OT: what books are on your nightstand?

[scaredyclassic]

right now…what are you reading/intending to read, perusing as you fall to sleep and stacked by your bedside right now?

KING SQUAT (history of the squat in america, by yarnell.
THE KEYS TO PROGRESS (collected strength and health magazine articles from the 70s) McCallum.
KELSO’S SHRUG BOOK (the art of the shrug.
IRON NATION drew israel.
THE PALE KING. david foster wallace.
various Harper’s magazines.

[all]

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

[svelte]

Penthouse Letters.

[Coronita]

[quote=svelte]Penthouse Letters.[/quote]

Magazines and books? What are those?

[scaredyclassic]

as rodney dangerfield said, “I don’t read pornography. I don’t even have a pornograph!”

[jstoesz]

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 settlementconquering 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!

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=jstoesz]
Btw, Polk was a unappreciated man of epic proportions, and a Eunuch to boot![/quote]

Then why did they call him Polk?

[jstoesz]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=jstoesz]
Btw, Polk was a unappreciated man of epic proportions, and a Eunuch to boot![/quote]

Then why did they call him Polk?[/quote]

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?

[lpjohnso]

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? 🙂

[svelte]

[quote=flu][quote=svelte]Penthouse Letters.[/quote]

Magazines and books? What are those?[/quote]

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.

[carlsbadworker]

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”

[UCGal]

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. 🙂

[Coronita]

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.

[XBoxBoy]

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

[Ricechex]

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)

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