I'm currently reading Christopher Moore's "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal". It is VERY funny and NO it is in no way disparaging to Christianity. I highly recommend this book along with others by Moore.

 

Agree!

Just finished Wild Ride, by Jennifer Cruise and (somebody else, sorry!). It was a fun book. Murder mystery with a little sci-fi thrown in. I've got a pile of books waiting for me. Don't know what to pick.

Currently reading Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Just finished "Bounce Back" by Coach Cal. Actually pretty good.

Baseball, An Illustrated History. Companion to the great Ken Burns documentary. Picked it up for a couple of bucks at Half-Price Books on Sunday.

I've been on a "Mary, Queen of Scots" tear lately. Finished The Memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots last week in a day. Now reading The Other Queen, by the author of The Other Boleyn Girl. I seem to be in a groove here. I also watched The Other Boleyn, Young Victoria and Marie Antoinette in the last two weeks. :lol:

I'm currently reading Christopher Moore's "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal". It is VERY funny and NO it is in no way disparaging to Christianity. I highly recommend this book along with others by Moore.

Moore is one of my favorites. And Lamb is my favorite of his. Absolutely hilarious.

 

I'm reading Bronx Zoo. Just finished Wicked.

Moore is one of my favorites. And Lamb is my favorite of his. Absolutely hilarious.

 

I'm reading Bronx Zoo. Just finished Wicked.

 

Fascinating book; I've read it a couple of times. Also read "Son of a Witch" not long ago; and liked it even better.

If I Did It and Deeply Darkly Dexter.

Sail by James Patterson. He is easy and refreshing to read every once in a while to make you feel like you are a speed reader. You can knock out one of his books in a few days. Not sure what I will turn to next.

Invisible Nation - about the Kurds and their role in the Iraq War.

The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime - Jason Turbow

Also "Crunchy Cons" by Rod Dreher. Here's his "manifesto":

 

1. We are conservatives who stand outside the conservative mainstream; therefore, we can see things that matter more clearly.

 

2. Modern conservatism has become too focused on money, power, and the accumulation of stuff, and insufficiently concerned with the content of our individual and social character.

 

3. Big business deserves as much skepticism as big government.

 

4. Culture is more important than politics and economics.

 

5. A conservatism that does not practice restraint, humility, and good stewardship—especially of the natural world—is not fundamentally conservative.

 

6. Small, Local, Old, and Particular are almost always better than Big, Global, New, and Abstract.

 

7. Beauty is more important than efficiency.

 

8. The relentlessness of media-driven pop culture deadens our senses to authentic truth, beauty, and wisdom.

 

9. We share Russell Kirk’s conviction that “the institution most essential to conserve is the family.”

The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime - Jason Turbow

How is it?

Just started a collection of stories by Catherine Ann Porter. Very good so far.

How is it?

 

I really like it. It starts by approaching each different "code" from the perspective of 'Why?', and then after explaining why, it's looked at it from 'Why not?'. Turbow is VERY specific with citing instances where each of the codes has been upheld and broken, and he gives all different sides of each story - often times including interviews with the actual players involved. I'd definitely recommend to anybody interested in baseball in the least. It's also made me watch each [Reds] game that I see with a COMPLETELY different perspective as of late.