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I'm doing required reading for work - Hardwiring Excellence by Quint Studer. For anyone in healthcare, it really deserves to be required reading. If you're not in healthcare but you'd like to learn a useful approach for improving any company (or department) you work in this book is worth reading.

HOWEVER, there is one little problem. It keeps making me want to stand up in a meeting and quote the immortal Ricky Bobby from Talladega Nights, "I wake up in the morning and I piss excellence¹"



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¹ Actually, I piss yesterday's mead, but I can assure you it was excellent yesterday. :D
 
psychopomp23 said:
I use my kindle for all my RPG books in pdf...I must have about 100 pdf now of them...i know geeky but it beats paying 30-40$ a book and carrying them to sessions!
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I don't think I could do that, it drives me absolutely bonkers not to be able to stick my thumb in the book while I look up something elsewhere in the same book... or does Kindle let you put multiple tags? I know my Kobo only holds one location per book...

Medsen Fey said:
¹ Actually, I piss yesterday's mead, but I can assure you it was excellent yesterday. :D
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If we were kids, I'd dare you :)
 
Almost halfway through Mystic Warrior by Tracy & Laura Hickman. I really enjoy all of TH's stuff, he has such a wide range of talent. Funny thing, I always assumed Tracy was a woman's name, so I was a bit surprised to see Laura's name.

Since my father's name is Connie, I should know better than to assume gender - I should know better than to assume anything.
 
xopher425 said:
Almost halfway through Mystic Warrior by Tracy & Laura Hickman. I really enjoy all of TH's stuff, he has such a wide range of talent. Funny thing, I always assumed Tracy was a woman's name, so I was a bit surprised to see Laura's name.

Since my father's name is Connie, I should know better than to assume gender - I should know better than to assume anything.
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I also assumed Tracy Hickman was a woman. I'm reading my eldest the Dragonlance Chronicles; we're in the middle of book 2. I'm diggin' rereading these, since they were my introduction to fantasy and DnD.

For my self, I'm reading Dance with Dragons. I sped through the first few books, but I can't seem to gain momentum on this one, knowing that the next in the series has yet to be published.

I'm also almost caught up on my backlog of Scientific Americans. For awhile, I was over two years behind.
 
I loved the DragonLance series, but couldn't get into the others. Then I made the worst mistake: I loaned the first book to a kid at work who did not return it when he suddenly quit. Never returned calls and texts . . . . I should legally be allowed to hunt him down. Next time someone borrows a book it is going to be signed out in blood.

Here's a very cool pic of Tracy with Margaret

Just got an advanced, pre-print edition of The Iron King from GoodReads.com. I have to submit a review as part of the advanced reader club. It's the new English translation of the first of seven books by a French author, Maurice Druon. It's about the downfall of the Capetian Kings and the start of the Hundred Year War. George RR Martin calls it the "Original Game of Thrones." That's why I picked it for my list of books, didn't realize it was a fact based story (don't know if I can handle that lol). Got a few pages into it, actually started to pull me in. Have to finish one book before I can finish this one.

I get my books at thrifties, so I rarely get a whole series at once, so I've had to get used to waiting and jumping around. It just means that I get to reread the first books again.
 
You should just expect to never see that book again when you loan one out. Someone still has my MTG Brothers war... Ill never see it again.

I picked up "Eating the Dinosaur" which is a collection of essays by Chuck Klausterman in the bargain section of my LBS (Local book store). I'd be lying if I said I didn't buy it for the title / Cover art. However it's pretty interesting and has nothing to do with eating or dinosaurs. Back to Game of thrones book 5. I really need to finish it before reading other stuff; But it's just so boring compared to the first three.
 
"A Manual or an Easy Method of Managing Bees" by John Moseley Weeks, from 1836. Very interesting read on how they did things way back when. Plus free download on Kindle

Previous book "The Practical Distiller: An Introduction to Making Whiskey, Gin, Brandy, Spirits" by Samuel McHarry. From 1809. Another interesting historical read, also free on Kindle.
 
I so adore Anansi Boys, and American Gods. (BTW, have you tried looking up the recipe for the funereal wine he mentions? lol.)

Few weeks ago finished a book called Memories by Lois McMaster Bujold. Found it interesting, and only mention it, because it's the very first book I've read that mentions mead, specifically maple mead. Odd, since it's science fiction; would have assumed that I'd have seen mead mentioned in one of the many fantasy books I've read - seems a more logical place to find it.
 
Shakespear's Local : Six Centuries of History Seen Through One Extroardinary Pub : Pete Brown

About the George Pub in Southwark/London, amusing and informative about British history of Pubs and Inns...
 
Application of Impossible Things
by Natalie Sudman

An unexpected melange of Victor Frankl's Search for Meaning, Kushner's Good People, Moody's Life After Life...

A civilian contractor with the Army Corps of Engineers gets exploded in Iraq, lives to tell about it and makes the stunning assertion that she agreed to be bombed, dismembered, blinded. And healed.

Amusingly, entertainingly, wittily written. An invitation to the Shamanic consciousness. Astonishing.

I wish I were a physicist, perhaps I'd understand this a bit better. It's over my head. Not that this is a book for just any physicist. Certainly not. Just that I wish I were a physicist.
 
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