What are you reading?

[Semantics]

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My friend loved it so much that she drove it over as soon as she was finished.

[Andrew, Jr.]

Rosie and I listened to Chaz Bono's lastest book on tape while driving to Richmond. It was very well done. We enjoyed it.

[Elijah]

I am reading Transition by Chaz Bono, I may be wildly unpopular for saying this, but I am a little disappointed, I am up to Chapter 6.

Also, is there really a way to share Kindle books, or is that a myth?

[Toughy]

I am re-reading a fantasy series with a kink component. The author is Jacqueline Carey. The books are named in order:

Kushiel's Dart
Kushiel's Chosen
Kushiel's Avatar

I have a few more to read but I wanted to refresh my memory

the author's website:

www.jacquelinecarey.com/

[DoReMiFemme]

I'm reading Stieg Larson's "The Girl Who..." series. I started reading them a week or so ago and can't put them down! I'm on the last book now, which is a terrible combination of awesome and not awesome since there are only 3 books in the series.

[Massive]

Forensics - Zakaria Erzinclioglu
It's taught about a lot of things in regards to forensics, yes he has opinions, but I've yet to find one of his opinions which are invalid, definitely food for thought. It's making me start to wish I'd worked harder at school and taken the time to possibly look into studying forensics years ago, ah well, such is life!

[foxyshaman]

I went shopping for the book by Mantak Chia: Healing Love Through The Tao: Cultivating Female Sexual Energy (good tantra reference) and also bought his The Six Healing Sounds: Taoist Techniques for Balancing Chi. :bellydancer:

But... I found in the second hand section "The Fruitful Darkness" by Joan Halifax. I was excited to find it and even more excited to be reading it. I really like her work. I opened up the book at a 'random' page and found a very interesting section on glossolalia, which is a wonderfully obscure subject very close to my heart. :cheer:

I also bought a Linda Goodman book second hand because it contained a chapter on Kabbalistic numerology. :thumbsup:

[daisygrrl]

Also, is there really a way to share Kindle books, or is that a myth?

Honestly, the only way that I've found to share books on Kindle is if the Kindles are registered to the same user on Amazon's system. I know, it's kind of a bummer...

[amnesia.bfp]

I can't remember.

Who am I?

[Camo Eagle]

George RR Martins Fire & Ice Series
Book 1 Game of Thrones

[Hollylane]

Septimus Heap: Book 6, Darke
by Angie Sage

[amiyesiam]

Septimus Heap: Book 6, Darke
by Angie Sage



love these books

[Greyson]

I just finished reading "The Help" written by Kathryn Stockett.

It is fiction and about African American Women Domestics, telling their story to a middle class white woman. It takes place in Mississippi in the 1960s during the time of the Civil Rights movement.

I rarely read fiction but I could not put this book down. I grew up during this era in Southern California and played with the children of African American women domestics that abandoned the South and moved to California to make a better life for their children. We all lived in the projects. IMO, this book sounds pretty realistic.

[Wryly]

I'm just finishing up a book that I've had around for a while: "When Nothing Else Matters - Michael Jordan's Last Comeback by Michael Leahy.

[Janny]

"Venus With Biceps: A Pictorial History of Muscular Women" by David L. Chapman & Patricia Vertinsky

Honest, I'm not just looking at the pictures, I'm not. :p

[girl_dee]

Classic Slave Narratives by Henry Louis Gates

Amazing and very moving. Wow is all I can say.

[justkim]

Greyson, I could heart their voices and totally enjoyed this book. I know I will read it again. If anyone has a Color Nook and would be interested in reading I will see if this book has the share option as I don't mind sharing it with others.



I just finished reading "The Help" written by Kathryn Stockett.

It is fiction and about African American Women Domestics, telling their story to a middle class white woman. It takes place in Mississippi in the 1960s during the time of the Civil Rights movement.

I rarely read fiction but I could not put this book down. I grew up during this era in Southern California and played with the children of African American women domestics that abandoned the South and moved to California to make a better life for their children. We all lived in the projects. IMO, this book sounds pretty realistic.

[justkim]

I just got done reading Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi. I laughed and I cried. Excellent read for sure...

[vixenagogo]

the internet is a playground
-david thorne


http://www.robertburdick.com/mysite/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/david_thorne_big_spider.jpg



...witty, irreverent and genius.

[girl_dee]

Greyson, I could heart their voices and totally enjoyed this book. I know I will read it again. If anyone has a Color Nook and would be interested in reading I will see if this book has the share option as I don't mind sharing it with others.

You can't share with my Kindle? :crybaby::missu::watereyes:

[justkim]

Miss you too! :watereyes:


You can't share with my Kindle? :crybaby::missu::watereyes:

[Arwen]

Recently I've read Lost Voices by Sarah Porter. It's a dark YA fantasy about a girl who becomes a mermaid.

I'm also reading Clash of Kings by George R. R. Donaldson. It's the 2nd in his A Song Of Ice And Fire trilogy which is being produced by HBO as Game Of Thrones. Totally engrossing. Not your average sword/sorcery fantasy. Donaldson has NO problem killing off popular characters.

[Dreams]

i just finished Sams letters to jennifer..by james patterson..

it was a good read and i didnt expect what is was truly about..

[Soon]

Instead of a Letter--Diana Athill

Producte Description (Amazon): Diana Athill's childhood was idyllic, brought up in the Norfolk countryside. Aged only 15, she fell in love with a young undergraduate. They travelled to Oxford, engaged to be married. Then everything fell apart in the cruellest possible way. In this modern memoir, Diana Athill dissects the terrible consequences of loss and her struggle to rebuild a personality destroyed by sadness.

[afixer]

Honestly, the only way that I've found to share books on Kindle is if the Kindles are registered to the same user on Amazon's system. I know, it's kind of a bummer...


you may find this helpful.

Lending Kindle Books

[afixer]

Inside Scientology:
The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion -Janet Reitman

[JAGG]

Just finished a book called Higher Consciousness.

[Kobi]

Manning Up - How the rise of women has turned men into boys by Kay Hymowitz.

Interesting history. Still trying to decide if there is some merit to her conclusions.

[Melissa]

The Private Patient by PD James.

M

[Melissa]

Manning Up - How the rise of women has turned men into boys by Kay Hymowitz.

Interesting history. Still trying to decide if there is some merit to her conclusions.


It does sound interesting. So is she blaming the behavior of men on feminism?

M

[tapu]

The Uncoupling
—Meg Wolitzer


When the new drama teacher at Eleanor Roosevelt High School stages a production of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, the town of Stellar Plains is never again the same. The town's women are overtaken by a creeping, cold curse; which leads them to completely disengage from their husbands, lovers and boyfriends. It's funny how a Greek comedy, written in 411 BC about the Peloponnesian War is so timely today: the political climate, the war protests, the unhappy community, the men who fight, and the women who stay behind. This is a smart, topical, unique story which is absolutely done to perfection. Wolitzer's prose is straightforward and clean, leaving her gem of a story to shine, and shine it does.

—Powell's Books

[Leigh]

Its not a book I'm reading but a new magazine that I bought, its by Prevention called Walk Off Weight :-)

[vixenagogo]

middlesex.
-jeffery eugenides

[MaggieBluIze]

Eat
Pray
Love

[girl_dee]

One of the most amazing real life stories ever. "As Nature Made Him, by John Colapinto. I HIGHLY recommend this book.


http://www.book-club-queen.com/as-nature-made-him-john-colapinto.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer

A baby boy who's botched circumcision left him without a penis and under advice of a doctor, raised him as a girl. He is a real life hero. Tragically he committed suicide at 38, two years after his twin also committed suicide, and after the book was written. This was a huge lesson in gender assignment taking place in the brain not in the genitals.

[amiyesiam]

One of the most amazing real life stories ever. "As Nature Made Him, by John Colapinto. I HIGHLY recommend this book.


http://www.book-club-queen.com/as-nature-made-him-john-colapinto.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer

A baby boy who's botched circumcision left him without a penis and under advice of a doctor, raised him as a girl. He is a real life hero. Tragically he committed suicide at 38, two years after his twin also committed suicide, and after the book was written. This was a huge lesson in gender assignment taking place in the brain not in the genitals.

I will second this
excellent book

[oblivia]

Studying:
BKS Iyengar Light on Yoga

Just for Fun:
The Subtle Knife - part 2 of the Golden Compass Series

[Lilygirl]

Currently on book seven, Naamah's Kiss. Very hot.

[JakeTulane]

Now You See Her - James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge

The Rescue - Nicholas Sparks

Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne - David Starkey

[gotoseagrl]

The Art of Racing in the Rain Garth Stein

Emma Brown Clare Boylan

Charlotte and Emily Bronte: The Complete Novels

The Thirteenth Tale Diane Setterfield

stacks of others i will eventually get to.

[tantalizingfemme]

Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel..... read it more than 15 years ago and decided I want to reread it.

(Trying very hard not to picture Daryl Hannah as Ayla)

[Kobi]

It does sound interesting. So is she blaming the behavior of men on feminism?

M



I am still mulling this over but it seems her premise is that societies have certain rituals/rites to bring children into adulthood and the roles associated with them. In this society the rituals included jobs, marriage, having a family...in that order.

Now, as women are becoming more self sufficient financially, foregoing marriage, and having children without husbands or active fathers, the change in rituals for males is leading to a prolonged adolescence or pre-adulthood. The loss of rituals is leading to role confusion and males are struggling to redefine purpose/roles.

Seems more like systems theory applied to humanness i.e. a change in one part of a system, requires a change in another. Just observing the process of change as it is evolving rather than a blaming thing.

[Fancy]

Joy for Beginners by Erica Bauermeister

and rereading

Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

just finished

the Steig Larsson series (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Girl Who Played with Fire, and Girl Who Kicked a Hornet's Nest) - very captivating read and although the third book had good movement, the characters started to meld together a bit. It seemed almost watered down by trying to overdo the subplots.

[MaggieBluIze]

I wish I could say I am reading something deep and meaningful, but I'm not. Work has been slammed busy, so when I do get to read it is purely for pleasure and is usually an easy read.

I am currently reading ...

Pat Califia Mortal Companion
and
Dinah McCall The Perfect Lie

[foxyshaman]

The East, the West, and Sex A History of Erotic Encounters By Bernstein, Richard

It is a fascinating read. He is a great author. More than once I have giggled out loud, said "no frickin way" out loud... and well just enjoyed the read. It is nice not to read something heavy.

I am also reading Beebo Brinker by Ann Bannon. I was prepping for sexy storytelling, but nope no sexy story there. Had to mine other story sources!!

[christie]

I am just about finished with the Game of Thrones. I must say that I was glad that HBO kept primarily to the book! I do love the book so much better - its all in the details!

[wolfbittenpoet]

I am reading Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett. (again) I am more then a bit of a pTerry addict.

[tapu]

One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal

by Alice Domurat Dreger


From tapu
The review below summarizes the overarching theme. I would add that this is a mind-boggling treatment of self-identity. The topic of developing and maintaining healthy identity in circumstances of genetic disability is ratcheted up a notch here, with each conjoined twin displaying a separate self, fierce in the expression of individuality. I love, love, love this book.

From Publishers Weekly
Analyzing case studies past and present, Dormurat Dreger, an associate professor of science and technology at Michigan State, questions assumptions about anatomical norms in an exploration of separation surgery on conjoined twins. Providing historical and contemporary evidence that most adult conjoined twins do not desire to be separated, and that many surgeries are carried out on children too young to object, Dormurat Dreger voices distaste for Americans' failure to tolerate anatomical difference and instead fetishize individualism at all cost.

Making ample use of her previous study of hermaphrodites, she likens separation surgery to reconstructive surgery on the sexually ambiguous genitalia of "intersex" children. Both types of surgery, she argues, share the dubious social rather than strictly medical goal of making such children appear more "normal."

****Points if you know where the title comes from****

[girl_dee]

I just ordered Stolen Lives by Jaycee Duggard. I just want to read anything this girl writes, bless her.

[Arwen]

Book Three in George R. R. Donaldson's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series. Mesmerizing.

[Merlin]

A book on the krays.

[dixie]

"Strength in the Face of Adversity: Resilience Strategies of Transgender Individuals"

[atomiczombie]

Selected writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

[Kätzchen]

Ulrich von Hutten: His life and times.
(David Frederich Strauss, 1874- Trans. by G. Sturge)

[Wryly]

"Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Donaldson.
I've been watching the series on HBO but it seems I'm not catching them in order. So, on payday, I got the first book. I'm enjoying the details and stories told from everyone's point of view. So much detail and backstory that can not be conveyed in tv.

[JustLovelyJenn]

Very slowly....

... Jane Eyre....

[foxyshaman]

I am in the process of starting to research and write my wilderness retreat handout. This year we are working with the much little known process of shapeshifting. No, not the whole body shapeshifting, cause that would take way more than a weekend workshop.

So... I am reading The Art of Shapeshifting by Ted Andrews. I feel like I am reading much of the same articles I have already written.

But... back to work. No more being the lazy fox!!

[Jeep]

Terminal Freeze by Lincoln Child
Tuesday I will recieve Cold Vengeance by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child and will likely be up all night as I have been waiting over a year for it.

[Greyson]

I just finished it. It is his autobiography.


With Head and Heart - Howard Thurman

[Red Dirt Girl]

Kaffir Boy – Mark Mathabane
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie

[Butterbean]

Female Serial Killers by Peter Vronsky

Preserving the Harvest by Carol W. Costenbader

Massively looking forward to listening to the audiobook Angelology by Danielle Trussoni.

[Semantics]

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

[StillettoDoll]

http://www.parallax.org/books/worldwehave/front.jpg

[Fancy]

A couple magazines (Borders is going out of business - so some of the price reductions actually make sense)...

* Curve (KD Lang on the cover)

* Grow, Cook, Eat ...something about sustainable living

[rockybcn]

Just finished "The Physician" by Noah Gordon, getting ready to read the second of this trilogy..."The Last Jew" and will then continue on with "The Shaman"

[MissPriss]

Most ppl that know me are very irritated by it but I almost always read two books at the same time, so the current choice are.......

Murder In Memphis by Dorris D. Porch and Rebecca Easley
and
And Never See Her Again by Patricia Springer....I was just reading this one but had to have the other to take a break from it because it makes me VERY angry.

[Fancy]

Just started...
Hot House Flower - and the 9 Plants of Desire
By Margot Berwin

[citybutch]

Insurance Law... someone save me!

[wolfbittenpoet]

American Gods the Tenth Anniversary Edition by Neil Gaiman
Hit List by Laurell K Hamilton

[citybutch]

Finishing up Little Bee

Has anyone read Cutting For Stone? I have heard it is great and it's next on my list bedside table.

[Novelafemme]

just started the Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

[foxyshaman]

The Art of Shapeshifting - Ted Andrews
Fire in the Head; Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit - Tom Cowan
Imagery in Healing: Shamanism and Modern Medicine - Jeanne Achteberg.

I am writing a workshop from scratch on Shapeshifting - a little known shamanic practice. These are my references. So far, so good.

[Cowboi]

Rogue Warrior
Autobiography of the founder of
the US Navy's Seal Team Six.

[SomethingBeautiful]

I have quite the book list I need to resume. Currently I'm reading "The girl who kicked the hornet's nest" by Stieg Larsson. I've read the series at least 4 times over the last 2 years. If you haven't read his "Millenium series" I highly recommend it.

[Fancy]

Just started...
Hot House Flower - and the 9 Plants of Desire
By Margot Berwin

Eh, this isn't as good as I'd expected it to be. Quite simple in style and mostly unbelievable. I think the title over-sold.

[Wryly]

Really enjoying the A Song of Fire and Ice books - - by George R. R. Martin. I finished A Game of Thrones very quickly and read A Clash of Kings in 4 days. I have to wait until Thursday (payday) before I can get A Storm of Swords. *sigh*

[willow]

Just finished: Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson (http://www.jeanettewinterson.com/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=14)

Now reading: The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet (http://www.ken-follett.com/bibliography/the_pillars _of_the_earth.html)


Next up: Fuck It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way - John C. Parkin (http://www.hayhouse.co.uk/books/1848500130/fuck-it)

[Sassy]

A Dance with Dragons (Song of Ice and Fire, Book V)

Persistence: All ways butch and femme

Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames (Thich Nhat Hanh)

----------

So, A Dance with Dragons is very groovy so far. I've only read about 5 of the essays out of Persistence but so far it's interesting. And I haven't opened Anger yet. I'm resenting it's presence in my house at the moment. I intend to read it. But first I have to forgive it for violating my space and forcing me to realize I need better communication skills. *ahem* ... Yeah. So A Dance with Dragons is good :)

[Soft*Silver]

I cant remember the name or the author (Jodi Piccoult or something like that) but its a novel about a teenaged boy who has Aspergers and loves forensics and ends up being accused of murder. How the system handles him is awful and yet, thru the book, it shows exactly how terrifying the world can be for someone with Aspergers. Wonderfully done...

[Random]

American Gods the Tenth Anniversary Edition by Neil Gaiman
Hit List by Laurell K Hamilton

How did you like Hit List?

[Wryly]

A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin (Song of Fire and Ice, Book 3).

I just picked it up while running errands today. Too busy to read it now but will carve out some time tomorrow and over the weekend.

[tapu]

Bonk by Mary Roach

The Curious Coupling
Of Science and Sex

It isn't as good as Stiff.

[tonaderspeisung]

just finished
galapagos - kurt vonnegut

[Reader]

A Man in Full (1998) by Tom Wolfe

Some interesting characters, thoughts and concepts woven with good writing and a fast-pace story.

[daisygrrl]

Finally reading S. Bear Bergman's Butch is Noun along with a fabulous butch--amazing discussions!

Being read to: Emmanuelle by Emmanuelle Arsan...yummy, sensuous, prose...

[Sparkle]

I've just finished reading

'The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making' by Catherynne M. Valente

It is YA fiction, it was sweet and quirky and charming; but quite a slow read. Probably best for the 10 and under crowd.

Now I'm thinking perhaps this...

'The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ' by Philip Pullman
(the author of the His Dark Materials Trilogy including the Golden Compass)

from amazon:
"The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is the remarkable new piece of fiction from best-selling and famously atheistic author Philip Pullman. By challenging the events of the gospels, Pullman puts forward his own compelling and plausible version of the life of Jesus, and in so doing, does what all great books do: makes the reader ask questions.

In Pullman’s own words, “The story I tell comes out of the tension within the dual nature of Jesus Christ, but what I do with it is my responsibility alone. Parts of it read like a novel, parts like history, and parts like a fairy tale; I wanted it to be like that because it is, among other things, a story about how stories become stories.”

Written with unstinting authority, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is a pithy, erudite, subtle, and powerful book by a controversial and beloved author. It is a text to be read and reread, studied and unpacked, much like the Good Book itself."

[Sparkle]

Is anyone here a Haruki Murakami fan?

I'm looking for a recommendation.

I enjoyed 'Sputnik Sweetheart' quite a bit -but- couldn't get through the first few chapters of 'Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World' it was incomprehensible to me.

I think I found 'Sputnik Sweetheart' a bit easier because it was more linear with less layers and layers of fantasy and I didn't have to wait so long to "get it".

I love the surrealism & the post-modernism of his writing. I like the themes and his humour. But some of his works feel so barren, so stripped of emotional depth that I just can't get in to them. Or maybe its a cultural thing? Anyone?

[NoahMacchione]

Hi Sparkle,

I have read a Wild Sheep Chase by this author. It is a very short read 110 ten pages total. It is very Monty Python-ish. So, if you like that type of humor you will like this book.

It is a mock-detective tale that follows an unnamed Japanese man through Tokyo and Hokkaidō in 1978. The passive, chain-smoking main character gets swept away on an adventure that leads him on a hunt for a sheep that hasn’t been seen for years. The apathetic protagonist meets a woman with magically seductive ears and a strange man who dresses as a sheep and talks in slurs; in this way there are elements of Japanese animism or Shinto.

There is a sequel to it as well entitled Dance, Dance, Dance which follows the adventures of the Sheep Man and the protagonist from the first book.

I have not read the ones you have mentioned. However, you did ask for a recommendation so I would try the short read and see what you think.

Happy Reading !!



Is anyone here a Haruki Murakami fan?

I'm looking for a recommendation.

I enjoyed 'Sputnik Sweetheart' quite a bit -but- couldn't get through the first few chapters of 'Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World' it was incomprehensible to me.

I think I found 'Sputnik Sweetheart' a bit easier because it was more linear with less layers and layers of fantasy and I didn't have to wait so long to "get it".

I love the surrealism & the post-modernism of his writing. I like the themes and his humour. But some of his works feel so barren, so stripped of emotional depth that I just can't get in to them. Or maybe its a cultural thing? Anyone?

[Ryobi]

Torture at the back forty. The gang rape and slaying of Margaret Anderson. By Mike Dauplaise

I was 11 years old when this all happened within 10 miles of my childhood home. From what I can tell, the book doesn't have the detail of the crime that was reported on the local news at the time. (that's ok. it's just sickening.) I have met relatives of a few involved in this over the years, still not much willingness to talk about it though. I saw the book in the bargain bin at B and N. Thought I would give it a try. I can only read it in little bits but, it is helping me understand somethings I just had no way of understanding when I was 11.

[Arwen]

Reading "Becoming Marie Antoinette" by Juliet Grey. I'm a sucker for well-written historical fiction. This one is in first person (not my favorite POV).

I'm enjoying this very sympathetic look at the child who was an spoiled archduchess of Austria. She was quite literally recreated for the French court. About halfway through.

I'm also still reading book four of the "A Song of Fire and Ice" quartet. Had to stop to let a co-worker catch up. LOL We are having a mini-book club.

[WolfyOne]

J.T. Ellison - The Cold Room
This is one of the books in her series about Taylor Jackson, detective in Nashville.

I'm a little lost in what has happened since I forgot the last book she wrote in my room at last year's reunion.
I'm hoping to be clear on everything by the end of this book or I'll have to get another copy of the the book I forgot.

[Reader]

I have quite the book list I need to resume. Currently I'm reading "The girl who kicked the hornet's nest" by Stieg Larsson. I've read the series at least 4 times over the last 2 years. If you haven't read his "Millenium series" I highly recommend it.

I agree. Well drawn characters and some good political points in an interesting story.

[Apocalipstic]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Somehow I've missed it.

Just finished the new Sookie Stackhouse and #9 in the James Patterson Murder Club books.

[Reader]

Terminal Freeze by Lincoln Child
Tuesday I will recieve Cold Vengeance by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child and will likely be up all night as I have been waiting over a year for it.

I really liked "Death Match" by Lincoln Child. It was an interesting look at technology and the uses and abuses of it.

[WolfyOne]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Somehow I've missed it.

Just finished the new Sookie Stackhouse and #9 in the James Patterson Murder Club books.

Waiting for Amazon to send me #9
I kept waiting for it to go down on price
It did when #10 came out

[Massive]

Fatal Revenant by Stephen Donaldson, the second in his third and final chronicles of Thomas Covenant.
Seriously trying to get in as much fiction/sci-fi/fantasy as possible before I go back to school and start reading text books, lots of damn text books :seeingstars:

[tapu]

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn


I read it when it came out and then picked it up again this weekend. I bet a lot of people here have read it. No use trying to summarize--any blurb I've seen has trouble describing it.

If you've ever read Infinite Jest--and if you have, you're a better man than I--it's something like that. Except, with Infinite Jest, it didn't matter how much I longed to read it. I just... couldn't... do it. Geek Love has the power without requiring that level of commitment.

[Red Dirt Girl]

Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Aparthied South Africa by Mark Mathabane.

It is excruciatingly painful and hard to read. I've not gotten to the uplifting parts yet, and I can only read a little at a time b/c it is so heart breaking.

[nycfem]

I just read a great book "Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl" by Stacey Pershall. It's a memoir of a girl who grew up in Arkansas with an eating disorder and was eventually diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. She then came into her own as an alternative type. Her writing is hilarious when it wants to be and very moving. Big thumbs up! I want to be friends with her (always the mark of a great book for me).

I'm also reading Jaycee Duggard's memoir "a stolen life." It's beyond upsetting. I had nightmares about it last night. It's very well-written, also very graphic, and Jaycee is beyond likable. Jaycee has the spirit of a survivor, and that's what gets the reader through the book (at least for me). Some of the proceeds from the book go to her foundation for helping others in traumatic situations. Jaycee was an amazing girl, and now is an amazing woman.

[Kobi]

Currently reading The Gallup's Guide to Modern Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Lifestyle series.

Is written for young adults as a primer thing but I'm learning a lot as well. 15 books in the series including stuff like health, coming out, understanding what it means to be transgender, role models, religion, issues and politics, mental health, homophobia, international stuff, new generations, smashing stereotypes, international history and time lines, origins of orientation, POC, gay characters/roles etc.

[SecretAgentMa'am]

I tend toward rather trashy reading. Vampires, werewolves, magic users of all kinds, I love them. Unfortunately, all the series I love don't have new books coming out for months, so I'm reduced to reading paranormal romance. Not that there's anything wrong with romance novels, but they're not usually my thing. So I'm currently reading Nalini Singh's Psy/Changeling series. I just started book 3, not sure if I'm going to actually make it through this one, much less the whole series.

I'm also listening to the audiobook version of Kitty's Greatest Hits, a collection of short stories set in the Kitty Norville universe by Carrie Vaughn.

[Estella]

I'm not usually so much with the chick lit - but someone at work gave me a copy of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender. I started it on my way home today and it's not a bad subway read, sort of a magic food experience with chocolate emotional frosting.

[tonaderspeisung]

the world in six songs: how the musical brain created human nature - daniel j. levitin

i was super excited about the premise of this book and i found his first book, this is your brain on music, completely fascinating
this offering was a bit of a disappointment - a lot like ancient aliens on the history channel stuff here

[Greyson]

Persistence:All Ways Butch and Femme edited by Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman

[Venus007]

"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

[Fancy]

Rereading Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

I will most likely always be an Elinor.

[Estella]

I'm not usually so much with the chick lit - but someone at work gave me a copy of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender. I started it on my way home today and it's not a bad subway read, sort of a magic food experience with chocolate emotional frosting.

Yes, quoting my own post. I just finished this book and I have to say, I was really surprised. Sort of chick-lit meets sci-fi/fantasy. Still with a heavy food emphasis. I'll definitely be looking out for her other novels.

[Reader]

(Figured I'd toss this in this thread, too. I first posted it in the Hurricane Irene thread.)


This book is a fav of mine. It is a good read and full of interesting and compelling info, written more like a story, than a manual so it keeps your attention, while educating you.


The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life

Amazon.com: The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life (9780446580243): Ben Sherwood: Books

[lettertodaddy]

I'm reading How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu, and re-reading Audre Lorde's Zami, as well as Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan. Oh, and I've been reading bits and pieces from Ivan Coyote's Missed Her, as well as a couple of essays from a James Baldwin collection.

Since the girl left, I've had a lot of time on my hands.

[WolfyOne]

I just got a James Patterson book in the mail...yay!!!

I'll be starting, The 9th Judgment as soon as I can pull myself away from my computer.

[lettertodaddy]

Persistence:All Ways Butch and Femme edited by Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman

Are you familiar with Joan Nestle's The Persistent Desire? How do you think the two match up?

[nycfem]

This book, "Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why," was written in a similar style to what you described. I just love these types of books, and strongly recommend this one.

Amazon.com: Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why (9780393326154): Laurence Gonzales: Books

(Figured I'd toss this in this thread, too. I first posted it in the Hurricane Irene thread.)


This book is a fav of mine. It is a good read and full of interesting and compelling info, written more like a story, than a manual so it keeps your attention, while educating you.


The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life

Amazon.com: The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life (9780446580243): Ben Sherwood: Books (http://www.amazon.com/Survivors-Club-Secrets-Science-Could/dp/0446580244)

[Greyson]

Are you familiar with Joan Nestle's The Persistent Desire? How do you think the two match up?


Yes, I have read The Persistent Desire. I have got to tell you my Joan Nestle story. Back in the 80's Joan came through Los Angeles. My ex-girlfriend was the founder of the Lesbian Writers Series in Los Angeles. This is how I got to meet Joan. Joan wanted to see Disneyland and I was the butch that got to escort her to Disneyland. I got to hear much of the BF herstory that day and during her visit. This is a memory that I hold dear to my butch heart.

As for the book editied by Ivan and Zena, Joan Nestle wrote the forwardfor the book. Does it match up? I am enjoying reading the stories. I will say it is pleasant to read the stories about Butches and Femmes that from other countries besides the States.

I will keep your question in mind as I continue to read the book and try to come back and give a fuller answer to the question. Thanks.

[lettertodaddy]

Yes, I have read The Persistent Desire. I have got to tell you my Joan Nestle story. Back in the 80's Joan came through Los Angeles. My ex-girlfriend was the founder of the Lesbian Writers Series in Los Angeles. This is how I got to meet Joan. Joan wanted to see Disneyland and I was the butch that got to escort her to Disneyland. I got to hear much of the BF herstory that day and during her visit. This is a memory that I hold dear to my butch heart.

OOOH. Jealous. After reading The Persistent Desire, I briefly flirted with the idea of becoming an historian and/or archivist so I could work with the Lesbian Herstory Project.

As for the book editied by Ivan and Zena, Joan Nestle wrote the forwardfor the book. Does it match up? I am enjoying reading the stories. I will say it is pleasant to read the stories about Butches and Femmes that from other countries besides the States.

I think I just have a soft sport in my heart for Nestle's book because it came out at such an important part in my life. I appreciate how Ivan and Zena wanted to be more inclusive to represent the ways that LGBTQ communities have changed since the mid 90s, but in some ways, Persistence doesn't feel like it's a book meant for me. But that's more of a commentary on me than it is on the book itself.

[UofMfan]

I got a Kindle for my birthday!

First book I got?

The Girl with the Dragon Tatto.

I will be getting the entire series and finally catching up with the rest of you.

[Tawse]

Book Nine of the Dresden Files series...


I like my P.I.s to be wizards... mmmhmmm

[hottprof]

Just finished reading...

Larson, Steig. The Girl Who Played with Fire. (New York: Random House, 2006).

ISBN-10: 030745455X
ISBN-13: 978-0307454553
(yep book nerd)

Amazing book, better paced that the first in the series. I was suprised at the out come and the depth of the characters. I can not wait to read book three.

hp

*peace*

[DamonK]

The Priest-Kings of Gor by John Norman. Third book of the series.

[afixer]

a visit from the goon squad

[UofMfan]

Just finished reading...

Larson, Steig. The Girl Who Played with Fire. (New York: Random House, 2006).

ISBN-10: 030745455X
ISBN-13: 978-0307454553
(yep book nerd)

Amazing book, better paced that the first in the series. I was suprised at the out come and the depth of the characters. I can not wait to read book three.

hp

*peace*

I am getting that on today as I am about to finish the first one. I cannot wait.

[foxyshaman]

Numerology and the Divine Triangle by Javane Faith. She has some interesting insights that I am enjoying.

[Fancy]

46 Things You Can Do to Help Your Teen Manage Stress - Dr Heath Dingwell

and

The Craggy Hole in My Heart and the Cat Who Fixed It - Geneen Roth

...no book reports just yet.

[Sparkle]

Some locals have formed an impromptu reading group to read the Man Booker shortlist

http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1533

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2011/jul/26/man-booker-prize-2011-in-pictures

rather ambitiously they've set two books for next week (I'm unlikely to have time to read both) but I've just sent these two to my kindle.

'Pigeon English' by Stephen Kelman

and

'Snowdrops' by A.D. Miller

[turasultana]

Just finished "The Sociopath Next Door" non fiction. scarier than fiction. :)

4% of the population or 1 in 25 people, have no conscience. look around the room right now and see if you can pick them out!

seriously - really good book. You look at people differently and a bit more objectively. Watch out for those who consistantly play the pity card.

[foxyshaman]

Just finished "The Sociopath Next Door" non fiction. scarier than fiction. :)

4% of the population or 1 in 25 people, have no conscience. look around the room right now and see if you can pick them out!

seriously - really good book. You look at people differently and a bit more objectively. Watch out for those who consistantly play the pity card.

I ordered this from my library and am on the list to get it. Life can be scarier than fiction that is for sure!!

Have I ever said I LOVE MY LIBRARY. Well if not, I do. So I said it. I admit it. I am a library junkie.

So today I picked up "Not One Damsel in Distress ~ World Folktales for Strong Girls" by Jane Yolen.

I am asked to storytell for different events, so I am always trying to find interesting folktales that we may not necessarily have ever heard. I also try to find stories about women, strong women, or wiley women... etc. There are far too many male heroes in our north american cultural mythology. I am only one women, but I hold the power of my voice, my body and imagination to encourage other women to embrace the hero within.

Anyway... I feel a tangent coming on. :canadian:

[WolfyOne]

Trying to catch up with Janet Evanovich, so I started Sizzling Sixteen 2 days ago and should be done tonight

Then back to J.T. Ellison and The Immortals

[StillettoDoll]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51etBs8wSvL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

[Daktari]

E.H.Carr - What is History
K.Jenkins - Re-thinking History
F.McDonough - Hitler, Chamberlain and Appeasement
R.A.C Parker - Chamberlain and Appeasement



Can ya tell school is in again :cheesy:

[wolfbittenpoet]

George Mann- Ghosts of Manhattan and Ghosts of War
Jack Kerouac The Subterraneans
James Reese- The Dracula Dossier

[foxyshaman]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51etBs8wSvL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg (http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1573244872/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link)

I have read that. It changed the ways I look at food, the food industry and marketing.

Enjoy.

[Tawse]

tonight I'm starting Small Favor; Book 10 of the Dresden Files

Thoroughly enjoying the series thus far.

[hottprof]

between school and life...

I am still working on

The girl who kicked the hornets nest... by steig larson

super good so far...

[JustJo]

The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok...tough but valuable reading for me right now. :rrose:

[nycfem]

The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok...tough but valuable reading for me right now. :rrose:

I read this too. A really important book but, yes, extremely tough to read. Heartbreaking.

[cinnamongrrl]

Ive been reading a wonderful book... The man who walked through time. By Colin Fletcher... its about the first man to ever walk the length of the Grand Canyon. Im going through a non-fiction phase with emphasis on naturalists...Bernd Heinrich is another favorite... A Year in the Maine Woods was an INCREDIBLE read..he's the Thoreau of our time..but with more of a scientific mind...

[EnderD_503]

Rereading Cornwell's Winter King, plus a bunch of course readers for uni.

[nycfem]

This is a favorite genre of mine (non-fiction travel/ naturalists) so please keep posting books and descriptions as they come up for you :)

One of my recommendations: The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific (by J Maarten Troost)

Amazon.com: The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific (9780767915304): J. Maarten Troost: Books

I've read this book several times. It really puts you on this amazing island!

Ive been reading a wonderful book... The man who walked through time. By Colin Fletcher... its about the first man to ever walk the length of the Grand Canyon. Im going through a non-fiction phase with emphasis on naturalists...Bernd Heinrich is another favorite... A Year in the Maine Woods was an INCREDIBLE read..he's the Thoreau of our time..but with more of a scientific mind...

[puddin']

jus' finished: "the school of essential ingredients", by erica bauermeister (highly recommend dis read!)

and jus' started: "trunk music", by michael connelly (love me some mr. connelly)

[SoNotHer]

I'm always reading more than one book at a time, but this has my primary focus right now. I am bonded to sf and fantasy, particularly heroic paradoxes and anything that draws upon, regenerates or creates new myths that survive in dystopia. I like to see the underdog win against a dehumanizing force in the present and in the future.

This is a trailer someone made of what a filmed version of the book could look like.

JzuW9j7fXgk

[MissPriss]

Just finished Cruel Sacrafice by Aphrodite Jones..........she is one of the best crime writers ever each time I get one of her books I cant put it down her best ever by far is All S/he Wanted it is the true story of the murder of Brendan Tena from the movie Boys Dont Cry....the movie is great but so far from the book. The book is better hands down.

[nycfem]

I am a true crime addict and also love Aphrodite Jones' books! I've read both books you mentioned below. Cruel Sacrifice was so intense! The characters from it were on a two part Dr. Phil interview this year. Amanda was still gay and looked butch. Hey, check out this one by Aphrodite. It's so good!

Red Zone: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the San Francisco Dog Mauling

Just finished Cruel Sacrafice by Aphrodite Jones..........she is one of the best crime writers ever each time I get one of her books I cant put it down her best ever by far is All S/he Wanted it is the true story of the murder of Brendan Tena from the movie Boys Dont Cry....the movie is great but so far from the book. The book is better hands down.

[wolfbittenpoet]

Just finished Kevin Hearne's Iron Druid series. They were good.
Also finished The Evil Within by Heather Graham.
Now am starting Bleak History by John Shirley and Not Flesh Nor Feathers by Cherie Priest.
May also read Slaughterhouse Five again to support banned book week.

[dark_crystal]

Just finished REAMDE by Neal Stephenson, who is the closest thing I have to a favorite author

Rereading The Age Of Innocence for 4th-Mondays book club

reading The Glass Room for 3rd-Mondays book club and Train to Pakistan for school

[Inuus]

I'm reading The Eighty-Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts. Would recommend it for any animal lover especially horse lovers.

Just got rereading Eleanor Of Aquitaine by Allison Weir. My favorite historical author

[foxyshaman]

I am currently listening to a CD set called "The Spirit of Healing" by Lewis Mehl-Madrona. He is a psychiatrist who has also studied Native American healing practices for close to 40 years. I quite like it. It took me a bit to get past his voice, I am glad I did because he has some very interesting things to say. Listening to how he expresses his ideas has led me to alter the lectures I do for the Religious Studies program at the University here.

I just bought "78 Degrees of Wisdom" by Rachel Pollack, a book on tarot. I am thinking about creating and teaching a class on Numerology, Symbolism and the Tarot. For further research I am also reading "The Haindl Tarot, the Major Arcana" again by Rachel Pollack and "The Complete Book of Numerology" by David Phillips.

I am looking for more esoteric teachings for numerology. It has a deep and intriguing history. I spent much of August steeped in Pythagorean Theorem which inspired my idea to create a workshop.

Ramble off

[willow]

World Without End - Ken Follett

[WolfyOne]

I asked R to lend me a copy of a religious book she has because it peaked my interest
I like learning things about other people's religions

Thoughts Matter - The Practice Of The Spiritual Life by Mary Margaret Funk

[nobelcarrot69]

Unlikely Friendships by Jennifer Holland.

[tapu]

Star Trek and Philosophy: The Wrath of Kant

from the "Pop Culture and Philosophy" series

[luv2luvgirls]

The Eargon trilogy

[StillettoDoll]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NLA124TaL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

[StillettoDoll]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51X20YWMclL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

[Fancy]

Unplug the Christmas Machine

By Jo Robinson & Jean Coppock Staeheli

[UofMfan]

I finished The Girl Who Played with Fire a while ago and loved it and I am now at 56% of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.

I am reading it slowly since I know it is the last one of a great series.

I have also watched the first two movies and I am waiting until I finish the book to watch the third one. I must say though, that the movies don't do the book justice, but then again, few do.

[Sparx1_1]

I'm re-reading a cute series that starts with "Several Devils" and then will be reading the next in the series "The Average Of Deviance"

[tonaderspeisung]

i'm halfway through dan brown's - the lost symbol
i've had to force myself this far
it's a lot of - actually in ancient times this meant that
followed by - i thought that was just a legend
followed by - the book version of a tv clip episode
followed by - a chase
and repeat

[UofMfan]

i'm halfway through dan brown's - the lost symbol
i've had to force myself this far
it's a lot of - actually in ancient times this meant that
followed by - i thought that was just a legend
followed by - the book version of a tv clip episode
followed by - a chase
and repeat

I agree. I was really disappointed with this book. It took me forever to get halfway through then I just gave up on it. It makes for a great paper weight on my night stand.

[tonaderspeisung]

I agree. I was really disappointed with this book. It took me forever to get halfway through then I just gave up on it. It makes for a great paper weight on my night stand.

maybe i'll cut my losses and start on the stieg larsson books

[Starbuck]

I'm reading "Tools Matter For Practicing the Spiritual Life" by Mary Margaret Funk. I too borrowed this from R. as I'm learning about my own spiritual journey and read "Thoughts Matter" first, it was a great read, I highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning about becoming balanced in their thinking about life in general. If you do want to read these books, read Thoughts Matter first.

http://www.amazon.com/Tools-Matter-Practicing-Spiritual-Life/dp/0826416551/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319069462&sr=1-1



http://www.amazon.com/Thoughts-Matter-Practice-Spiritual-Life/dp/0826411649/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319069900&sr=1-1

[SecretAgentMa'am]

I tried really hard to read Steig Larsson, and couldn't get through the first couple of chapters of the first book. Then I tried the movie and didn't make it past the rape scene that happened pretty early on. I keep hearing about how great the series is, but I just couldn't do it. I guess I have weird taste in books.

I'm about 1/3 of the way through my second reading of Terry Pratchett's new book, Snuff. It's fantastic. I love Sam Vimes. If it were still possible to be a Sam Vimes-style copper, I would have stuck with my law enforcement degree.

[Cin]

I have read Steig Larsson’s “The Girl Who…” series and I agree that the first one “The Girl Who Played With Fire” was very difficult to get into, but once I managed to get past all the history and hard to keep track of names, it was a pretty fun ride.

Right now I'm reading Terry Pratchett and will continue to do so until I've read everything he's written. In between and during I have read lately:

Bottle Rocket Hearts
by Zoe Whittall
Interesting, pleasant little read.

The Strain
Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan.
It was okay but I kept thinking they wrote this with the movie they planned to make in mind. However I will read the next in the series.

The Passage
Justin Cronin
I’ve read comparisons to “The Stand” made by reviewers of this book. I think it is definitely worth a read, and since it is a trilogy I look forward to the other two books. But it’s not equal to “The Stand” in my opinion.

Robopocalypse – it was okay.
Daniel H. Wilson

I thought I might reread A Confederacy of Dunces next. Just to see what I would think of it today. It cracked me up when I was younger.

I also think I will reread Clive Barker’s stuff like Imajica, The Great and Secret Show and Everville.

[Hollylane]

I have been struggling through:

Relentless(Dominion Trilogy #1)
by Robin Parrish

But have opted to begin to re-read the Christopher Paolini series in preparation for the new book release...

I have downloaded:

Eragorn
Eldest
Brisingr

and am waiting patiently for Nov 8, 2011 to download his new book:

Inheritance

I love his style of writing and am so excited to have another book to look forward to!

[SecretAgentMa'am]

Oh, I should have posted this instead of my previous post:

I am an excellent student and never, ever neglect my academic reading in favor of my fun reading. So I am currently reading:

The World's Religions by Huston Smith (for Philosophy of Religion)
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (for Human Sexuality)

I am definitely not way behind on either of these books. Really. I promise.

[betenoire]

crap, I didn't notice that there is a more active thread about books (this one).

now I take back my comment about "what, has nobody read anything in over a year?"



I just finished Last Night In Twisted River (http://www.john-irving.com/Last_Night_In_Twisted_River.asp) this morning. It's very John Irving, which means that I loved it.

When I say "It's very John Irving" I don't mean that it has bears, wresting, running, New England, Canada, and transgressive women....although it does have all of those things. I'm talking about the voice.

The thing that I love the most about his books is the way he starts his stories in the middle and jumps back and forth in time through the entire novel. Since I've started reading him I can't hardly make my way through a book that is mostly chronological.

Currently I'm reading Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children (http://www.ransomriggs.com/blog/2011/1/7/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children.html). I'm only a chapter in so far, but I think I'll enjoy it. The author's voice reminds me of Gregory Maguire - although maybe it's really just the subject matter that's bringing me there. I can't wait to have a couple of days off so I can devour it.

Next up is The Sisters Brothers (http://harpercollins.com/books/Sisters-Brothers-Patrick-Dewitt/). It's on my bedside table waiting for me right now. I know nothing at all about it other than that it was recommended by someone I think is super smart...and the cover art is freaking cool.

[Greco]

"The Way Forward Is With A Broken Heart"
by Alice Walker

Almost didn't pick it up because of the title

opened it read the first paragraph

and was caught with her directness

and transparency her writing

taking me to places I haven't been in

for a long time. Rich writing.

Greco

[Bad_boi]

Just finished re-reading Catcher in the Rye.

Now onto The Sight.

[oblivia]

I'm currently reading the Kushiel's Legacy series.... really loving them. I'm on the second book right now. Anyone else read these?

[AtLast]

The First Assassin- historical fiction by John J. Miller. Enjoying...

[The JD]

Nonfiction:

Bluets by Maggie Nelson. I finished it a month ago and it's still bouncing around in my head. Highly recommended.

Party Out of Bounds: The B-52s, R.E.M., and the Kids who Rocked Athens, Georgia by Rodger Lyle Brown. Almost done with it. Fun read, lots of "oh yeah!" moments, since I was doing some of my own rocking in Athens during that time period.

Fiction:

A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin. Good, but getting kind of bored with it. Pushing through.

[rockybcn]

The Last Patriarch by Najat El Hachmi

The Hand Of Fatima by Ildefonso Falcones

[ONLY]

I just finished (this morning) Narcissus in Chains by Laurell K. Hamilton (the 10th book in the Anita Blake series) Amazing/Hot series. Thank you SS (f) for getting me into the series ;)

Next book in line is The Vison by Dean R. Koontz

[Kat]

I am reading The Foremost Good Fortune by Susan Conley, a memoir about the author and her family living in Beijing. It took 8 months to get it from the library, which would suggest that a lot of people really loved it. In actuality, it probably means that it took people FOREVER to finish the damn thing because the author writes in short, dull sentences, and is relentlessly whiny while her husband and two young sons seemed to be having the time of their lives...

Oh, and eventually, she gets cancer, but I'm not there yet.

[Fancy]

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Chip Heath, Dan Heath

Just picked this up, so I'll be back later with a book report.

[SecretAgentMa'am]

I'm currently reading the Kushiel's Legacy series.... really loving them. I'm on the second book right now. Anyone else read these?

I read and loved them. I stopped reading once the series switched to a different character's voice, though (book 6, I think? Maybe 7? I forget). Phedre's voice was one of my favorite things about the series, and I kind of lost interest once the perspective changed.

[sara-bera]

Gandhi the Man: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World
Just started, but I'm enjoying it so far.

[MissItalianDiva]

"On the Plurality of World" by David Lewis

[Massive]

Psychology The Science of Mind and Behaviour: Richard Gross
Essential A2 Psychology: Richard Gross and Geoff Rolls
Psychology AS: Mike Cardwell and Cara Flanagan
Angles On Applied Psychology: Julia Russel et al
Encyclopedia Of Murder: Colin Wilson & Patricia Pulman
Harold Shipman Prescription for Murder: Brian Whittle & Jean Ritchie

and to escape all of that...
The Innocent Mage: Karen Miller

I can't wait to get this assignment done!

[PapiChino]

I'm reading The Mayfair Witches trilogy by Anne Rice. I am just finishing the second book titled, Lasher.

[SoulShineFemme]

Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaason. :D It's extremely funny!

[RockOn]

I bought it yesterday. Super busy weekend - plan to start reading tonight.

Title:
BACARDI and THE LONG FIGHT for CUBA
- The Biography of a Cause - 2008

Author:
Tom Gjelten

[sanee66]

I'm currently reading the Kushiel's Legacy series.... really loving them. I'm on the second book right now. Anyone else read these?

great books, i read the first one a million years ago and ran across the next two so had to reread the first, little obsessive about that lol

[sanee66]

I just finished (this morning) Narcissus in Chains by Laurell K. Hamilton (the 10th book in the Anita Blake series) Amazing/Hot series. Thank you SS (f) for getting me into the series ;)

Next book in line is The Vison by Dean R. Koontz

I have all her books, and if you like her have you read Christine Feehan or Sherrilyn Kenyon. LA banks is also very good and so is maggie shayne, pamela palmer and i would have to look at the rest of my list lol

[foxyshaman]

I have required reading; "Memories Dreams Reflections" the autobiography of Jung. It is DRIVING ME CRAZY. As some of you know I love Jung, his ideas, his brilliance... but OMG... I think I have been so far and so long off the God path that his ruminations on grace and god and trinity et al are too much for this little fox.

Ahhh well it must be read...

[Ranger Butch Force]

World War Z

[UofMfan]

Finished reading The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest and immediately downloaded Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, thanks to the posts on this thread.

So far so good!

[tonaderspeisung]

i just finished - in the courts of the sun by brian d'amato

it's a scifi, time travel, 2012 mayan adventure story

i really liked and really disliked the book - the subject matter captured my interest by the writers style drove me crazy quite often


on a scale of buy it, skip it or borrow it - i'd give it a borrow

[foxyshaman]

Okay Okay I calmed down and got through the god parts in Jung's biography. I am glad I did not drown the book in the bathtub. I am really enjoying it. And have even underlined a thing ro two.

One day I will not have temper tantrums when reading. Not today, but one day.

I am also reading a collection of short stories called "Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters". It is lovely. I love reading stories where women are at the centre, and NOT because they need to be resuced. Damn Disney.

[puddin']

jus' finished readin' "room", by emma donoghue.

an amazin' read!

[Julien]

Finished "The Night Strangers" by Chris Bohjalian today. About to read "Bag of Bones" by Stephen King. I'm on a ghost story trend must be a hangover from Halloween.:glasses:

[T4Texas]

http://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/1003-Fall-2010/~/media/Images/DGAQ%20Article%20Images/1003%20Fall%202010/1003_books_demille_empire%20jpg.ashx?w=180&h=267&as=1


Empire of Dreams, the Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille. By Scott Eyman.

[Tawse]

Just started book 13 in the Dresden Files series... thoroughly enjoying every morsel.

[always2late]

Revenge: A Fable by Taslima Nasrin
and re-reading Swan Song by Robert McCammon

[Soon]

Chronicle of a Death Foretold--Gabriel García Márquez

[betenoire]

Chronicle of a Death Foretold--Gabriel García Márquez

Love him! (He's one of my favourite authors)

[betenoire]

"Wade tried to imagine Florida before the advent of man, but couldn't. The landscape seemed too thoroughly colonized - the trailers, factory outlets and cocktail shacks of the world below. He decided that if human beings took over the moon, they'd probably just turn it into Florida. It was probably for the best that it was so far away, unreachable." - all families are psychotic, Douglas Coupland

[*Anya*]

World War Z

Yeah!! Another zombie apocalypse fan!! (I think?).

Max Brooks wrote one of the best. Being made into a movie with Brad Pitt. Looking forward to it! If you have any interest in the genre, I can tell you some other very well-written ones!

Changing gears right now, reading the new Steve Jobs bio. He was such a genius, fascinatingly complex man.

[SoNotHer]

The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller

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and rereading Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

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[Estella]

Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel

[UofMfan]

Love him! (He's one of my favourite authors)

Pffft! Right.

[betenoire]

Pffft! Right.

Oh really?

I've read most of his stuff and liked everything I've read - with the exception of One Hundred Years of Solitude. I never did finish that book because I just couldn't get "involved" with any of the characters. I -do- enjoy the magic realism, the idea that a young man's blood could poor out the door and travel down the streets through the town to his mothers house to alert her of his death. That's what I like about his books.

(Remember, UofMean - I read everything I can get my hands on.)

[UofMfan]

Oh really?

I've read most of his stuff and liked everything I've read - with the exception of One Hundred Years of Solitude. I never did finish that book because I just couldn't get "involved" with any of the characters. I -do- enjoy the magic realism, the idea that a young man's blood could poor out the door and travel down the streets through the town to his mothers house to alert her of his death. That's what I like about his books.

(Remember, UofMean - I read everything I can get my hands on.)

One Hundred Years of Solitude, albeit the work that earned him the Nobel Price, is not his best. I love magic realism also, but no one comes close to García Márquez.

You may want to try, "No One Writes to the Colonel", one of his lesser known works but one of my favorites.

I have read all his books in English and Spanish just because I could :)

I also read anything I can get my hands on, seriously, so this makes me think that perhaps there is hope for you...kidding!

[betenoire]

One Hundred Years of Solitude, albeit the work that earned him the Nobel Price, is not his best. I love magic realism also, but no one comes close to García Márquez.

You may want to try, "No One Writes to the Colonel", one of his lesser known works but one of my favorites.

I have read all his books in English and Spanish just because I could :)

I also read anything I can get my hands on, seriously, so this makes me think that perhaps there is hope for you...kidding!

Honestly my favourite is Memories of My Melancholy Whores. I have "No One Writes to the Colonel" in my bookshelf but haven't read it yet. I have too many books on the go right now that I don't even know what to do with myself.

[The JD]

_Closely_Watched_Trains by Bohumil Hrabal was surprisingly good. It was written in the 1940s, I think, and in Czechoslovakian, but translates across both language and time rather well. I was intrigued with how simple the writing was, which, actually, it had to be: When the view of the book is only in what the narrator knows, and the narrator is naive, then you have to find other ways to communicate this other than by saying "btw, I'm really naive"...because by saying you're naive, it shows a perspective that doesn't sound so naive. In this case, the author stuck with really simplistic language and observations...but it makes for an intriguing story. Worth the read.

Also halfway through the third book in the Game of Thrones series, _A_Storm_of_Swords. It's gotten better, I'm following all the moving pieces better, now caught up in all story lines, not just a few of them. Eager for the next season on HBO now too!

JD

[foxyshaman]

The Sacred Prostitute, Eternal Aspects of the Feminine
By Nancy Qualls-Corbett.

I quite like this book, it is small and easy to understand. This is a re-read for me. I have been approached by a maverick social worker to help start a sexual healing program. I have taken quite a few tantra classes as well as training through the sexual assault centre, but then just kinda let the idea go. But, perhaps Spirit has another plan.

It is a good read. I like how she expands on Jung's ideas on Anima. There are some other authors she references I may want to research before our seed meeting.

[Arwen]

_Water for Elephants_ by Sara Gruen

[UofMfan]

_Water for Elephants_ by Sara Gruen


Excellent read.

[Arwen]

Excellent read.

I'm truly enjoying it. Only on chapter four but it's already made me cry and laugh. A good thing in a book. I borrowed it on my Kindle via Amazon. :)

[betenoire]

I am just about finished with:

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick Dewitt (http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Sisters-Brothers-Patrick-Dewitt/?isbn=9780062041265)

The book is great. The "voice" of the book is Eli Sisters - a hired killer with a heart. Watching someone who you would presume is completely devoid of feeling dote all over a one-eyed horse is just too adorably absurd to pass over.

I'd suggest it.

[Estella]

I'm also reading Possession by A.S. Byatt. Let me re-phrase: slogging through. It's a Booker Prize winner (like Wolf Hall, which I'm also reading) and I usually like them, but mother of god it's slow. I wouldn't recommend it.

[tonaderspeisung]

ok i admit i'm not technically "reading" this series
but i just finished the unabridged audio book version of
girl with the dragon tattoo - i thought it was great, it kept my interest and had me along for the whole ride

and i'm just starting
the girl who played with fire


as an aside: simon vance is a great audio book narrator - he sounds completely involved in the story and he has a clear and present timbre that i find very easy on the ears

[tonaderspeisung]

Yeah!! Another zombie apocalypse fan!! (I think?).

Max Brooks wrote one of the best. Being made into a movie with Brad Pitt. Looking forward to it! If you have any interest in the genre, I can tell you some other very well-written ones!

Changing gears right now, reading the new Steve Jobs bio. He was such a genius, fascinatingly complex man.

i would be interested in zombie book recommendations

the last one i read was monster nation by david wellington
it's a fun read

[*Anya*]

i would be interested in zombie book recommendations

the last one i read was monster nation by david wellington
it's a fun read

These I really loved and got all of them on Amazon:

Area 157-Almost Hell by Eric Lowther

Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne

Rise Again: A Zombie Thriller

Patient Zero by Jonathan Mayberry

Enjoy:)

Let me know if you want any more

[Greco]

"Blue Nights" by Joan Didion ("Year of Magical Thinking")

feels like a long warm swim through
love...not for the weak hearted.

Greco

[Tawse]

Last night I started "Side Jobs" an anthology of random small jobs done between the bigger jobs related to the Dresden Files universe...


I just finished book 13 (Dresden Files)... no idea when book 14 will be released. And I feel a bit upside down with how 13 ended. :blink:

[hottprof]

Sad to report that I am still working on the last Steig Larson book...


however... School books

I am reading

Silent Travlers by Alan M Kraut
A Different Mirror: A history of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki

[SugarFemme]

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It is a such a beautiful story about love and life in conservative and religious Saudi Arabia....

[Greco]

"Aleph" by Paulo Coelho

For those at a crossroad...magical writing.

Greco

[justkim]

Just got done reading, The girls guide to homelessness by Brianna Karp. I loved it!

[girl_dee]

I'm reading Marie Laveau, Voudou Priestess

Lots of great history!

[tazz]

NASM Essentials of

Personal Fitness Training

[Daktari]

A rather large file of primary resources pertaining to the Munich Crisis.

[Venus007]

Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley

[UofMfan]

I finished Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, I guess being sick gave me the opportunity to finally finish it. It was good, not excellent, and I am sure a sequel is coming.

I have just downloaded and I am getting ready to enjoy this:

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Spanish title: "Confieso que he vivido: Memorias"

I downloaded it both in English and Spanish. I like to see how well the translation is done to see if it truly reflects the meaning of his work.

[Rockinonahigh]

A Clive Cussler book..crescent dawn...love those fast pase action books.

[betenoire]

I finished Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, I guess being sick gave me the opportunity to finally finish it. It was good, not excellent, and I am sure a sequel is coming.

Totally a sequel, there was no way to leave the ending open like that without a sequel in mind.

It was a cute book. I liked the use of the old photographs. The book did feel a little "young" for me, though.

[1QuirkyKiwi]

After some insistant persuasion be some friends (including one who like me, isn't into fantasy) I'm going the the local Library to get the Twilight trilogy. I've avoided reading the books and watching the movies to date. I'm not really interested in Vampire stories (I read a lot when I was younger and most were fairly generic), the only exception is: Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice. I still have the book (and movie on DVD), I felt it broke the mould of Vampiric stories and apart from Bram Stoker's Dracula, it holds a bench mark of quality and originality........so, I'll give the Twilight trilogy a chance - no guarantee I'm going to like them, lol!

[foxyshaman]

I am listening to a six CD set called:

Sitting by the Well ~ Bringing the Feminine to Consciousness through Language, Dreams, and Metaphor By Marion Woodman.

I am giving this CD set to every single woman on my christmas list. It is inspiring, eye opening and filled with deep deep insights. She was described as a mythopoetic author. In Canada, and abroad she was a women's movement figure. She was a Jungian analyst and from what I can tell one of the most widely read authors on feminine psychology. She was anorexic for 25 years and it was her illness that led her to Jungian psychology and dream analysis. I would have loved to have met this charming, intelligent and incredibly witty woman. This CD set has taught me MORE about Feminine symbolism and the female archetype than anything I have ever delved into.

[Sparkle]

I'm currently reading

Snowdrops by A.D. Miller

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"That’s the truth about the Russians that I missed until it was too late. The Russians will do the impossible thing—the thing you think they can’t do, the thing you haven’t even thought of. They will set fire to Moscow when the French are coming or poison each other in foreign cities. They will do it, and afterwards they will behave as if nothing has happened at all. And if you stay in Russia long enough, so will you."


Next on deck is IQ84 by Haruki Murakami

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Praise for Haruki Murakami:
"Murakami is like a magician who explain what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers... But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's a rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves."
— The New York Times Book Review

[JAGG]

I'm reading a book called, "Thinking fast and slow".

[Greyson]

I am currently reading the Jane Dunn book. After I finish this, then onto Gold's book about the Irish Pirate Queen. I was drawn to read these books because they were all very powerful women living in 16th Century Britian. To be powerful women in these times I suspect these women were "above average."

If you like history, and powerful women I think you will enjoy reading these books. Queen Elizabeth and Grace O'Malley did meet, face-to-face. Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots never did meet face-to-face. Most of us know how that story ended.
__________________________________________________ ______________

Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens -Jane Dunn

Against the backdrop of sixteenth-century England, Scotland, and France, Dunn paints portraits of a pair of protagonists whose formidable strengths were placed in relentless opposition. Protestant Elizabeth, the bastard daughter of Anne Boleyn, whose legitimacy had to be vouchsafed by legal means, glowed with executive ability and a visionary energy as bright as her red hair. Mary, the Catholic successor whom England’s rivals wished to see on the throne, was charming, feminine, and deeply persuasive. That two such women, queens in their own right, should have been contemporaries and neighbours sets in motion a joint biography of rare spark and page-turning power.


The Pirate Queen: The Story of Grace O'Malley, Irish Pirate -Alan Gold

Grace O'Malley commanded a dozen ships and the obedience of thousands of men. Her empire stretched from Connaught on the Irish coast to the cobalt aters of Africa. Through the daring of her piracy, Grace nearly bankrupted the English treasury-and her outright defiance brought embarrassment to Elizabeth I. Yet the lives of these two amazing women were inextricably intertwined-and their eventual meeting during the most brilliant and romantic era that Europe has ever known would shock the world.

[NorCalStud]

Great hearing new titles. I am into the queens. Amazing women. Thx for the book reports.

[Julien]

I just finished 11/22/63 by Stephen King and beginning The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. King's book was very good and I'm looking forward to The Hunger Games.

[lyric]

Last night I downloaded this for my Kindle, so this is next on the list and I may start it tonight:

Annabel: A Novel

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"Kathleen Winter’s luminous debut novel is a deeply affecting portrait of life in an enchanting seaside town and the trials of growing up unique in a restrictive environment.

In 1968, into the devastating, spare atmosphere of the remote coastal town of Labrador, Canada, a child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor fully girl, but both at once. Only three people are privy to the secret—the baby’s parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and a trusted neighbor and midwife, Thomasina. Though Treadway makes the difficult decision to raise the child as a boy named Wayne, the women continue to quietly nurture the boy’s female side. And as Wayne grows into adulthood within the hyper-masculine hunting society of his father, his shadow-self, a girl he thinks of as “Annabel,” is never entirely extinguished.

Kathleen Winter has crafted a literary gem about the urge to unveil mysterious truth in a culture that shuns contradiction, and the body’s insistence on coming home. A daringly unusual debut full of unforgettable beauty, Annabel introduces a remarkable new voice to American readers." from Amazon.com: Annabel: A Novel eBook: Kathleen Winter: Kindle Store



I just finished this one...

The Red Garden

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"The Red Garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts, capturing the unexpected turns in its history and in our own lives.
In exquisite prose, Hoffman offers a transforming glimpse of small-town America, presenting us with some three hundred years of passion, dark secrets, loyalty, and redemption in a web of tales where characters' lives are intertwined by fate and by their own actions.
From the town's founder, a brave young woman from England who has no fear of blizzards or bears, to the young man who runs away to New York City with only his dog for company, the characters in The Red Garden are extraordinary and vivid: a young wounded Civil War soldier who is saved by a passionate neighbor, a woman who meets a fiercely human historical character, a poet who falls in love with a blind man, a mysterious traveler who comes to town in the year when summer never arrives.
At the center of everyone’s life is a mysterious garden where only red plants can grow, and where the truth can be found by those who dare to look.
Beautifully crafted, shimmering with magic, The Red Garden is as unforgettable as it is moving."
from Amazon.com: The Red Garden eBook: Alice Hoffman: Kindle Store

[Sassy]

"Women who run with the wolves"

Read the chapter on "The Ugly Duckling" the other night. There were some lessons to absorb from the story that were enlightening. But mostly, it made me feel pretty blessed and grateful because I've enjoyed a great deal of acceptance in my life from family, friends and peers.

[tonaderspeisung]

i finished the millennium trilogy
overall i liked it but what was up with all that product placement?
if you read it on a tablet are there links so you can order everything too?
big gripe for me.

I also recently finished devil in the white city by erik larson
it's a non fiction account of 2 figures during the period surrounding the chicago world's fair
one the head architect of the fair and the other a serial killer
i enjoyed it

[justkim]

I have given in and picked up the first book from a series that is on HBO. Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, so far so good.

[rockybcn]

reading a series of books by author Jean M. Auel.

The Clan of the Cave Bear, 1980
The Valley of Horses, 1982
The Mammoth Hunters, 1985
The Plains of Passage, 1990
The Shelters of Stone, 2002
The Land of Painted Caves, 2011

[PinkieLee]

My honey and I have started the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins. I just started the first book last night and read about 8 chapaters, D started the series on Saturday and is already on the last book. Yep, within the first few pages you get sucked in.

[JackMcGrath]

Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg (a re-read, of course).

The Help - Kathryn Stockett (saw the movie, hoping the book is just as good).

Double Cross - James Patterson

[Novelafemme]

My honey and I have started the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins. I just started the first book last night and read about 8 chapaters, D started the series on Saturday and is already on the last book. Yep, within the first few pages you get sucked in.

My best friend just gave me this book for my girls to read. I haven't given it to them yet as I wanted to peruse it first. Do you think it's age appropriate for a 13 & 10 year old?

[Toughy]

I have had the unabridged version of Stranger in a Strange Land (it's about 1/4 longer than the original version published in 1961) in my bookcase for a long time. Bored with murder mysteries I decided to read it again after maybe 30 years. I am about half way through it....

boy I had forgotten how bad sexism really was then....and some homophobia....but the story is still a great one.....

off to 'grok' it more....

[Tawse]

My honey and I have started the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins. I just started the first book last night and read about 8 chapaters, D started the series on Saturday and is already on the last book. Yep, within the first few pages you get sucked in.


Started reading this last night as well...


Catalina, As far as age appropriate for 10 - 13. I haven't a clue as yet, but it is listed as a YA series.

[Arwen]

My honey and I have started the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins. I just started the first book last night and read about 8 chapaters, D started the series on Saturday and is already on the last book. Yep, within the first few pages you get sucked in.

I just chewed through those on my Kindle. I'll be re-reading them. Lots of interesting themes.

Tawse, it's pretty brutal. The 13 yr old yes, but if the 10 yr old is prone to nightmares, I'd hold off for a year or so.

[Tawse]

I just chewed through those on my Kindle. I'll be re-reading them. Lots of interesting themes.

Tawse, it's pretty brutal. The 13 yr old yes, but if the 10 yr old is prone to nightmares, I'd hold off for a year or so.

Yep finished book 1 this morning..and I'm not even sure if I'd want a 13 year old to read it... but I guess it depends on the 13 year old.

Tough subject matter...

[Kätzchen]

I just finished reading archaeologist David Graeber's book!

Graeber's compelling evidence presents a stunning reversal of conventional of how economics has been construed for eons. I found this book very interesting and could not put it down.

I'm keeping this book (strong recommendation).

http://www.powells.com/biblio/71-9781933633862-0?utm_source=dailydose&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dd_20111211&utm_term=47990407&utm_content=Debt%3A%20The%20First%205000%20Years%2 0IMG&j=47990407&e=fredricabetz@msn.com&l=724340_HTML&u=397431310&mid=48972&jb=0

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[girl_dee]

The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok ....

[Arwen]

The Gathering Storm by Robyn Bridges

It's book one of the Katerina Trilogy.

[always2late]

"The Rules of Civility" by Amor Towles and "The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo" series. And..because I can never read just ONE book (or two in this case) I am also re-reading several Agatha Christie mysteries.

[nycbutch]

"Codependent No More" by Melody Beattie....should have read this years ago!

[Tawse]

Ok - I finished the Hunger Games and I'm fairly certain that I now need therapy...