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It's that time again! (right, wow?)
What are y'all reading?
I found one at the library I hadn't read yet by one of my favorite authors, Gail Godwin. A Southern Family. Told from different points of view, it's a reminder that you can escape your (Southern) roots but you can never escape them. I'm enthralled.
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or Winter Reading, Up Under! Hmmm... nothing better than curling up under the doona with a good book! Ok, almost nothing. 
What are y'all reading?
I'm 3/4 of the way through Enduring Love by Ian McEwan. It's a great story and full of amazing words and language (many of which I've considered raising here, but haven't had the time).
A quote on the back of it (which I tend to agree with) says: "with a plot so engrossing that it seems reckless to pick the book up in the evening if you plan to get any sleep that night". At the moment I'm hating it when my bus journey to work comes to an end too.
A couple of the words that I've read and been fascinated by: plosive, fabulation and evince.
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I'm finally catching up on Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire. Just finished Without Reservations, a travelogue that makes me want to move to Paris. My next non-fiction is likely to be NoLogo - it was just presented to me last night without the giver's knowledge that I've been told by several different people that I would like it!
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I've just finished re-reading Douglas Adams' strange book, The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul Not so obviously funny as some of his other books, but quite deep, in a twistedly logical sort of way. An interesting read, but I still prefer Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective AgencyCurrent reading is all bits and pieces - dipping into books on Victorian street crimes, prostitution, prize fighting and drug use (and abuse, although it wasn't looked on in quite the same way in those days.) Another couple of weeks and I should have enough time to read properly again - no idea what I'll go for, though - re-reading an old favourite, reading a C19 book that I've not read before, or going for something modern - we'll see: if this thread goes on for long enough I'll come back to you with the news! 
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As usual I have several stacks of books around the house and the office with bookmarks in them.
One I just started is called April 1865, in which the author asserts that month is one of the most important in the history of the US. Too early to tell if he has a good point, but a lot did happen during that month, a bunch of it very pivotal.
I recently ran into an SF author named Asprin who has written a bunch of really funny stuff, loaded with puns (IMAGINE THAT!!!) I have three or four of them out of the library in various stages of completion.
Even though I know the ending I'm rereading Snow Falling on Cedars because it's such great writing.
On my desk at work I've got Will Durant's volume on the Renaissance. Slow going since I'd rather spend my lunch hour with you guys, but still very interesting.
I've also got Bruce Catton's civil war trilogy and Sandburg's Lincoln going.
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First-- why summer reading? i find the long winter evenings to be a most congenial time to read.. might not have been 100 years ago, but with electric lighting, winter is fine reading time.
i am currently reading Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, and i have The Songcather about... i swallowed it whole last weekend, its not quite a mystery (but it has mystery elemants,) its not quite a history (but there is plenty of American, and even some Scots history in it)-- its sort of a southern story--except for when its in Morristown NJ! It has music, and geology, and family, and history.. Sharon Mc Crumb (or is Crump? crunch? Sharon Mc Cru...) i have to go back and reread it.. there is much to much to take in a single reading.
i have Salt on order-- and need to read it before the end of June for a bookclub.. and wow, its a think book!
but there will be rainy days..
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Hev, my apologies for the provincialism! I can't believe I did that... Helen, I dunno. My reading sort of reflects the changes in season. I will tend to read more academic non-fiction (like your Guns, Germs and Steel ) in the winter, I guess, and more "light" stuff (mysteries, "chick" novels, humor writing) in the summer.
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This is my summer reading list, most by necessity (grrrrrrr!):
L. S. Vygotsky (1978). Mind in Society (very excited about this--it's a reprinting; he died in the 1930s)
Michelle Churma (1991). A Guide to Integrating Technology Standards into the Curriculum (uh-oh...)
M. D. Roblyer, Jack Edwards (2000) Integrating Educational Technology into Teachng (uh-oh again...)
Kay Burke (1997) Designing Professional Portfolios for Change (practical)
Judith Thurman (1999) Secrets of the Flesh (biography of Colette that I'm reading in bits and pieces, but it is wonderful wonderful--highly recommend from what I've read so far...)
When all the professional reading is done, I'll return to Boswell's Life of Johnson that I haven't read in over thirty years, but look forward to eagerly devouring again later in the summer.
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I much prefer Faulkner's take on Hamlet's dying, jmh. It is a little known fact that Faulkner was near-obsessed about the ramifications of Hamlet's death upon Yoknapatawpha County and environs. Take a look at his other lesser-known novel and you'll see what I mean...
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