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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 Helen on September 21, 2010 at 10:49am
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Wow, that's so interesting Carole! I've heard so many good things about Dr. Bass. Well, I've heard them since I started reading this book! I will admit that I didn't know of him before that. So Lisa, you haven't been under a rock! Haha!
Your presentation sounds very interesting too, Carole.
To answer your question Lisa, forensic anthropology is basically the study of deceased humans (usually their bones, but also other aspects of the remains that I won't go into) to help ascertain the identity, the cause of death, time since death, and so on, for legal cases. It's a fascinating insight into what happens to the body and also how practically everything that happens leaves a trace on us and the world around us.
I'm not reading anything else right now, but I've almost finished this book so I'll have to find something else soon!
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Comment by wiffledust on September 21, 2010 at 10:21am
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oh wow, carole!!! i have never heard of this stuff. is it well known or am i under a rock??? it sounds sceeery! but how cool that you do this presentation......!!!! creepy, but fun!!! :-)))
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Comment by Carole Baker on September 21, 2010 at 10:15am
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Dr. Bass' work is wonderful reading. I had the pleasure of meeting him years ago, and he certainly knows his stuff. Right now I am reading The Victorian Celebration of Death by James Stevens Curl. Where I work we do a Victorian Death and Burial Customs presentation in place of a haunted house in October, so I am using this to help put together the presentation. For fun I'm just starting to read Boudica: The Life of Britain's Legendary Warrior Queen by Vanessa Collingridge. What can I say? Very relaxing stuff, huh? :-)
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forensic anthropology??? so how faces are blown apart and things like that???? YIKES!!!!! tell me what ELSE you're reading, helen!!! ;-)))
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Right now I'm reading Beyond The Body Farm, by Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson. It's a non-fiction book about various cases that Bill Bass has worked on as a forensic anthropologist. It's probably not for the faint-hearted, but I find it totally fascinating! I can't put it down, which is saying something for me. I usually struggle to keep going.
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oh yeah. agreed. pride and prejudice is one you get more out of the more you live. someone put that in front of me when i was wayyy too young too. and it turned me off for years. as for gone with the wind, jen....what are you waiting for??? it's better than the movie, and the movie is fun !!!
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For me, that book would be Pride and Prejudice. I hated it the first time I started it, though, but I think I was simply too young. I still haven't read Gone with the Wind.
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i agree, lillian, that emotional intelligence was dry. it had good info in it, though. but, yes, very dry. excuses begone isn't bad for me but just didn't click with me the way other dyer books do. ......jen, it IS interesting the way books hit us at different times in our lives. and it's also interesting the way some of them are precious to us all our lives, but we get something different out of them each time. i love "gone with the wind", and although it's not the best book ever written, it always seems to give me something with every read, but something different....
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I agree with Lillian that how books resonate becomes very personal. I read Alice in Wonderland years ago and found it tedious. I just had to read it again for an independent study I'm supervising and I absolutely loved it. I think love of most books may have to do with the moment as much as the material, in some ways.
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Comment by Lillian Gaffney on September 7, 2010 at 5:37pm
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Funny how some books resonate with some and not for others. I happened to love his book, Excuses Begone and actually I must say I have enjoyed all Wayne Dyer's books.
Going back to that Emotional Intelligence book, Lisa. I just could not get myself to finish that book. Too dry for me, perhaps he would have been better off simply titling it Intelligent!
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