journey Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 10 hours ago, SoulMonster said: Is that were the text color changes depending as the author writes about the human kid in the real world and whaht happens in the fantasy world? I remember reading it as a kid. Yeah that's the one. The text doesn't change color in the book I have but it's the same story you're talking about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 A reread, 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxlsFavoriteRose Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 (edited) ok totally in summer mode so i grabbed a book from a box of books i bought on Ebay. i read a lot so i buy books in bulk sometimes anyway, saw this one called The Beach House so i grabbed it and took it to bed. it was actually pretty good! it was about a woman who goes to the Lowcountry ( in South Carolina ) to see her dying mom. her mom is a "Turtle Lady", she and some other people look out for the loggerhead turtles when they come and lay there eggs until the time the eggs hatch and when they can they help the hatchlings make it safely to the sea. the really interesting part was at the beginning of each chapter there is a paragraph or so about the turtles; how they live, why they do what they do, how they lay so many eggs yet only about one in a thousand hatchlings will make it and even how the adult turtles are endangered because of things like getting caught in fishing nets or cut by boat propellars. there is also a hurricane thrown in and i learned a lot about hurricanes i never knew. i thoroughly enjoyed it. oh and the author is Mary Alice Monroe Edited July 26, 2017 by AxlsFavoriteRose 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soon Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 1 hour ago, AxlsFavoriteRose said: ok totally in summer mode so i grabbed a book from a box of books i bought on Ebay. i read a lot so i buy books in bulk sometimes anyway, saw this one called The Beach House so i grabbed it and took it to bed. it was actually pretty good! it was about a woman who goes to the Lowcountry ( in South Carolina ) to see her dying mom. her mom is a "Turtle Lady", she and some other people look out for the loggerhead turtles when they come and lay there eggs until the time the eggs hatch and when they can they help the hatchlings make it safely to the sea. the really interesting part was at the beginning of each chapter there is a paragraph or so about the turtles; how they live, why they do what they do, how they lay so many eggs yet only about one in a thousand hatchlings will make it and even how the adult turtles are endangered because of things like getting caught in fishing nets or cut by boat propellars. there is also a hurricane thrown in and i learned a lot about hurricanes i never knew. i thoroughly enjoyed it. oh and the author is Mary Alice Monroe That sounds like a truly lovely read. And I love the buying books in bulk!!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxlsFavoriteRose Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 45 minutes ago, soon said: That sounds like a truly lovely read. And I love the buying books in bulk!!! thank you now i just need like oh 10 or so bookshelves to put them in! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soon Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 3 minutes ago, AxlsFavoriteRose said: thank you now i just need like oh 10 or so bookshelves to put them in! Its so hard to just get rid of a book you like, eh?! I have a bunch stacked on floor behind my desk and some in my very deep kitchen cabinets! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxlsFavoriteRose Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 14 minutes ago, soon said: Its so hard to just get rid of a book you like, eh?! I have a bunch stacked on floor behind my desk and some in my very deep kitchen cabinets! LOL that and there are some i have not even read yet my cookbooks are in a cabinet in my kitchen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soon Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 17 minutes ago, AxlsFavoriteRose said: LOL that and there are some i have not even read yet my cookbooks are in a cabinet in my kitchen It is weird about my kitchen. There are many non cook books packed away in there. Kindle-ing I suppose 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soon Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 (edited) Checking in with the Gospel According to John. My fave because by chapter 2, boom, Jesus is already smashing up the bankers. Other Gospel you gotta wait till the 20 somethingth chapter. That but also I love, love , love chapter 1 where the author, writing to the Greeks, announces that the Reason they've sought has been manifest in Word and flesh. The Logo(s) if you dig etymology. By Chapter 3 he's engaged in Women's Lib, then later He's undoing the unwellness of hierarchical oppressors. Then he breaks the rules of the market place by sharing the abundance of nature for free, feeding multitudes with no gain to be made. From here it really speeds up when Jesus openly defies the religious authorities - sealing His fate. Then He hurriedly shares the merciful truths of love, justice and logic encoded in Gods creation that are being hidden by religious authorities and hierarchical economics. Arrested, He doesn't give a f#^k about honouring the Roman leadership who could save His life, then when two layers of State agree to have the Romans execute him he invents the political thought and spiritual plain of anarchism by refusing to stay dead when he'd been expressly commanded to be dead. Some more contribution to Women's Lib, a plea for community self-determination under the gentle intentions of Creation and then He bounces. Good read, so much more there. Highly recommend! Edited July 28, 2017 by soon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontdamnmeuyi2015 Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 Michael Connelly's The Late Show Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiraMPD Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 (edited) Started reading The Turner Diaries (by William Luther Pierce) last weekend outta curiosity. Fuckin hell, this is one book I would happily burn... Edited July 31, 2017 by KiraMPD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soon Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 On July 31, 2017 at 9:42 AM, KiraMPD said: Started reading The Turner Diaries (by William Luther Pierce) last weekend outta curiosity. Fuckin hell, this is one book I would happily burn... Oh, thats the book that inspired Timothy McVie, if Im not mistaken? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiraMPD Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 16 hours ago, soon said: Oh, thats the book that inspired Timothy McVie, if Im not mistaken? Yeah. It's fucked up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soon Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 4 hours ago, KiraMPD said: Yeah. It's fucked up. I can imagine! But also appreciate the curiosity. You can tell the rest of us anything we need to know to look out for! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soon Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 On the other end of the spectrum, I was traveling by plane with a person of interest, to a gathering that was certainly monitored, and they decided to read Edward Abbeys the Monkey Wrench Gang on the airplane. This novel has a major place in the culture of Earth First and ELF - groups labeled "eco-terrorists." Then a stranger came up and said "Oh great book" and started chatting. I was freaking out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvanG Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 The Nix by Nathan Hill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnews Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 Join in https://www.facebook.com/GreenHeartPoetry/ I got the book for a couple of quid, both pretty and depressing, like being run over by a unicorn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontdamnmeuyi2015 Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 James Patterson "the Medical Examiner" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 On 28/06/2017 at 5:07 PM, SoulMonster said: and Gaiman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 (edited) Nice bit of bedtime reading, PS The SS office-cadet training school at Bad Tölz had cricket on the curriculum! Edited August 16, 2017 by DieselDaisy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnews Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 I told you, even Billy Joe Saunders is a fan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 On 12/08/2017 at 11:28 PM, oldnews said: I told you, even Billy Joe Saunders is a fan I didn't know Bill could read 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnews Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 6 hours ago, Len Cnut said: I didn't know Bill could read lol I guess all boxers aren't like Mayweather Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontdamnmeuyi2015 Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 Iris Johanson No Easy Target Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soon Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Re-readng 'Poor Peoples Movements' by Francis Fox Piven and Richard Cloward Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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