watchya readin'?

[WannabeMego]

Book-Wise: Reading Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Astrophysics for People in a Hurry'

Comic-Wise: Reading TPB 'GodHead' (Green Lantern/New Gods).

[Brue]

Just finished Girl on a Train. OK

Rereading Han Solo's Revenge.

[palitoy]

I stumbled onto an article by Emilie Wapnick last year sometime and found her thoughts and points very interesting. I wound up reading some from her blog and watching a TED Talk she gave. I think I'll check out her book.

I think it's a good stepping stone to the material, it made me seek out other publications on the subject and I recently picked up:

Refuse to Choose! by Barbara Sher

A lot of people deem Sher the superior book on the subject but I'd have never even heard of it without the prior publication.

[Makernaut]

Also read:

How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up
by Emilie Wapnick

This is where a book just intrigued by its cover and it was less than 200 pages, so I gave it a whirl. I found it enjoyable and credible, I'd recommend it if you have college aged kids who have trouble with what they want to be in life.

I stumbled onto an article by Emilie Wapnick last year sometime and found her thoughts and points very interesting. I wound up reading some from her blog and watching a TED Talk she gave. I think I'll check out her book.

[rche]

We do a bedtime read at our house and I recently started pulling from a box of my childhood paperbacks. I picked up 'Sword and the Stone' and found this lovely coupon for a whole 7c off of delectable Cookie Crisp cereal dated 1978 that I must have used as a bookmark. sword stone cookie crisp.small.jpg

[palitoy]

Just finished

influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
by Robert B Cialdini

It's something everyone should read, we get persuaded to do things because we're not thinking.

Also read:

How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up
by Emilie Wapnick

This is where a book just intrigued by its cover and it was less than 200 pages, so I gave it a whirl. I found it enjoyable and credible, I'd recommend it if you have college aged kids who have trouble with what they want to be in life.

[Gorn Captain]

I'm reading fiction, Dean Koontz (Strangers, my third time) and non-fiction, two books about gladiators and the Roman games.
The book about gladiators is very good, especially when the writer discusses all the mistakes in Ridley Scott's movie. It's "Monty Python level", the way he corrects Scott.
I never go anywhere without a book, as I'm always on a bus or train...

And just finished a script myself, writing it yourself is even more fun....

[Makernaut]

I prefer to listen. Right now I'm about 40% into Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett and narrated by Richard Ferrone. Pretty good stuff.

That book was a huge influence on a lot of other books and movies that followed. (Including the fake working title of "Return of the Jedi")

[MRP]

Currently reading Journeys through Dreamtime: Oceanian Myth, part of the Time Life Myth and Mankind series.



I love mythology of all sorts, and I have always been fascinated by Australian Aboriginal myths though I don't know a whole lot about them.

-M

[palitoy]

Currently reading:
The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work

All I can say is, this year is all about Neuroplasticity for me.

[palitoy]

Brian that Alan Alda book was fantastic! I do a ton of science outreach and his insights are spot on. Loved that one!

Yeah I'm digging it way more than I expected too!

[Godzilla]

Brian that Alan Alda book was fantastic! I do a ton of science outreach and his insights are spot on. Loved that one!

[toothaction]

Comics, mostly. The post-holiday pile that I'm working my way through ---

Marc Bell's Hot Potatoe: Fine Ahtwerks: 2001-2008, by Marc Bell; DINOMANIA: The Lost Art of Winsor McCay, the Secret Origins of King Kong, and the Urge to Destroy New York, by Ulrich Merkl (a tome of awe-inspiring beauty!); Paper Girls Deluxe Edition Volume 1, by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chang; and Frank in the 3rd Dimension, by Jim Woodring and Charles Bernard.

Dinomania is fulla text, but plenty of comix and illustrations, too. Last 'word book' I listened to was Mark Frost's Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier. Skimmed along to the PDF, though.

Last one I read oldenstyle was The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington:

What a magical lady she was!

[palitoy]

Anymore I'm 99% audiobook.
Right now I'm about half way through The Warmth of Other Suns

Luckily with my job I'm able to have an earbud in pretty much the entire shift so I tend to devour audiobooks and podcasts.

Yeah, I devour audiobooks myself, currently listening to a book by Alan Alda about communication. I thought it would be too novel but he has some interesting observations and is quite serious on the matter.

[palitoy]

I do most of my reading at work during breaks and lunch. Finished Hunter Thompson's stint with the Hell's Angels and am halfway done with his shenanigans in Vegas. Gonna' finish it up with some Buk.

When I first saw Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas on the big screen, I had never heard of Hunter and was completely lost in the movie, but did have a big laugh, and still do to this day when I see it on YouTube, at the "Too Much Adrenochrome" scene.

big fan of Thompson!