Looking for something to read? Here are some of my favorite authors on Gail Z Martin's website. http://www.thewinterkingdoms.com/ Faith              

  Top Ten Things to DO on Vacation 1. Sleep (OMG, no alarm clocks. YES!) 2. Read books (note to self, go buy books) 3. See part of country I never saw before (Never drove past the Mississippi....to eat better. I AM! Stop laughing. Oh yeah? Chocolate *is* good for you! It is! 10. Spend time with hubby *not* working. Yeah. Not working. *Not.* Wow.... That sounds so strange.... Faith

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline...All time favorite book of the Bible is Esther and Apocalypse Revelation... Don't you think it peculiar for me to read Bible and Da Vinci Code. I'm wondering why they don't have Angels and Demons...

I got this from kimmychu . I guess I'm above average :) But then again, I always preferred books to toys as a child. According to The Big Read, the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100...Alice - Nevil Shute 97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

 Books I've read are in bold, books I plan to read are in italics. Oh my god.. what's happened to the literary world? Seriously. 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien... 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell................favorite book ever

A fun site I just heard about!   :)  Everyone with reading lists please come join!  :)

First: can anyone recommend me any good steampunk novels? I've been super into that genre recently and I've been reading Neal Stephenson and Jay Lake, but are there any other good steampunk authors/books...me going right now. And the end of xxxHOLiC and buying volume two of Glass Fleet. But even that is a problem--I'm not living for today anymore. I'm living for what happens next. Goddamnit

I bought two books at Toronto airport and it has spurred me on to write a list of the non-fiction books that have had the greatest influence on me. So here are my top five, in no particular order (though...of what we're doing (such as James Lovelock) are actually far more positive about the future than you'd think. I, too, share that view - the 'interesting times' ahead may be exactly (and no more than) that

Here is a list of BOOKs I'd clearly recommend to all you beloveds :) out there.. MUST READ BOOK-LIST 2008!   The Worry Cure -Stop Worring and Start Living - by Dr. Robert. L. Leahy DNA...Mind  by Dr Joseph Murphy  Color Code :   Orange : Self-help books Red : Books written by Doctors on Medical Issues Green : Biographies Pink : Educational

Ten pairings (or friendships), a description of under ten words, your job is to guess. Only I go over. 1) When you came, you made beauty of my mess. 2) He might always be drunk, but he's always there...how it is. 10) She's an idiot, but he kind of needs her to get anything done. Let's see...clues...3 CLAMP, one book, 9 anime/manga, 5 slash, one ot3, 3 het, 1 ambiguous...and that's all I'll give you