What's the latest book you've bought or read? Hard copy or e-book?

[Honeycombe8]

A post in the General Discussion about the vanishing of brick and mortar bookstores made me wonder if other people still read books, esp. hard copy books.

I have a Kindle, but I only download free stuff. I still buy hard copy books. I have tons of 'em.

So I was wondering...what was the last book you bought or read, when was that, and was it a hard copy or e-book?

Mine is:

I've bought several recently, but the most recent one was The Minus Man (fiction...movie with Owen Wilson), which I bought about a month ago. It's a hard copy book. Bought it from Amazon. BUT the three I bought before were hard copies from Target.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Hard Cover - Murakami's 1Q84. Just loved it....

We actually enjoy audio books as well and just finished listening to John Slattery (of Mad Men!) doing a spectacular job on Stephen King's Duma Key!

[alarimer]

43. I'm in the middle of that right now.

I bought the e-book because that's one long book!

I like to read very lengthy books, but I don't like to carry them around so much.

But relying on ebooks leaves me nothing to read in the bath.

[mia]

2. Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay

Wonderful book! I've read it twice.
Grew up in Maryland and love crabs!
http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Swimmers-Watermen-Crabs-Chesapeake/dp/0316923354

[Honeycombe8]

3. I'm from Louisiana and love crabs, too! Eating them, that is. nt

[mia]

5. Love louisiana crawdaddies -

didn't know they were famous for crab too.
Louisiana has so much to offer. Fascinating politics there.

[Honeycombe8]

7. They DO have crabs. I used to go crabbing. The politics...I might retire there....

amongst those of my culture (french), and the beauty, and the green grass and the rain, but for the politics. It's somethin' else.

I live in TX now. Not much better, altho I live in a blue county.

[alarimer]

44. For a while I had a blog called Beautiful Swimmer

Name after the Latin name of the blue crab genus, Callinectes

[Moondog]

4. Read - "The Prague Cemetary" by Umberto Eco

Bought - a particularly dry monograph on the design of unidirectional high frequency radio antennae. Trying to see what I can get away with in my neighborhood, that will actually work.

Oh - both hard copy, but I got the novel from the local public library. Bought the monograph.

[Honeycombe8]

9. Wow. Some of the things other people read, I don't even understand what they're

about or what the titles mean! Out of my league.

The Minus Man...a movie/book about a serial killer.

Before then...Rod Stewart's autobiography (more interesting than you'd think!), and John Meachum's book on Jefferson (yawn, but I'm working on it).

[Moondog]

13. Well, you've heard of

"The Name of the Rose", right? They made a movie out of it. Also a novel by Eco. This one is just later. He writes in Italian, and these are translations, so it's not like you'll see him on Leno.

The other thing would only be of interest to amateur radio nerds. If you're not into that, it wouldn't make much sense to you. It's pretty boring to most folks. Like me, I guess.

[Honeycombe8]

69. Well, I saw the PBS movie with Sean Connery. Didn't know it was a book. nt

[bigwillq]

6. Hard Cover: Catch Me by Lisa Gardner

I don't owe any e-books.
I always read hard books.
Have never bought an e-book.

[Flaxbee]

8. Here's an article about small bookstores emerging in the wake

of Barnes & Noble closures:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018300683

It appears the bookstore universe expands and contracts... in more populated areas, smaller bookstores may start popping up again.

[Honeycombe8]

10. Thx. Half Price Bookstores here is doing fine, I think. The Strand in NY is doing ok. Both have

online ordering, too.

[Generic Brad]

11. "The Jungle" by Sinclair Lewis

I am into the old open source e-books.

[Honeycombe8]

22. "Open source"? You mean the free ones?

I have a Kindle. I download only the free ones.

[Generic Brad]

70. Yeah. Free.

Free is good. And usually really, really old.

[Honeycombe8]

71. Shakespeare is old, but it still works for me. Free is my language. nt

[TuxedoKat]

12. Ebook is The Pillars of the Earth/HC is The Sinking of the Titanic

The ebook is by Ken Follett (historical fiction) and the hardcover by Logan Marshall. That one was written in 1912, shortly after the incident. I like history books, fiction or non-fiction.

[Curmudgeoness]

17. I am reading Follett too

but I am reading the new one now...Fall of Giants. Also a historic novel taking place prior to and during WWI. Pillars is one of my favorite all time books. Hope you are enjoying it as much as I did. I read it from the library and went out and bought myself a copy because I like to own my favorites.

[femmocrat]

19. I am reading the second in the series, "Winter of the World."

I have just started it... It picks up where Fall of Giants left off.

I still by hard cover books. I also just bought Madeline Albright's new autobiography.

[Curmudgeoness]

20. Wow, is that one out already?

I assume you read Fall of Giants then. I am enjoying it a great deal, and learning a lot about that time in history. That is what I love about historic novels----hold my attention and teach me.

[TuxedoKat]

28. If you like Pillars

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there is an older historical fiction trilogy set in the same time period (12th century) called The Heaven Tree by Edith Pargeter. One of the main characters is a master mason as well, building a church. I LOVED this series, especially the first book. It is on my top five list of all time favorite books. The author considered it her best work too. Just FYI! Do you like historical fiction? Maybe we should trade lists! It's my favorite genre. This is the first novel of Follett's that I've read and I'm enjoying it so no doubt will read more of his. What is the WWI era book you are reading? I want to read more from that era.

[Curmudgeoness]

46. I get lots of suggestions for historic novels

from the Fiction Group here on DU. I read and like all sorts of books, but always feel that I learn so much from historical fiction. Follett was a fluke, in that I have been a fan since his espionage novels like Key To Rebecca and Eye of the Needle. So I would read everything he wrote. All of a sudden, there is Pillars of the Earth! Everything (so far) from that book on is historic novels. I will add Pargeter to my list, but I am not sure if I will not keep comparing her to Follett if it is so much the same period and subject. But it never hurts to give it a try....I did love that time period.

I have few historical novels on my favorites list, but Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna is one for sure. As is Sinclair Lewis' The Jungle (although I suppose that one is historic now but not when it was written).

[TuxedoKat]

78. Historical Fiction Novels

I'll PM you a list of my favorites. If you ever get around to reading The Heaven Tree, please let me know how you like it, if you remember.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

39. Just finished Fall of Giants. I do love ken Follett. It was great and I learned

so much about WW2 - makes me want to learn more. It was one of those books I didn't want
to finish because I didn't want it to end.

My only criticism was that it took him a long time to write it (why he's so good) and I didn't remember all the stories from
the first book in the series. Maybe I should have skimmed it first.

[Curmudgeoness]

47. Fall of Giants is the first in the series.

It takes place during WWI. I am only now aware (through this thread) that the second is out. I would assume that is during WWII. It will also be a must-read for me. I know what you mean about having to wait for another book in a series and how you forget too many characters....usually an author is aware of that and will prod you to remind you of them.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

52. Of course ! You are right, I read the second (WW2). Well your timing is perfect start

the second as soon as you can. It's not quit as intense as the first....more of a slow burner...in a wonderful way.

I think this is very interesting - how he goes about writing a novel, from his website titled "Masterclass"
http://ken-follett.com/masterclass/

[Curmudgeoness]

54. Interesting insight into Follett.

And this is exactly why I like him:

"My aim in constructing sentences is to make the sentence utterly easy to understand, writing what I call transparent prose. I’ve failed dreadfully if you have to read a sentence twice to figure out what I meant."

I don't have to work too hard, but his novels are always well researched and I learn a lot from them.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

55. yes...and I immediately thought of the opposite - John Le Carre IMHO nt

[a la izquierda]

42. Pillars=awesome

[mokawanis]

14. I bought a paperback at a used-book store last week

I bought a copy of Dispatches by Michael Herr. Got it for two bucks. I keep having to replace it because friends "borrow" every copy I buy.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

15. I buy several books a month

Hard copy and ebooks. Latest hard copy purchased "Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation (not available as an ebook or I would have bought it)

ebook "Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam

Last book read completed "America's Stolen Narrative" by Robert Parry (ebook)

Currently reading "Slavery by Another Name" (hard copy)

I have so many hard copy books to waiting to be read, I try force myself to alternate between the Kindle and a hard copy.

The brick and mortar book stores are being devoured by Amazon both for hard copy and ebooks. The large chains happily devoured the small retailers, and it is now their turn to be devoured. I supported my local Barnes & Nobel for years, but the prices on Amazon are so much better, and since my last move, B & N is no longer just 5 minutes away.

I read something several months ago that said people are reading more since the advent of e-readers. I know I certainly enjoy mine. I've decided, going forward, I will only buy hard copy books that are not available as ebooks

[Honeycombe8]

23. I have a Kindle, but I download only the free books.

I downloaded a series of Jeeves and Wooster books, a long story written by a freed slave, Shakespeare, things like that.

I prefer to buy hard copies, so I can keep it and write in it and refer to it in the future.

I like bargains, so I buy from our local brick and mortar Half Price Bookstores (great deals...I've bought all my Agatha Christies there). Online I order from Amazon (I prefer used or a steep sale), but Half Price Bookstores is attempting to do some online business, so I've bought a book from them that way. But it's not like the experience of going to the brick and mortar...it's amazing. A huge store filled with used books, by category. It makes me salivate. They have VHS tapes and DVDs, too. And comfy chairs. It's wonderful, adn I always spend more than I planned.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

25. I loved bookstores...new used it didn't matter

I remember when there were 3 at the nearest mall. Then 2, then 1 and finally none, but B & N had opened a stand alone outside of the Mall. My kids knew any trip to the Mall meant a trip to at least one bookstore. The used bookstores by me were only okay, but I frequently checked there before buying new. When in doubt, the kids give me B & N gift cards for special occasions. In the 12 years since my divorce I've given away or donated about 2,000 books ...used to have a big house, with a library and floor to ceiling bookcases.

I no longer read fiction and didn't buy my Kindle until very recently... most of the non-fiction I am interested in is now available. When they first came out that wasn't true. I prefer to own my books and actually take pleasure in the purchase. I lead such a simple life, I can indulge myself with books. I will, however, check out Half Price Bookstores . Thanks for the tip.

[TuxedoKat]

30. Slavery by Another Name

I haven't read this, but want to. I just ordered a used copy of a book called, The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901‑1969 by Pete Daniels because there was a recent thread on DU about slavery and it reminded me of an article I read years ago re same and that I'd like to read more about it. Here is the article which you might find interesting too:

http://www.greatlinx.com/peonage.htm

The other books you mention sound good too -- will check them out. I'm with you on the e-reader, only buy hard copies when they aren't available as ebooks.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

45. Thanks for the link! n/t

[Curmudgeoness]

16. Ken Follett's Fall of Giants and

Colleen McCullough's The First Man In Rome, I am going back and forth with these ones----hard cover books from the library. And that is why I have been going back and forth. I had to get on the reserve list for Fall of Giants and it was not renewable since others were on the list, so when I didn't finish it in time, I had to go to the end of the list again. I will finish it soon and be back in Rome.

I do not do ebooks.....I read enough on a computer here and other news sites, so I do not want to do my enjoyment reading on a computer too. LOVE real books.

[littlemissmartypants]

18. THE CHEMISTRY OF LOVE

Michael R. Liebowitz, M.D.

I had a time trying to find it. Was able to buy it for $8, it originally sold for $2.95 and it looks like it has been abused but the words still read.

Love, Peace and Shelter. lmsp

[pipi_k]

21. Right now I'm just getting to the

end of "The Bialy Pimps" by Johnny B. Truant.

It's a sort of satire on the stupidity of the average American consumer.

Anyway, it's on my Kindle. Got it for free, I think, through Pixel of Ink.


Before that it was "1,000 Years of Annoying The French", by Stephen Clarke. Also on Kindle, forget the price.

Excerpts from the reviews:

"Tremendously entertaining" The Sunday Times.

"Relentlessly and energetically rude about almost every aspect of French history and culture" Mail on Sunday.

"Anyone who's ever encountered a snooty Parisian waiter or found themselves driving on the Boulevard Peripherique during August will enjoy this book" Daily Mail.


I found it very entertaining and amusing at the same time I learned some things about French history I did not know.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

24. I don't read e-books

Too much eye strain. I spend too much time staring at a computer screen as it is. I only read books that are printed on paper.

I mostly only read textbooks, but recently instead of watching TV before bed I've been treating myself to a bit of light reading from my large collection of old paperbacks- many of which I've been meaning to get to for years. Just finished A Clockwork Orange. On deck is A Canticle For Leibowitz (Miller) and in the cue are Heart of Darkness (Conrad) The Spy (Cooper) and a book of HP Lovecraft stories.

[Honeycombe8]

27. I read A Clockwork Orange years ago. I still have it (somewhere).

The Kindle simulates book text. It's actually easy on the eyes, not like a computer screen at all. If you get a Kindle e-reader (not the Kindle Fire, which is a tablet and not an e-reader, altho you can read books on it, too).

The Kindle has some advantages...you don't have to worry about holding pages open, and you can hold it with one hand. It weighs only a few ounces. Many books (like the classics) are free. But it's not like a book, of course. Both have their advantages. I get free books with Kindle. One of the disadvantages of my Kindle, which is an old version, is that it doesn't have book illustrations. The newer ones may, though.

You might want to keep the Kindle in mind for older relatives, too. I bought one for a relative in a nursing home, where she had no room to store books. She has use of only one hand...no problem with a Kindle. She doesn't have much $...many books on Kindle are free, so no problem. I got a Kindle because I got her one, and I wanted to have one mainly so I could help her set hers up long distance, and learn to use it, so I could help her with it.

But the Kindle is no substitute for a real book. I have books from decades ago that I pick up occasionally and read just a part of (like On Walden Pond by Thoreau, or Katharine Hepburn's autobiography----with amazing pics).

[hay rick]

29. Bought "Beyond Outrage" by Robert Reich yesterday from B/N.

Current reading: "Basket Case", Hiaasen, "Bailout", Barofsky, and "The Soprano State", Ingle and McClure. The first two are on my Kindle, and "The Soprano State" is a hardcover loaned to me by my brother in law and is my current bathroom reader.

I also recently downloaded "Child 44" by Tom Rob Smith and I have "Red Ink", by David Wessel waiting to be read on my Kindle. Last book I finished was "The Lost Get-Back Boogie" by James Lee Burke.

[Xyzse]

31. Memory of Light by Robert Jordan

I could have gotten it cheaper from Amazon but I bought it at Barnes and Noble.

It is so hard to buy books nowadays.
I miss Borders which was three blocks away from me back then.

[uriel1972]

32. Soft cover

The Holy Reich by Richard Steigmann-Gall. It's about the relationship between Christianity and the Nazi's. Very interesting.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

33. Life of Pi on ebook.

I cheated and saw the movie first. The book was very good, too.

[Puzzledtraveller]

34. Hard copy, The Wind Through The Keyhole

I collect books so there are no e-readers for me, don't own one. I despise them to be honest.

[TM99]

36. I rarely read fiction anymore

however, my girlfriend has been pushing me to begin reading the Dark Tower series. I just purchased this hardcover for her for St. Valentine's Day.

Maybe I should pick up the first one.

[Honeycombe8]

64. Looks good. I love Stephen King. nt

[TM99]

35. I have a 10" Android tablet for eBooks

but I still have a massive library of hardback and paperback books. I am a voracious reader and will always be a bibliophile.

Recent purchases that I have read or am now reading within the last 2 months include:

1) Counterpoint by Walter Piston (hardback)

2) Binding Words: Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages (Magic in History Series) by Don Skemer (paperback)

3) Living on the Edge: The Mythical, Spiritual, and Philosophical Roots of Social Marginality by Joseph Goodbread (paperback)

4) Elves in Anglo-Saxon England: Matters of Belief, Health, Gender and Identity (Anglo-Saxon Studies) by Alaric Hall (paperback)

5) Prolog and Natural-Language Analysis by Fernando C. N. Pereira (paperback)

6) Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before by Jean Twenge (Kindle eBook)

7) The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga by Bhadantacariya Buddhaghosa (hardcover)

8) Timeless Reality : Symmetry, Simplicity, and Multiple Universes by Victor J. Stenger (hardcover)

At least 60% of the works I read are not even published or will never be published as eBooks. That will have a huge negative impact on cultural literacy in time.

[Honeycombe8]

87. You must be edumicated. :) nt

[TM99]

92. A wee bit.

I blame my parents entirely.

[MrSlayer]

37. Prophet of the Dead by Richard Lee Byers.

Last Tuesday. Paperback. I never buy ebooks. Not interested.

[csziggy]

38. The Men Who Would be King by Josephine Ross

About the suitors of Queen Elizabeth I. Hard copy - I think my husband bought it at Books A Million. Next I may read the one he bought about Grover Cleveland and his illicit affair.

That's what I like about real books - you don't have to have a device to read them, they will still be around no matter how long you wait to read them, and they lie around the house reminding you that you haven't read them yet - or that you have and how much you enjoyed them.

[Tobin S.]

40. Great Jobs for Business Majors by Stephen Lambert

I've got a ways to go before graduation, and I think I already know what I want to do, but it doesn't hurt to look around. I bought the book from Amazon. Other recent purchases have been text books that I bought directly from the publishers.

[a la izquierda]

41. I bought a bread making book in hard copy...

and a couple of books on the medieval period in my Kindle. I rarely buy hard copy anymore, but only because of my job. I have hundreds of books for work (professor), and simply cannot stomach packing them anymore.

[Duer 157099]

48. Do audiobooks count?

If so, Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks. Great book.

[Honeycombe8]

65. You bet! I just forgot about the medium for books. I've thought about getting one or two...

to play while driving to work.

[womanofthehills]

91. I'm listening to "Hallucinations" too

It's an interesting book but I wish he wouldn't go into such detail on individual hallucinations.

[geardaddy]

49. I'm reading "Life of Pi"

e-Book. It's my first e-book.

[kentauros]

50. Two ebooks, and one print book:

Still reading all of these, though I'm already using the bread recipes

ebooks
Build Your Own PC Do-It-Yourself For Dummies
Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes A Day

print book
Mystic Cookbook - The Secret Alchemy of Food
by Denise Linn & Meadow Linn
(It's available as an ebook, but the color photographs are important to the text.)

I do hope that OLED technology advances enough to allow ebook readers to be large-format so as to replace these big yet colorful (and bulky!) books like cookbooks. That and replace all kitchen cabinet doors with reader screens (for the recipes and photos of what that dish is supposed to look like when finished )

[Honeycombe8]

66. Can bread really take only five minutes a day? Come on, now. Don't pull my leg! nt

[kentauros]

72. It is a misleading title.

What it means is only five minutes of actual effort or work involved. It requires that you make up a wet dough you keep in the refrigerator, then pull off a one-pound piece as needed (refrigerated dough only last two weeks, though you'll use it up faster than that.) Then shape/form it, let it rest and pop into the oven. The whole process takes about an hour, with the resting and baking times.

I just need to go ahead and use those dough buckets. I haven't made the main recipe in a couple of weeks. And I need to practice on the forming part. I think I overwork the dough (I'm used to standard hand-kneading techniques) and it often ends up a little dense.

It does make good bread, and is worth a look

[Honeycombe8]

73. Mmmmm. Sounds wonderful. nt

[kentauros]

74. The book has been out since 2007,

so there are also a few threads in C&B on it, if you look. Once I make up the next batch, I'm going to play with flatbreads

[dr.strangelove]

51. World War Z

Zombie book soon to be a Brad Pitt film. Love the zombies!

[rrneck]

53. Two at the same time.

Kindle: A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought Amazon

Hardback: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking Amazon

[Myrina]

56. Kate Mosse - "The Winter Ghosts" & now reading Shakespeare - "Richard III"

I hard cover books. Computer screens make me go A.D.D. so I could never read a whole e-book or take an online class. Simply cannot resist the urge to scroll/click/whatever.

[TrogL]

57. The Grey trilogy

[Bertha Venation]

58. Half-Assed: A Weight Loss Memoir

I love that title.

[NewJeffCT]

59. Recently re-read "The Eye of the World" by Robert Jordan

I started the series back in the 90s, but then it got bogged down in the middle of the series and I stopped - then, Jordan passed away and I figured I'd never go back to it. However, Brandon Sanderson picked up the series and brought it to its conclusion, so I decided to go back and start it over from the beginning so I'd remember it all.

I'm most of the way through book 2 in the series - "The Great Hunt" now.

I figure by the time I get through Book 12 (the final book), it will be a good 6 months from now, and we'll hopefully have a better idea when "The Winds of Winter" by George R.R. Martin will be released.

[GoneOffShore]

60. So many books, so little time: Five or six on the go right now.

Momofuku by David Chang - The story of his restaurant and some of his recipes - excellent stuff. http://momofuku.com - Amazing restaurants and he treats his staff really well, now. He used to scream a lot.

Bright Sided - How Positive Thinking is Undermining America - Barbara Ehrenreich - http://www.barbaraehrenreich.com/brightsided.htm

The Art of Fermentation - Sandor Katz - Going to learn to make yogurt and cheese and sausages.

Perdido Street Station - China Mieville - Dystopian novel - very dark

Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel - Booker Prize winner - Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn - Amazing stuff.

All in hardback.
Plus I'm trying to keep up with the New Yorker, New York Times and the fact that "SOMEONE IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET!!"

And learning Photoshop and French.

[Honeycombe8]

67. Bien! Tu es occupe!

[hibbing]

61. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain

Hi,
It was ebook from the library. I found it very very interesting. Includes information on children, school, work, relationships and the introverts and extroverts. A bit academic in some spots, but still very interesting.

Peace

[didact]

84. Got the hardcover of this too...haven't read it yet.

eom

[Spike89]

62. Wool omnibus version (ebook only)

I've got a Kobo reader (digital ink--no eyestrain), a Kindle Fire (good, not great book reading), a Samsung Tab 2-7" (better reading, but not on a par with digital ink), and of course my computers (hate reading for pleasure on them).

Despite all the readers (I also have access to and have read books on a Kindle paperwhite, Nook (e-ink), and the Nook HD) I am still a big believer in print--I'm the book acquisitions editor for a mid-size non-fiction publisher and although nearly all our books are now done as ebooks and paper, paper still accounts for ~90% of sales.

[Honeycombe8]

68. Paper still accounts for 90% of sales? Now, that's interesting. Maybe because most people

don't have e-readers.

[Spike89]

98. Yeah, book type plays a big part too

My "feel" is that people are "buying" free or low-cost fiction, and maybe some light non-fiction for their devices, but when it comes to professional or technical type books, they want the hard copy. Simplified - ereaders are for beach books, paper is still for that quasi-reference book you need.
The pricing for non-trade (specialized) books is pretty much a wash between ebook and paper formats. For a trade or mass-market book, the somewhat fixed cost of editing, design, etc. can be spread over 20,000+ books that are being sold. For niche publishers, the print run may be about 2000--and the editing costs may be even higher. Actual printing is cheap (and converting to the various ebook formats isn't free either).
Many of the books we do cost $40, and we need to charge that price for the electronic version or the paper version--at least for now, people seem to feel that for $40 they should get a physical object.

[graywarrior]

63. The Undertaker, e-book.

It was free and it's hilarious.

[DearHeart]

75. Paperback-"The Winter Palace" by Eva Stachniak

Don't like E-readers.

[link:http://www.amazon.com/Winter-Palace-Novel-Catherine-Great/dp/0553386891/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360911429&sr=1-1&keywords=the+winter+palace+by+eva+stachniak|

[Petrushka]

76. In the past month, I purchased four "like new" hardback books through Amazon:

Bound to Last: 30 Writers on Their Most Cherished Book edited by Sean Manning

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

The Voices of Glory by Davis Grubb

You Never Believe Me, and Other Stories by Davis Grubb

Also: From Smashwords, I purchased my first e-book (to read online---since I don't have a Kindle---or to make a printout if I'd like a hard copy): Poems That Make You Laugh by Ernest Slyman

[hobbit709]

77. 15 Dangerously Mad Projects for the Evil Genius

[kentauros]

80. If you don't know about this blog, then you do now!

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories

[CountAllVotes]

79. The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

A great read no doubt.

More about it here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5128581



I bought a hard cover copy of this book and plan to keep it.

[RobinA]

81. Currently

reading e-book, The Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks. Last book was paperback Middlemarch, but I bought that a long time ago. Before that, e-book 11/22/63 by Stephen King. I like the Kindle, but I much prefer real books. But I got the Kindle to cut down on the amount of books I have, too many, so I kind of make myself buy e-books for fiction most of the time. Classics and and anything work-related I buy hard copy because I want to keep them.

[S.A.M]

82. Waging peace Neil Young

Hardback! the only way to fly. It's a good autobiographical book about his childhood and his days in Buffalo Springfield and C.S.N&Y. The problem with this book is that Neil meanders. One moment he is talking about a 1977 concert with CSN&Y then will change the subject about him in a hospital as a little boy. this book id definitely a stream of consciousness. I guess you can expect that from an artist.

[didact]

83. Absolutely Small: How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday World

eom

[Honeycombe8]

86. Well, that puts my "The Minus Man" a fiction about a serial killer, to shame.

[didact]

103. Not at all....

I love fiction, thrillers, etc...even fantasy. I never in a million years thought I'd like 'fantasy' books, but A Song of Ice and Fire totally got me!

[Honeycombe8]

105. I'll have to check that one out.

I do like mysteries (Agatha Christie or whatever), thrillers. But I'll check out A Song of Ice & Fire & see if I find that interesting.

I like histories and biographies and true crime, mainly.

But science? Hmmmm....I don't think that would hold my attention.

[Broken_Hero]

85. Re-read Power Concedes Nothing by Connie Rice

I bought it about a year ago, and reread it the other day. I haven't bought a book for a while, the books I need to look for are some S Kings, but money is tight, just dumped 1500 in a steering wheel column fuck up on my malibu....

[Broken_Hero]

104. Last book I read was

North By Northwestern A Seafaring Family on the Deadly Alaskan Waters, by Captain Sig Hanson and Mark Sundeen. I like the Deadliest Catch so I gave Sig's book a chance, not bad. I hope the Capt's of the Time Bandit do a book...

[Honeycombe8]

88. MY...Look at the varied & interesting books DUers are reading! Pretty interesting. nt

[Tom Ripley]

89. The Great American Pin-up Book (Taschen) and Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada

[womanofthehills]

90. "Flight Behavior" by Barbara Kingsolver

A novel set in Appalachia about climate change. Actually, I'm listening to it on my Nano - downloaded from Audible.

[tabbycat31]

93. i bought a Kindle Fire in November

And truthfully, I prefer reading on it to the paper book. It's easier on my eyes, and much easier to read in bed with.

However, I haven't figured out my library's ebook system yet, so any book the library has, I get the paper one. I'm currently reading Nixonland. I'm a campaign staffer and political geek, so most of the books I read are related to that. I did download some of the free ebooks, and when I hit the road is when I will read them.

Having the Kindle will make reading so much easier for me when I am on the road. I usually don't read much when I'm on the road because I don't want to pack a bunch of books, but the Kindle will help.

[Honeycombe8]

94. I have a Kindle keyboard, which I thought would be handy while traveling.

No shortage of reading material while flying, anymore.

[avebury]

95. The Lost Labyrinth and The Eden Legacy by Will Adams

These are the 3rd and 4th books in a series with Daniel Knox has the lead character.

Knox is an archaeologist in Egypt. I really liked the first two books. The second book, The Exodus Quest, has a great scene with a discussion on the exodus from Egypt by two of the characters that would send the religious fruitcakes over the age.

[sheshe2]

96. I get most of my books from the library...

however I bought: of Thee I Sing by Barack Obama.
After I read it...I plan to give it to my great nephew. I also give my "greats" Barnes and Noble gift cards at christmas.

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[murielm99]

97. I went to our local independent bookstore

today, because the library was closed. I had several books on hand, but I wanted something else. I needed a change.

I bought three science fiction books, paperback. I usually buy hardcovers, if I buy. When I do buy paperbacks, I often donate them to the library when my husband and I have both read them. We have way too many books at home. Storage is an issue.

I love our bookstore. They have great coffee, too, and live music on Saturday nights. We are going back there this weekend for the music.

[sakabatou]

99. Audiobook: "De-Converted" by Seth Andrews

[Z_I_Peevey]

100. Kind of Kin by Rilla Askew

Immigration issues and how they affect one Oklahoma family. It's getting very good reviews nationally.

Hardback copy. Old school, baby.

[Burma Jones]

101. I'm halfway through "Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline" by Morris Berman

For e-book, I last downloaded:

"Teach Your Children Well" by Madeline Levine

[nolabear]

102. Three at a time, all ebooks. Because I'm impulsive.

Catfish Alley, about a woman who is researching a tourist oriented home tour of the black folks' history in a thinly disguised Columbus MS and learns more than she bargained for, and two short story collections, Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell (strange and wonderful stories about transformation) and The Tenth of December by George Saunders, who has a fascinating, disturbing voice.

I'm wanting to write some short stories again and getting back into reading them is a great gateway for imagining the form.

I buy both ebooks and hard copies but I tend to buy nonfiction or texts in hard copy, as well as books I really treasure. I like carrying a bunch of books with me though and being able to buy as I am inspired, so ebooks work for me.