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What's on your reading list?

What do you plan to read this summer? What are you reading now?
I am currently reading "Degrees Kelvin" by David Lindley, published by Joseph Henry Press. The biography of Sir William Thomson, Lord Kelvin. He was a 19th century physicist probably best known for dicsovering the temperature at which atoms cease to move: -273.15 degrees Celsius (0 degrees Kelvin or absolute zero). He also performed a lot of the early groundwork for theories of electromagnetism and thermodynamics. Lord Kelvin devised a new compass for ships that would work well when surrounded by steel as the world's ship building began to move from wooden to iron vessels. A fascinating figure from history.
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nrchy
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Hooked on Phonics!

Actually I've been doing more writing than reading over the last few months. I've completed one short story and have three others that I am currently working on, not to mention a novel about half done.

The last couple of books I read were collections of short stories.

If you want a good laugh, find a copy of Steven Leacock's "Nonsense Novels." He is unbelievably funny. Great with the turn of a phrase!
avguygeorge
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Reading the dumb questions here; for me, is required reading.I've been over on Ebay looking for a life; used if possible. I picked up a used personality last week. I hope they ship it fedex so it arrives safe.
hifimaniac
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The Holy Bible is always on top;Thomas Sowell's Barbarians Inside the Gates and other Controversial Essays or anything else by Sowell; How Now Shall We Live, by Chuck Colson; FDR's Folly; How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression by Jim Powell.
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rhyno
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applied equity analysis by jack english

practical speculation by victor niederhoffer (a lousy book so far)

in an uncertain world by robert rubin

body of secrets by james bamford (re: the NSA, no such agency)

(fwiw, the nicked & dimed book is excellent)
edesilva
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Florida Roadkill was a fun read. Frankly all of that series is great airplane fodder.

While modern fiction is my normal fare, I seem to have taken a detour into Jeffrey Steingarten's world, having just polished off _It Must Have Been Something I Ate_ and being now in the midst of _The Man Who Ate Everything_. JS is the food editor for Vogue (who ever thought Vogue readers actually *ate*?). In terms of obsessiveness, he'll give any audiophile a run for the money, 'cept his gig is the eaten arts. Damn funny guy.
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