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What Are You Reading Right Now?
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This is a group where you can tell us what you're reading and what you think of it to give others some ideas. Your choices can be fiction, non-fiction, articles, books, blogs, whatever. Tell us what it is and your opinion of it!
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Comment by wiffledust on November 26, 2010 at 1:11pm
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pride and prejudice is one of the best novels EVER EVER! is this the first time for you on that one? and what is the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy about???
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Comment by Steen Krause on November 26, 2010 at 1:10pm
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Currently reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and listening to the Pride and Prejudice audiobook.
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i would definitely take the books that comfort me. i have a couple of self help ones that do that. although most of that genre is trash. and i'd take some "sorta" children's stuff, because that comforts me to have near me. not cat in the hat. i don't mean that. but perhaps something like little women..or something i read when i was younger like daddy long legs or the secret garden. i'd probably have gone with the wind, becausei go to it.that's my point. i'd probably rather have gone with the wind nearby than the collected works of shakespeare if i could only have 20.but in my home big library, i would have all of shakespeare. but late on a stormy night, i'm more likely to reach for gone with the wind as a good friend! i think i'd like an anthology of poetry,because i like that more now that i get older. i know! i'd have biographies, because they inspire me. yep. ...still thinking...
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Comment by Maggie Friend on October 27, 2010 at 8:48pm
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You've got a point. There are some books that are so wonderful I will read them again. I admit that I struggled with the idea of keeping some non-fiction around too. If I had to take only 20 books, I'd want to take the real treasures--the ones that make me smile to see them again like old friends. Maybe some of these would be non-fiction (but I read so much of that for work...) And I think I'd take a few books that I didn't plan to keep: ones that I'd trade in so that I always had something new to explore. It's a hard question!
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oh nice choices...esp gabriel garcia marquez!! so you'd read these books over and over again? i'm not sure if i'd pick fiction or non fiction. i tend to gravitate towards non fiction for the books that surround me, and i'm not sure why. sometimes i just want to pick up a piece of wisdom and then put it down. one of the reasons i thought of this exercise, is because in your regular home library you'd have shakespeare, right? but then i think of the last time i actually READ a whole play by shakespeare, and it's not realistic if i only had 20 books. i sat here and thought and realize i have NO IDEA!! i gave everyone an exercise i can't do!!!!! yikes!
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Okay. Well that's certainly tougher. I'll stick with my first three because, the tougher the situation, the more I'd need to reflect on them. If I really had to pare down my books, for the other 17 I think that I'd select the first novel by all of my favorite authors: Barbara Kingsolver, John Irving, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Margaret Atwood, Kurt Vonnegut, and so on. Those first novels are usually less polished than the later ones but they can be such treasures!
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ooo that's a good plan, maggie!!! well i don't mean a hidey hole like a retreat. i mean let's say you had to go to a new apartment and leave everything behind. so it's your first night there, and you are surrounded by only 20 books. which ones would you want RIGHT NOW? you gave a good start!!! the question has made me think about which ones of mine i want to THROW OUT !:-))0
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Well, let's see, 20 is pretty luxurious for a hideaway. I'm thinking of a couple of times that I've taken a studio in Switzerland. Books being heavy do not travel all that well by plane so I've had to go minimal. Here's what I would bring for starters: my three favorite books of Buddhist teachings ('cause if I'm going to a hideaway, I'm going to have lots of time to work on my perspective). So these would be Charlotte Joko Beck's "EveryDay Zen" for her no-nonsense perspective, Shyunru Suzuki's "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" for his gentleness, and Lao Tzu's "Tao te Ching" for his wisdom. Then, I would take one or two novels by highly-regarded authors that I had not yet gotten to know and find the nearest used bookseller so that I could trade them in as needed for new material.
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I'm curious you guys abou the following question. If you were to go to a brand new hideaway apartment , and you could only have 20 books in there...what would they be? Obviously these would not be your favorites,because there are only 20 and in your space. So this is asking what you would want in your personal space with you RIGHT NOW? I'm thinking about my list.......!
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thanks tony and karrie! karrie, how's the kindle? can you adjust the size of what you're reading? in other words, can you skip the glasses?
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