tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13539586.post3964584351309359605..comments2024-03-29T03:55:58.847-04:00Comments on The Dixon Chick: Whatchya reading?The Dixon Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09522377797372024851noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13539586.post-37411837251030240362010-11-18T18:54:42.857-05:002010-11-18T18:54:42.857-05:00My brother got me hooked on The Wheel Of Time by R...My brother got me hooked on The Wheel Of Time by Robert Jordan years ago, by giving me the first three books in the series. I've read them all and reread them up to the 12th and second last in the series, when Jordan died. He had plotted out the last book so his wife hired a writer to finish and I was so excited when I heard it was coming out last November. They split it into another three books! I'm now in my 60s, don't feel one bit silly reading science fantasy, and hope that I'm still alive to read the last darned book! <br />Other than that one, which is definitely a series to last a lifetime, I'm addicted and read a book almost every day.Susanna Originalshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07158392727581242565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13539586.post-39005957251043096582010-11-17T08:03:43.677-05:002010-11-17T08:03:43.677-05:00I'm going back and forth between my nonfiction...I'm going back and forth between my nonfiction books and my 3 year old's books, LOL! The librarian at our local library recommended a biography of the children's author Ezra Jack Keats a few weeks ago, and even though it was written for middle schoolers, I found it absolutely wonderful. I've been reading lots of Keats' books to my son at bedtime, and he loves them, and they bring back lots of fond memories of me checking them out of my local library when I was a child.<br /><br />I've also been getting into a lot of nonfiction books lately. I can't seem to really get into fiction anymore. I've been reading Alison Weir's historical biographies of the Tudor royal family; devouring books by Elizabeth Warren, the new Wall Street czar for the Obama administration; a great biography of Isaac Newton; "Three Cups of Tea" about Greg Mortensen's organization the Central Asia Institute and their mission to build schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan; "Autobiography of an Exexcution" by David Dow, a prominent death row attorney and University of Houston Law School professor; and "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan. I can't even count how many more books I have on reserve from the library loan at my tiny rural library! LOL!VanBeadshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08721173813057192461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13539586.post-20033728036951076052010-11-17T07:21:10.355-05:002010-11-17T07:21:10.355-05:00I can't remember what I've recently read (...I can't remember what I've recently read (I put them back on the bookshelf) but I'm right into Stephen King's Dome right now. No surprise it's very good!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06619324160781859181noreply@blogger.com