What book are you reading?

I'm reading "The Scolds Bridle" by Minette Walters

I'm reading "A Model Summer" about the fast paced world of modeling........starts quite young then she matures..........tres interesting........

I referred to this book on the Dissociative Disorders forum; it is non-fiction:

A Fractured Mind

by Robert B. Oxnam

It got mixed reader reviews on Amazon, including one from what I think of as a DID-Nazi

okie, I haven't read that one yet but I want to! Thanks for reminding me. It ought to be in the library by now.

Let me know how you like it.

I just adore the man and his writing and would have loved to have had him for a school teacher.

BrnEyedGrl,

I was given "Eat, Pray, Love" but haven't read it. I'm not at all into the pray part of it so I have avoided it.

Did you like it?

BrnEyedGrl, yeah the one I read was called Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas I think it was.....and there's another one titled something about a guy's letters to a girl (with names in there haha). I haven't read that one. I reallyed Suzanne's Diary though.

When you finished Cross did you get a chill right at the end? It totally freaked me out lol. My boyfriend got me Double Cross for Christmas. Took me longer to read then usual because life got busy but I finally finished it. Very good. Have you read any of the Women's Murder Club?

I'm reading two:

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, and, Spark.

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pachyderm said:
including one from what I think of as a DID-Nazi

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post"> That does sound "interesting" Pachyderm :-)

I just got a book of short stories, the title of which had me thinking of you (as I feel like you probably read Nietzsche?), The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and Other Odd Acquaintances, by Peter S. Beagle. I love short stories with unusual combinations like that; love Joan Aiken's short stories.

I picked a story to start with in the middle, "Julie's Unicorn," and it starts, "The note came with the entree, tucked neatly under the zucchini slices but carefully out of range of the seafood crepes."

I'm reading a book called The Secret right now, very interesting novel. It talks about how your thoughts can in turn effect your life and the things that happen in it. It's a very good mind stimulator too, gets you thinking more philisophically about life.

I'm reading _The Dancing Wu Li Masters_ by Gary Zukav. I think my brain may explode. Anyone know anything about quantum mechanics?

> I feel like you probably read Nietzsche?

As far as I remember I have never read anything by Nietzsche. I can be very ignorant in various areas.

> Anyone know anything about quantum mechanics?

Well, I used to know something about it. What does it have to do with _The Dancing Wu Li Masters_ ?

I guess Wu Li is energy. And Masters teach you what they know. And the dancing? I'll have to report back. So far, I've learned about cloud theory and how Newtonian theory doesn't work for sub atomic stuff. What I'm hoping to learn more about is the idea that we change something by studying it.

I didn't realize that physics and philosophy were so related.

> What I'm hoping to learn more about is the idea that we change something by studying it.

Well, to study a physical object you have to impinge on it with something, like light. For very small objects, the energy of the light quantum will affect the object noticeably, so that its condition after "studying" it will not be what it was before you studied it -- which is what you wanted to know. And it is not possible to reduce the effect of the light indefinitely, because the effects are "quantized" -- they come in discrete steps.

> I didn't realize that physics and philosophy were so related.

I don't think all the writing on the connections is all that intelligent.

Did you read the Popular Science Review, Doh? It's interesting about problems with the argument according to physicists:

http://www.brianclegg.net/reviews/rev120.htm

I'm lucky, one of my husband's hobbies is phyics and occasionally he'll read aloud to me and explain and answer questions as he goes. Richard Feynman is good, we read his Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman several years ago.

http://www.nanotech-now.com/feynman-books.htm

Ok. This is weird and by that I mean cool. I began the Wu Li Dance Book. Then last night I watched a special about Einstein and his Theory. Then I checked out Perna's links. That made me think of my son's grandfather who was a contemporary of Feynman, so I did some research which lead me into more info about nuclear physics, namely the Henry DeWolf Smyth Papers. And along the way I came upon a strange report called The Kratzer Report that I can't seem to verify or cross reference.

A book is a wondrous thing. And by that, I'm talking about synchronicity. How coincidental is it that the Einstein thing was on at this moment in time...which leads us to Carl Jung.

Kratzer's famous enough? "The Kratzer potential, a central force in molecular physics, is named in his honor."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Kratzer

Here's the Report, it was classified until just a few years ago:

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&...RL6Y8IVznRcFPo

Widdershins by Charles De Lint.

im reading, "my son eminem" its in insight to eminem throught is mums eyes...

The old man and the sea, Ernest Hemmingway.

I read The Old Man And The Sea...I thought it was the most boring book ever.
Now I'm reading Double Identity.

I'm reading/studying, "The Real Meaning of the Zodiac" by Dr. D. James Kennedy.

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I read The Old Man And The Sea...I thought it was the most boring book ever.
Now I'm reading Double Identity.

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yuh that was my reaction at first but then started to loose myself and try and see it through the eyes of the old man, I saw it as an excercise in trying to be in someone elses shoes and then it begins to really work on ones inner world.

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Widdershins by Charles De Lint.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post"> Oh, I love him!

I'm reading Watership Down for probably the 10th time this month, and also reading Maus, although I've read that a few times too.