What Are You Reading?

[heil hitler]

At America's Gate: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era

How many times have you cried while reading it?

 

[Unkotare]

At America's Gate: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era

How many times have you cried while reading it?

Why would I, dope?

 

[heil hitler]

At America's Gate: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era

How many times have you cried while reading it?

Why would I, dope?

That big old bleeding heart in your chest.....mmmmmm....my feeeels.
My suggestion to you once you get through with your current text.

"Too Many Asians"
J. Robbins

Fantastic read and quite prophetic considering when it was written.

 

[Unkotare]

At America's Gate: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era

How many times have you cried while reading it?

Why would I, dope?

That big old bleeding heart in your chest..........

Go sleep it off, dope.

 

[Wyatt earp]

I seem to be reading a lot of non-fiction lately...

you do! i don't love non-fiction as much. i find that when i have the time to read, i prefer disappearing into other realities.

although Lincoln is in my "to read" pile.

Finally you post normal, how come your not like that always?

.

 

[Wyatt earp]

At America's Gate: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era

How many times have you cried while reading it?

Why would I, dope?

That big old bleeding heart in your chest.....mmmmmm....my feeeels.
My suggestion to you once you get through with your current text.

"Too Many Asians"
J. Robbins

Fantastic read and quite prophetic considering when it was written.

Lol

 

[SeaGal]

 

[Marianne]

Blueberry Muffin Murder (Hannah Swensen #3)
by Joanne Fluke (Goodreads Author)

Preparations are underway for Lake Eden, Minnesota's annual Winter Carnival--and Hannah Swensen is set to bake up a storm at her popular shop, The Cookie Jar. Too bad the honor of creating the official Winter Carnival cake went to famous lifestyle maven Connie Mac--a half-baked idea, in Hannah's opinion. She suspects Connie Mac is a lot like the confections she whips up on her cable TV cooking show--sweet, light, and scrumptious-looking, but likely to leave a bitter taste in your mouth.

Hannah's suspicions are confirmed when Connie Mac's limo rolls into town. Turns out America's "Cooking Sweetheart" is bossy, bad-tempered, and downright domineering. Things finally boil over when Hannah arrives at The Cookie Jar to find the Winter Carnival cake burnt to a crisp—and Connie Mac lying dead in her pantry, struck down while eating one of Hannah's famous blueberry muffins.

Next thing Hannah knows, the police have declared The Cookie Jar's kitchen crime scene off-limits. She's a baker without an oven--and the Carnival is right around the corner. Hannah's only alternative is to cook up a plan to save her business--by finding the killer herself... (less)

 

[Marianne]

The Day Before Tomorrow
by Gérard Klein, P.J. Sokolowski (translator)

The federation considered itself a technological Utopia-and the innumerable planets under its sway were guaranteed stability by virtue of the time-change teams. For whenever a planetary historian located evidence in the past of any newly found world that it might evolve into a possible menace, a team of seven would be sent to tamper with that world's history.
But the seven men that went to Ygone encountered a fate no theorist had projected. They met with immediate ambush, they met with a strangely peaceful culture that could not be fathomed, and they finally were confronted with all the contradictions and temporal knots that the whole system of time-change had to imply. (less)

 

[iamwhatiseem]

We are Legion (We are Bob)

A unique story. Bob a wealthy software company owner, for the fun of it signs an agreement to cryo-freeze his body when he dies. He dies. And he "wakes up" over a century later...without a body. His memories have been downloaded as AI in a computer system. In the future, cryosicles have no rights. He is owned by the state. A virtual slave if you will. But Bob has other plans.

 

[Marianne]

Murder Without Icing (John Putnam Thatcher #14)
by Emma Lathen

John Putnam Thatcher, senior vice-president of the Sloan Guaranty Trust, received the news that his bank was to sponsor hockey telecasts with his usual equanimity. After all, the cellar-dwelling New York Huskies were nothing to get excited about. But that was before the Huskies hit an incredible winning streak, shot into first place, and created a wave of hockey hysteria. Even this Thatcher could have ignored - if it hadn't been for the two corpses that were churned up in its wake!

 

[frigidweirdo]

Never really noticed this before, but now I've read it, I'm wondering why voices is plural, is this the inner voices too? Seems so, the amount of inner voices that come across in posts.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Right now I'm reading a book about the end of the Ottoman Empire, well written, but it's on my Kindle and I don't get to see the name or the author so I don't remember it. My previous book was the fourth trilogy (well it has 4 books in this "trilogy") from Robin Hobb, the Rain Wild Chronicles. I'd recommend Robin Hobb to anyone, it's fantasy but so realistic that you don't really notice the fantasy, and she (yes, she's a she, it's not her real name either) really gets inside the head of the characters.

The first trilogy has a boy and a wolf and over time the boy becomes more wolf and the wolf more boy, and she carries it off like not many could.

 

[Marianne]

The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years
by Edward Klein



Death was merciful to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, for it spared her a parent's worst nightmare: the loss of a child. But if Jackie had lived to see her son, JFK Jr., perish in a plane crash on his way to his cousin's wedding, she would have been doubly horrified by the familiar pattern in the tragedy. Once again, on a day that should have been full of joy and celebration, America's first family was struck by the Kennedy Curse.

In this probing expose, renowned Kennedy biographer Edward Klein--a bestselling author and journalist personally acquainted with many members of the Kennedy family--unravels one of the great mysteries of our time and explains why the Kennedys have been subjected to such a mind-boggling chain of calamities.

 

[Marianne]

Paydirt
Rita Mae Brown, Author, Wendy Wray, Illustrator, Sneaky Pie Brown, With Bantam Books
The first word of this fourth collaboration of Rita Mae Brown and her cat (following Murder at Monticello) is, appropriately, the italicized ``Cozy.'' The dog days of summer in sleepy Crozet, Va.-where postmistress Mary Minor Haristeen, aka Harry, lives with her tiger cat, Mrs. Murphy, and her Welsh Corgi, Tee Tucker-are disrupted by a computer virus and the arrival of a drugged-up biker looking for a woman named Malibu. A few days later, the biker turns up murdered. Meanwhile, the computer virus seems to have hit Crozet National Bank, which suffers an inexplicable $2-million shortfall. Harry's stumbling onto a small clue to the bank troubles inadvertently leads to another murder, which is quickly followed by a third. One detects coauthor Sneaky Pie's self-serving little paw as Mrs. Murphy-helped by Tee Tucker and their pal Pewter, the grocer's fat cat-not only leads Harry to the truth about the murders and the money but also rescues her from the killer. As usual, the Browns have fun with a supporting cast of eccentric characters (both two- and four-legged), whose foibles and quirks flavor what is the best Mrs. Murphy adventure yet.

 

[Marianne]

Shadows of Lancaster County
by Mindy Starns Clark

Following up on her extremely popular Gothic thriller, Whispers of the Bayou, Mindy Starns Clark offers another suspenseful stand?alone mystery full of Amish simplicity, dark shadows, and the light of God?s amazing grace.Anna thought she left the tragedies of the past behind when she moved from Pennsylvania to California, but when her brother vanishes from the genetics lab where he works, Anna has no choice but to head back home. Using skills well?honed in Silicon Valley, she follows the high?tech trail her brother left behind, a trail that leads from the simple world of Amish farming to the cutting edge of DNA research and gene mapping.

 

[Marianne]

Abba
by Evelyn Underhill

The title of the book, Abba, is the term used in more than one place in the New Testament for addressing God as Father and it is with the ‘Our Father’ prayer that these meditations are concerned. At first sight it might be thought impossible to say anything fresh on something so familiar to all Christians as the Lord’s Prayer. Yet the inexhaustible depths of meaning to be found in it may, by the very fact of familiarity, all too easily escape notice and understanding.

 

[Marianne]

Past Forgetting: My Love Affair With Dwight D. Eisenhower
by Kay Summersby Morgan

Here, at long last, is the true story of the passionate, moving secret love affair between General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, and Kay Summersby, the beautiful English fashion model who became his driver in wartime London, his staff aide, by his side through every crisis and high-level meeting of the war -- and the woman he loved.

Written by Kay Summersby Morgan herself, Past Forgetting is the intimate account of a relationship that began, haltingly, in 1942, when Kay was assigned to drive the then unknown two-star general, and ended in heartbreak when Ike, victor and war hero, returned home to face a disapproving General Marshall, the adoring American public, Mrs. Eisenhower -- and the possibility of becoming President of the United States.

 

[Marianne]

Cure for the Common Life


"Sweet spot." Golfers understand the term. So do tennis players. Ever swung a baseball bat or paddled a Ping-Pong ball? If so, you know the oh-so-nice feel of the sweet spot. Life in the sweet spot rolls like the downhill side of a downwind bike ride. But you don't have to swing a bat or a club to know this. What engineers give sports equipment, God gave you.A zone, a region, a life precinct in which you were made to dwell. He tailored the curves of your life to fit an empty space in his jigsaw puzzle. And life makes sweet sense when you find your spot. But if you're like 87 percent of workers, you haven't found it. You don't find meaning in your work--or you're one of the 80 percent who don't believe their talents are used. What can you do? You're suffering from the common life, and you desperately need a cure. Best-selling author Max Lucado has found it. In Cure for the Common Life he offers practical tools for exploring and identifying your own uniqueness, motivation to put your strengths to work, and the perfect prescription for finding and living in your sweet spot for the rest of your life.

 

[Marianne]

Death Takes Passage


History is repeating itself on hundred years later on Alaska's breathtaking Inside Passage. Re-creating the famous Voyage of 1897, the Spirit of '98 is setting sail from Skagway, Alaska, en route to Seattle, Washington, carrying two tons of Yukon gold. Alaska State Trooper Alex Jensen and his love, famous female "musher" Jessie Arnold, are among the excited participants. The Grim Reaper is a passenger as well.Dressed in period coustoume, Gold Rush buff Alex Jensen is only too happy to be representing the Troopers on this historic journey through a giant maze of scenic straits, harbors, and inlets. But the strange disappearance -- and probable death -- of a crew member pulls Alex rudely back to the present. As the only law officer in the vicinity, it is now his duty to unravel a twisted skein of lies, greed, and lethal shipboard secrets -- before the Spirit's fateful encounter with murderers abroad a stolen ketch writes a grim new chapter in Alaska's history.