Current Reading

Started by Gopher, Apr 16 06 11:15

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Russ

Ha! me too..


The cats I work on are only generators. Some 8 cylinder, but some 16 cylinder as well.



Mercy to the Guilty is Torture to the Victims

Sportsdude

Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children. Another history book.
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Sportsdude

Really enjoying this book. It's a biography of a Chinese woman (concubine) in Vancouver during the Depression. The story also involves Nanaimo. I'm apparently a sucker for social history, biographies, fiction books pertaining to places I've lived in.

"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Gopher

Dracula - Bram Stoker.  I read this twice in my early teens and decided to try it again....and  I still think it's under-rated.
A fool's paradise is better than none.

Sportsdude

Roubini, N. & Mihm, S. 2010. Crisis economics: a crash course in the future of finance.

I have no idea why I typed that out in APA. Habit.
It's a book by "Dr. DOOM"



"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Russ

Quote from: Sportsdude on Feb 29 12 12:05
Roubini, N. & Mihm, S. 2010. Crisis economics: a crash course in the future of finance.

I have no idea why I typed that out in APA. Habit.
It's a book by "Dr. DOOM"


Im completely confused by what you wrote.. LOL.


Currently reading a catalogue with items for sale from Sure Marine in Seattle. hmmmmm,
Mercy to the Guilty is Torture to the Victims

Sportsdude

Quote from: Russ on Mar 01 12 09:20

Im completely confused by what you wrote.. LOL.


Currently reading a catalogue with items for sale from Sure Marine in Seattle. hmmmmm,

It's a book by this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouriel_Roubini (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouriel_Roubini)

I should be done with it by tomorrow. If so, my next book is
Neil Smith's New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City
After that, who knows.
I need to start writing soon. Paper(s) are due in a month and I need to read books.
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Gopher

The Phantom Of The Opera - Gaston  Leroux
A fool's paradise is better than none.

Gopher

Cousin Phillis - Eizabeth Gaskell
A fool's paradise is better than none.

Sportsdude

Finishing up a gluttony of library books.
Urban America Reconsidered: Alternatives for Governance and Policy by David L. Imbroscio
La Calle: Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City by Lydia R. Otero.

I've been looking forward to the latter for weeks. It's an urban ethnography of Tuscon. I kind of got into reading ethnographies this year, even if some of them come to the wrong conclusion, because they are light reading rather enjoyable. Villa Victoria by Mario Louis Small is really good; although the conclusion he has is sort of odd, and the neighbourhood he documented is now a gentrified gay-district in Boston. Sociologists are funny.
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Gopher

I like the idea of them but, yes, they ARE funny. Anthropolgists are MUCH better.
A fool's paradise is better than none.

Sportsdude

Claude Levi-Strauss is on my reading list for the summer. I hope to get to him.

It depends on the sociologist.

"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Sportsdude

Finished The Phantom Tollbooth today - checked it out yesterday.

Back to reality...
Lewis Mumford: A City in History.

"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Gopher

The Six Wives of Henry VIII - David Starkey
A fool's paradise is better than none.

Sportsdude

The Fall - Albert Camus.


light reading. lol
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

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