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Trying to avoid the internet lately, and all this obsessing about the "war" in Somalia. So I've gone back to my favorite pastime: reading.

I'm reading "Probability Moon" by Nancy Kress; science fiction. It won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, but so far (about 1/3 through) I can't figure out why. Maybe these awards no longer mean what they used to.

I'm also reading "The Souls of Black Folk" by WEB Du Bois, the famed civil rights activist. This is far more interesting than I would've figured, not being much of a social sciences buff. It's an exposition on what it means to be Black in America at the end of the 19th century. Very poetic and eloquent, I've been telling everyone to read it Smile

What's everyone reading in between checking out partisan "news" sites for the latest in Somalia?
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Iam reading the alchemist by Paolo cohelo
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Prag you should try Peter f Hamiltons work..
they are quite volumnous but gripping.
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simon schama- rough crossings

kate muir –left bank
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gurey, I've been meaning to try his work; somehow I always forget when I get to the bookstore.

Blue Rush, those sound like bookclub books Smile. Do you like 'em?
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