What are you reading the week of December 12, 2010?

[DUgosh]

The Cemetery Yew by Cynthia Riggs

[lordsummerisle]

1. Death of the Liberal Class

Chris Hedges

[tabatha]

2. "The Essential Wild Food Survival Guide"

I was amazed to read that a weed - clover - is very protein rich.

"White clover is highly palatable and digestible, with a
high protein content (over 15%) and over 70% digestibility."

http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/freepubs/pdf/CoverCrops/whiteclover.pdf

If I can find any growing away from pesticide use and car exhaust, I think I will try to harvest it - added benefit of removing weeds. Also, plantain is supposed to be useful. There is tons of it growing in the back country.

[Forkboy]

3. I am rereading, for the third time since 2002, The Years of Rice and Salt.

Easily the most thought provoking book I've ever read, with the most poetic ending ever.

The Years of Rice and Salt (2002) is an alternate history novel with major Buddhist and Islamic religious elements written by science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, a thought experiment about a world in which neither Christianity nor the European cultures based on it achieve lasting impact on world history. It won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 2003.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Years_of_Rice_and_Salt

[Onceuponalife]

7. Sounds interesting.

I have it on my shelf and plan to read it sometime next year. I hear Robinson is a humanistic writer which carries great interest for me.

[Chipper Chat]

4. 1984 -again

Picked up a clean paperback copy at a garage sale for 25 cents.
Telescreens amd Thought Police - oh, my!

[Hardrada]

5. Bloodlands by Timothy Dwyer

Eastern Europe 1930-1945 between Hitler and Stalin. 14 million civilian dead from Nazism and Stalinism.

[Ozymanithrax]

6. Under the Dome, King n/t

[Onceuponalife]

8. Silk by Caitlin R. Kiernan n/t

[abluelady]

9. "Nemesis" by Philip Roth

[hippywife]

10. Marley & Me by John Grogan

Just had never read it and thought what the heck. About half way through and it's made me laugh out loud more than once.

[MaineDem]

11. I started to read (listen to) "Dead or Alive" by Tom Clancy

Then I realized I had missed the last one so now I'm reading (listening to) "The Teeth of the Tiger". I can't believe I missed a Clancy novel in 2003 or 4.

[didact]

14. Me too...

I started listening to "Dead or Alive" Saturday, so far it's great...I read "The Teeth of the Tiger" and thought it was his worse novel, but for back-story it may be worth listening to first?

[Enthusiast]

12. Ken Follett's The Fall of Giants. nt

[krispos42]

13. "The Two Georges" by Harry Turtledove and "Lost in a Good Book" by Jasper Fford n/t

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. Bedside Book: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

A friend was dismayed to hear that I had never read any Harry Potter books, so she lent me the first one. I'm enjoying it a lot and can see why the series became popular.

Purse book: Quite a different thing, The Indian Bride by Karin Fossum. A slightly simple-minded Norwegian villager fulfills a long-held desire to travel to India and meets and marries a woman there. On the day that she is scheduled to arrive in Norway after their paperwork is completed, the man is unavoidably prevented from getting to the airport on time so he sends a friend to pick her up. The friend comes back saying that he couldn't find her. A bit later, the Indian woman is found murdered. That's as far as I've gotten.

[getting old in mke]

16. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

By Alan Bradley.

Won a bunch of first novel/mystery awards and wanted to "taste" it.

[YankeyMCC]

17. "Hint Fiction:

: an anthology of stories in 25 words or fewer" by Robert Swartwood

On my brand new Kindle

[closeupready]

18. Just started Salt by Mark Kurlansky.

Fiction-wise, I'm not sure what I'm going to start next. Maybe a classic like Huckleberry Finn or Tom Sawyer.

[hippywife]

19. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

First few pages I didn't think I was going to like it but it's growing on me.

[japple]

20. Hey friend, I loved this one. Like you, I had a bit of a hard time

getting into it, but it turned out to be a real favorite. I stayed up too late several nights reading it! Hope you enjoy it, too.