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Post by purrranha on Mar 18, 2007 15:14:32 GMT
I'm reading Will You Be Mother?: Women Who Choose to Say No (by Jane Bartlett). I'm loving it so much!
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Post by Wabbit on Mar 19, 2007 13:53:01 GMT
I've finished that arabic parts books, learned some things i didn't know, but had a very good idea for many of these parts.
Instead of resuming my reading of that trilogy, I decided to finish the books from work first. So, am currently on a very interesting book about women astronomers & their important contributions to this science. It's a french book called "l'astronomie au féminin" by Yaël Nazé.
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Post by veganbikerboy on Mar 19, 2007 23:09:24 GMT
haha at the start of this thread i was reading 'the china study' and erm...i still am ;D
i have recently read 'refugee boy' - benjamin zephaniah and hannibal rising (well still got a few pages left) and i am part way through reading 'natural healing' - mark evans
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Post by littlegirlbunny on Mar 21, 2007 13:24:15 GMT
I am currently reading 'The God Delusion' by dawkins and The Geology of Britain by Peter Toghill.
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Post by enchantress on Mar 22, 2007 5:44:24 GMT
I'm reading "Folklore" which is the biography of the band James, written by Stuart Maconie.
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Post by sluggie on Mar 22, 2007 22:25:48 GMT
I've just finished Persuasion (again) followed by Emma (again) and Vanity Fair (again).
*Is a sucker for re-reading old favourites*
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Post by happycat on Mar 31, 2007 20:29:34 GMT
Get that totally. I love going back to old favourites too Currently reading Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith. This is the first of the series I've read, and its good. All about the Ladies No 1 Detective agency in Botswana And current cookbooks are the new Donna Klein med book and, Vegetarian Soups for all seasons by Nava Atlas. Am enjoying choicing new recipes to try next week ;D
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Post by gentduke on May 14, 2007 22:29:50 GMT
Ive been ready Lucifers Hammer for about a month now, I have this problem where if I start something I have to finish (all things in life). So instead of moving on the book just sits there, I want to read forever war but cant stupid book. If it where to accidently disapear I could move on.
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Post by enchantress on May 20, 2007 20:10:51 GMT
I'm reading "Don't Eat This Book" by Morgan Spurlock at the moment. I'm quite enjoying it, even though he isn't vegan or vegetarian I think the book (and the film Supersize Me) does quite a lot to portray veganism in a positive light. In a weird way, I think it helps the vegan cause to have non-vegans speaking up for it, as some omnis refuse to listen to vegans as they think we're all brainwashed weirdos.
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Post by Wabbit on Jul 4, 2007 9:25:51 GMT
I finished reading Nona Press's New Insights into Astrology which I mentionned in the "astrology & asteroids " thread. Through it, I went back to using the technic of harmonics and added more asteroids into the charts analysis.
Yesterday, i started reading a (so far) very interesting book called "les animeaux ont-il une âme?", which translates as "do animals have a soul?" (authors are Marie-Amélie Picard & Gilles Vidal). It shows how humans have changed from the "primitive" pasts where they used to belive in animals having a soul and even spiritual/ mystical/ mythological roles, to the "civilized" present & recent history where humans have turned their backs & belive in their superiority upon animals, inspite of all the animal symbology present in religions, astrology, myths... the authors also show that the animals aren't the mere robots they were thought as, but that they have feelings, psyches, and thus, a soul...
edit : well, I finished it ! The author also talk about many of the ridiculous human sayings and superstitions regarding animals. Throughout the book and its ending, they stiuplate that they hope people will change their mind sets & stop with their ill-based beliefs of animals being mere robots & objects, for the benefit of a more positive thinking that animals are essential for our race's survival and that they too, have feelings & a soul, and who knows, maybe our ancestors were right in believing animals carried our souls, or part of, or that we do reincarnate into & from animals...
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Post by sluggie on Jul 4, 2007 16:49:09 GMT
I'm reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, and also Evelina by Fanny Burney, as TGD keeps me awake if I read it late at night.
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Post by veganbikerboy on Jul 4, 2007 18:59:08 GMT
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Post by fezzarooooo on Jul 4, 2007 20:36:28 GMT
I've been working my way through 'going vegan' only been sittin on the shelf for a year lol
Am also reading 'Cave in the Snow' by Vicki Mackenzie. It's about Tenzin Palmo, an English woman who spent 12 years meditating in a cave in the Himalayas to achieve spiritual enlightenment.
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Post by enchantress on Jul 4, 2007 21:20:27 GMT
I'm reading "A Short Of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson and "The OASIS Guide to Asperger Syndrome" at the moment.
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Post by littlegirlbunny on Jul 5, 2007 18:47:17 GMT
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Post by sluggie on Jul 5, 2007 22:54:32 GMT
Great interview. I was quite amused by his very last comment: "I don't believe we're put here to be comfortable." It's so hard to avoid religious connotations in our language, even for us hardened atheists. I'm sure you'll enjoy the book. It's very well written.
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Post by Wabbit on Jul 5, 2007 23:20:54 GMT
I've been working my way through 'going vegan' only been sittin on the shelf for a year lol Am also reading 'Cave in the Snow' by Vicki Mackenzie. It's about Tenzin Palmo, an English woman who spent 12 years meditating in a cave in the Himalayas to achieve spiritual enlightenment. oh my gosh lol ! I read the french translation of cave in the snow just a couple months ago ! you'll see, it's quite an interesting life she led, even if I personally wouldn't chose becoming a monk for a great deal of reasons & I do belive she had other options, she made this particular choice & seems happy about it so that's good also, she become an avid advocate of vegetarianism which I always find admirable as next logical step for many is going vegan another positive aspect : she has helped start change women's status in buddhism, and that's quite something !
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Post by fezzarooooo on Jul 6, 2007 15:13:41 GMT
That's cool wabbit that we'll have read the same book Yes she does seem like a very interesting character
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Post by alisont on Jul 6, 2007 17:52:37 GMT
Wish id of got organised and ordered some holiday reads off amazon......will see what i see mooching round charity shops/car boots in Dorset!
Have got Keith Manns book to take, brought it at Bristol but not had time to read it so will do so whilst away.
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Post by Wabbit on Jul 6, 2007 22:40:11 GMT
That's cool wabbit that we'll have read the same book Yes she does seem like a very interesting character it is quite eerie ;d I saw the book once when one of our libraries requested it & on the following visit there, 3 months later, I decided to read about it as am a pro feminist & had saw it was partially about that... I was intruiguded by many of her facets, in spite of the fact I wouldn't make the same choices as she did.
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