROOFREADING FOR DUMMIES. No matter how old and tired vampires get, someone comes along and does an interesting new take on them. That's what SUNSHINE is about. I'm reading the second book to see if I can get some advice on how to get copyediting jobs. Gotta get something. No one wants to hire me as a technical writer anymore. :'(
This forum caught my eye, as I am a certified "book worm" I read all kinds of fiction and non fiction. I get out my gardening books and flip through them all the time, and we always have the National Geographic bird identification guide by the window. A friend of mine has shared Down The Garden Path by Beverly Nichols. It is the first in a series, and she said I could read all of them. Very delightful! He wrote it in 1932 and relates his gardening adventures in rural England.
I've also just found this topic. I love to read and have developed quite a library! Plenty of gardening and plant related materials as well as those for my other hobbies (needlework, sewing attempts at quilting, macrame, etc.) I read fiction and non-fiction but not romance novels. Finished the latest Patricia Cornwell book and am now working on an older Nelson DeMille.
Try the Nora Roberts Circle Trilogy - Morrigan's Cross, Dance of the Gods and Valley of Silence.....interesting take on Vampires
I don't read romance either I have enough in my real life!! We read mysteries a lot and I do like historical fiction. I have trouble remembering titles and authors, I have all these scraps of paper with notes about books I want to read! Then I lose the notes and go into the library and just grab what suits me.
