What are you currently reading?

[doll_parts85]

I have several different series going right now...Anita Blake, Shadowfae Chronicles, Children of Goddess, The Marketplace series, Big Bad Wolf series...and umm Fifty Shades of Grey. (I know, I know, it's Twilight fan fiction...but still...lol)

What are you guys reading?

 

[dolf]

i'm between books. last book was the long earth.

looking or something else now...

 

[pandapompom]

The Hypnotist

 

[jeninflorida]

I just picked up Tiffany Reisz's "The Siren", I love her as she's so funny and off the wall. Her book is '50 shades of Gray' but with meat (meaning the BDSM is harder)

 

[doll_parts85]

I just picked up Tiffany Reisz's "The Siren", I love her as she's so funny and off the wall. Her book is '50 shades of Gray' but with meat (meaning the BDSM is harder)

I may have to check that out. Wonder how much it is for my nook.

 

[ivantheterrible]

the unredeemed captive

a very insightful and informative book, although dry in some places, of late 1600's early 1700's colonial life.

 

[Karenas]

Anything I can put into my Kindle for free!

 

[renard_ruse]

This thread.

 

[doll_parts85]

Anything I can put into my Kindle for free!

I'm jealous that swagbucks amazon gift cards are cheaper than b&n gift cards. I has a nook, not a kindle.

 

[Karenas]

http://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Shades-Wonderland-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B008O9ALXA/ref=pd_ys_iyr6
This one's not free anymore, but it was very good!

"Eighteen-year-old Alice is unhappy. Her boyfriend is nice and polite, but he's also quick and careless in bed, and doesn't give Alice the attention and variety she craves. But he's not entirely to blame, because Alice herself doesn't understand her own needs. She's heard about what sex is supposed to be like, but has never felt anything remotely close to what she's read about in runaway bestselling books."

 

[Karenas]

I'm jealous that swagbucks amazon gift cards are cheaper than b&n gift cards. I has a nook, not a kindle.

Can you put the Amazon Kindle app on your Nook? You can definitely put it on your computer!

 

[doll_parts85]

Can you put the Amazon Kindle app on your Nook? You can definitely put it on your computer!

I don't think I can on my nook...I have the original nook...was my sister in law's but she got the nook color so she gave me her old one.

 

[Karenas]

The Kindle apps are free, and like I said, you could put it on your computer. Do you have an android phone? You could put it on that, too. I transfer to my phone at night so I don't have to have the light on and disturb the SO.

 

[doll_parts85]

The Kindle apps are free, and like I said, you could put it on your computer. Do you have an android phone? You could put it on that, too. I transfer to my phone at night so I don't have to have the light on and disturb the SO.

I have the app downloaded on my computer but I don't really like to read on my computer.

I don't have an android phone. Been trying to get a cheap one on ebay for straight talk b/c my boyfriend programs apps for android.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Reamde, by Neal Stephenson.

 

[BossMan62]

Curious George's First Job.

 

[canadianpenny]

Currently, I am reading this thread

 

[ga400us]

Currently, I am reading this thread

Ditto!

 

[JoeRockStar]

Clive Cussler - Crescent Dawn

 

[trysail]

...Three days later, he delivered the treatise on coinage that he had conceived before the war, chastising the minting practices that had sent the currrency into free fall.

"The worst mistake," he charged, "which is absolutely unbearable," is for the government to mint new coins— of inferior intrinsic worth, though pretending to equal value— while the old coins are allowed to remain in circulation. "The later coinage, always inferior in value to the earlier coinage, ... constantly depressed the market value of the previous coinage, and drove it out." **

Copernicus compared the infusion of inferior coinage to the sowing of bad seed by a stingy farmer. The government, like the farmer, would reap exactly what it sowed, he said, since its practices damaged the currency as surely as blight ruined grain.

"Such grave evils, then, beset Prussian money and, because of it, the whole country," he continued, "Its calamities and decline benefit only the goldsmiths, who take the value of the money into their own hands."

...Mint no new money in the interim, he further counseled, and above all set strict limits for the number of marks to be struck from a single pound of fine silver...


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** Copernicus's realization that bad money drives good money out of circulation often goes by the name Gresham's Law, in honor of Sir Thomas Gresham (c. 1519-1579), a financial adviser to English royalty who made the same wise observation. The concept was also put forward by medieval philosopher Nicole Oresme and mentioned by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes in his comedy The Frogs.


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-Dava Sobel
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
New York, N.Y. 2011.



I'd previously read Dava Sobel's Longitude and Galileo's Daughter and enjoyed both. There's a certain elegant logic to the author's decision to write a biography of Copernicus on the heels of a work on Galileo.

From the passage above, it will be seen that Copernicus' talents were not limited to astronomy. He was, in fact, a bit of a polymath.

It's no particular surprise that Copernicus was well-educated and well-traveled. One can't help but wonder what drove his interest and willingness to make what are clearly voluminous and tedious astronomical observations. After all, it is obvious to anyone who looks that the sun circles the earth.

 

[Very_Bad_Man]

I only look at pictures

 

[Wok]

I have several different series going right now...Anita Blake, Shadowfae Chronicles, Children of Goddess, The Marketplace series, Big Bad Wolf series...and umm Fifty Shades of Grey. (I know, I know, it's Twilight fan fiction...but still...lol)

What are you guys reading?

and

 

[pink]

I have the attention span of your little finger right now.


0 interest in reading.

 

[oddity83]

Dead Beat of the Harry Dresden files.

 

[Instant_Star]

Sandman by Neil Gaiman
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin

I think that's all of them, my attention span is too short to read one book at a time.