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Recent content by Bryan459

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    Olive Kitteridge, Train Dreams, and Tinkers

    Two Pulitzer fiction prize winners and 1 finalist and I can't find anything in my search in this forum? Is it possible nobody read these books? Or more likely I don't understand BnR's search function, yet. Anyway, these books seemed interesting to me so I'm putting them on my to read list...
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    Gravity.

    Forgive for Blind Side. :rofl
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    Gravity.

    Maybe this needs a bump. Or maybe I'm confused about how this forum works. I would also like to see some feedback on the movie, Gravity. Sandra Bullock has been my girlfriend (she doesn't know it) since forever and I would love to know this is a good movie. I also want to see it on something...
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    December 2012 eReader Recommendations

    My wife wants to get me an eReader. I don't want her to spend the money. She's going to get one anyway. I know this after 25 years of marriage. So I might as well tell her which one to get. I will use this reader indoors. I will use this reader outdoors. I will use it on my boat. I will...
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    Brick & mortar bookstores- R.I.P. & good riddance

    I will always be a fan of brick n mortar anything, bookstores, movie theaters, .... One thing I expect is that the clerks know how their store is laid out and how to find what I want. A clerk in a bookstore is not a career so I don't expect them to be the source of knowing what I should read...
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    Random Question..Keep posting

    Favorite way is to float about on a small boat on a favorite lake reading, swimming and snacking. That's the summer way to spend a lazy day. The winter way is to lay about reading a book by the fire and occasionally raiding the fridge. What is your favorite season and why?
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    Help me!! meaning of a passage

    It's about sex.
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    Random Question..Keep posting

    Best: The meal. Worst: Garlic Green Beans. Did your pet score big on leftovers or scraps from the TG dinner table?
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    Posting picture of book cover?

    OK, where are people obtaining their cover images? Standard google images seach, copy and save or some other source, e.g., something related to an isbn number ...? Thanks.
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    Random Question..Keep posting

    Since the world is ending on December 21st should I still set my alarm for work that day?
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    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    "Kentucky and Missouri as well as Maryland seemed poised on the knife edge of secession." 1861, not 2012!
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    Posting picture of book cover?

    How do you post a picture of a book cover in the book cover thread? Also is that the currently reading thread or just a book cover thread?
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    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    New Jersey. Mid 1970's. Going through heroin detoxification to avoid prison in Canada.
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    Is this the end for books?

    Reading a book versus a screen: Different reading devices, different modes of reading? Just some trivia from my ScienceDaily subscription. Reading books versus a screen ...
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