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[Joods]

Currently reading "The Heir" by Kiera Cass. It's the fourth book out of five in The Selection series.

[PETE_ROSE]

Read the Bible in the month of January. Read the Holman Study Bible this time. I thought it brought new insight but believe I still prefer the King James for its flow and prose.

Reading through it at that pace did not lend much time for study and reflection, but it was educational.

It was enjoyable to revisit stories and passages I had forgotten.

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About to finish Enhanced Interrogation by Dr James Mitchell.

It was a quick read and not written with any poetic flair or big $5 words. Dr Mitchell was one of the main behavioral psychologists that developed and applied the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques to a little more than a dozen of the high value detainees captured after 9/11.

It's a little him CYOA at times but it does give insight on these men (radical Islamic terrorists), their thought processes and such. He attempts to address and refute some erronious information he claims is out there regarding the interrogation methods and what really happened at the CIA black sites he worked at.

[Rev. Rye]

HHhH by Laurent Binet. It's the story of SS thug/co-architect of the Holocaust/all-around evil guy Reinhard Heydrich, the plot to assassinate him, and the author's attempt at telling it, and his attempt to tell it as truthfully as he can.

[Ravenshire]

Finished re-reading/catching up on the Mercy Thompson series, at least until the end of the month when I'll finally be able to check out the new one. Quick, fun reads, but I think i'll still put the Toby Daye, The Hollows and Dresden ahead of them for urban fantasy books. I should also be finishing my re-read/catch up of the Foreigner books by C.J. Cherryh just in time for the new one in April.

[The Industrial Atheist]

Just finished Michael Moorcock's Phoenix in Obsidian. It's a part of his Eternal Champion series. Basically this guy, John Daker keeps getting reincarnated as a different warrior with supernatural powers. In this book he's especially miserable because he can't be with his honey from his last incarnation, The Eldren princess Ermizahd.

Well actually his powers are often tied directly to his weapon.

[NaughtyButNice]

[Mister Agenda]

Currently reading Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea, by Mark Kurlansky. Very interesting, particularly on the Maori nonviolent resistance movement, which I wasn't aware of. Maybe too many what-ifs, like 'maybe the Albigensians wouldn't have been completely wiped out if many of them hadn't chosen violent resistance'.

[Ravenshire]

Been reading the Miles Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold. They are great reads, but if you choose to read them, I would highly recommend getting a suggested reading order from the web. eadin them in publication order (as I have been) can really leave you scratching your head wondering what you missed, until two or three books later when that pivotal character finally gets introduced.

Still, they're great sci-fi books and well worth reading, even if you get them out of order.

[pocaracas]

Today, I went to Oxford and peeked into Blackwell's book store... they had tons of books on "3 for 2"...

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[Kernel Sohcahtoa]

I've been reading Logically fallacious: The ultimate collection of over 300 logical fallacies by Bo Bennett.  Now, I've never been into debating, but this book is getting me interested in watching more debates and examining the validity and soundness of the logic being used by the debaters along with looking for any fallacies that are committed and seeing how debaters capitalize on the fallacies of their opponents while recovering from fallacies that they commit.