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monikam
QUOTE (Jessi C @ Feb 23 2010, 12:40 PM) *
I did an independent study on serial killers in high school and find them fascinating from a psychological point of view. I'd love to check this book out, who wrote it? And I'm with you, I read a lot of nonfiction because I like to learn.


I'm with you both.. lol.. this book was actually already on my my list. I love learning what's behind various personality disorders and minds of psychopaths are probably the most interesting.
Songsparrow
I'm reading 'Chat up lines for the middle aged man'
chrismh
QUOTE (monikam @ Feb 24 2010, 02:07 PM) *
After you mentioned it I went to my bookstore website and read couple of pages from it. It sounds so interesting it's now on my list of books to read.


I'm not finished yet but I can't wait to. We're getting 2 feet of snow starting tonight into Friday so I'm sure I'll find time in between shoveling! LOL
kim1963
The name is Probing the Mind of a Serial Killer by Jack Apsche ...the book I just finished is called How to make a serial killer ..and that was very good as well .
Another great book is called I use to paint houses ..its about Jimmy Hoffa told by the Irishman who worked along side him for years .. he told the story on his death bed .

the meaning of the name is Code for I use to kill people ...they used paint houses because that is what they would say when being told who to kill ...they would say ..." go paint jimmys house " lol crazy .
Ernest Friedman-Hill
QUOTE (Songsparrow @ Feb 24 2010, 05:21 PM) *
I'm reading 'Chat up lines for the middle aged man'


Is that the new Mark Sanford bio?
monikam
QUOTE (kim1963 @ Feb 24 2010, 09:19 PM) *
the meaning of the name is Code for I use to kill people ...they used paint houses because that is what they would say when being told who to kill ...they would say ..." go paint jimmys house " lol crazy .


lol omg laugh.gif
TaniaBee
I just started reading "Plain Truth" by Jodi Picoult

So far so good - but i like all her books... they great!!
Mindy__
I've finished reading "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte. I've never been much of a literature reader, but a friend gave it to me and so I gave it a try. It was surprisingly easy to understand, despite the slightly poetic way of wording things, and the way in which the plot is laid out really pulls you in and haunts you. I'm very glad to have read it.
Agapetos
Reading ...
Great Fool: Zen Master Ryokan - Poems, Letters, and Other Writings
by Ryokan, Ryuichi Abe, and Peter Haskel

About the book: Taigu Ryokan (1759-1831) remains one of the most popular figures in Japanese Buddhist history. Despite his religious and artistic sophistication, Ryokan referred to himself as "Great Fool" and refused to place himself within the cultural elite of his age. In contrast to the typical Zen master of his time, who presided over a large monastery, trained students, and produced recondite religious treatises, Ryokan followed a life of mendicancy in the countryside. Instead of delivering sermons, he expressed himself through kanshi (poems composed in classical Chinese) and waka and could typically be found playing with the village children in the course of his daily rounds of begging. Great Fool is the first study in a Western language to offer a comprehensive picture of the legendary poet-monk and his oeuvre. It includes not only an extensive collection of the master's kanshi, topically arranged to facilitate an appreciation of Ryokan's colorful world, but selections of his waka, essays, and letters. The volume also presents for the first time in English the Ryokan zenji kiwa (Curious Accounts of the Zen Master Ryokan), a firsthand source composed by a former student less than sixteen years after Ryokan's death.
Brian.May
Most of what I have been reading lately has been web design, social media marketing and such, not very exciting I know! Outside of that I have been reading a sculpture book by Malvina Hoffman which I am almost done with. Other than that its work, renovating, educating and somewhere in there is art.
nanadiyaa
im reading now.. ""forgiveness the greatest healer of all""..this book to>>Gerald C. Jambolsky<<
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2D.
I've just finished The Hobbit and I've moved straight onto the Fellowship. I'm going through a bit of a Tolkien phase at the moment!
Brian.May
Typography Milestones
Type & Typefaces
and the ever riveting CSS, DHTML & AJAX 4th edition!!!
Aside from that, I might re-read The Screwtape Letters or perhaps the last Clive Barker book I bought.
Probably be more technical books though!!
Agapetos
Watercolor Painting For Dummies
by Colette Pitcher

I'm at the 2. chapter and so far it's a pretty good book with lots of very useful information. I've done my first watercolor painting and I've really liked it.
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