What are you reading mark II

[Firemeboy]

Just finished On Second Thought, and enjoyed it immensely.  Other than that, I'm mainly reading texts and articles for school; nothing to write home about.  Though I do enjoy poring over Wired magazine every month I get that...

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I'm reading Net+ and A+ study guides for school and software manuals for work. I have a lot to do here at work.

[Firemeboy]

Just started The Prisoner's Dilemma by Poundstone, as well as The Survival Game by Barash.  Both Game theory books.  

I'm also reading A Series of Unfortunate Events to my kids.

[Fellfrosch]

My kids are too young to really follow a novel from day to day, so I just read them storybooks. I taught my daughter Uno yesterday, though, so that was cool. She's pretty good.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

My daughter's pretty all right at Uno. I plan on reading Harry Potter to her as soon as she stops being distressed by chase scenes in Disney movies.

[Archon]

A bookstore in our town just shut down, a tragedy of terrible proportions. But some good came out of it, as they had a going out of business sale, and I got a bunch of books for not a lot of money. Out of those books, I am currently starting Beowulf and Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold (I never read one book at a time).

[Firemeboy]

My brothers and I came up with a variation on Uno that we dubbed, "contact uno" and is very fun to play.  I'll have to dig up the rules...

[Firemeboy]

Looks like the rules are too long.  

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Submit them as an article. If we like them enough, we'll run them.

[Oldie Black Witch]

I'm probably going to finish reading Prisoner of Azkaban to my 6-year-old son tonight. I'm still debating on starting to read Goblet of Fire to him because of the ending. But then again, he may be okay with it.

[MsFish]

I just finished The Devil Wears Prada.  Broke down and bought a copy on my layover in LA, because my copy had been due back at the library and I wanted to finish it.  I may get stoned for bringing this up here, because it's a very trendy book--but I LOVED it.  It makes fun of just about everything about graduating college and trying to figure out what you're doing with your life and magazines and the fashion industry and psycho bosses.  It's the kind of book that makes me VERY happy.

[stacer]

I am currently re-reading my childhood favorite, the Trixie Belden series. They've republished them again, this time with very nice covers. Always amuses me that they always update the covers to contemporary-looking characters, but the text and the inner illustrations are still just the same as when the books were originally published in the 1960s. It always confused me as a kid, because I couldn't dream, as a 13-year-old, to have to go to the restroom with my best friend to "powder my nose" and "apply fresh lipstick," and I certainly never used the word "jeepers."

But I loved this series so much, when I was in the 4th grade I decided to form my very own Bobwhites club, even though I had no one but my sister to be in my club. (Didn't have many friends that year. Even if I did, they would have thought I was a dork.)

[Peter Ahlstrom]

Trixie Belden books are great. Which ones did they republish? Just the Carolyn ones? or the Kathleen ones too?

[EDIT: Sorry. I have the names all mixed up...]

[stacer]

All of them up to #14, which is both authors. I think Carolyn only did the first 3 or so. Kathryn Kenny is listed as the author in #8, the Mystery of the Black Jacket. I got 7, 8, and 9 for free from the Horn Book last semester, and they're all by Kathryn, actually, and 1, 2, and 3 are written by Julie Campbell. Carolyn Keene is Nancy Drew, I think.

(This actually counts as homework, as I'm reviewing them for class for tomorrow, as a MG/YA series.)

[stacer]

Oh, and something interesting about the new edition: the authors' names are NOT printed on the covers. Weird, huh? The ugly paperbacks I had as a kid at least had the authors' names given proper credit on the cover, not just the title page. I know my old paperbacks are in a box somewhere, and it saddens me that I don't know where they are so I can compare. I had a horrible beaten up copy of #14, the one where they find the emerald necklace somewhere in a southern mansion. It was beaten up and used when I got it, and I reread it so many times. I think it must be in my sister's basement or something. There is a box of books *somewhere* that I've been missing for years, and it bugs me to try to remember whose house in Illinois it's been stored at all these years.