in my neck of the woods elementary(5th grade) and middle school students usually have this on their reading lists...
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in my neck of the woods elementary(5th grade) and middle school students usually have this on their reading lists...
Christine Richard's "Confidence Game: How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff." Published by Bloomberg Press, the hardcopy edition came out in 2010. Lots of books about the dice-rolling aspects of Wall Street are out there since the financial collapse, of course, but this one about what happened when Ackman decided to short MBIA is quite accessible, written by a journalist able to translate the arcane into the comprehensible. The book has quite the eye-opening ittle gem buried in it now and then, too. For instance:
When some financial product actually needs a few discreet lines of federal legislation to keep state gambling laws from getting in the way... well talk about caveat emptor, baby.
When some financial product actually needs a few discreet lines of federal legislation to keep state gambling laws from getting in the way... well talk about caveat emptor, baby.
Just finished The Forgiven by Lawrence Osborne.
It's about an English couple who are travelling through Morocco to stay with their friends, fellow expats when something happens that shifts the course of the weekend. Not the most exciting thing I've ever read, but a decent enough book for a lazy day.
It's about an English couple who are travelling through Morocco to stay with their friends, fellow expats when something happens that shifts the course of the weekend. Not the most exciting thing I've ever read, but a decent enough book for a lazy day.
I just finished book 2 in the Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley: The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag. Quickly devoured the first book just before that: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. These books are glorious fun.
About to jump into volume 3 in seconds...3...2...
About to jump into volume 3 in seconds...3...2...
I've been wanting to read this for some time now. I've read that this series is written for adults but isn't the main protagonist an 11 year-old girl?
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Currently reading The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker. A very enjoyable read so far.
I've been wanting to read this for some time now. I've read that this series is written for adults but isn't the main protagonist an 11 year-old girl?
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Currently reading The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker. A very enjoyable read so far.
Yes, Flavia is an 11 year old girl but not Pollyanna by any means.
The books are very fresh and wickedly funny. Well worth taking a look. The first book grabbed me by the collar and wouldn't let go.I read that this series is going to be televised, which would be lovely, but I'm not sure if all the tremendously great inner dialogue is going to translate effectively to a screen.
About halfway through Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky.
It isn't clear to me why I haven't read this previously...
It isn't clear to me why I haven't read this previously...
Author: Unknown. Extremely light reading. I finished it in one sitting.
One hundred blank pages. Well played, unknown author, well played.
I've been wanting to read this for some time now. I've read that this series is written for adults but isn't the main protagonist an 11 year-old girl?
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Currently reading The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker. A very enjoyable read so far.
both.
i read some of the Flavia books and enjoyed them, so did my son.
i also read and enjoyed he Golem and the Jinni.
currently reading the Mistborn books based on recommendation from this very thread. very fresh take on magic and the fantasy trope, but by the Lord Ruler!, who in the mists designed and approved that cover art! ugh.
i know we are not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but i quite literally do, and if it wasn't for the heads up form poster i have come to respect, i would never in a million year have picked those up.
especially considering that they could have just made a set of intriguing and cool cover just using the allomacy symbols.
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Finally zipped through Toby Venables: Hunter of Sherwood: Knight of Shadow A Guy of Gisburne novel. That was excellent. I really hope for a sequel because Venables Robin Hood is downright unnerving, more fearsome than the Templar baddie. Despite being a minor presence in the book, Hood steals the show whenever he's in.
Coworker loaned me Tsarina by J. Nelle Patrick knowing my interest in Rasputin and the Romanovs. So far, so very, very good. A little different for me, romance and such, but I'm enjoying it so far.
Finally zipped through Toby Venables: Hunter of Sherwood: Knight of Shadow A Guy of Gisburne novel. That was excellent. I really hope for a sequel because Venables Robin Hood is downright unnerving, more fearsome than the Templar baddie. Despite being a minor presence in the book, Hood steals the show whenever he's in.
Coworker loaned me Tsarina by J. Nelle Patrick knowing my interest in Rasputin and the Romanovs. So far, so very, very good. A little different for me, romance and such, but I'm enjoying it so far.
Agree with you about the cover art on the Mistborn books; I, too, would not have looked at them had my local bookstore (whose staff are enthusiastic and knowledgeable about books, and one of whom is a passionate reader of interesting fantasy who offers recommendations) suggested them. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the series.
For myself, I am re-reading Arundhati Roy's stunning, beautifully written, (and intensely politically aware) book: 'The God Of Small Things'.
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Finished Tsarina, I am not a fan of YA which is what this sadly was. Good concepts, very well written and fun tweaks but the emo teenagers put me off.
Zipped through Mountain Man Pike 7 this morning. Expected dime novel frontier trash and that's what I got. No issues there.
Noticed the 'library' at my job has Dan Simmons' Children of the Night. So I'm going to read that next.
Finished Tsarina, I am not a fan of YA which is what this sadly was. Good concepts, very well written and fun tweaks but the emo teenagers put me off.
Zipped through Mountain Man Pike 7 this morning. Expected dime novel frontier trash and that's what I got. No issues there.
Noticed the 'library' at my job has Dan Simmons' Children of the Night. So I'm going to read that next.
This is not a book I have read (nor even, if I am honest, heard of). Is it worth reading? Do you recommend it?
so long and thanks for all the fish.
the fourth book in a trilogy.
Ah, the sublime Douglas Adams. Wonderful stuff, sheer unadulterated class.
I do; it is a very interesting analysis of the US Media system (and presented with empirical data), albeit written in 1988 and so not very recent.
Ha, enjoy!
I finished book 6 "The Dead in their Vaulted Arches" at 3 this morning. After a frenzy of Flavia de Luce, I hope I can manage a break until book 7 or the TV series.
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so long and thanks for all the fish.
the fourth book in a trilogy.
Have you read Douglas Adam's Dirk Gently series: The Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul?
Coincidentally The Verge had a review recently.
They are my absolute favorites. He was working on a third Dirk Gently when he died. I wish to God California-culture hadn't prodded with him a stick to begin exercising. Yes, his arteries would've hardened some more but maybe we would have had a few more books. Eeee, so selfish of me...
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Ha, enjoy!
I finished book 5 "The Dead in their Vaulted Arches" at 3 this morning. After a frenzy of Flavia de Luce, I hope I can manage a break until book 6 or the TV series.
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i will pick them up shortly...
Reading "In Search Of The Trojan War" (the updated edition; I read the original back in the mid 1980s), by the British historian Michael Wood.
