What book is everyone reading at the moment?

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I usually have several books working at any given moment, so I can switch as the whim takes me (plus I usually have a dedicated bathroom reader as well).

General reading:
Lone Wolf and Cub (A manga) by Katsuo Koike and Goseki Kojima
Cities in Flight by James Blish

Technical reading
Classroom instruction that works by Marzano, Pickering and Pollock
Evolution vs Creationism by Eugenie Scott (I'm rereading this as I look over expanding my thesis into an actual book.)

school reading. I teach 7th and 8th grade. 4 days a week we have a period of silent reading where everybody is supposed to read, teacher included. Half the time I read my book to me, half the time I read a book to the kids.

personal reading: The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan. I have read it so many times that I have worn my hardcover edition out and have run out of annotation room...)

Reading to the kids: The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death By Daniel Pinkwater. Pinkwater's books are the most innocently subversive children's books I have ever read.


I forgot My Tank is Fight by Zach Parsons it's an overview of some of the hare-brained weapons that were designed by engineers during WWII. It's pretty entertaining.
 
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I am reading Hippocratic Writings, which is a collection of them from Penguin Classics. I am reading the bit on the ever popular 'Sacred Disease'.

God I sound like such a shill...
 
You'll have to guess what book I'm reading at the moment.

Hint: the first chapter is called "Robbie"

Probably easy for lots of people on here to guess...
 
My guess is Isaac Asimov's 'I, Robot'.

I have recently finished the last of the three volumes in Arthur Bryant's biography of Samuel Pepys and have decided to take a break. Now reading John Dunning's 'Booked to Die', a Cliff Janeway thriller set in the second-hand first-edition book world.
 
Godless by Ann Coulter

Flim Flam by James Randi

Bible (New International Version, 1978 or 1983, I can't remember)
 
I just finished Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimen. Strongly recommended for the ex xians among us. (or Pratchett and Gaimen fans)
 
2001: A Space Odyssey

I thought that I must have read this before in my distant past, but upon reading it now, I realize that I hadn't, because it does help to explain some of the movie. I'm going to rent the movie after I finish reading the book just to see what new insight I might have.

It's been a really long time since I last saw the movie, too, but I thought HAL played a much larger role.
 
The Gates of Janus by Ian Brady. Very disturbing...............
 
Shadow of the Giant. The fourth, and hopefully the last, of the parallel series to Ender's Game. Loved the first book (EG), but every one after that has taken ssome slogging through. This one could have been subtitled "A bunch of people standing around talking." With a world- and space- spanning epic, I'd expected a little more action.
 
I have scanned through and have started reading in detail "Alamo in the Ardennes" by John C. McManus. It is a detailed account of the defense of Bastogne in the first days of the Battle of the Bulge, focusing on the actions of the 28th Infantry, the 9th and 10th Armored Divisions, and of course, the 101st Airborne.
My father was in the 10th Armored Division, and was part of Team Cherry during the blocking actions east of Bastogne, so details of the battle are of particular interest to me.
 
I've got a giant catalog of unread books. Right now, I'm reading I Am America(And So Can You! by Stephen Colbert.
 
McManus...

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I have scanned through and have started reading in detail "Alamo in the Ardennes" by John C. McManus. It is a detailed account of the defense of Bastogne in the first days of the Battle of the Bulge, focusing on the actions of the 28th Infantry, the 9th and 10th Armored Divisions, and of course, the 101st Airborne.
My father was in the 10th Armored Division, and was part of Team Cherry during the blocking actions east of Bastogne, so details of the battle are of particular interest to me.
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I met John McManus about two years ago. Swell bloke. I'm doing my dissertation of WWII vets (in fiction and memoir). His <i>The Deadly Brotherhood</i> is swell.

Have you taken a family history of this part of your father's life? (I'm a big advocate of taking down oral histories.)

HJ
 
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