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Cocoa Design Patterns, Apricot Jam and Just Fix-It (recommended here a couple of years ago)

Penthouse Letters.

Magazines and books? What are those?

as rodney dangerfield said, "I don't read pornography. I don't even have a pornograph!"

I have been on a history kick for the last year.

Water and power (about the theft of the Owen's valley water rights by LA). I finished it a while back, but I can't take it off the nightstand.

Blood and thunder (about Kit Carson and the settlement\conquering of the west). Half way through.

They both put our ranquous political times in needed perspective. We live an an era of unparalleled transparency.

Btw, Polk was a unappreciated man of epic proportions, and a Eunuch to boot!

Then why did they call him Polk?

reminds me of another netflix feature I watched.

Lonesome Dove.

Man did that series love saying pokes and whores. Was that on network in the 80's. Could they air that today without HBO?

Hope and Help for your Nerves.
For any of you who suffer from anxiety. Amazing. It has brought me back from nervous breakdown/agoraphobia more than once.
TMI? :)

They are the best (written as if they were true) stories from Penthouse Letters to the Editor, extracted and put into paperback books.

I worked nightshift at a convenience store to get through college, learned a lot about the differences between men and women and what they purchased in the middle of the night when the store was empty: men would come in and buy magazines with all photos, minimal stories; women would come in and buy P.L. with all stories, no photos.

On nightstand? I have Kindle Fire and iPad. Stopped using the paper kind long time ago.

Right now I am reading: "Copycats: How Smart Companies Use Imitation to Gain a Strategic Edge"

The Wealthy Barber - David Chilton (light read but reminded me of a couple of financial health things I need to update.)

Your Money or Your Life - Vicki Robbin. (less of a light read - about transforming your view of money and spending etc... to give you more freedom.)

Free lunch - David Johnston. A discussion of how f'd up and interwoven our political and financial systems are.

And I have "Private Empire" on hold at the library.

It's easy for me to know what's on my nightstand - just log onto the library. I've gotten too cheap to buy books. :)

Ok reality is what is on my nightstand?

Legoland Magazine and Princess Books. My kid took over my nightstand the day she insisted on reading together every night.

You guys are lucky you still have time to read what you want.

Mostly fiction.

Recently finished Hunger Games, and despite it being marketed as young adult, it was really good. Looking forward to reading the next book in the series.

Liked Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke a lot.

Currently reading Steven King's 11/22/63 which I like a good bit. First Steven King I've liked to be honest. It's a lot like The Time Travel's Wife, which was also very good.

I haven't read it yet, but really looking forward to David Liss' book A Conspiracy of Paper.

In the non-fiction dept. I recently read Backstage Wall Street and Steve Jobs. They were okay but not page turners.

Last but not least, recently read Thinking Fast and Slow. One of the best non-fiction reads I've had in several years.

XBoxBoy

Fun thread. This thread could be renamed "What does your nightstand tell about you?"

Here's mine:
Allure magazine.
Whole Dog Journal.
The Gold Coast by Kim Stanley Robinson. (before that was Nathaniel Philbrick novels)

Wait I also found.

I found this funny edited by Judd apatow

and the anthologist by Nicholson baker.

"Steve Jobs" yes I'm still reading it, one chapter at a time. Anything Walter Isaacson writes is good in my opinion. Currently watching "Game of Thrones", will probably want to read that next.

Don't buy physical books much anymore but I have lots and lots and lots of zombie novels on my phone. Also:

-the Born to Bleed books by Ryan C Thomas (nerd-boy with guns kills lots of douchebags)
-atlas shrugged (the world collapses because a bunch of douchebags pout)
-milestones by qutb sayyid (how to change society and defeat the douchebags through islam)
-steve jobs (the world leaps forward thanks to a complete douchebag)
-the entire game of thrones series (lots of humping and swords and occasional douchebags)
-California Tenants Rights (NOLO)
-Lucifer's Hammer (noble engineers practice douchebaggery by defeating cannibals with flamethrowers)
-Earth Abides (all the douchebags die)
-First Time Landlord (how to be less of a douchebag)
-And (weirdly) 3 copies of the kindle user's guide.

Panzer Aces - German tank commanders of WW2.

Do they call you Madam?

Not exactly. They call me the man that wants to know what women like to read so much that they'll come in at 3 AM to purchase it.

The more fun I can give her, the more fun I have. :-)