What Are You Reading??

Noodles, stop me if I'm telling you the bloody obvious but Spike's war trilogy eventually became 6, or maybe 7, volumes.  In order, they are
"Adolf Hitler, my part in his downfall"
"Rommel?  Gunner who?"
"Monty, his part in my victory"
"Mussolini, his part in my downfall"
"Where have all the bullets gone?" and
"Goodbye soldier"

There may have been a 7th volume, but I've only got 6.

"Rivertown"  good read.

Hey Newbs, Yeah i've read the others that's why i got these two. Although not read where have all the bullets gone.

For the life of me i can't remember his books about the Irish guy/family living in London. Also great fun and i'd love to read again.

Books on Laws of Attraction, the Secret, multiple magazines on Interior Design and many many more things. I am multi-taskingreading!!!

I have this new contract starting, very important, no textbook, so I have been reading a lot about curriculum planning from the internet.  It has really centred me, on how to go about doing this.  I have downloaded a lot about this global company as well.
Haven't actually read a book for a while, novels bore me now, whereas I used to love them.

Two good books available in Foreign Language Bookstores are:

TEACHER'S HANDBOOK: Contextualized Language Instruction
Original Book ISBN 0-8384-1465-6


DESIGNING LANGUAGE COURSES: A Guide for Teachers.
Original book ISBN 0-8384.7909-%

Both books by Heinle and Heinle

Two good books available in Foreign Language Bookstores are:

TEACHER'S HANDBOOK: Contextualized Language Instruction
Original Book ISBN 0-8384-1465-6


DESIGNING LANGUAGE COURSES: A Guide for Teachers.
Original book ISBN 0-8384.7909-%

Both books by Heinle and Heinle

Jade, This would be good info over in the "Teachers Tips" thread. IN fact, may need a "Curriculum/Course Development" thread all it's own.


And a tad off topic.....(it's about writin' a reader okay?)
Oh, does anybody remember when in saloon one there was an attempt to write a saloon course book? Now, I know Raoul has the market on the concierge, room service, wait staff, cabbie, pink hair-dresser training manuals/supplements but is there a group here working on a basic primer. (I know there's a joke to follow this with too but my thoughts fail me)

The Zahir, by Coehlo. i stole it from a hostel in Shanghai, and so far it's good

The complete works of Orhan Pamuk. It's for work, but they are actually really good.

The Zahir, by Coehlo. i stole it from a hostel in Shanghai, and so far it's good

that book is amazing... I read it twice this year and will probably do it again soon! just love it... no one writes obsession and passion like Coelho does

How come this thread falls away so fast and the movie thread stays up there?

My books from Amazon arrived with 2 books by Eric Frank Russell in them - and not just books - compendia! The first is short stories, the 2nd 5 novels.

Nice for this weather.

William Faulkner: A Light In August.

Re-reading The Secret Garden and The Three Musketeers.

AJ thanks for that.  Teleplayer they are books.  Don't be so anal.  The OP asked what books are you reading, I am actually researching books to buy on the internet on this subject, and maybe I will read them.  Am I being too broad?
I am currently reading Cat in The Hat to my grandson.  I am not enjoying it at all.
Why is this book so popular?

A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller Jr.

"There were spaceships again that century, and the ships were manned by fuzzy impossibilities that walked on two legs and sprouted tufts of hair in unlikely anatomical regions.  They were a garrulous kind.  They belonged to a race quite capable of admiring its own image in a mirror, and equally capable of cutting its own throat before the altar of some tribal god, such as the deity of Daily Shaving.  It was a species that often considered itself to be, basically, a race of divinely inspired toolmakers; any intelligent entity from Arcturus would instantly have perceived them to be, basically, a race of impassioned after-dinner speechmakers."

Speaks for itself.

Woza, get a hold of "the political Dr Seuss" if you can, a good doco on the man. The point is that unlike most kids writers, he is using concepts (like equality and other good things for people to learn) as mythopoetic ideals for the kids to absorb.

Combining that with reading "The Key" mentioned earlier, the long term effect of such writings in the population can be seen.

I too am reading some of his books, but I am enjoying them. Wife seeing them for the first time, heh. She wants to see how they turn out.

Nearly finished century rain by Alastair Reynolds. Good ultra-cyberpunk sf.

Dr. Seuss is great. A friend just brought a bunch of his stuff from Canada. The kid loves Hop on Pop. I personally can't get enough of Green Eggs and Ham.