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Just finished "Descartes Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason" by Russsel Shorto. And recently, "Vicksburg 1863" by Winston Groom.
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Donna, check out "CSS-Tricks.Com". Chris Coyier is has just released part 2 of his screen cast on how to convert a Photoshop file to a WordPress site.
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Just finished rereading a book published in the late 1940's- "Norman Rockwell- Illustrator" a great book in which he goes into great detail of his illustration process.
I have also dug out several graphic design books from the 70's and 80's- lots of great stuff, mostly technical and studio tricks used in presentation, rendering and production. This was before the personal computer came on the scene.
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Just finished rereading a book published in the late 1940's- "Norman Rockwell- Illustrator" a great book in which he goes into great detail of his illustration process.
I have also dug out several graphic design books from the 70's and 80's- lots of great stuff, mostly technical and studio tricks used in presentation, rendering and production. This was before the personal computer came on the scene.
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I'm currently reading "The Making of Starwars" which is a detailed descritpion of all it takes to put together a movie of this magnitude. Before that I read the new book PIXARpedia twice.
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Anything by Mary Balogh. (romance) Her books are so good I re-read them until a new one comes out. I also think it's cool that her father was a Welsh signwriter. Love...Jill
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"The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown. Read a while back but really enjoyed "Left Handed History of the World" by Ed Wright, a must read for us Lefties!
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I'm also still working on the wonderful gift from William Pickett who saw me taking notes when he mentioned Eckhart Tolle's "The power of Now" I like it so much, even though I not even halfway through, that I already bought "A New Earth" to read next.
I recently finished "Born to Run", an amazing story I highly recommend for Nettie & the other Letterville healthclub crew who like to run...
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Got done reading Uncle Tom's Cabin for the first time, then I went & found Dred: A Tale of Dismal Swamp, (Harriett Beecher Stowe wrote after Uncle Tom) online real cheap. VERY good reading!
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Did read "Andrew Jackson" by Sean Wilentz. A great history read and a take on how the previous administration before his was a mirror to 2000-2008. And many other parallel issues.
Jack
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MOTHER EARTH NEWS.......building a greenhouse from old windows and storm doors.
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MOTHER EARTH NEWS.......building a greenhouse from old windows and storm doors.
the door into summer......is that a new one? thought i read most anything with heinlein. did all of asimov, clark.bova, pohl. need to go back and read RIVER WORLD SERIES by Philip José Farmer.
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Flashman - Angel of the Lord. One of a series of fictional ripping yarns about the life and times of Sir Harry Flashman MBE VC etc. Flashman was the villian of Tom Brown's Schooldays and the series chronicles his later life as a self-professed coward and womaniser who just happens to find himself at numerous historically important junctures. Next on the bedside table is "Surely you are joking Mr. Feinman" Then there is a box of books in the back of the car which I'll have to go through, it's a good thing having a sister who is a librarian and voracious reader, unfortunately it hardly leaves any time for instructibles and maker magazine online.
Edited to add - Heinlein fan here too, before I got stuck on the Flashman series was "The Number of the Beast" for about the forth time
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Just Finished all Carl Sagan, saved 'Cosmos' for last... bit heavy at times but well worth the read...
Now onto Edgar Rice Burroughs 'Tarzan' series. Reading original versions written in 1913-1916, not a childs tale. I can't believe I first read this entire series when I was in grade 4, it would never be accepted into schools nowadays.
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sci-fi written between 1950 and just before the moon-landing ... once we touched down on the moon, the themes changed dramatically....
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Love to read but have been too busy lately to do much of it...
However, I do download audio book MP3s to my 8gb micro-SD card on my phone... and listen to them on my bluetooth stereo ear-phones... works great.
Check out http://librivox.org for lots of free audio books. In the last year, I've read/re-read/listened-to a bunch of the classics from this site.....
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Hey Doug, I've read the Eckhart Tolle books as well. Interesting stuff. I'm moving on to a few books on Buddhism which I believe many of these "new" teachings are based on.
I also read Born to Run and loved it. I've taken up running in the past couple years and listened to that audio book as I ran. Fun!
I'm also listening to "The Tipping Point" right now and really enjoying it.
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Coffee with Hemingway, Coffee with Michelangelo, and just finished The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. It was OK- glad I read it, but not as rivetting as the DVC.
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Thanks, Joey, that's next: I reread 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' every 10 years; thanks for reminding me. (I need it.) Just finishing up some old SF- "A Plague of Demons" and "The Sleeper Awakes".
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