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#1 2011-03-03 05:46:37
- The_Shooman
- A pretty face
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Books you are currently reading
What are you currently reading?
Also tell us whether you prefer fiction or non-fiction.
#2 2011-03-03 05:52:11
- NJS
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Re: Books you are currently reading
I am still finishing 'The Eustace Diamonds', by Anthony Trollope, which I started in 2000. I prefer non-fiction, generally biography.
#3 2011-03-03 10:47:12
- 4F Hepcat
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Re: Books you are currently reading
History, still wading through Shelby Foote's history of the American Civil War and Churchill's personal history of WWII.
Jazz books too.
Vibe-Rations in Spectra-Sonic-Sound
#5 2011-03-03 11:51:03
- formby
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Re: Books you are currently reading
Re-reading 'The Strange Death of Liberal England' by George Dangerfield.
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
Souvent me Souvient
#6 2011-03-03 13:10:34
- captainpreppy
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Re: Books you are currently reading
The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton. (Re-reading, actually).
#7 2011-03-03 14:12:41
- Film Noir Buff
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Re: Books you are currently reading
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian.
#8 2011-03-03 14:15:12
- formby
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Re: Books you are currently reading
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
Souvent me Souvient
#9 2011-03-03 15:47:49
- Big Tony
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Re: Books you are currently reading
"What sort of post-apocalyptic deathscape is this?"
"I don't want to look like a cock hungry sailor after all !!!"
"When it comes to infidelity, broken families, and reckless fatherhood, the underclass are amateurs."
#13 2011-03-03 16:21:31
- Grossgrain Silk
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Re: Books you are currently reading
Anthony Julius' History of Anti-Semitism in England
Kevin Baker - Dreamland
PG Wodehouse - Leave it to Psmith
Gatley on Defamation 
#15 2011-03-03 16:27:19
- Big Tony
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Re: Books you are currently reading
Last edited by Big Tony (2011-03-03 16:31:24)
"What sort of post-apocalyptic deathscape is this?"
"I don't want to look like a cock hungry sailor after all !!!"
"When it comes to infidelity, broken families, and reckless fatherhood, the underclass are amateurs."
#17 2011-03-03 16:33:17
- Maximilien de Robespierre
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Re: Books you are currently reading
Last edited by Maximilien de Robespierre (2011-03-03 18:36:29)
#19 2011-03-03 16:38:53
- Big Tony
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Re: Books you are currently reading
"What sort of post-apocalyptic deathscape is this?"
"I don't want to look like a cock hungry sailor after all !!!"
"When it comes to infidelity, broken families, and reckless fatherhood, the underclass are amateurs."
#21 2011-03-03 16:45:16
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Re: Books you are currently reading
Listening in my car to Ron Chernow's Biography of Alexander Hamilton - Fantastic Book
Reading
Walking in a Fergie Wonderland (Yes it is pulp, but I will read anything on Manchester United)
The Alienest by Caleb Carr I wanted to read this when it came out but didn't and it was the first book I purchased on my kindle.
I will read anything
#24 2011-03-04 04:16:42
- NJS
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Re: Books you are currently reading
Is there no max number of library borrowings at one time?
#25 2011-03-04 04:59:16
- fxh
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Re: Books you are currently reading
no its unlimited at my library - so as you can see some of them are coffee table books etc, I often wander through and just pick up books on birds or boats or forests or whatever from the folio section on whim.
I reserve books while I'll online, say reading a forum or blog - see a book reviewed or recommended, go online to my library - reserve it then in a day or so its sitting in my pigeon hole waiting for me to pick it up. The library emails me when my reserves are ready or I just call in and have a look every now and then.
I can renew books on line too for up to two renewal terms.
I sometimes get CDs and DVDs too
I'm a pretty fast reader and some I only skim and others are picture books.
My library has about 6 branches in a LGA of about 170,000 people - the bring online reservations to my local branch for me to pick up if they are housed at other branches. They will also do interlibrary loans from anywhere in the state and also with Unis - theres sometimes a fee for that.
I currently have outstanding fines of $8.40 increasing at 20c a day until I get one book back. My biggest fine ever was $32.
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