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10-26-2007, 07:56 AM
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What are you reading?
It doesn't have to be about finance...just thought this might be a good way to get ideas about new books to read.
I just finished Motor Mouth by Janet Evanovich. Not as good as the Plum series, but still a fun read. I'm about to start The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell - I was really impressed by Blink, so I thought I would check out his first book. 
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10-26-2007, 11:16 AM
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I'm currently enjoying the Wall Street Journal's Complete Guide to investing (or something like that. I'm trying to remember it off the top of my head.) It even has pretty pictures. Oooh!
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10-26-2007, 12:22 PM
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Sadly I have no free time to read
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10-26-2007, 01:01 PM
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I'm reading Getting Started in a Financially Secure Retirement by Henry K. Hebeler. You can read most of its content for free at analyzenow.com.
I am also reading Venus on the Half-Shell by Philip Jose Farmer, Gardening When it Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times by Steve Solomon, and rereading The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need by Andrew Tobias.
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10-26-2007, 01:16 PM
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i'm currently reading a collection of short stories by travel writers.
Couse, i've been reading this for over a year, along with another dozen half-read books i can't seem to finish. i was such an avid reader in college and thru my 20s; somehow, my concentration and interest is not at that level anymore. I do read lots of magazines and may have subscriptions, at any given time, to: Money, Cottage Living, Cooking Light, Vegetarian Times, More, Better Homes & Garden, Birds 'n Bloom and my local weekly newspaper.
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10-26-2007, 02:13 PM
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How can you read so many books at once it would confuse me. I am trying to get through Every Landlords Legal Guide just finished Finding Fish the Antoine Fisher story. It was interesting and also the Landlord's Guide to finding great tenants.
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10-26-2007, 04:01 PM
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I'm trying the Suze Orman, but find her style a little much.
If you like fiction, I just read the best book by a Chicago (I think) writer, Mark Slouka called _The Visible World _. It's a haunting story about WWII in Prague. I wish I was getting a cut on this--I've been recommedning it to everyone who likes literary fiction!
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10-26-2007, 07:45 PM
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I just finished 'The Baby Boon, How Family-Friendly America Cheats the Childless'. I'm currently reading 'Your Money or Your Life' and 'The Tightwad Gazette, Vol I'.
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10-26-2007, 08:40 PM
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Right now, I'm reading a witty mystery called Death Without Company by Craig Johnson.
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10-26-2007, 08:42 PM
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"Ghosts: Washington's Most Famous Ghost Stories" --- I'm heading to DC on vacation with my siblings next month, and thought it would be fun to have some spooky tales to share with them at night.
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10-26-2007, 10:05 PM
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I'm still reading Jack, Knave, and Fool by Bruce Alexander. Haven't had time to finish because of other books for school. I'm also making my way (very slowly) through Auto Repair for Dummies. Hopefully I'll finish these books by the end of the year.
Cassandra
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10-27-2007, 09:10 AM
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I have Buffetolgy, our very well off business partner gave it to us along with a calculator and one of those investor magazines that has company profiles. I have to say it was difficult to get through. I should probably read it again.
I just finished The Reader which was very good. I bought it at garage sale. I am going to the library soon, I am going to use some of your suggestions.
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10-27-2007, 10:35 AM
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Finance - The intelligent investor by Ben Graham.
Cooking - Various books on decorative garnishes. Fiction - Devil may cry by Sherrilyn Kenyon. Maybe it's because I'm used to her Dark Hunter series, but I'm not very enthusiastic about this one.
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10-27-2007, 02:28 PM
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Books
Finance: The Automatic Millionaire, The Richest Man in Babylon, and The Wealthy Barber (finished each of these in a few hours)
Historical Fiction: A Rose for the Crown, and previous to that The Other Boleyn Girl. Next up is The Virgins Lover. These are all about English Kings and Queens and their fictional lives mixed with historical data. If anyone can recommend books in either of the above subjects, I'm all ears!
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10-28-2007, 08:35 AM
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Indian Art of Mexico and Central Americaby Miguel Covarrubias, 1937. If I want to read such a book, it really would be better to read a more modern one, but this was on my book shelf. While moving its shelf across the room, I couldn't help but sample a few a few captions in it, and I was hooked in. I was given this book from my brother-in-law's library when he died. For a book on archeology, it is appropriately dusty and musty.
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10-28-2007, 08:27 PM
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Bookie, I've heard radio interviews of the author of that book. I want to get a copy for my Dad. Are you enjoying it?
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