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Giving Wind-up Bird Chronicle a break at the moment and reading Farewell, my lovely. By Ramond Chandler. So far, I am really enjoying it!
 
Blackden by Duncan Mclean.
The first few pages were rough for me because he is a Scottish author and I wasn't used to the lingo, but I quickly caught on. I'm enjoying it now.
 
Read Any Good Math Lately? by David Whitin & Sandra Wilde

As a homeschooling mom, one of my weaknesses has always been math. I'll admit to hating the subject in school, starting at about the 6th grade. The other day in a yahoo group someone mentioned being impressed with a website/math program called LivingMath @ www.livingmath.net. When I went to the site, I found lots of lists of great books to read for myself and my kids to encourage us to enjoy math and get over math phobia. The first book I received from the library through Ill was Read Any Good Math Lately. It's full of book suggestions and practical ideas and examples of how to implement a natural method of learning to use math in everyday circumstances. Perhaps using a few of these "living books" and talking about them will help my kids see that math is more than a textbook subject to get through. Seems to me this would go far in answering the battle cry of the frustrated math student, "But how will I ever USE this stuff in REAL life?"
 
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. I'm 40 pages in and I love it already - it reminds me of Michael Marshall Smith's sci-fi novels.

A book that spends the first 20 pages on a guy who's desperately trying to get a pizza delivered on time can't be all bad, can it?

Cheers
 
Martin said:
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. I'm 40 pages in and I love it already - it reminds me of Michael Marshall Smith's sci-fi novels.

A book that spends the first 20 pages on a guy who's desperately trying to get a pizza delivered on time can't be all bad, can it?

Cheers
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Snow Crash was great :)
 
Last week i started to read Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett, so far i really enjoy it, but i don't consider it the best of the Discworld series.
 
Started my second Val McDermid book - Report for Murder but I'm not as keen on this one.... not very far into it yet so I'll keep at it
 
Just Started 'Kafka on the Shore' by Haruki Murakami

It's my second Murakami book 'The Wind-up bird chronicles' being the first which i enjoyed a lot.

Cabrasopa :cool:
 
Wicked left me feeling very very dirty, like I watched a Disney porn. *Shudder*

The Amazing Maurice and his educated rodents by Terry Pratchett
 
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