What book are you reading right now?

[SydneyK]

Originally Posted by AZ-AlphaXi

The Bletchley Park Code Breakers.

We discuss this (specifically, Turing and his Bombe machine) in my logic class. The students always seem to get into the lesson. There's a related movie coming out later this year - The Imitation Game. I'm really looking forward to it!

What I'm reading:
The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling
So far, I'm a bit disappointed. I haven't read much, though, so I'm hoping my assessment is off-base.

[Tom Earp]

Darwins Children.

[Sciencewoman]

Originally Posted by SydneyK

What I'm reading:
The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling
So far, I'm a bit disappointed. I haven't read much, though, so I'm hoping my assessment is off-base.

I felt the same way...none of the characters are likeable. I'm glad I stuck with it, though...I was moved to tears by the end. I felt it explained J.K. Rowling's Lumos Foundation focus. Please come back and tell me what you think after you've finished reading it!

[SydneyK]

Originally Posted by SydneyK

What I'm reading:
The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling
So far, I'm a bit disappointed. I haven't read much, though, so I'm hoping my assessment is off-base.

Originally Posted by Sciencewoman

I felt the same way...none of the characters are likeable. I'm glad I stuck with it, though...I was moved to tears by the end. I felt it explained J.K. Rowling's Lumos Foundation focus. Please come back and tell me what you think after you've finished reading it!

Well, I'd like to report back with my thoughts, but I simply never got into it enough to finish it. I very rarely start a book and not finish it - I feel like a quitter when I do that. But The Casual Vacancy just didn't do anything for me. When I had spare time, I wasn't inclined to read it. When I tried to read it, my mind wandered and I'd find myself reading the same sentence over and over. It just couldn't hold my attention when I was reading it, so I gave up.

So, now, I'm reading The Circle by Dave Eggers. I'm loving this one! I picked it up yesterday and am a third of the way through. It's tough to put down.

[TonyB06]

Mistress. ....by James Patterson

[cheerfulgreek]

I'm reading Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku. I read his other book Physics of the Impossible and loved it. I love astronomy. I actually like it more than I do animals/wild life.

And all this time, I thought galaxy M-87 looked like a massive ball of stars with a strange tail emerging from it. It's just that since it emitted large quantities of radiation, at one point I though that weird "tail" thingy represented a stream of antimatter. But, according to Kaku (my other husband ) it's actually energized by a huge black hole weighing perhaps 3-billion solar masses. And that strange "tail" is now believed to be a very large jet of plasma which is streaming out of, not into, the galaxy.