What are you reading?

[cinnamongrrl]

I'm finally engaged...in a wonderful book. Its been a while since I found one I could sink my brain into...

I'm reading Thomas Jefferson: The art of power by Jon Meacham

Its a very interesting book about an amazing man. I even read the prologue...which I never do...

[SoulShineFemme]

I finished The Tenth Insight by James Redfield and moved on to Birth of a Killer by Darren Shan

[Humanesque]

Churchill- Roy Jenkins

[The JD]

I'm reading the Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1.

And yes, I'm a fan of the TV show, though late to the table. I know there are some major plot differences between the TV show and the comic book, and that reading the comic book will not solve the Big Cliffhanger of the current season, but I'm invested enough in the characters now to care about them in the comic form.

Only 2 more compendiums to go!

[Kätzchen]

I'm going to be on a 4 day holiday, over the weekend, and although I'm keeping my plans open, I'm going to read novels by Chaim Potok. I will probably save my very favorite book of all his books for the last, which is titled The Chosen.

The first time I read The Chosen, I was a sophomore in high school. The story of David and his struggle with his father, life at school and at home and conflicts within his family, has stayed with me since long ago.

Here's an excerpt from the very first page:

"When a trout rising to a fly gets hooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him.

In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him. Sometimes he masters his difficulties; sometimes they are too much for him. His struggles are all that the world sees and it naturally misunderstands them.

It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one..." (Karl A.Menninger).

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[Martina]

Goatsong by Tom Holt

[deathbypoem]

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[Kobi]

"Ann Burack-Weiss, a gerontologist with more than forty years of experience, analyzes and engages with the writings of a dozen well-known authors for insights into old age. Featured are Maya Angelou, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Joan Didion, M.F.K Fisher, Doris Grumbach, Carolyn Heilburn, Doris Lessing, Florida Scott-Maxwell, May Sarton, Anne Roiphe, and Alexis Kate Shulman, among others, all of whom wrote about essential issues in old age including physical changes and disability, living alone, reflecting on and revaluing the past, generativity, public life, and the changing roles of family and friends. Burack-Weiss frames the reading of these texts in relevant theory and research including an introduction that discusses narrative theory and developmental, gerontological, and feminist perspectives on the older woman" -- Provided by publisher.

[pamela]

just found this:

https://www.literotica.com/s/chance-encounter-22

[deathbypoem]

http://www.loris-song.com/images/cover_1_-337x512.jpg


This book had me on the edge of my seat, needless to say. I was near vomiting in many parts of this book because WARNING: It is very explicit. The survival instinct kicks in and the rest is history. Here is a link below for more information about Lori and her book and the horrendous journey she had to endure. True story.

http://www.loris-song.com/

[cinnamongrrl]

I'm reading French Broad by Wilma Dykeman

Its a factual narrative about a local river, the French Broad, and its history beginning in the 1700s. So far I have learned much. I didn't anticipate that so many local "heroes" would be guilty of genocide (of the Cherokee) though.

It does relate how the river helped with trading and is the main reason why towns (like Asheville) came into existence so long ago when settling here was such a difficult thing.

I'm immersing myself in local history. I'm hoping this will be the first book of many on the subject.

[trixie]

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer

Hot Money by Dick Francis


Nothing very challenging but enjoyable nonetheless.

[afrcnqueen]

Deadly Proof: A Victorian San Francisco by M. Louisa Locke

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

[TheHinduPose]

Reread of an old friend .......

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[angelface]

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[cinnamongrrl]

Reread of an old friend .......

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I would love to start a sub thread on books that people re-read.

There aren't many books that I can honestly say I've done this with. The only one that comes to mind is Little Women. Sometimes I just need its comfort.

This discludes poetry of course. That can be re-read infinitely and you still get a different feel from it.

Any which way, I figure that books that people return to have a higher merit than others. Just my happy little opinion :)

[Fancy]

Just beginning for a book club meeting later this month...

Sula
by Toni Morrison

[Greco]

"Felicity" by Mary Oliver

Her latest poetry collection...exquisite.

Greco

[cinnamongrrl]

"Felicity" by Mary Oliver

Her latest poetry collection...exquisite.

Greco


I just found a box of books I somehow didn't unpack and I was delighted to find a book of Mary Oliver's poetry within....

I knew I had a book of her poems somewhere.... :)

[Genesis]

Currently reading a beautiful article on how Wolf dogs have shown to help
Veterans who suffer with PTSD cope with it better.
Here is the article: Healing with Wolves (http://upliftconnect.com/healing-trauma-with-wolves/)

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[Katniss]

Like so many others that were shocked and sadden by the recent bombings in Paris I sought solace in the familiar. What better way to honor that lovely city than with a re-read of Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast?" I went to order the book as I had long since given my copy away when I discovered there is now a "revised" edition. I have mixed feeling on "revisions" (go ahead, ask me how I feel about 'Anne Frank' revisions) and this one is getting some rather mixed reviews. Apparently a grandson was not thrilled with how his grandmother (Hemingway's second wife) was portrayed so he revised "A Moveable Feast" more to his liking. I have been teeter-tottering on which to read, the original or the revised. I suppose for the sake of nostalgia it will have to be the original. C'est la vie.......

Katniss~~

[randrum]

The Spectre Trilogy: Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service & You Only Live Twice
By Ian Fleming

[jools66]

i have abandoned the bio about mark cavendish.
i just get one with it.
i may get the danish girl on kindle.
cant wait for the film to come out.

[Fancy]

i have abandoned the bio about mark cavendish.
i just get one with it.
i may get the danish girl on kindle.
cant wait for the film to come out.

Will you read Danish Girl first or watch the film first? I only ask because I'd love to see the movie, and may not have patience or time enough to read the book first. :) Ah, predicaments...

[Fancy]

Reading various scripts for potential theatre projects next year; even though I said I'd take a break from directing. Oh well. :glasses:

A few playwrights on my list:
Albi Gorn
Lillian Hellman
Robert Patrick

[jools66]

Will you read Danish Girl first or watch the film first? I only ask because I'd love to see the movie, and may not have patience or time enough to read the book first. :) Ah, predicaments...

I will go and see the film first.
I do this because after reading the book to the film Carol first, I didn't get along
With the film the first time round.
So this time I will read the book after.
Its in cinemas on the 1st january over here in the uk.

[angelface]

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[JustLovelyJenn]

Divergent... I am loving the book as much as the movie.

[Greco]

"After You" by Jojo Moyes

Author from UK...good one.

Greco

[Bubala]

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[homoe]

Getting Back Rizzo, Cindy

[randrum]

I've been feeling the urge to read the Lord of the Ring trilogy again, so I obviously had to start with "The Hobbit".

[Glenn]

A very good, long, light, read -The best and most extensive James Thurber collection ever assembled by The Library Of America, complete with cartoons and drawings. He was one funny guy!

[Genesis]

Currently reading a New York Times Article on : Medicating Women's Feelings... (http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/opinion/sunday/medicating-womens-feelings.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=1&referer)

[Fancy]

NeuroTribes: The legacy of autism and how to think smarter about people who think differently
By Steve Silberman

[easygoingfemme]

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

[afrcnqueen]

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie



I'm curious about the author. Have you read her works before?
A friend just lent me The Thing Around your neck. Looking forward to the read.

[easygoingfemme]

I'm curious about the author. Have you read her works before?
A friend just lent me The Thing Around your neck. Looking forward to the read.

This is the first book of hers I've read. I started it last spring and then had to put it down for a bit. I packed it for a train ride the other day and got 130 pages in and am hooked. Very much looking forward to reading her other works. A friend of mine told me that all 11th graders in a high school in Sweden were given a copy of her book We Should All Be Feminists.

[afrcnqueen]

This is the first book of hers I've read. I started it last spring and then had to put it down for a bit. I packed it for a train ride the other day and got 130 pages in and am hooked. Very much looking forward to reading her other works. A friend of mine told me that all 11th graders in a high school in Sweden were given a copy of her book We Should All Be Feminists.



I just read the reviews on 'We Should All Be Feminists.' I may add it to my list of purchases. Thanks for the suggestion :-)

[easygoingfemme]

I just read the reviews on 'We Should All Be Feminists.' I may add it to my list of purchases. Thanks for the suggestion :-)


Let us know how The Thing Around Your Neck is. I think I'm going to do Half of a Yellow Sun next.

[Fancy]

Kickass Plays for Women by Jane Shepard

...looks like another theatre project in the making. :)

[cricket26]

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[Lecheloco]

I'm currently reading the series of books from Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter Rose's memoirs written by the the adopted grandson of Lane
It's the Rocky Ridge Years
By Roger Lea MacBride

[deathbypoem]

Always looking up: The adventures of an incurable optimist by Michael J. Fox

[bright_arrow]

The Draculia Vampire trilogy by Colleen Gleason. Delving into her books and loving them more and more.

[homoe]

Getting Back Rizzo, Cindy

This book was actually a step up from the typical fluff!
It was well written, had very relateable characters (especially if you had a college romance that ended without closure) who were well developed and of a certain age! The story is about two women who are reunited after 30 years, now much more wiser and armed with life's experience! I REALLY enjoyed it:glasses:

































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[Glenn]

Well..I am sorry that it took me 40 winters to get around to reading Agatha Christie. Now.. I want to read her biography.

[Angeltoes]

Spring semester has started so at the moment I'm reading the most boring book ever written in the history of the world. It's called:

Practical Strategies for Technical Communication by Mike Markel

Thanks, Mark Markel! You must be lots of fun at parties. :blink:

From my other classes I have other gems as well, but this book is just 528 pages of wow.

[Kätzchen]

F*ck Feelings: One Shrink's Practical Advice for Managing All Life's Impossible Problems

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Excerpt review below:

WARNING: Naughty language in this book.

Despite the cheerfully bright yellow cover and salaciously curt, morally outskirting title, F*uck FEELINGS is a landmark of psychological help. With tongue-in-(hopefully)-cheek mocking of every Dr. First-name (Phil, Deepak, Oprah) book out there, Dr. Bennett and his comedic daughter seek to dispense actually useful advice with wit and practicality (...).

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I bought this book recently because for me, it's not about feelings or happiness or some part of becoming 'glad', but more about finding a particular element of satisfaction. So far, I like what I've read. I'll probably pass it on to others in my group of reading aficionados because we tend to do that for each other: buy a book, pass it on. Kind of like a fair reading exchange, type of thing. :)

[JDeere]

My girlfriend wants me to read a book, I don't really read but soon will be reading a book called: She's Got Issues by Nicole Unice.

http://nicoleunice.com/product/shes-got-issues-book/

[deathbypoem]

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If you have never heard of Bob Proctor or read any of his books then you are truly missing out. That is all I can say. It is absolutely life changing.


“If you know what to do to reach your goal, it's not a big enough goal."
- Bob Proctor

[homoe]

The Alibi by Sandra Brown


It's the first book of her's I've even read. I like her writing style. Even tho I don't normally enjoy mysteries, I'm enjoying this very much!

[randrum]

Rules For a Knight by Ethan Hawke

Welcome To Night Vale by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor

[deathbypoem]

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[Sparkle]

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

And I love it. It's the best book I've read in the past year.

[Sparkle]

'A Little Life' by Hanya Yanagihara

I'm about Half way through and I love it. It's the best book I've read in the past year.

http://A Little Life: A Novel https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385539258/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_cYBNwbFAM5FSF

[bright_arrow]

Moving Day by Jonathan Stone. I enjoy Kindle Unlimited!

[Gayandgray]

Anne Rice- The Witching Hour. I found it in Goodwill for a quarter. I read it years ago but don't honestly remember too much.

[Liam]

I'm reading a thriller called The Cloud Collector, by Brian Freemantle. I'm enjoying it.

[homoe]

I'm re-reding The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins because it's soon to be released as a movie staring Emily Blunt! The movie's location will be Manhattan while the book's was London. I'm not sure what to expect!

[Glenn]

"Excuse Me Your Life Is Waiting"- Lynn Crabhorn. I have read many life coaches, but she was one of the best. I say was, because she committed suicide while battling cancer. She firmly believed in the power of positive feeling and thinking, mental and emotional cause and affect, visualization, and magnetism. It still remains a mystery as to why she committed suicide. Dale Carnegie, also was one of the best life coaches in the world, and he also committed suicide while battling an illness.

[dark_crystal]

Last week:
The is How (Burroughs)
Axis (Wilson)
Armada (Cline)
Still Alice (Genova)
The Aviator's Wife (Benjamin)
The "Captive Prince" trilogy (Pacat)

in progress:
Voyage of the Narwhal (Barret)
The Water Knife (Bacigalupi)

[Kätzchen]

Bettyville

https://g.co/kgs/UzLda


People in my reading group swapped books this week.
I was lucky to be in on a trade for the book, Bettyville, which was a New York Times best seller, last year. I plan to read it over the weekend.

[Glenn]

Stephen King- The Four Seasons- 4 Novella set -1982. Stephen King's books make me crazy, yet are so addicting.

[C0LLETTE]

I'm reading another great schlocky novel by James Michener (1907-1997), "Poland" (1983).

Michener's novels include Tales of the South Pacific, Hawaii, The Drifters, Centennial, The Source, The Fires of Spring, Chesapeake, Caribbean, Caravans, Alaska, Texas and Poland. His non-fiction works include Iberia, about his travels in Spain and Portugal.

His first book was adapted as the popular Broadway musical South Pacific by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.

The guy wrote some 40 novels/books, almost all based in sweeping historical research and full of manifest destiny, which is always fun.

Thankfully I wont list them all here but:

I did learned about "the missionary position" from "Hawaii"; all about why everyone wants pieces of Israel from "The Source"; and I can still sing all the words to "Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair" from South Pacific.

[Venus007]

Maria Konnikova's "The Confidence Game"
It is about the psychology of the con.
Fascinating and filled with handy tips that work really well in business.

[The JD]

I very recently finished Anne of Green Gables. I can't believe I've never read these books before... damn my preconceived notions!

I've started Anne of Avonlea, but put it on hold yesterday when I realized that Morning Star was out, the third (and last) in the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown.

I'll be stepping back in Anne's world by the weekend, I'm sure!

[randrum]

Currently reading: "We Gotta Get Out of This Place - The Soundtrack to the Vietnan War", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", and "Star Wars: Annihilation".

I think I'm all over the genre spectrum.

[Glenn]

Patricia Cornwall"s Latest!- Scarpetta Series.- A must read for fans! Scarpetta's butch niece Lucy, is still being stalked by her psycho ex Carrie, who has been trying to murder her. This novel is all about them. Of course, Patricia dedicated this one to her partner Staci again. She looked too thin on her jacket photo though. I hope she is well.

[homoe]

The Light of the World, (Ellen Simpson)

After her grandmother’s death, Eva finds a series of diaries detailing the life of a girl caught up in the magic of the Roaring Twenties. She cannot reconcile the young woman in these diaries with the miserable old woman she loved so fiercely. What happened to change her grandmother so drastically? Eva is desperate to know more about this period in her grandmother’s life.

I'm enjoying this book even tho it started out with a funeral and flashbacks to a suicide attempt by Eva.

[cinnamongrrl]

I'm reading Room by Emma Donohue

I saw the preview for the movie and thought I should read the book. Its an incredible read. I really can't put it down. You literally feel the full spectrum of emotions...I'm laughing I'm sobbing Im really glad I'm reading it alone in my own Room....

See how I did that?? ;)

[dark_crystal]

I'm reading Room by Emma Donohue

I saw the preview for the movie and thought I should read the book. Its an incredible read. I really can't put it down. You literally feel the full spectrum of emotions...I'm laughing I'm sobbing Im really glad I'm reading it alone in my own Room....

See how I did that?? ;)

I watched the movie last night! it kind of loses something as the voice of Jack is not so dominant

[dark_crystal]

I am actually reading the "Fifty Shades" trilogy. Only five years late on that one

The writing is really bad--intrusively so-- but I am still into it

[cinnamongrrl]

I'm not all the way done with Room yet but almost...

But today I got an amazing book called Me, Myself and Why: searching for the science of self.

It seemed SO interesting that I read the forward...which I rarely do...

Its basically a look into what makes us US...it does a comparative of nature vs nurture which is a fascinating subject for my former psych major brain...

I can NOT wait to dive in head first....I'm super nerdy that way and I accept it :)

[Kobi]

An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works—and really doesn't.

As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become an elementary school teacher—an ambitious goal, given her family's modest means.

Early marriage and motherhood seemed to put even that dream out of reach, but fifteen years later she was a distinguished law professor with a deep understanding of why people go bankrupt.

Then came the phone call that changed her life: could she come to Washington DC to help advise Congress on rewriting the bankruptcy laws? Thus began an impolite education into the bare-knuckled, often dysfunctional ways of Washington.

She fought for better bankruptcy laws for ten years and lost. She tried to hold the federal government accountable during the financial crisis but became a target of the big banks. She came up with the idea for a new agency designed to protect consumers from predatory bankers and was denied the opportunity to run it.

Finally, at age 62, she decided to run for elective office and won the most competitive—and watched—Senate race in the country. In this passionate, funny, rabble-rousing book, Warren shows why she has chosen to fight tooth and nail for the middle class—and why she has become a hero to all those who believe that America's government can and must do better for working families.

[Kobi]

Dark Money : The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right / Jane Mayer.

The investors -- Weaponizing philanthropy : the war on ideas, 1970-2008. Radicals : a Koch family history ; The hidden hand : Richard Mellon Scaife ; Beachheads : John M. Olin and the Bradley brothers ; The Koch method : free-market mayhem ; The Kochtopus : free-market machine -- Secret sponsors : covert operations, 2009-2010. Boots on the ground ; Tea time ; The fossils ; Money is speech : the long road to "Citizens United" ; The shellacking : dark money's midterm debut, 2010 -- Privatizing politics : total combat, 2011-2014. The spoils : plundering Congress ; Mother of all wars : the 2012 setback ; The States : gaining ground ; Selling the new Koch : a better battle plan.

[Nat]

Lord of the Rings
H is for Hawk
The 40 Rules of Love

[QueenofSmirks]

Essential of Human Anatomy & Physiology. Fun stuff.

[FireSignFemme]

Mary Baker Eddy by Gillian Gill

Messengers of the Wind Native Native American Women Tell Their Life Stories by Jane Katz

Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball

[randrum]

I have a few going at the moment...

Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton

Jonathon Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Star Wars Battlefront: Twilight Company by Alexander Freed

The Hollow Boy by Jonathon Stroud

The Courage to Try by C.A. Popovich

The Knife by Ross Ritchell

[cinnamongrrl]

I'm pretty good into a book called Neverhome by Laird Hunt.

Its a fictional account of a woman who disguises herself as a man so that she can fight in the American Civil War. So far so good

[easygoingfemme]

I'm reading Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper- loving it

Eighty-three-year-old Etta has never seen the ocean. So early one morning she takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots and begins walking the 3,232 kilometers from rural Saskatchewan, Canada eastward to the sea. As Etta walks further toward the crashing waves, the lines among memory, illusion, and reality blur.

Otto wakes to a note left on the kitchen table. “I will try to remember to come back,” Etta writes to her husband. Otto has seen the ocean, having crossed the Atlantic years ago to fight in a far-away war. He understands. But with Etta gone, the memories come crowding in and Otto struggles to keep them at bay. Meanwhile, their neighbor Russell has spent his whole life trying to keep up with Otto and loving Etta from afar. Russell insists on finding Etta, wherever she’s gone. Leaving his own farm will be the first act of defiance in his life.
- See more at: http://books.simonandschuster.com/Etta-and-Otto-and-Russell-and-James/Emma-Hooper/9781476755687#sthash.ykP5ak0y.dpuf

[dark_crystal]

I am reading the Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance) by Jeff VanDerMeer

[Genesis]

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I am currently reading:
Title of book: Talking with Angels - Budaliget 1943
Author: Gitta Mallasz

Synopsis:"Four young people in search of inner meaning at a time of outer upheaval,
encountered luminous forces that helped them find new direction and hope in their shattered lives.
These forces, which came to be known as angels, accompanied the four friends for seventeen perilous months,
before three of them met their deaths in a Nazi concentration camp.
Only Gitta Mallasz survived to bring their story and these remarkable dialogues to the world..."

[Kätzchen]

Several friends of mine were recently diagnosed with oral cancer. Back in the day, not all that long ago, my friends use to gargle with Listerene mouthwash practically more times a day than eating three sit down meals a day (or more). Same for brushing their teeth. Of course, back then, we didn't have too many brands of tooth paste to choose from. I remember the standard types by Colgate or Crest or new dazzling brands of Close-up or Ultrabrite.

Anyway, it turns out that what we put in our mouth can be dangerous, if not slowly fatal.

So...., I've been reading medical journal articles on cancer causing agents in toothpaste and mouthwash.

I am primarily reading articles about scientific findings concerning Oral Oncology from the website link, below:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13688375

[Venus007]

I am reading the Silmarillion by Tolkien yet again because I am getting ready to read LOTR yet again

[Kätzchen]

A friend of mine flagged (liked ) an post today on f.b., an post by Michelle Alexander.

I also recently read an article that she wrote for The Nation (Why Hillary Doesn't Deserve The Black Vote, February 10, 2016), so I followed up by reading posts on her f.b.page. It turns out to be that Michele Alexander is an associate professor of law at Ohio State, received her law degree from Stanford Law School, was director for the Racial Justice Project for the ACLU in Northern California, served in other roles for other Supreme court justices, as well as authoring an non-fiction book on racial injustice, titled:

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age of Colorblindness (The New Press, 2010).

As soon as I can order an copy of her book, I plan to read what she has to say because Alexander takes an strong stand on how policy drawn during the Clinton years is strongly connected to the disenfranchisement of millions of African Americans and other people of color.

[storyspinner70]

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Stephen King

Stephen has delivered a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story.

Magnificent, eerie, utterly compelling, these stories comprise one of Stephen's finest gifts to the constant reader—“I made them especially for you,” says King. “Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth.”

[Greco]

"Lying on the Couch" by Yalom

Good one...Greco

[girl_dee]

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[homoe]

The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

This is a first time novelist, and I'm really enjoying it.

[easygoingfemme]

I'm forcing my way through Rules of Civility by Amor Towles- forcing because it's my book club book this month but I'm not feeling it.

My eyes keep wandering to Into the Forest by Jean Hegland- sitting right next to my book club book. Taunting me.

[TheHinduPose]

(Just borrowed a copy of this) We might all do better to Remember that Yesterday has everything to do with Today and how that impacts on Tomorrow.
http://www.eci.nl/images/active/ean/200/who-rules-the-world-noam-chomsky-boek-cover-9780241189443.jpg
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/09/noam-chomsky-who-rules-the-world-us-foregin-policy

https://chomsky.info/

[easygoingfemme]

Station Eleven- Emily St. John Mandel
Station Eleven: Emily St. John Mandel: 9780804172448: Amazon.com: Books

[The JD]

Finished The Girl With the Most Gifts last week. The writing is fantastic, and the plot is completely fucked up (in the best of ways).

I can't even say what it's about without giving away one of the shockers, but if you like apocalyptic fiction (and hell, even if you don't), check it out.

[Glenn]

The Untold Story
J. Randy Taraborrelli
Grand Central Publishing-2015
Comment: Wowwow!

[randrum]

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz
The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Against Doctor's Orders by Radclyffe

[homoe]

I just finished a book I had been greatly anticipating, but it was a let down sorry to say!

Perfect Pairing by Rachel Spangler started out good! Hal a food truck chef, her best friend/co worker/employee got the book off to a good start and one could almost taste the foods she created! Enter Quinn Banning an investment banker, looking to invest in the next newest thing,and open a restaurant!

These two women,by the end of the book,had me wanting to clunk their heads together like Moe used to do to Curly and Larry!

[nina03]

I just finished a book I had been greatly anticipating, but it was a let down sorry to say!

Perfect Pairing by Rachel Spangler started out good! Hal a food truck chef, her best friend/co worker/employee got the book off to a good start and one could almost taste the foods she created! Enter Quinn Banning an investment banker, looking to invest in the next newest thing,and open a restaurant!

These two women,by the end of the book,had me wanting to clunk their heads together like Moe used to do to Curly and Larry!
Lol. I just finished this too. The sex scenes weren't terrible, but the endless processing of the two leads was really off-putting. Their processing was everything I've hated in my worst relationships. I'm about to start a new book called Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare. It looks really good. I'll report back.

[randrum]

I've been really into Fan Fiction lately. Been reading a lot of HP and Once Upon a Time stories.

[Kätzchen]

Concerning: Source Credibility.

My take home, from years of study as an communications study scholar, is this: If you cannot tell the unvarnished truth, your greatest risk will eventually lead to ---->>> zero credibility.

-----------------------.

For those interested, here is an superbly written, 99-page study, complete with appendice documentation, on:

Source Credibility. (See, PDF link below).

http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1227&context=etd

[cinnamongrrl]

I very rarely buy books new....but

I was at the supermarket and saw that Mitch Albom had a new book out...

The First Phone Call from Heaven is the title.. So far so good. I've loved all of his other books. Even the baseball one kept my attention.

[Greco]

"The Flanders Panel"
by Arturo Perez-Reverte

you can really "sink your teeth" into this one

Greco

[femmeandstrong]

All fishermen are liars...
And the longitude project...

And Nelson Mandela's bio...currently misplaced

[homoe]

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

This is the book that Hamilton the Broadway hit was based on, and so wanted to read it, but I had doubts going in! I've been 'trying' to read this for over a month now and have only gotten up to his teenage years and about page 38 or so!

I think it's a bit too 'dry' of a read to hold my attention so I'll put it away and seek out some light lesbian fluff romance for now!:glasses:

[Ladybug]

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

All other Harry Potter books, I have read straight through for the most part. Been at this for several days, as struggling with the format of it being a play some. It hasn't "sucked me in". :confused:

[femmeandstrong]

A. The movable feast by e. Hemingway
B. All fishermen are liars by Linda greenlaw

[candy_coated_bitch]

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

[homoe]

No Strings Attached Harper Bliss



Light lesbian fluff, just what I was in the mood for!

So far so good.:glasses:

[Venus007]

The Obstacle is the Way by Holiday
A contemporary applicaton of Stoic philosophy

[homoe]

No Strings Attached Harper Bliss



Light lesbian fluff, just what I was in the mood for!

So far so good.:glasses:

Oh and it was even free on Amazon's kindle:hangloose:

[The JD]

A. The movable feast by e. Hemingway

The image of Gertrude Stein wailing to Alice B. Toklas, "Don't, pussy, please don't, pussy" has retained space in my brain for 25 years, thanks to this book.

[Orema]

– The Mediterranean Zone by Barry Sears
– Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

[Venus007]

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

[Liam]

I'm enjoying chuckling my way through Johnathan Unleashed, a short novel by Meg Rosoff.

"A wise and witty hit...Rosoff explores how twenty somethings find their feet in the big city, face up to the horror of entry-level employment, and figure out who they really love..A loveable novel that has the power to make readers of all ages laugh."
-The Times (London)

[kittygrrl]

Tartine Bread-by Chad Robertson

[Medusa]

I won't be reading much for leisure for the next 4 months because I'm working on another MS but I'm about to finish "The Story of O" and it's pretty amazing.

[homoe]

Another light lesbian fluff romance

Winter's Harbor by Aurora Rey

[MitchM42]

The post on "What are you reading".

[Wrang1er]

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson.

I could never get into this book. I tried several times to read it. I finally forced myself to read all of it yesterday. I didn't really enjoy it.

[easygoingfemme]

My book club book of the month: As Close to us as Breathing. (https://www.amazon.com/As-Close-Us-Breathing-Novel/dp/0316384143/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1472161384&sr=1-1&keywords=as+close+to+us+as+breathing) It's not as good as I'd hoped for, but it's okay.

I usually have a few books going at a time but the last couple back up books I started didn't keep my interest.

Before this I plowed through the YA Life as We Knew It (https://www.amazon.com/Life-Knew-Susan-Beth-Pfeffer/dp/0152061541/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1472161332&sr=1-1&keywords=life+as+we+knew+it) series for light summer apocalypse reading.

[Kätzchen]

I'm making sure my travel plans are in order, for Labor Day weekend. To make sure I haven't overlooked or forgotten anything. :)

[Wrang1er]

Dorothy Must Die

[kittygrrl]

I am still reading Tartine Bread, and tonight The Golden Bough too.

[Wrang1er]

Midnight in Berlin by James MacManus

[femmeandstrong]

Midnight in Berlin by James MacManus

What's that about? I'm a big book rat...

[Gayandgray]

Nothing right now but I want to find a book I can get into.

[Wrang1er]

What's that about? I'm a big book rat...

Berlin in the spring of 1939. Hitler is preparing for war. Colonel Noel Mcrae, a British diplomat, plans the ultimate sacrifice to stop him. The West’s appeasement policies have failed. There is only one alternative: assassination. The Gestapo, aware of Macrae’s hostility, seeks to compromise him in their infamous brothel. There Macrae meets and falls in love with Sara, a Jewish woman blackmailed into becoming a Nazi courtesan.Macrae finds himself trapped between the blind policies of his government and the dark world of betrayal and deception in Berlin. As he seeks to save the woman he loves from the brutality of the Gestapo, he defies his government and plans direct action to avert what he knows will be a global war.Inspired by true events and characters, James MacManus’sMidnight in Berlin is a passionate story that will leave you in awe of the human capacity for courage, sacrifice, and love set against a world on the brink of war.

I just started it today but so far I am enjoying it.

[Wrang1er]

The First Phone Call From Heaven by Mitch Albom

[Venus007]

"Letters from a Stoic" Seneca

[Wrang1er]

The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom

[Jackson]

Hi Wrangler,

I read that book and really liked it. Are you liking it?

[Wrang1er]

Hi Wrangler,

I read that book and really liked it. Are you liking it?

The Time Keeper? I enjoyed it. It was an easy read.

I am now starting The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by the same author.

[Degotoga]

CEU's and new protocols. Well, not currently, obviously, but I will getting back those shortly. My brain needed a break.

[Medusa]

I just spent the better part of my lunch break (a very short one) diving into part of "The Butler's Guide to Running the Home and Other Graces" by Stanley Ager

I have SO many more things I need to be reading lately like books around education management and classroom psychology but I needed a reprieve. This is a good one!

[Soon]

Straight Pepper Diet: A Memoir
by Joseph W. Naus

What I find interesting about addiction memoirs is that men who are addicted (granted, I usually read female authors but the few male authors exhibited this), seem to carry megalomanic or narcissistic personalities (often coupled with horrible treatment of women or sexual addictions) whereas the women who struggle with addiction seem to internalize their issues and are more self-destructive rather than wreaking havoc on the lives of others. Both sexes are in pain, but how they convey or process/deal with that pain seems very different.

[cinnamongrrl]

The Time Keeper? I enjoyed it. It was an easy read.

I am now starting The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by the same author.

Mitch Alboms books are all easy reads .but I just enjoy them so much

[Jackson]

Statistics notes, not what you would call "light" reading, it might be time for a break.

[Wrang1er]

Mitch Alboms books are all easy reads .but I just enjoy them so much

I agree. Every one I have read I have enjoyed.

[homoe]

I'm re-reading Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee! I really did not care for it the first time around :glasses:

[Greco]

" The Body Remembers"
by Babette Rothschild

Excellent work by Ms. Rothchild

[Sweet Bliss]

"Life is a Verb":rrose:

[Sparkle]

I'm having a *Postathon* tonight...

I read three books while on holiday in August -

The Mirror Thief by Martin Seay
It was good, but took some work to finish. It has multiple storylines and narrators intersecting over the space of a few centuries. Set in sixteenth century Venice, Italy, 1950s Venice Beach, CA and modern day at the Venetian in LV. The concept was interesting.

I also read Before the Fall by Noah Trawley - which was like watching a good HBO crime drama. Nicely tied up, intriguing, hyper-realistic mystery.

And then I finished off my week on Lake Huron with The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell, which I loved. It ticks a lot of boxes on my 'perfect book' list: epic scope and saga like scale, magical realism, twisty overlapping storylines, characters you can love (and hate,) and beautiful, clever prose that just makes you hope the story will somehow go on forever.

Last weekend I finished the book Mitchell published after The Bone Clocks, Slade House. The stories are connected and have a little character overlap but aren't part of a series. Slade House didn't entrance me like the Bone Clocks, but it was a good read.

Now I'm in a state of 'which book next' contemplation.

[Bubala]

The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women's Quest for the American Presidency – February 29, 2016 - by Ellen Fitzpatrick

[Wrang1er]

I just finished In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume and I am starting Summer Sisters by the same author.

[LoyalWolfsBlade]

I just finished In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume and I am starting Summer Sisters by the same author.

Hi Wrang1er what do you think of Judy Blume's books?
I think I own all of hers and have enjoyed each one.

Currently I am in easy to read books but interesting enough that I recall it whenever I pick it up to continue.....Vampire Apocalypse Book 1 kindle edition

[Wrang1er]

Hi Wrang1er what do you think of Judy Blume's books?
I think I own all of hers and have enjoyed each one.

Currently I am in easy to read books but interesting enough that I recall it whenever I pick it up to continue.....Vampire Apocalypse Book 1 kindle edition

I remember reading her books when I was young and liking them. This is the first time I read any of her adult books. I didn't love it. It wasn't a book I couldn't put down. We'll see how this second one goes.

[Kobi]

What I told my daughter : lessons from leaders on raising the next generation of empowered women / edited by Nina Tassler, with Cynthia Littleton.

"Entertainment executive Nina Tassler has brought together a powerful, diverse group of women--from Madeleine Albright to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, from Dr. Susan Love to Whoopi Goldberg--to reflect on the best advice and counsel they have given their daughters either by example, throughout their lives, or in character-building, teachable moments between parent and child."

and....

Tribe : on homecoming and belonging / Sebastian Junger.

"Draws on history, psychology, and anthropology to discuss how the tribal connection--the instinct to belong to small groups with a clear purpose and common understanding--can satisfy the human quest for meaning and belonging."

[cinnamongrrl]

I just finished In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume and I am starting Summer Sisters by the same author.

I enjoyed Summer Sisters very much. My mother handed it off to me long ago. I hadn't read Judy Blume in ages. It was lovely to read her grown up stuff

[Medusa]

I just finished my first graphic novel! Death: The High Cost of Living (Neil Gaiman).
LOVED it and can't wait to get to the next one!

[Runner]

Just finished The Glorious Heresies, sexy, ballsy, dark and very Irish.

Lisa McInerney won the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction for this her debut novel.

This was a treat to read, powerful and honest.

[cricket26]

http://filmpjekijken.com/sites/default/files/Prijsvraag-The-Girl-on-the-Train-poster.jpg

[homoe]

Cricket, the movie opens this Friday! What I've read and seen so far the location has been changed from London to New York and you know, that doesn't sit well with me!

The good was great, lets hope they didn't muck up the movie to bad:seeingstars:

[Bubala]

"Brain on fire: My month of madness" by Susannah Cahalan

[Bubala]

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[Soon]

I am reading this:

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after I read her earlier book:

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Both are excellent!

[Wrang1er]

I'm finishing up Little Women. I read it when I was young and have enjoyed reading it again.

[Glenn]

Alexander Solzhenitsyn-1968-Banned in Russia
This great Russian writer discovered the inspiration for this book while being treated in an obscure Russian hospital, after the fall of Stalin, by sub-human standards, compared with today, and his relationship with eight other patients.

[kittygrrl]

I'm reading and browsing thru

The Art of Pie-by Kate McDermott

http://artofthepie.com/wp-content/gallery/art-of-the-pie-book/TAOTpie_CVR_r4_web.jpg

it's very good, altho I don't agree with mixing dough with hands, but I can see why this would appealing to those intimidated by pie making

[Bubala]

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[Medusa]

About to dive into a hot tub and more Death from Neil Gaiman.

I'm a total graphic novel convert. Dammit! :|

[Wrang1er]

I just finished The Pursuit of Mary Bennett. A Pride and Prejudice Novel. By Pamela Mingle. I enjoyed it. I wonder what Jane Austen would think about it.

[Martina]

I just finished People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks. Was ok. I actually have Lab Girl. I might try that next. I also just finished prolly my tenth reading of Very Good, Jeeves. I read Wodehouse before bed.

[Medusa]

I just finished listening to "Girl on the Train" during my trip. Pretty decent!

[Wrang1er]

This week I read the following:

True Grit - Charles Portis
The Help - Kate Stockett
The Daring Ladies of Lowell - Kate Alcott
Seven Year Switch - Claire Cook

All of which I enjoyed. I started Lucky Billy a novel about Billy the Kid - John Vernon but returned it early.

[storyspinner70]

The Odd Thomas Series by Dean Koontz. Again. lol

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[Bubala]

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[Bubala]

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[Medusa]

I'm halfway through "The Last Girl" and hope to start on "LeatherFolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics, and Practice" before my Brother and I start a road trip on Friday where he demands we listen to the latest Stephen King novel, "End of Watch".

[homoe]

I'm halfway through "The Last Girl" and hope to start on "LeatherFolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics, and Practice" before my Brother and I start a road trip on Friday where he demands we listen to the latest Stephen King novel, "End of Watch".

Can you let me know how "End of Watch" goes? I really enjoyed the first two books in the series, Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers, but this one looked a little to gruesome for me :glasses:

[Medusa]

Can you let me know how "End of Watch" goes? I really enjoyed the first two books in the series, Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers, but this one looked a little to gruesome for me :glasses:

Will do, homoe! I suspect it's going to be pretty gruesome because the character is in his meanest state. And EEEEKKKKK!

[Okiebug61]

"Come Visit Me Softly" poetry by Leah S Taylor. One amazing women I had the pleasure meeting. The photography is amazing and taken by Tiffany Couch.

[Kätzchen]

I'm still reading Nora Ephron's anthology of works, but I came across an news release about John Grisham's latest book and read a few lines of the opening chapter. I think I will try to find a copy of it at the book store. Looks like a good read. :)

[homoe]

I'm still reading Nora Ephron's anthology of works, but I came across an news release about John Grisham's latest book and read a few lines of the opening chapter. I think I will try to find a copy of it at the book store. Looks like a good read. :)

Katzchen is that book titled The Whistler?

[Kätzchen]

Katzchen is that book titled The Whistler?

Yes.

It's in the title of my post (The Whistler -- J. Grisham, 2016).

[homoe]

Yes.

It's in the title of my post (The Whistler -- J. Grisham, 2016).

Damn, I'm just out of it today I guess...LOL

[Bubala]

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41EHMHliY4L.jpg

[Wrang1er]

Just finished Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen and before that The Inheritance by Louisa May Alcott. I just started To Kill a Mockingbird.

[Greco]

"My Name Is Asher Lev" by Chaim Potok

One of my favorite authors, and one of my
favorite novels. His "The Chosen" is
also great writing.

Greco

[Medusa]

Can you let me know how "End of Watch" goes? I really enjoyed the first two books in the series, Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers, but this one looked a little to gruesome for me :glasses:

Homoe!

Just finished "End of Watch" and found it to be entertaining! If you liked the first two you will probably like this one. It's classic King, decent writing and gory as hell in some places while being wrapped in a nostalgic kind of fantasy.

I enjoyed it. It's a quick read (or listen in my case since I did the audiobook).

[QueenofSmirks]

"Uniform Combined State Law Exam, Series 66, 9th Edition"... and I am sick to death of it! UGH

[Medusa]

For fun, I just started "Fellside" by M. R. Carey. I loved "The Girl With All the Gifts" so much by the same author that I had to see what this one was about!

[Fancy]

The Little Stranger ~ Sarah Waters

No book report just yet...

[Medusa]

I finished "Fellside" several days ago and it was good. Entertaining if a little psychic-dramery.

Downloaded "City of Mirrors" by Justin Cronin. It's the final in his "Passage" series and a hefty 30 hours on audio. But I've got a road trip coming up and several days during Thanksgiving so I think I can get through it.

School is out in 3 weeks and I never want to read another Education Policy book as long as I live.

[bright_arrow]

Just finished re-reading Needful Things, it is a favorite of mine for reasons unknown

Started reading Odd Thomas. I have seen the movie, but the book series is 7-8 books so I am excited

[Kätzchen]

I found an interesting book to read, the other day, while wandering around the skilled nursing facility (pt/ot rehab).

Title : King Larry | The Life and Ruins Of A Billionaire Genius.
Author: James D. Scurlock.
Publisher: Scribner, 2012.


I've only read the introduction, a mere few pages, but the author gives meticulous attention to the man who gave birth to DHL, which was doing business long before FedEx (50 year head start) and how Larry Hillblom was not only a business genius but how his behavioral choices, hiding in plain sight, would be the long remembered undoing of his so called financial empire (and not his business acumen).

I haven't even finished with chapter one and already give it a huge props. Very good book. Very enlightening. Tragic story.

[Kobi]

After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents -- first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year old mother -- author Plum Johnson and her three younger brothers have finally fallen to their middle-aged knees with conflicted feelings of grief and relief.

Now they must empty and sell the beloved family home, twenty-three rooms bulging with history, antiques, and oxygen tanks. Plum thought: How tough will that be?

I know how to buy garbage bags. But the task turns out to be much harder and more rewarding than she ever imagined.

Items from childhood trigger difficult memories of her eccentric family growing up in the 1950s and '60s, but unearthing new facts about her parents helps her reconcile those relationships, with a more accepting perspective about who they were and what they valued.

They Left Us Everything is a funny, touching memoir about the importance of preserving family history to make sense of the past, and nurturing family bonds to safeguard the future.

[Soft*Silver]

ever hear of Christopher Barzak? Barzack? He writes these incredible horror novels that make my spine tingle as I read....his way with words breath life into every page and I often cant put his books down until completely read. One of them was recently made into a movie. I am reading one now about a young man who finds a long dead girl shape shifted into a red fox, while he is living in Japan against his will. Keeps me up at night for hours....

[Arden]

I'm reading bits and pieces of two books currently :reader:

Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain - an interesting read on neuropsychology by Daniel Siegel

Blind to Betrayal: Why We Fool Ourselves We Aren't being Fooled - about the reasons people tend to "bond" with those who are abusive to them by Jennifer Freyd (she's got a research lab at the University of Oregon)

I do sometimes read for purely pleasure though often read related to my work, which is the reason for my current choices. A move about 2 years ago has lead to the loss of a huge public library system resulting in less pleasure reading since I don't want to buy those books.

[cathexis]

Trying to catch up on the past month's Sunday "NY Times" then...
Gayle Rubin's "Deviations".

[Jesse]

'The Alchemist'- A fable about following your dream- by Paulo Coelho

[kittygrrl]

Flour (by Joanne Chang)

[homoe]

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

I'm enjoying it, and while I am looking forward to seeing the movie I think this will be another case where the book is much better than the movie.

(Paperback is being released Dec 6th)

[bright_arrow]

Brother Odd, third in the series and loving it more than expected. Books make my soul happy :hamactor:

[homoe]

The Year of Voting Dangerously: by Maureen Dowd


I like her writing style especially her OP EDS in the NYT but this is the first book of her's I've read.

After hearing her on Seth Meyers the other night I think it's going to be something I'll enjoy!

[Kätzchen]

My close family & best friend gave me a current issue of Taproot magazine. The magazine is published in the state of Vermont, which features articles and stories about food, plant life, homesteading, art, and numerous other subjective and objective topics of interest. I am currently reading an article about a Pacific Northwest couple who homestead for a living, with interest for bee keeping and harvest of honey. Title of the article is: Sweet As Honey.

I highly recommend this magazine because the style of writing and subject interest is exceptionally outstanding, very enjoyable.

For more information, look up their website:
www.taprootmag.com

Or...

Write to:

Taproot
120 Graham Way - suite 200
Shelburne, Vermont. 05482-9906

[cinnamongrrl]

I started reading All the light We Cannot See.

One of the tellers at my bank read it and loved it. I don't read enough fiction and it's always good to find something that keeps my interest.

So far so good. :)

[Kätzchen]

I started reading All the light We Cannot See.

One of the tellers at my bank read it and loved it. I don't read enough fiction and it's always good to find something that keeps my interest.

So far so good. :)

I read that book, not long ago.
The story is well crafted . I don't know exactly how to describe it without spoiling it for you, but I really liked how various strands of the story were woven together. Metaphor, tons of metaphor. I kept the book too, rather than trade it in for another book. I hope you really enjoy the book --- All The Light We Cannot See.

[Wrang1er]

I am reading Fern Michaels Sisterhood Series. I'm six books in and I'm enjoying them immensely. They are easy and fun reads.

[Glenn]

Naomi Wolf. -This book takes a historical look at the rise of fascism, outlining the ten steps necessary for a state to take control of individual lives. This book also explains how this pattern was followed in Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy, as well as elsewhere, and compares it to the current state of affairs in American Political power since Sept. 11, 2001.

[homoe]

THE WHISTLER by John Grisham

I'm enjoying it:glasses:

[clay]

See Me....Nicholas Sparks (on my Nook)

[Stud_puppy1991]

Let's see, I just finished rereading The Notebook, and now I am once again rereading The Help.

[tantalizingfemme]

Downloaded The Handmaiden's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Can't believe I have never read this.

[homoe]

Let's see, I just finished rereading The Notebook, and now I am once again rereading The Help.

God how I wish she's write another book~!

[VintageFemme]

The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben

[Miss Scarlett]

The Origins of Totalitarianism, by Hannah Arendt

[Jesse]

I just started reading Ayn Rand's, "The Fountainhead".

[Fancy]

If the Buddha Dated by Charlotte Kasl has been a worn page-marked-up-dog-eared favorite for years. So, I recently picked up another by Charlotte Kasl, If the Buddha Got Stuck. I can already tell it will be another favorite.

Also picked up, "Dancing With Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering" by Phillip Moffitt, but I haven't had much time to begin reading it yet. Soon, I hope. ☺

[Glenn]

Klaus Kinski- Memoirs. A very interesting psychological portrait of one of the world's greatest actors imo.

[Wrang1er]

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

[Genesis]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/The_Zookeeper%27s_Wife.jpg


Majestically written....

[Wrang1er]

Just starting Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. I thought I'd read it before but now I'm not sure.

[Jesse]

I haven't started reading it just yet, because it doesn't come out until June. I pre-ordered it moments ago, because I enjoy what she writes for the most part.

Hunger - A Memoir of (My) Body
by Roxane Gay

[Kätzchen]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/50/The_Color_of_Water_cover.jpg


I've been reading James McBride's autobiography (an memoir and tribute to his white Jewish mother). I bought this book a few years ago and kept it because of the many subjects of interest (poverty, accounts of inherent racism and discrimination, and the re-telling of his mother's painful life experiences, well hidden social taboos, within her own small family and how those experiences shaped her life in very painful ways...). I like how McBride alternates between things he discovered late in life about his mother to how his mother's life impacts affected his life and the lives of his siblings, which helps the reader to learn more about social impacts affecting those whose life might parallel in similar ways.

It's a very good book and may well be considered a timeless classic, over the years to come.

[easygoingfemme]

http://images.gr-assets.com/books/1374739885l/3711.jpg

"Zadie Smith's dazzling first novel plays out its bounding, vibrant course in a Jamaican hair salon in North London, an Indian restaurant in Leicester Square, an Irish poolroom turned immigrant café, a liberal public school, a sleek science institute. A winning debut in every respect, White Teeth marks the arrival of a wondrously talented writer who takes on the big themes —faith, race, gender, history, and culture— and triumphs."

[cinnamongrrl]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/50/The_Color_of_Water_cover.jpg


I've been reading James McBride's autobiography (an memoir and tribute to his white Jewish mother). I bought this book a few years ago and kept it because of the many subjects of interest (poverty, accounts of inherent racism and discrimination, and the re-telling of his mother's painful life experiences, well hidden social taboos, within her own small family and how those experiences shaped her life in very painful ways...). I like how McBride alternates between things he discovered late in life about his mother to how his mother's life impacts affected his life and the lives of his siblings, which helps the reader to learn more about social impacts affecting those whose life might parallel in similar ways.

It's a very good book and may well be considered a timeless classic, over the years to come.

I read this and I loved it!

[Katniss]

Just finished "The Cellist of Sarajevo" by Steven Galloway.

The review states;

"A novel of great intensity and power, and inspired by a true story, The Cellist of Sarajevo poignantly explores how war can change one’s definition of humanity, the effect of music on our emotional endurance, and how a romance with the rituals of daily life can itself be a form of resistance."

I very much enjoyed the book. While not a typical "feel good" novel, in the end it did leave me with a sense of hope for this world and the humans that inhabit it.

Katniss~~

[Wrang1er]

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote.

[Jesse]

Living Apart Together: A Unique Path to Marital Happiness, or The Joy of Sharing Lives Without Sharing an Address - Anne L. Watson

[Medusa]

EEEEKKKK!!!

I always have a couple of books going but I just finished one called "Bird Box".

A SUPER CREEPY post-apocalypse (but without the zombies) nail-biter replete with "the hair on the back of my neck just stood up" moments.

[Wrang1er]

I just finished Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe and the biography Harriet Tubman by Kem Knapp Sawyer.

Thanks to this thread I read The Zookeeper's Wife last weekend and I'm now starting The Color of Water.

[anotherbutch]

The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*uck..... by Mark Manson

[easygoingfemme]

EEEEKKKK!!!

I always have a couple of books going but I just finished one called "Bird Box".

A SUPER CREEPY post-apocalypse (but without the zombies) nail-biter replete with "the hair on the back of my neck just stood up" moments.

I just looked that up.. looks sooooooooooo good!

[Wrang1er]

I read this and I loved it!

Thanks to you and Katzchen, I read The Color of Water and I loved it. I gave it to my mother to read and she also loved it.

[Medusa]

I just looked that up.. looks sooooooooooo good!


If you do decide to read it, let me know what you think! I was totally creeped out in several areas but it was super entertaining!

[easygoingfemme]

If you do decide to read it, let me know what you think! I was totally creeped out in several areas but it was super entertaining!

I have requested it at my library and will let you know how it goes. I like creepy... usually :brainsucker::|

[homoe]

Black Edge by Sheelah Kolhatkar

The story of the billionaire trader Steven A. Cohen, the rise and fall of his hedge fund, SAC Capital, and the largest insider trading investigation in history.

As a side note, the series Billions on Showtime is loosely based on this story of Cohen!


I also pre ordered the paperback of End Of Watch by Stephen King the final installment in the The Bill Hodges Trilogy!

[Kätzchen]

Black Edge by Sheelah Kolhatkar

The story of the billionaire trader Steven A. Cohen, the rise and fall of his hedge fund, SAC Capital, and the largest insider trading investigation in history.

As a side note, the series Billions on Showtime is loosely based on this story of Cohen!


I also pre ordered the paperback of End Of Watch by Stephen King the final installment in the The Bill Hodges Trilogy!


That book looks like an interesting read, homoe. Awhile back, I read the non-fiction book about the billionaire recluse who started DHL -- King Larry, Which also was an very interesting read.

[Kobi]

The review says :

Outspoken critic Jessa Crispin delivers a searing rejection of contemporary feminism . . . and a bracing manifesto for revolution.

Are you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve to be treated as such? That women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed upon men? If so, then you are a feminist . . . or so the feminists keep insisting. But somewhere along the way, the movement for female liberation sacrificed meaning for acceptance, and left us with a banal, polite, ineffectual pose that barely challenges the status quo. In this bracing, fiercely intelligent manifesto, Jessa Crispin demands more.

Why I Am Not A Feminist is a radical, fearless call for revolution. It accuses the feminist movement of obliviousness, irrelevance, and cowardice--and demands nothing less than the total dismantling of a system of oppression.

-----------------


Not sure I agree with the review. Doesnt seem to equate with my definition of radical but she does pose some very interesting and important questions for anyone who thinks "feminism" is a done deal as opposed to a continually evolving movement.

She is very good at demonstrating how what can perceived as progress can easily turn into an unexpected and unwanted pitfall.

It will challenge one's beliefs and why one believes them. It will anger some, enlighten others. Will definitely make anyone reading it, think harder and in ways that may not be comfortable.

[Truly Scrumptious]

EEEEKKKK!!!

I always have a couple of books going but I just finished one called "Bird Box".

A SUPER CREEPY post-apocalypse (but without the zombies) nail-biter replete with "the hair on the back of my neck just stood up" moments.


"Bird Box" was awesome!

I read it in one sitting on a hot day by the pool a couple of summers ago . . . grateful I wasn't reading it at night in the dark :)

It was Josh Malerman's debut novel and I have been eagerly awaiting more from him, so I'm happy to report that his new book "Black Mad Wheel " will be released at the end of May.

[easygoingfemme]

EEEEKKKK!!!

I always have a couple of books going but I just finished one called "Bird Box".

A SUPER CREEPY post-apocalypse (but without the zombies) nail-biter replete with "the hair on the back of my neck just stood up" moments.

I got this from the library today and I'm on P 75- EEK! Loving it. Only wish it was warm enough that I could sit out on my back porch at night reading it.

[Kätzchen]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b9/1Q84bookcover.jpg/220px-1Q84bookcover.jpg

I've read this dystopian novel twice, and never tire of reading it. I get a new insight, each time I read it.... it's really good book, well written, very enjoyable.

Link:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1Q84?wprov=sfla1

[Soft*Silver]

a book about murder in the ohio amish community

[easygoingfemme]

a book about murder in the ohio amish community

Oooh, title please?

[Kobi]

"The Nixon Effect examines the 37th presidents political legacy in broad-ranging ways that make clear, for the first time, the breadth and duration of his influence on American political life. The book argues that Nixon is the key political figure in postwar American politics in multiple ways, some barely acknowledged until now. His legacy includes a generational shift in the ideological orientations of both the Republican and Democratic parties; the Nixon influence, both intentional and unintentional, was to push both parties further out to their ideological poles. So stark was Nixons influence on party identities that it shaped the hardened partisan polarization in Washington today and the evolution of what has come to be called Red and Blue America,"--Amazon.com.



I'm a history person so this kind of book appeals to me. Not sure I agree with the authors conclusions but it is something to mull over.



Also reading various and sundry books on the value of living trusts over wills. More to ponder.

[Kätzchen]

"The Nixon Effect examines the 37th presidents political legacy in broad-ranging ways that make clear, for the first time, the breadth and duration of his influence on American political life. The book argues that Nixon is the key political figure in postwar American politics in multiple ways, some barely acknowledged until now. His legacy includes a generational shift in the ideological orientations of both the Republican and Democratic parties; the Nixon influence, both intentional and unintentional, was to push both parties further out to their ideological poles. So stark was Nixons influence on party identities that it shaped the hardened partisan polarization in Washington today and the evolution of what has come to be called Red and Blue America,"--Amazon.com.



I'm a history person so this kind of book appeals to me. Not sure I agree with the authors conclusions but it is something to mull over.



Also reading various and sundry books on the value of living trusts over wills. More to ponder.

Thanks for posting about this book, Kobi. I am always interested in reading materials that might not be an easy read or might be provocative by nature or historical accounts about particular political events, views or commentary on the Nixon years.... which I feel hasn't been given the attention it deserves. Recently, friends of mine who own a recording studio posted a photo meme concerning Nixon: "A bad recording can ruin your life" (or something to that effect).

Eta: I'm interested in the sundry materials about living wills vs trusts ..... would like to know your take on those books (if there was any helpful advice, etc).

[homoe]

End Of Watch by Stephen King.............

[Medusa]

I just got through with "The Butterfly Garden" by Dot Hutchison.

Meh. It was entertaining enough and the plot was decent but I just wasn't connected to the characters. Very reminiscent of "Kiss the Girls" and the ending was kinda...meh.

Still, I'd recommend it if you wanted something that would entertain you but not grab you by the throat and choke you for the entire book.

[easygoingfemme]

I just got through with "The Butterfly Garden" by Dot Hutchison.

Meh. It was entertaining enough and the plot was decent but I just wasn't connected to the characters. Very reminiscent of "Kiss the Girls" and the ending was kinda...meh.

Still, I'd recommend it if you wanted something that would entertain you but not grab you by the throat and choke you for the entire book.

I felt similarly about that book. It kept me picking it up but it wasn't like I was running home to it.

[Gayandgray]

I'm in Goodwill and there is this book, "Women who run with the wolves" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Anybody read it?

[Kätzchen]

I'm in Goodwill and there is this book, "Women who run with the wolves" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Anybody read it?

I've read it and I liked it (very helpful perspective, I totally endorse her process of thought ).

[gotoseagrl]

The 5 Love Languages, regular & Military editions. :)

[Martina]

The 4 Percent Universe by Richard Panek. Popular science -- written by a journalist. Good.

Changes by Jim Butcher. Fantasy fiction. OK. Kinda tired of the character.

[Kätzchen]

I've been reading lighter reading materials, lately. I bought two magazines, the latest issues of Taproot (such a great read: cuisine, crafting, gardening, cultural goodness), and a reissued collectors edition by Vanity Fair on the Kennedy's.

The other magazines are local editions of reading materials featuring travel recommendations, fine dining, eclectic foodie adventures, best neighborhoods, and life (in general).

And, Condé Nast Traveler, the January issue, which features interesting places to visit in the Hawaiian Islands, Barbados, hidden beaches, and The Chilean Andes.

Best magazine, out of all of the ones I'm reading, turns out to be two: Northwest Travel & Life, and Taproot. I highly recommend both periodicals.

[bright_arrow]

11.22.63 by Stephen King
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Tick Tock by Dean Kootz
The Chess Queen Enigma by Colleen Gleason
Streams of Silver by R.A. Salvatore

Yes, all at once, I juggle :jester:

[NavyButch]

The autobiography of Chip and Joanna Gaines- from the show Fixer Upper (I really would like to meet them in person)

Barack & Michelle Obama- Farewell Speeches

of Thee I sing- A Letter to my Daughters - Barack Obama

[Martina]

On Beauty by Zadie Smith. So far, so good.

[homoe]

Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign: by Jonathan Allen, Amie Parnes:glasses:

[Soft*Silver]

Oooh, title please?

A Killing in Amish Country: Sex Betrayal and A Cold Blooded Murder by Greg Olsen and Rebecca Morris


At just 30 years old, with dark-blonde hair and freckles, Barbara Weaver was as pretty as the women depicted on the covers of her favorite "bonnet" stories - romance novels set in Amish America. Barbara had everything she'd ever wanted: five beautiful children, a home, her faith, and a husband named Eli. But while Barbara was happy to live as the Amish have for centuries - without modern conveniences, Eli was tempted by technology: cell phones, the Internet, and sexting. Online he called himself "Amish Stud" and found no shortage of "English" women looking for love and sex. Twice he left Barbara and their children, was shunned, begged for forgiveness, and had been welcomed back to the church. Barb Raber was raised Amish, but is now a Conservative Mennonite. She drove Eli to appointments in her car, and she gave him what he wanted when he wanted: a cell phone, a laptop, rides to his favorite fishing and hunting places, and, most importantly, sex. When Eli starts asking people to kill his wife for him, Barb offers to help. One night, just after Eli had hitched a ride with a group of men to go fishing in the hours before dawn, Barb Raber entered the Weaver house and shot Barbara Weaver in the chest at close range.It was only the third murder in hundreds of years of Amish life in America, and it fell to Edna Boyle, a young assistant prosecutor to seek justice for Barbara Weaver.

Product Identifiers
ISBN-10 1250067235
ISBN-13 9781250067234