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The JD

12-12-2011, 08:37 PM

Count me in for another fan of The Hunger Games. Can't wait to see the movie in the Spring! Disturbing series, especially considering it's for young adults. I got to the end and still couldn't figure out if it was a comedy or a tragedy (you know, in the classic meaning: is there redemption or not?). It's not often I find that.

And... since everyone* on this site writes like David Foster Wallace (at least according to another thread), I'm re-reading his fantastic book of essays, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.**

JD

* Except me
** Maybe if I include more footnotes, my writing will pass for his too...

Glenn

12-19-2011, 09:51 AM

Just finished Vladimir Nabokov's "Ada"- 626 pages of exquiste and wonderful writing...could'nt let it go...it took me a week to finish reading..it took him a lifetime to finish writing. It was about this great writer's life living among the elite upper class, and his awesome love for Ada.

puddin'

12-19-2011, 10:15 AM

"a game of thrones" ~george r. r. martin (book 1 in a set)

Skittlesluver

12-19-2011, 10:21 AM

Received "My Cousin Rachel" by Daphne du Maurier as a gift :)

Tawse

12-19-2011, 10:40 AM

read a sample of Divergent last night. Pretty sure I'll be dl it tonight for reading...

Apparently I really like Dystopian YA books.

I really hope this isn't as intense as Hunger Games.

Melissa

12-19-2011, 10:58 AM

I'm reading Prey by Michael Crichton and really enjoying it!

Soon

12-19-2011, 06:40 PM

New novel from Amazon just arrived that I had read good reviews (http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/15/entertainment/la-et-love-shame-book-20111215) about (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/books/review/love-and-shame-and-love-by-peter-orner-book-review.html?pagewanted=all): (there's two on the links)

Love and Shame and Love by Peter Orner

Looking forward to it . :)

Kätzchen

12-19-2011, 06:53 PM

Kätzchen

12-19-2011, 10:55 PM

I probably won't be done with the book I'm reading right now until later this week but I'm going to check out The Hunger Games soon!

JD? I've read the book of essays by Wallace: A Supposedly a fun thing I'll never do again. Which of his essays did you appreciate the most?

(gotta go, I'm at work)

Spark Notes answer to my inquiry
(the essay I appreciated so deeply):

"Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness" (Esquire, 1996, under the title "The String Theory").

kittygrrl

12-19-2011, 11:50 PM

"Beltane" Springtime Rituals, Lore & Celebration..it's a little tame, but I can improvise :hk24:

MissItalianDiva

12-20-2011, 12:29 AM

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. I didn't want to really read it but it was all that was left in my house that I had not touched and I am pleasantly surprised. Also flipping back to The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver on my Kindle...wonderful read

TheDreadPirateRoberts

12-20-2011, 01:05 AM

im reading the great gatsby ....i still have my high school copy and its one of those books i go back to read every now and again...

pinkgeek

12-20-2011, 01:16 AM

The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy

Mtn

12-20-2011, 01:20 AM

Rereading Tipping The Velvet, and a stack of Buddha books

pinkgeek

12-20-2011, 01:24 AM

Mtn: Have you read Dharma Punks or The Heart of the Revolution: The Buddha's Radical Teachings on Forgiveness by Noah Levine?

Rereading Tipping The Velvet, and a stack of Buddha books

BBinNYC

12-20-2011, 06:26 AM

I'm reading Jeanne Cordova's memoir, When We Were Outlaws. It's about 1970s LA and the early days of the gay movement from the point of view of a butch lesbian feminist activist. I'm halfway through it and really like it.

The JD

12-20-2011, 06:31 AM

JD? I've read the book of essays by Wallace: A Supposedly a fun thing I'll never do again. Which of his essays did you appreciate the most?

I think my favorite essay is the title essay, originally published under the title "Shipping Out." His observations on any subject tend to be razor-sharp and so-funny-it-hurts... but in light of his own suicide three years ago, there's something particularly eerie about rereading an essay in which he links observations of cruise travel and dream vacations to despair and death and suicide.

JD

Venus007

12-20-2011, 06:55 AM

I am rereading the "Anne of Green Gables" series
Last time I read them I think I was 14

always2late

12-20-2011, 07:08 AM

Packing up to move has brought on a re-reading frenzy (I think for every 5 books I pack away, I take out at least 3 to read). So, at the moment, I am re-reading several Agatha Christie, a few Anne Rivers Siddons, and, one of my favorites, "The Dogs of Babel" by Carolyn Parkhurst
(I'm never going to finish packing, am I? lol)

The JD

12-20-2011, 07:47 AM

I'm re-reading Touch Me: The Poems of Suzanne Somers. And yes, that Suzanne Somers, she of Three's Company and Thigh Master infomercials. And I'm not embarrassed to say (okay, maybe a little embarrassed) that there's a certain....well, brilliance to her writing....lol.

I picked up the book after attending the show Celebrity Autobiography, in which celebrities read passages from the autobiographies of other celebrities. I thought they made it up, so I picked up the book to see for myself. True pearls of wisdom, I tell you. Here's a youtube video of Kristen Wiigs reading a few of Somers' poems... :)

Celebrity Autobiography - Kristen Wiig reads Suzanne Somers - YouTube

dark_crystal

12-20-2011, 09:13 AM

http://s21.theawl.com/awl/up/2011/05/dignity-e1305303500609.jpg

A packet of hand-scrawled letters found in a stranger's backpack tells of self-sufficient communities growing from the ruins of California's housing collapse and the global recession. In unfinished Mojave Desert housing tracts and foreclosure ghost towns on the raw edges of the chaotic cities of the West, people have gathered to grow their own food, school their own children and learn how to live without the poisons of gossip, greed, television, mobile phones and the Internet. Encouraged by an enigmatic wanderer known only as "B," the communities thrive as more families and workers are discarded by an indifferent system. But this quiet revolution and its simple rituals cannot stay unnoticed for long, because the teachings of "B" threaten an entire structure of power and wealth dependent upon people toiling their lives away to buy things they don't need.
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/1931520216.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Cass Neary made her name in the 1970s as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Her pictures of the musicians and hangers on, the infamous, the damned, and the dead, got her into art galleries and a book deal. But 30 years later she is adrift, on her way down, and almost out. Then an old acquaintance sends her on a mercy gig to interview a famously reclusive photographer who lives on an island in Maine. When she arrives Downeast, Cass stumbles across a decades-old mystery that is still claiming victims, and into one final shot at redemption.

tonaderspeisung

12-20-2011, 06:14 PM

just finished

Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World - Richard Rhodes

i have to give it a skip it unless you are interested in a cliff notes of the life of george anthiel

the most interesting part was the introduction - which was the story i was hoping to explore further in the pages of this book

instead it was a half hearted account of george antheil - an interesting subject
and multiple quoting of hedy lemarr saying "Any girl can be glamorous.
All you have to do is stand still and look stupid." followed by numerous accounts of her being described as the most beautiful woman in the world

cmon - when you have a person who escapes nazi germany, becomes a hollywood star and who teams up with the self described bad boy of music to invent something to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or jam and this book is what you get

a sad world indeed

hottprof

12-20-2011, 08:53 PM

Finally finished...

Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest.... Wow Steig Larson...

could not put the last half of the book down... holy moley...

Great series...

now what to read...

Soft*Silver

12-20-2011, 09:07 PM

went to the library...and am getting caught up on all the Stephen King books I havent read in many a year

Fancy

12-21-2011, 05:55 AM

Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe

Princess

12-21-2011, 06:24 AM

I am re-reading the Patricia Cornwell Scarpetta Series...found out recently they are making a film from it...and Angelina Jolie is involved...how odd!

AtLast

12-21-2011, 10:22 AM

Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero by Chris Mathews

Intimate Partner Violence in LGBTQ Lives (Routledge Research in Gender and Society) by Janice L. Ristock

Butterbean

12-21-2011, 12:37 PM

http://casedlock.com/files/gimgs/19_running.jpg

TheDreadPirateRoberts

12-21-2011, 06:00 PM

i'm reading the weekly flyers...i wish it was a book....but i need to make my grocery list somehow *laughs*

Leigh

12-21-2011, 07:54 PM

I'm finally getting into Chaz's book :)

puddin'

12-22-2011, 08:01 PM

dis...

http://beebo.org/smackerels/yes-virginia.html

Julien

12-22-2011, 08:56 PM

:glasses:I am reading a film theory book about the shower scene in Psycho dir. by Alfred Hitchcock. It is: Psycho in the Shower: The History of Cinema's Most Famous Scene. :bath:

Kätzchen

12-28-2011, 01:40 PM

http://media.oregonlive.com/books_impact/photo/rules-of-civilityjpg-8a872ef6e8df6a00.jpg

Do you like reading about particular rules of engagement?

I do!

This book is about the culture of a 1930s New York society: cocktail parties, silk stockings, the world of Jazz, and rules that a certain class of people will bend or break in order to experience life to the fullest.

I do believe this book is a keeper!

Truly Scrumptious

12-28-2011, 01:58 PM

Slowpurr

12-28-2011, 02:14 PM

I'm just about to start Stephen King's 11/22/63.
It weighs about 500 lbs and I haven't figured out how I'm going to read it in bed without knocking myself unconscious . . . . time for an ereader, methinks.

I have been thinking the same thing but I hesitate because of the type of books I read. Do you know what the subject availability is like for those ereaders?

Cin

12-28-2011, 02:59 PM

I have been thinking the same thing but I hesitate because of the type of books I read. Do you know what the subject availability is like for those ereaders?

I don't know much about ereaders at all. But here is a link to a kindle thread
http://www.butchfemmeplanet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2628

Maybe that will be helpful.

NorCalStud

12-28-2011, 03:16 PM

This is a thread I enjoy. For instance the book Dark Chrystal shared Generation Loss. Im walking out the door to go buy it

christie

12-29-2011, 12:35 PM

I have ripped thru the first two Hunger Games books and am almost finished with the third... I was surprised in that I couldn't put them down!

starryeyes

12-29-2011, 12:38 PM

I'm currently reading Steve Jobs Biography,"Persistence, All Ways Butch and Femme", and possibly going to start the first "Hunger Games". I downloaded it on my Kindle... it's ready and waiting!

:-D
Starry

Julien

12-29-2011, 12:38 PM

I have ripped thru the first two Hunger Games books and am almost finished with the third... I was surprised in that I couldn't put them down!

I just started the third book yesterday. I really enjoyed them, what a good trilogy. :glasses:I guess the movie is on my to do list.

TheDreadPirateRoberts

12-29-2011, 04:25 PM

stone butch blues by leslie feinberg

Medusa

12-30-2011, 10:40 AM

I plowed....and I do mean PLOWED...through "The Hunger Games" trilogy over Christmas.

Started the first book on the 23rd and finished with the last book by Christmas evening. I was entertained, which is saying a lot considering how much I read and how many books I run into that are just...bad.

"The Hunger Games" was entertaining and smart in a lot of areas. It wasn't perfect, don't get me wrong. There were several moments when I was frustrated and the last book dragged in several spots.

Over all? Good series.

I am now starting on "House of Leaves" by Mark Danielewski. It's 709 pages which I LOVE when I need something meaty and is already looking like a complete eye-fuck with the way it's written.

Slowpurr

12-30-2011, 12:14 PM

'Sacred Country' - Rose Tremain

girl_dee

01-03-2012, 03:10 PM

Book of Negroes

by Lawrence Hill

I can't put it down, a sad but enlightening book

Fancy

01-04-2012, 09:10 AM

Envy ~ Sandra Brown

Princess

01-04-2012, 02:18 PM

I am also reading The Hunger Games, such a fantastic read!

TheDreadPirateRoberts

01-04-2012, 04:57 PM

beowulf....i dug out an old english book and i knew i needed to read it again

Greco

01-05-2012, 06:03 PM

"Ultra Marathon Man Confessions of
an All Night Runner"- Dean Karnazes

Inspiring

Greco

Semantics

01-05-2012, 06:28 PM

http://erinmorgenstern.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/NightCircus.final_.2-328x500.jpg

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.
Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements.
It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco,
who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors.
Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is
but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will.
Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love
—a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands.

True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved,
from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons,
hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead.

I like it so far.

tantalizingfemme

01-05-2012, 07:48 PM

I just ordered:

Scarred: A Memoir by George Molho

and a book from when I was young that scared the crap out of me

Watcher in the Woods

Anyone who is reading Steve Job's book... how do you like the book? I am thinking about getting that one soon.

AtLast

01-06-2012, 08:32 AM

Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right - Thomas Frank

Kätzchen

01-07-2012, 03:00 AM

I finally finished Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (2003) and wow, what an intense historical account of what happened at the World's Fair in Chicago at the turn of the century (late 1890s)! I found it to be dense in factual information as well as rich in history of culture during that period of time. I'm definately keeping this book!

I got another book today at Powell's because traffic was nearing gridlock conditions tonight:

Laini Taylor's - Daughter of Smoke and Bone (September 2011)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sXFxPlbfNHE/TYJsfDNnXUI/AAAAAAAABNo/-CswH3IoeDM/s320/Daughter%2Bof%2BSmoke%2Band%2BBone.jpg

Taylor's book is the first of a trilogy, with the second book due later this fall (2012). The genre is sci-fi and not to give too much of the story away, the story is about Chimeras, angels and a girl who lives in Prague (with peacock blue hair)!

Laini Taylor is the author of the National Book Award finalist Lips Touch, as well as the novels Blackbringer, which Kirkus said "belongs at the top of everyone's fantasy must-read list," and Silksinger. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, illustrator Jim Di Bartolo, and their daughter, Clementine.

Here's a NYTs review: >>> LINK (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/books/review/daughter-of-smoke-and-bone-by-laini-taylor-book-review.html)<<<

girl_dee

01-07-2012, 04:03 PM

Just finished reading

"Butterbox Babies" by Bette Cahill.

What an amazing and sad stories of babies that were sold and/or murdered in a home for unwed mothers in Nova Scotia.

It's a quick read if anyone is interested.

Tawse

01-09-2012, 05:43 AM

About half way through "Divergent" and I've decided it's the strong woman's answer to Twilight. Some good light romance but the lead protagonist (female) is not weak and her potential boyfriend would never consider her weak. No saturated pining (yet, please don't let there be).

that being said, this new YA dystopian future genre... ROUGH. lol

StillettoDoll

01-09-2012, 06:02 AM

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51g91tOyUFL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

Honey

01-09-2012, 06:03 AM

Forum.......

ScandalAndy

01-09-2012, 06:51 AM

I'm halfway through the 3rd book in the "Game of Thrones" series. I want to read them all before I watch the show. So far I'm so engrossed that I spend every free second reading. :)

Tawse

01-11-2012, 07:10 AM

Finished "Divergent" last night.

Hmmmm. I can see certain "formulas" starting to develop within the YA Dystopian genre. I know all genre's have a bit of formula to them - but it's disheartening when it's so obvious (not talking about the fact that most are after a huge war - that is after all what defines the genre).

This trilogy has potential - but it is no Hunger Games. Maybe it's a bad thing to read Hunger Games first as far as the genre goes. Kinda like reading Lord of the Rings before the Dragonlance series...

Hmmmmm

AtLast

01-11-2012, 11:40 AM

Greedy Bastards! by Dylan Ratigan. And in the middle of my annual re-read of This Side of Paridise, F Scott Fitzgerald.

christie

01-11-2012, 11:45 AM

I've been done with the Hunger Games - I was surprised at how quickly I blew through them. I've mentioned them to random strangers in airports. Sigh. I am such a nerd sometimes.

I am currently reading "At Risk" by Patricia Cornwell. For those who remember my vehemence about e-readers vs. books... I've surrendered and downloaded the Kindle app on the iPhone AND the iPad. :blink: :blink:

foxyshaman

01-11-2012, 01:21 PM

UofMfan

01-11-2012, 01:32 PM

I need some good reading suggestions, please.

My son gave me an Amazon Gift Card for Christmas, which I am eager to use, and I am done reading all that I had previously downloaded.

christie

01-11-2012, 02:32 PM

What genre do you enjoy?

One of my favorite authors is Jacqueline Carey - the Kushiel series is one that I can re-read over and over.

I also enjoyed "Room".

Sherri Reynolds lives here in VA and is, IMO, a wonderful southern author.

On my Kindle app waiting to be read are:

A Tinker's Damn
Keeper of Keys
Dead Wood
Big Lake
The Collectibles
The Wedding Gift

I need some good reading suggestions, please.

My son gave me an Amazon Gift Card for Christmas, which I am eager to use, and I am done reading all that I had previously downloaded.

UofMfan

01-11-2012, 02:40 PM

I like magical realism, mystery, drama, basically anything that is intelligently written and I don't figure out the ending within the first few pages.

I will look those up, thank you.

Tawse

01-11-2012, 02:45 PM

I like magical realism, mystery, drama, basically anything that is intelligently written and I don't figure out the ending within the first few pages.

I will look those up, thank you.

I love the Dresden File series... about a PI who also happens to be a Wizard. I believe there are 13 books at this time...

Maria

01-11-2012, 04:02 PM

Still on the food science tip. After Gary Taubes' groundbreaking Why We Get Fat: And What To do About It, Wheat Belly is a quick read.

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Greco

01-14-2012, 01:50 PM

Picked-up Haruki Murakami's new book "IQ84"
willl crack its 900 pages open as soon as I finish

Paulo Coelho's "Las Valkiras"

Greco

ONLY

01-14-2012, 02:11 PM

I am reading I think it is the 11th book of the "Anita Blake" series from Laurell K. Hamilton "Cerulean Sins"

I wanna that my girl (f) for getting me HOOKED on the series ;)

SoulShineFemme

01-14-2012, 02:19 PM

I am reading I think it is the 11th book of the "Anita Blake" series from Laurell K. Hamilton "Cerulean Sins"

I wanna that my girl (f) for getting me HOOKED on the series ;)

You are most welcome. :) Now just wait until you REALLY get into the Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovich.....

Ciaran

01-14-2012, 02:19 PM

Currently reading - 1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York

SoNotHer

01-14-2012, 05:02 PM

http://www.waldeneffect.org/20100130review.jpg

"Sowing Seeds in the Desert by Masanobu Fukuoka - Chelsea Green

This revolutionary book presents Fukuoka’s plan to rehabilitate the deserts of the world using natural farming, including practical solutions for feeding a growing human population, rehabilitating damaged landscapes, reversing the spread of desertification, and providing a deep understanding of … read more."

Soon

01-14-2012, 05:27 PM

MockingJay--the third book in the The Hunger Games trilogy

Liam

01-14-2012, 05:29 PM

Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West 1800-1860 (http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Empires-Nations-and-Families,674810.aspx) by Anne F. Hyde

This book documents the broad family associations that crossed national and ethnic lines and that, along with the river systems of the trans-Mississippi West, formed the basis for a global trade in furs that had operated for hundreds of years before the land became part of the United States. It shows how the world of river and maritime trade effectively shifted political power away from military and diplomatic circles into the hands of local people, and reveals how, in the 1850's immigrants to these newest regions of the United States violently wrested control from Native and other powers, and how conquest and competing demands for land and resources brought about a volatile frontier culture.

I haven't finished this, but it is fascinating and very well written.

Semantics

01-14-2012, 05:54 PM

The Taming of Chance (Ideas in Context) by Ian Hacking.

Interesting and well written, but I don't love it.

sanee66

01-14-2012, 08:34 PM

13 1/2 by Nevada Barr, pretty good so far.

PaPa

01-19-2012, 05:59 PM

Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls.

Tawse

01-20-2012, 07:04 AM

reading "Witch and Wizard" by James Patterson right now. 65% in and I still don't give a damn about any of the characters. Not a good sign. I think I'm just reading it cause I'm 65% done and I may as well finish it... kinda like a Saturday night date...

JustLovelyJenn

01-20-2012, 09:49 AM

Tawse

01-20-2012, 09:55 AM

uhm... didn't Poe have a passionate relationship with Opium? lol

Or is that just an urban legend?

Yesterdays reading selections included Edgar Allen Poe's a Tell Tale Heart, and Ralph Waldo Emerson's The American Scholar.

I just love the early American Authors, they have so much passion, so much drive and such eloquence. If today's activists, or even politicians had even an eighth of their skill and determination and grace, the world would be a far different place.

TheDreadPirateRoberts

01-20-2012, 10:07 AM

Yesterdays reading selections included Edgar Allen Poe's a Tell Tale Heart, and Ralph Waldo Emerson's The American Scholar.

I just love the early American Authors, they have so much passion, so much drive and such eloquence. If today's activists, or even politicians had even an eighth of their skill and determination and grace, the world would be a far different place.

i agreeee...i love the selections you're reading......i think there are a good number of people who do have that passion...who want to see progressive change...and who may be helping to make it happen in their own lives or local communities...unfortunately its seldom heard of....especially with this media.....gods i love you....im looking forward to reading with you for years to come...

betenoire

01-20-2012, 12:37 PM

"There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too much sky, too many miles from crack to crease in the flat surface of land." - Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

Tawse

01-20-2012, 01:21 PM

betenoire - your quote reminds me...

there's a feature in the Kindle (maybe the nook too?) where you can highlight a certain part of the text and other people can see (as they read on their kindles) what other people have highlighted (it tells you how many people highlighted that text).

It can be very interesting seeing what other people highlight... When reading Dresden Files and Hunger Games I found the highlights to be lines that were beautiful, exceptionally comedic, or impacted the plot of the book... but with witch and wizard - the highlights are nonsensical or I've lost my mind.. one of the two.

Honey

01-20-2012, 02:29 PM

"Shes Come Undone" by Wally Lamb....Everyone should read this...Lamb writes from the perspective of a girl-woman...I am convinced he is NOT a bio male !!

foxyshaman

01-20-2012, 03:09 PM

Re-reading: Blackfoot Physics by F. David Peat

F. David Peat holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics and is deeply interested in the relationships between science, creativity, art and culture.

"Blackfoot physics is an account of his discoveries, in a remarkable synthesis of anthropology, history, metaphysics, cosmology and quantum theory. Peat compares the medicines, the myths, the languages, indeed the entire perceptions of reality of the Western and indigeneous peoples. What becomes apparent is the amazing resemblance between indigeneous teachings and some of the insights that are emerging from modern science. Peat's insightful observations extend our understanding of ourselves, our understanding of the Universe, and our place in it. This book is a captivating read for anyone interested in the relationship between science, spirituality, and different ways of knowing."

Julien

01-20-2012, 08:48 PM

Thief of Lives, book 2 of the Noble Dead series by Barb Hendee and J.C. Hendee. I really enjoyed the first book Dhampir. Only 9 more to go in the series (I think).:2nddaywalker:

justkim

01-23-2012, 08:15 PM

Just started reading the 4th book in the Game of Thrones series... LOVING IT!

The JD

01-23-2012, 08:41 PM

Just *finished* the 4th book in the Game of Thrones series, and just started Jane Lynch's memoir, Happy Accidents... I've got a pile of books on my headboard screaming to be read next, but Jane Lynch is a library book, so she wins. :)

clay

01-24-2012, 12:09 PM

Love Finds You....in Folly Beach,SC...by Loree Lough.
It is set in a quaint little southern beach town, near Charleston,SC. It is about two people with nothing in common who fall in love.....I am enjoying it immensely!
If you like...go to..
www.follyturtles.com to get more info on the loggerhead turtles program

and you can also go to
www.savethelight.com
this is set up to save the Morris Lighthouse...

TheDreadPirateRoberts

01-24-2012, 02:37 PM

i just started reading "aimee & jaguar" ...aka ...a love story from berlin , 1943...amazing book! ....

Leigh

01-24-2012, 03:35 PM

When I signed up for the gym a week and a half ago, I got a book free from the founder of the gym itself David Patchell-Evans called "Living the Good Life" and so far its been a highly valuable resource :)

tonaderspeisung

01-24-2012, 05:34 PM

The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter - Mark Seal

it's the story of the totally made up clark rockefeller
it's completely fascinating, a great thrill ride
and it's all true

run don't walk to your library and find this book
it's worth it

but you don't have to take my word for it

JAGG

01-24-2012, 09:11 PM

"Final gifts" by Patricia Kelly

apretty

01-25-2012, 07:28 PM

http://www.randomhouse.ca/images/dyn/cover/?source=9780307474612&height=300&maxwidth=170

i'm about 5 pages from finishing and idon't want it to end.

TheDreadPirateRoberts

01-25-2012, 11:05 PM

water wars by vandana shiva.....i read this book awhile back....but decided to re read since a dear one just finished it today...

Truly Scrumptious

01-28-2012, 11:07 AM

When She Woke, by Hillary Jordan

It’s the mid-21st century, after Roe v Wade has been overturned, and a woman who has an abortion is now guilty of murder. Her punishment? Her skin is genetically altered . . . turned bright red for the duration of her 16 year sentence. (Prisons are overcrowded, so now people are marked for their crimes.)

Comparisons to The Scarlet Letter and The Handmaid’s Tale are inevitable, and in fact Hillary Jordan describes it as "a deliberate riff" on The Scarlet Letter. It’s dark and disturbing on so many levels, and I can’t put it down.

sugarnspice

01-28-2012, 11:20 AM

This sounds like a fantastic book! I will go load it on to my Kindle right now!

TheDreadPirateRoberts

01-28-2012, 02:16 PM

the girl with the dragon tattoo......again...since my lil sister brought my copy back

Sparkle

01-28-2012, 03:49 PM

my clever ploy to read more by canceling the cable is working...

Last week I finished "Snowdrops" by AD Miller and *HATED* it. It is not thrilling, it is not noir, there are no redeeming characters, every character is shallowly drawn and stereotypical and if I hadn't read it on my kindle I'd have flung it cross the room after reading the last few pages.

In an attempt to scrub my brain of that bad reading experience I was very kindly gift with the "Hunger Games" trilogy which I read between Monday night and this morning. As everyone has said, a very compelling read, I really enjoyed the story.

I'm not sure which next...
Possibly "IQ84" by Murakami which I've been meaning to start for weeks but am feeling a bit daunted by, possibly "The Marriage Plot" by Eugenides, possibly something different all together.

Stud_puppy1991

01-28-2012, 07:23 PM

I am currently reading Stephen King's newest novel, 11/22/63, which is about a man that goes back in time to prevent JFK's assassination

aishah

01-28-2012, 11:36 PM

open veins of latin america - eduardo galeano.

Martina

01-29-2012, 03:17 AM

i am reading The Hunger Games too.

justkim

01-29-2012, 05:20 PM

For those of you who enjoy *free* stuff... I got a series about werewolves for free... I downloaded it to my NookColor. The Mating, The Keeping, and The Finding... you must read them in order. I only remember the authors first name and truly wish I could find more of her work. Her first name is Nicky and each book is about 1000 pages... I would like to hear what others think of her work...

Happy reading...

Kätzchen

01-30-2012, 10:38 AM

Just a quick note this morning before I head to work (a new job, thank heavens!), that I read the series called the "Hunger Games" and I was not affected by the storyline at all: Probably because of the level of abuse I have survived in my lifetime - or - something like that. I filter from a variety of lens in life and was not impressed with this series. I took the books back and traded them in for something different to read.

I'd rather read a real life account of some fucked up situation and the details involved and how perpetrators of abuse committed their crime (s) rather than read material as presented in the format of the "Hunger Games" - but I'm not the average reader and do not expect my views about this book to meld with other opinion.

I wonder if anyone has read other non-fiction accounts within the genre of white collar crime... I'm interested in reading things of this nature. If anyone has a recommendation for a book they liked, I'd be interested in hearing about it.

StillettoDoll

01-30-2012, 08:29 PM

http://images-partners-tbn.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTVFldtUxT4EMuFORoq_bVnbtRpEchBH rPpi1sh6DBRfRIEwh3luw:www.the-savoisien.com/blog/public/img5/the-rich-and-the-superrich.jpg

Don't know if I will finish it. It a big book!:reader:
Its a study of the power of money

pajama

01-30-2012, 10:13 PM

Okay, well I'm behind the times. I was coming here to praise and gush about The Hunger Games. I got it last week because the movie preview looks really good. This is a book that I've picked up and put back at the bookstore a half-dozen times. Even now that I bought it, I read some of my other books first. I wasn't expecting much.

I LOVE it. I am a really, REALLY, slow reader and am almost done with the book in 24 hours. I even turned the TV off to read it. I have not been exposed to any type of abuse so I am very much shocked by the story-line. I did grow up roaming the woods and hunting with my brother as a child, so I feel I can identify a little with the main character in that.

Now I'm really excited to watch the movie.

Okay, back to finish reading it. 'Night.
A

Toughy

01-31-2012, 01:01 AM

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

genghisfawn

01-31-2012, 01:05 AM

"Pilgrim" - Timothy Findley

tonaderspeisung

01-31-2012, 06:15 PM

http://blogs.roanoke.com/backcover/files/2010/02/immortal.jpg

all i can say is - wow
read this for sure

Tawse

02-02-2012, 06:34 AM

moving on to another dystopian book... 36% done and it's good thus far.

"Under the Never Sky" by Veronica Rossi

http://www.amazon.com/Under-Never-Sky-Veronica-Rossi/dp/006207203X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328186028&sr=8-1

Oh - it's part 1 of a trilogy. The other two books are not yet available.

Tawse

02-09-2012, 10:24 AM

Finished "Under the Never Sky" - I will definitely be getting book 2 when it is released. It's a different take on the YA Dystopian genre. Anyone who has ever "stepped foot" into Second Life will appreciate aspects of it. One plot device draws to mind "Twilight" (not the saturated teenage angst part, and not the sparkly vampire part either...). It's a good opening book.

Now starting "Hollowland" - the first book of a series (not sure how many there are / will be) and it was a free kindle book! So far you can tell it's not as polished as the other books, but it's entertaining.

the Scoop: YA Dystopian. Zombies. And a kick ass (from the get go) female lead. (who named her pet lioness [yes a bloody LIONESS] Ripley... and yes that's after Sigourney)

luv2luvgirls

02-09-2012, 10:34 AM

a lil erotica .. and dang she can write! must stay off n the morning lol :|

christie

02-09-2012, 10:40 AM

I bought this last year and picked it up a couple of weeks ago - now I can't put it down!!

A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness

For those Sookie fans or those into Vamps, Daemons or Witches, its actually a good read!

genghisfawn

02-09-2012, 10:46 AM

I always have at least 3 books on the go! They're all rereads, but those are most comforting.

Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin

Mary Wakefield - Mazo de la Roche

Anne of the Island - Lucy Maud Montgomery (I love you, iBooks)

tapu

02-09-2012, 11:27 AM

Quentin Tarentino and Philosophy

Imagine Kill Bill analyzed from the viewpoint of western and eastern moral theory.

It's part of the series Philosophy and Pop Culture. If there's something you watch (from family guy to house to twilight and about 100 more), they've probably given it the philosophical once-over. Enlightening and entertaining, though it's good to know a bit about the major philosophical movements.

Parker

02-09-2012, 12:54 PM

Way of the Peaceful Warrior
~ Dan Millman

Thamca74

02-09-2012, 04:26 PM

I just finished the Hunger Games-- Its really a good book. I would let my kids read it. There is nothing really awful in it.. Its strange and interesting. I am an avid reader and a local DJ was dared to read it on the radio, made me curious as I heard them talking about it.. I bought the next book its a trilogy! You might like it if you have time to read! Just offering my opinion. Let me know how it goes =)

girl_dee

02-12-2012, 07:21 PM

Just read http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51R8DNZ094L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

my GODs what a story! Amazing and a very fast read.

SUmmary;
A solitary woman. A foreign country. An unknown language. An impossible dream' No. With no mission board to support or guide her and less than ten dollars in her pocket, Gladys Aylward left her home in England to answer God's call to take the message of the gospel to China. With the Sino-Japanese War waging around her, she struggled to bring the basics of life and the fullness of God to orphaned children. Time after time, God triumphed over impossible situations, and drew people to Himself. The Little Woman tells the story of one woman's determination to serve God at any cost.With God all things are possible!

The JD

02-12-2012, 08:08 PM

Just finished Jane Lynch's memoir Happy Accidents....was pretty disappointed, actually. On the one hand, I appreciated the honest display of her every insecurity... that's not so typical of celebrity memoirs. But as I read anecdote after anecdote that showed her lack of self-love, I kept hearing Wayne and Garth whining, "We're not worthy! We're not worthy!" If she was trying to prove she's not like Sue Sylvester, she showed me. Over and over. And over.

Next up: A Dance with Dragons, the 5th book in the Game of Thrones series. Let's hope I finish before the library wants it back.

JD

Martina

02-12-2012, 08:16 PM

i was really disappointed in it. Loved all the scholarship stuff and there were some good ideas, but the characters and the language were so conventionally romance novel. Like Sookie better.

I bought this last year and picked it up a couple of weeks ago - now I can't put it down!!

A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness

For those Sookie fans or those into Vamps, Daemons or Witches, its actually a good read!

nycfem

02-12-2012, 08:28 PM

How interesting, is this a memoir or a novel?

Just read http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51R8DNZ094L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

my GODs what a story! Amazing and a very fast read.

SUmmary;
A solitary woman. A foreign country. An unknown language. An impossible dream' No. With no mission board to support or guide her and less than ten dollars in her pocket, Gladys Aylward left her home in England to answer God's call to take the message of the gospel to China. With the Sino-Japanese War waging around her, she struggled to bring the basics of life and the fullness of God to orphaned children. Time after time, God triumphed over impossible situations, and drew people to Himself. The Little Woman tells the story of one woman's determination to serve God at any cost.With God all things are possible!

girl_dee

02-12-2012, 08:33 PM

How interesting, is this a memoir or a novel?

Memoir, she is an amazing woman.. Gladys Aylward!

Martina

02-12-2012, 08:38 PM

The movie Inn of the Sixth Happiness was based on her life. With Ingrid Bergman.

JAGG

02-12-2012, 09:51 PM

"The Tipping Point" -Malcolm Gladwell

Venus007

02-13-2012, 06:41 AM

"The Illuminatus! Trilogy" by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

I am on the first book, "In the Eye of the Pyramid"

Tawse

02-13-2012, 06:57 AM

Finished Hollowland by Amanda Hocking and started Hollowmen (book 2) last night. Already 40% through.

These are not the books you want to read if you're looking for complex plots or characters. Think "Resident Evil" in book form... If you're looking for a kick ass protagonist and lots of gory zombie killing... this book is for you.

Better than Popcorn with heavy butter...

Sparkle

02-13-2012, 07:59 AM

I'm currently half way through 'The Hypnotist: A Novel" by Lars Kepler

It is a Swedish noir-crime-thriller, it was described as "methadone for readers suffering from Steig Larrson withdrawl" :)

It is very well written & riveting.

willow

02-13-2012, 08:03 AM

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson

Massive

02-13-2012, 05:10 PM

"Ages In Chaos" by Immanuel Velikovsky

and

"Signature Killers" by Robert Keppel

foxyshaman

02-13-2012, 05:19 PM

Maya Cosmogenesis 2012
The True Meaning of the Maya Calendar End-date
Author: John Major Jenkins

I like this author, I have read his other books. He is a very adept researcher. He wrote this in 1998, so well before the 2012 CRAZE.

Besides... any book with the word cosmogenesis in the title has my heart all-a-flutter.

I know - GEEK. I am okay with that tho'. I have read many books for many hours to get that distinctive title.

rockybcn

02-15-2012, 01:37 AM

Fingersmith.........Sarah Waters

Cowboi

02-15-2012, 05:03 AM

The new Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz, M.D.

Just finished The Hunger Games Trilogy.

smouldering

02-15-2012, 06:02 AM

Getting ready to read an e-book called "Scary Mary" about a girl who is able to see the and hear spirits.

Kobi

02-15-2012, 11:11 AM

Einstein....His Life and Universe - Walter Isaacson

Dont understand his science but the man himself fascinates me.

Melissa

02-15-2012, 03:27 PM

The 37th hour by Jodi Compton.

Fancy

02-15-2012, 04:40 PM

Food Matters
A guide to conscious eating

By Mark Bittman

So far, so good. I'm reading this as part of our local library's winter reading program. Also, using it to grow inspiration for this year's garden.

Tawse

02-16-2012, 11:06 AM

Finished up Hollowmen last night - today I start on Enclave by Ann Aguirre... looking forward to it. :)

Turtle

02-16-2012, 11:43 AM

The Dance by Oriah

aishah

02-16-2012, 03:32 PM

just finished behind the mountains by edwidge danticat, trans/love (ed. morty diamond), upstate by kalisha buckhanon, and wellness recovery action plan by mary copeland.

still reading open veins of latin america by eduardo galeano. and i think i'm going to start the hunger games next (got a loan on kindle).

rockybcn

02-18-2012, 01:53 PM

Just starting...

The Forgotten Garden
by Kate Morton

JustLovelyJenn

02-18-2012, 03:46 PM

The Sound and the Fury... for American Lit... Someone save me...

Melissa

02-19-2012, 10:27 AM

Shiver by Lisa Jackson. I just started it. Very creepy.

ONLY

02-19-2012, 12:22 PM

I am now reading the 12th novel in the Anita Blake series "Incubus Dreams" by Laurell K. Hamilton. Thanks again to my girl, SS (f), for getting me hooked on the series :thumbsup:

Soft*Silver

02-19-2012, 01:14 PM

I am starting the hunger games today...I want to read it before I see the movie

gotoseagrl

02-19-2012, 01:48 PM

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy ... lots and lots of pages.

Fancy

02-20-2012, 04:17 PM

A Mercy
by Toni Morrison

True poetry in the writing, but gut wrenching and sad.

LeftWriteFemme

02-21-2012, 08:36 AM

Stoneheart by Charlie Fletcher

wolfsgirl

02-21-2012, 11:22 AM

Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children by Ransom Riggs.

aishah

02-21-2012, 03:59 PM

finished the hunger games trilogy. i can relate a lot to what katzchen wrote (http://www.butchfemmeplanet.com/forum/showpost.php?p=516415&postcount=1115) about it, being a survivor myself. i was kind of underwhelmed by the writing and found a lot of things frustrating (the ends of the books felt rushed, as though the author wanted to explain the plot tie-ups rather than actually writing them, the beginning of the last book is corny and boring, etc.). some of the violence wasn't written very believably. (some of it was.) i did really like the world creation and dystopian aspects, though, and i think by the middle of the final book the characters were all very realistic to me - especially the main character - not always likeable but very realistic. i enjoyed the last 2/3rds of the final book a lot. the rest was kind of meh.

think i'm going to read drag king dreams next.

aishah

02-21-2012, 04:49 PM

actually i lied, i promised my friend i'd read forty rules of love first, so that's next :)

Estella

02-21-2012, 05:27 PM

Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips. Fluffy & funny ...

justkim

02-21-2012, 05:53 PM

JustJo

02-21-2012, 06:39 PM

I am going to upload The Hunger Games to my Nook...I am looking forward to reading them since 9 our of 10 people I have spoken with have loved them. I was also told about The Wheel (s) of time series going to look into this series. Has anyone read this series?

The Wheel of Time series starts out really well, but was dragged out far too long. Probably should have ended after about 3 books....

aishah

02-21-2012, 06:44 PM

I am going to upload The Hunger Games to my Nook...I am looking forward to reading them since 9 our of 10 people I have spoken with have loved them. I was also told about The Wheel (s) of time series going to look into this series. Has anyone read this series?

i agree with justjo - wheel of time is one of my favorite fantasy series but it's very long and sometimes boring/frustrating in parts. a song of ice and fire by george r.r. martin is another great epic series though. and if you're looking for something more along the lines of the hunger games (shorter ya fantasy) check out the wolves of mercy falls trilogy by maggie stiefvater :)

Kätzchen

02-21-2012, 11:54 PM

actually i lied, i promised my friend i'd read forty rules of love first, so that's next :)

"Forty Rules of Love First" has got to be the next book I get at Powells
(for summer reading).

Thank you, aishah.

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I am about a quarter of the way into the newest book I've been reading lately.

Boo, Catherine (Jan 2012). Behind the beautiful forevers. New York, NY: Random House Publishers. NYTs review (LINK (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/books/katherine-boos-first-book-behind-the-beautiful-forevers.html?_r=1)).

When I'm through reading this book, I'm taking a break from reading books that are new to me. I like to sit and meld with them. I record notes in mine (thoughts I have while reading certain passages)... What about any of you here: do you find yourself doing that too?

aishah

02-22-2012, 02:17 AM

it's just called "forty rules of love" and it's by turkish author elif shafak :) (i said 'first' because i meant i have to read it first before i read drag king dreams...hehe!) i started it earlier this evening though and it's really wonderful! and you're welcome.
http://www.elifshafak.com/kitaplar/the_frol.asp

how do you like "behind the beautiful forevers"? :)

Daktari

02-22-2012, 05:17 AM

Memoirs of Munich by Jones.T, Cooper.D, and Butler.R.A.
The Origins of the Second World War by Taylor.A.J.P.
Munich, The Appeasement Crisis by Faber.D

Tawse

02-22-2012, 10:55 AM

here's my take on The Hunger Games...

I start with a disclaimer. I like stuff that makes other people roll their eyes. I LIKE Keanue Reeves acting. I can easily get immersed into moves and books and even if I notice problems - as long as you don't assault me - I'll work with you. Heck even if you do assault me, if like the way you write - I'll still work with you.

What I really liked about The Hunger Games is the IMO more realistic portrayal of someone who is put into traumatic experiences - particularly the end of the book. I don't want to spoil it for anyone so I'll just leave it at that and the ones who have read it will hopefully understand what I'm talking about. If not, rep or pm me and I'll explain :)

I enjoyed falling in love with Katniss. She was young, she was fallible, she wasn't the uber hero - she was a girl who just so happened to do the right thing under pressure. The more time she had to think - the worse off she was. lol I can relate to that.

For me, THG is the series to beat in regards to YA Dystopian Fiction.

foxyshaman

02-22-2012, 12:41 PM

"When I'm through reading this book, I'm taking a break from reading books that are new to me. I like to sit and meld with them. I record notes in mine (thoughts I have while reading certain passages)... What about any of you here: do you find yourself doing that too?

I really like to re-read books. I make notes in mine and underline and star and heck I even bend pages. :runforhills: When I reread books I am often struck by what I skimmed over, and what I thought was important at that time. I like to learn something *again*.

I primarily read non-fiction, but I do confess a love for collections of short stories in the fantasy realm. My two favorite editors are Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow. If their names are on it, I am going to like it. I also like some of Jeffrey Ford's work. He has one short (I am sure it was him) called "Kate the Lion Tailed Girl" that I retold at a Pagan Festival in the fall... the audience loved it. I just wish I had a costume befitting it... :hamactor:

Like you Katzchen :glasses: I meld with my books. If they are super good, and not on loan from the library, they will stay by my bedside for weeks. Sometimes they get covered by other books, but buried underneath, is a warm feeling wrapped up in pages and words.

Kätzchen

02-22-2012, 01:20 PM

Cuddles

02-22-2012, 02:10 PM

Personally... I'm addicted to the comic strips! Not the marvel, capcom, DC ones... I mean the funny pages comic strips.

Calvin and Hobbes is my absolute favorite, hands down. I grew up reading Bill Watterson's epic comic strip and own the whole set. I've reread them a dozen times and I love to draw C&H comics.

I also have the entire libraries of Zits, Baby Blues, For Better or For Worse, Mutts, and some underground/unknown ones.

I do read actual books too... I think I'm still reading "We Need To Talk About Kevin", but I'd have to check my Kindle to see what else is on there.

I'm also a sucker for a good romance book, be it lesbian or not. Romance books taught me a lot about how to please a woman growing up. :reader: There was a girl, who was just a friend in HS; we'd skip gym class and sit on the bleachers reading our romance books then when we were done with them we'd trade.

foxyshaman

02-22-2012, 03:09 PM

~>> aishah & foxyshaman: when reading any particular book or article, I generally set aside my internal wiring (biases, etc) and read what is before me; as neutrally as possible with the eyes of a child (a child like wonder - Rachel Carson). After I have read the entire book or article, I then go back and re-read with whatever particular application of lens is necessary to help me understand the authors' particular views or other pertinent issues within that particular context of writing (genre, style of writing, method of claim delivery, etc).

When I finish my first reading of Catherine Boo's book on life in a Dubai slum, I'll go back and re-read in a critical fashion as I examine issues set forth in her text and make notes on things that may share sets of interests I study at an academic level. Usually by the time I have read a book for the fourth or fifth time, it's for pleasure - which by then, I've almost memorized the entire contents of said book or article.
[/I](Tawse).

:deepthoughts:

Saying that you inspire me Katzchen :bunchflowers: would be an understatement. We read differently, but similar. I am a skimmer, always have been. I think that is why I don't read fiction, cause I always just want to 'get to the end'. :nerd:

I re-read quite a bit because I am a skimmer. I used to be quite different, but I suffered a stroke years ago which completely changed how I process, retain and recall information. I have to re-read something to get it into my brain :hammer:. I have to take notes, or I cannot retain the information nearly as well. (Yeah kinesthetic learning) I used to have exceptional retention and recall.... alas not anymore. Anyway... I digress. The way that I remember information best is to teach it. I am constantly reading because I am constantly building 'that next workshop' or 'that next lecture' or 'that next ritual', or.... fill in the blank.

Reading this thread is important to me. Not because I am interested in fiction per se, rather I am reminded that reading can be done "just because". I enjoy the different titles. The different authors. The agreement between posters regarding titles, themes, storylines.... this thread is a good human story for me.

Kätzchen

02-22-2012, 04:04 PM

I'm on my second cup of coffee now: I'm a kinesthetic learner too, foxyshaman. Well, practically kinesthetic in much of all that is a part of me.

I just realised I mispelled Boo's first name (should be with a K, not a C) and *cough* misplacement of location (not Dubai, but Mumbai).

That's amazing about the stroke you suffered and how you compensate now as a learner in any medium you delve into. My mothers' mom suffered a tremedous stroke before she passed away. Her stroke left her a prisoner in her own body. Seeing her held prisoner was heartbreaking for me - we almost always knew how to communicate with each other via our eyes and a collective memory of everything between us during the time she was imprisoned by her stroke. I miss my grandmother and thank you for conjuring precious memories of her today.

smouldering

02-22-2012, 04:08 PM

Stalking Shadows by S.A. Hunter

Tawse

02-22-2012, 04:49 PM

~>> Tawse: I could identify with Katniss (re: the more time she had to think about things, the worse off she was. That is soOoOOOooo me, at times). I don't read enough dystopian material to know if THG is the series to top; but if THG is the series to top, then this might explain why I don't read material in this particular genre.

Best Lines Ever (in your post): "as long as you don't assault me - I'll work with you. Heck even if you do assault me, if like the way you write - I'll still work with you" (Tawse).

I am not an expert on the genre.. I don't think. lol I've read THG, The Hollowland books (2 so far), Under the Never Sky, and I'm currently reading Enclave. Edited to add: OH yeah and Divergent.. guess the fact that I forgot about it says something. ;) lol

THG was my FIRST - and we all know that we compare everything to our first and that we always remember our first. Ok maybe not - work with me here. Sunshine and rose and all that pukey stuff.

My point is THG was my first time experiencing certain traits for the genre. All stories have Protagonists, Fairy Godmothers, and Antagonists - but I hadn't experienced how these characters would be portrayed in this genre so it was cool watching it unfold. Certain things have proven to be typical of the genre, and certain things have proven to be unique, but THG was the first time I experienced them.

For me - I really like the way the author writes. There was a certain urgency to her writing - I personally felt like I had to keep reading - Katniss was in peril! I needed to read so I could see her happy ending! (no porn smirks please lol)...

Under the Never Sky is second - but it's a far second as far as character attachment - but a very close second as far as plot... there's only been one book so I can't comment on the endings.

Oh something else that may be of note - I HATE reading nonfiction... lol I want my trauma to be all in the pretend world.

foxyshaman

02-22-2012, 05:02 PM

For me - I really like the way the author writes. There was a certain urgency to her writing - I personally felt like I had to keep reading - Katniss was in peril! I needed to read so I could see her happy ending! (no porn smirks please lol)...

Oh something else that may be of note - I HATE reading nonfiction... lol I want my trauma to be all in the pretend world.

I had to comment on this... when I was young, like a teenager into early adulthood, I used to read a good lot of fiction. BUT!!!!! I always had to read the last page BECAUSE I could not stand the anxiety of not knowing if it was all going to work out. It actually caused me physical anxiety. Once I read the last page I could relax and enjoy the story. I don't do that now, but sometimes I can feel that pit in my stomach start to grow and it feels horrible. Now that I do NOT want to analyze :seeingstars:

I laughed... trauma in the pretend world.... bbwwwwaaaahhhhaaaaaa.

Tawse

02-22-2012, 05:05 PM

I used to do that as well.. but then I learned something about me. Once I know the ending - I stop reading / watching.

I haven't and won't go see Secretariat or Titanic for that reason. The horse wins and the boat sinks. No point.

I even do that with my own stories - if I figure out the endings too fast - hey I'm good, no point in writing the rest out. Oh yeah - seriously. lol

SO - now I refuse to let myself skip to the end. That being said - in my excitement / anxiety I will skim during the dull bits. I seriously do NOT need to read about how you fold your clothes or what fabric they're made of - or how many friggen veins are in that leaf over there. O.o (good grief Anne Rice - stop it!)

Uhm.. I've digressed. Or maybe not...

Ok I'll step away from the mic now :) lol

foxyshaman

02-22-2012, 05:11 PM

I haven't and won't go see Secretariat or Titanic for that reason. The horse wins and the boat sinks. No point.

ME TOO!!! The fricking boat sinks... end of story.... :canadian:
I even do that with my own stories - if I figure out the endings too fast - hey I'm good, no point in writing the rest out. Oh yeah - seriously. lol

Oddly, many of my own stories and poems start with the end and I write my way backwards. I may be onto something strange about me....:canoworms:

SO - now I refuse to let myself skip to the end. That being said - in my excitement / anxiety I will skim during the dull bits. I seriously do NOT need to read about how you fold your clothes or what fabric they're made of - or how many friggen veins are in that leaf over there. O.o (good grief Anne Rice - stop it!)

Uhm.. I've digressed. Or maybe not...

No, heck I think part of reading is discussing the reading. What frustrates a reader. What excites a reader. What makes you throw the book across the room, watch it hit the wall, fall to the floor and take a week to pick it up... or maybe that is just me... <insert distracting whistle here>
Ok I'll step away from the mic now :) lol

Okay, but it is here if you have any other entertaining thoughts you want to share...:canadian:

Tawse

02-22-2012, 05:16 PM

foxyshaman

02-23-2012, 12:26 AM

my stories... usually start with a character. A feel... a smell.. a motive or incentive.

OR

It's like my brain turns off and starts watching a movie and I either write what I see down - or I drown in it. :) characters have conversations in my head - talk to me, each other etc. I've entertained my therapist but she hasn't sent me away yet so I can't be that bad off.. lol

I can't throw my books across the room - that'd break my kindle! My precious... lol

Inspiration hits us in so many wonderful ways. Spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally. Each a different entry into the world we view as reality.

Kindle eh... well one day I will be all grown up and have books that I like available from said ebook stores. I have run across very few titles I read on their lists. Kind of a shame in the big scheme of things.

<shoulder shrug> I will have to content myself with the sound of disappointing books splatting the wall...

Martina

02-23-2012, 11:55 PM

The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz. Not as funny as she means it to be. But it is keeping my attention.

SugarFemme

02-24-2012, 01:18 AM

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Fancy

02-24-2012, 05:47 AM

The Merlot Murders
A Wine Country Mystery

Ellen Crosby

Not too thrilled with this book. The writing is flat and uninspired. Not even sure I'll finish it, but it's in my list for a library assignment.

Speaking of the assignment, I'm looking for any recommendations of books related to fitness, health, nutrition, or organic living. Fiction or nonfiction... :)

Tawse

02-24-2012, 06:36 AM

Finished reading "enclave" (by ann aguirre) last night. Middle of the road as far as YA Dystopian goes... Had to research to find out if it were the first book of a series or a stand alone. It had that weird of an ending. They finished the story line (I thought) but there were a lot of loose ends that I wasn't sure if we were supposed to find out in a later book - or just build our own...

Yeah I guess what I'm saying is that it's not really even a middle of the road. I'd give it a 2 outta 5. And I think that may be me being nice.

But of course I'll give the second book a read - if I remember the series when the second book comes out.

Truly Scrumptious

02-24-2012, 07:44 AM

I'm looking for any recommendations of books related to fitness, health, nutrition, or organic living. Fiction or nonfiction... :)

Have you read Skinny Bitch, by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin?
Sounds like a diet book I know, but it's so much more. It's not a simple solution to weight loss, it's about eating for optimal health. It mostly promotes going vegan, but if that is not something you're interested in, you will still learn all kinds of things you (probably) didn't know about the food industry in North America (or at least I did).

It's a great read for anyone concerned about what we put in our mouths.

CrankyOldGuy

02-25-2012, 07:38 AM

the portable nietzsche :|

tonaderspeisung

02-27-2012, 06:29 PM

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i just finished this one
even with cliche characters and the wheels falling off at the end - i think this book is worth a read while on the library wait list for the book you want

it held my interest and given the time period of the story - the language used was easy to follow without being too modern and distracting

rating: borrow it

funkyfemme

02-27-2012, 06:32 PM

Stone Butch Blues (for the second time)

I love that book but it's a hard read.

femmedyke

02-27-2012, 06:44 PM

Just finished two this weekend, both are starts of new dystopic trilogies. The first was Angelfall by self published author Susan Ee and it was amazing, finished it in less than a day. The second is Divergent by Jasmine by Veronica Roth, which I thought may be frustrating but turned out pretty good. I'm a little bummed that I went through them so quickly; both are scheduled to launch the second book in Summer, I guess, right in time for pool and beach weather. Now I'm starting Unwind by Neil Shusterman this evening; so excited!

SugarFemme

02-27-2012, 07:12 PM

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Daughters of the formidable Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, Katherine and Juana were born in to a world of privilege and luxury that came at a devastating personal price. They were trained from an early age to understand European diplomacy and to revere their position as defenders of Catholicism against any threat to their religion. In an age of familiy politics, the sisters were useful only as a way to secure new alliances through marriage; both at the mercy of the men they were to marry. Katherine's marriage to Prnice Arthur apeared to go well until he died suddenly after ten months. Marriage to King Henry VIII did not result in the vital heir, and soon Henry was displaying his despotic nature, with the execution of 'traitors' and high-handed affairs. Juana fared no better with Philip of Burgundy, whose naked amibition and cruelty made her life equally difficult. Julia Fox's new biography vividly portrays the harsh realities of being a queen within a world dominated and run by men. She provides a fresh take on the sisters' characters and interior worlds by setting them within their family and Spanish contexts. In the case of both women, this vibrant biography graphically illustrates the dangers of being a royal commodity at such a perilous time, and gives a highly revealing portrait of two forceful female personaliites thrwarted by the men around them - including the men closest to them who sould have cared for them the most.

Glenn

02-27-2012, 10:36 PM

The Complete Works of Guy De Maupassant.

Massive

02-28-2012, 12:23 AM

Fingerprints Of The Gods - Graham Hancock

Supernatural - Graham Hancock

Underworld - Graham Hancock

Tawse

02-28-2012, 06:09 AM

"The Huntress" by Nicole Hamlett. It's 2.99 book that Gillian downloaded into our Archives and I decided to give it a whirl.

I'm about 16% done and I've gotten a good chuckle outta it thus far - problem is I don't believe it's a comedy. The writer utilizes cliches like a Shotgun during a Zombie Apocalypse. Despite the protagonist being 30 years old - her first person narrative was spoken more like a whiny 14 year old.

But it's amusing me - so I shall push through it.

Oh Plot: From what I can gather so far - the Greek (and thus Roman I would assume) gods were really Anaceans (I think that's how you spell it, basically the people who occupied Atlantis) who have an extremely long life and can walk through different planes of existence.

The protagonist is supposedly the first "pure breed" of their kind in 3000 years and is the daughter of the one we knew as Diana. You know, The Huntress. You know, The VIRGIN Huntress... who killed someone just for looking at her..

Did I mention the story is amusing? Yes - so I'm not sure about what else, but I'm going to keep reading just because dammit this author's got some mad skills when it comes to working cliches into a sentence.

Tawse

02-28-2012, 06:11 AM

Stone Butch Blues (for the second time)

I love that book but it's a hard read.

I read it once.. and it was amazing at the time but it was equally disappointing. The blatant anti butch/butch relationships in that book - at a time where I was with a butch... meh. Left a very bad taste in my mouth since everyone DOES consider this a "must read" for Butch/TG/Stone/hellanyone...

Leslie has since apologized for some of the thoughts expressed - but I won't recommend it nor read it again. :/

Tawse

03-06-2012, 07:56 AM

Gave up trying to read The Huntress. Made it 62% of the way through it before I just couldn't handle it anymore.

Last night I started reading Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman... so far so good - even if his writing style has taken a minute to get used to. I keep picturing the bad guys as being "The Gentlemen" from Buffy... not sure if this is accurate or not. We'll see.

foxyshaman

03-06-2012, 10:23 AM

I have about six books on the go right now. But one is fiction, short stories. I just thought I would throw that in, just in case Tawse thought I had no personality :simplelaugh: and was stuffy:nerd: from read only non-fiction. :deepthoughts:

starryeyes

03-06-2012, 10:55 AM

I just read "Pets to the rescue, Brave Norman". It was a book sitting on the desk in the 4th grade class room I work in. It was about a dog who was adopted from the pound and went blind. He rescued a little girl who was drownding at the beach despite his blindness. It's a quick 30 page read with mostly pictures and large font, lol. It was a feel good little story and my eyes got a little misty. Hahaha! :-D

aishah

03-06-2012, 05:26 PM

just finished drag king dreams by leslie feinberg :) now i'm reading where the streets had a name by randa abdel-fattah.

http://www.crackingthecover.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Where-The-Streets-Had-A-Name-Scholastic1.jpg
Thirteen-year-old Hayaat is on a mission. She believes a handful of soil from her grandmother's ancestral home in Jerusalem will save her beloved Sitti Zeynab's life. The only problem is the impenetrable wall that divides the West Bank, as well as the checkpoints, the curfews, and Hayaat's best friend Samy, who is always a troublemaker. But luck is on their side. Hayaat and Samy have a curfew-free day to travel to Jerusalem. However, while their journey is only a few kilometres long, it may take a lifetime to complete.

ScandalAndy

03-07-2012, 06:55 AM

FINALLY finished book 4 of the Game of Thrones series, now I'm a few chapters into book 5. I see the light at the end of the tunnel!

Fancy

03-07-2012, 07:50 AM

Rereading -

A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

Still as awed and amazed by the astronomical numbers and the surprisingly understandable writing style.

:glasses:

The JD

03-07-2012, 08:18 AM

Just finished the fifth Game of Thrones book, A Dance with Dragons. I understand that George R. R. Martin is borrowing the narrative arc of Lord of the Rings, where the Fellowship of the Rings (AKA the children of Winterfell) must be scattered far and wide to fulfill their personal quests before they can be reunited for a single purpose. But whereas Tolkien kept his characters separated for one book, Martin is going on five. And didn't I read that there's at least two more books planned?? I can't figure out what I'm more frustrated by: the near-misses and waylaid quests of books four and five, or the fact that I'll no doubt be reading the sixth book as soon as it's out. Arrgh.

Next up: Cruddy by Lynda Barry!

WolfyOne

03-07-2012, 09:56 AM

I'm reading a cute little mystery by Joanne Fluke called Devil's Food Cake Murder

She has a series of these kind of books using the same characters
She even puts recipes in all these books
I've used a few of the cookie recipes and 1 muffin recipe from earlier books

Hollylane

03-11-2012, 09:31 PM

I just bought:

Curious Gorge
by Scott Cook

Non fiction

"Over 100 Hikes and Explorations in the Columbia River Gorge"

I'm reading and browsing it. So far, great book!

PaPa

03-11-2012, 10:25 PM

I am currently reading Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich by Joachim C. Fest. I think the title is self-explanatory especially if you know anything about the ending of the Holocaust and Hitler's reign of terror.

aishah

03-11-2012, 10:49 PM

i absolutely loved where the streets had a name and would recommend it to anyone. abdel-fattah deals with the occupation in a way that's extremely humanizing and very real, though not heavy-handed or overly political. the book is written in the voice of a young girl and it's at a middle school reading level (possibly even younger), although some of the topics can get a bit emotional.

after i finished that i read accidents of nature, a book by harriet mcbryde johnson, who was a disability rights activist and lawyer. it was amazing :) it's a young adult book as well, geared more towards teens, and it deals with issues of disability rights and coming of age as a disabled young person, but is set in the 70s. i could relate a lot to it. she also has a memoir, too late to die young, that's awesome too :)

The JD

03-13-2012, 03:14 PM

okay, I admit I'm actually giddy over the upcoming release of the Hunger Games movie. Just ran across this image, can't resist posting.

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aishah

03-13-2012, 03:16 PM

reading "journey from the center to the page" now :)

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With wisdom for writers at any level and in any genre, nationally known writing and yoga instructor Jeff Davis shows writers how yoga’s principles and practical tools can deepen their writing practice and increase their versatility writers. A grounded guide to the body-mind-imagination connection, this book shows ways for writers to reconnect with their deeper intentions for writing, sustain concentration and confidence when writing, and write with an authentic voice.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2234556.The_Journey_from_the_Center_to_the_Page

Metro

03-13-2012, 03:24 PM

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

ISBN 1400052181

puddin'

03-15-2012, 02:37 PM

"a storm of swords" (book 3 of "a song of ice and fire)

"the seat of the soul", by gary zukav

tonaderspeisung

03-15-2012, 05:55 PM

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i didn't care for the anti anarchist sentiment that seemed randomly sprinkled throughout but this one is really very interesting

aishah

03-17-2012, 05:32 PM

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sex & disability ed. robert mcruer & anna mollow
The title of this collection of essays, Sex and Disability, unites two terms that the popular imagination often regards as incongruous. The major texts in sexuality studies, including queer theory, rarely mention disability, and foundational texts in disability studies do not discuss sex in much detail. What if "sex" and "disability" were understood as intimately related concepts? And what if disabled people were seen as both subjects and objects of a range of erotic desires and practices? These are among the questions that this collection's contributors engage. From multiple perspectives—including literary analysis, ethnography, and autobiography—they consider how sex and disability come together and how disabled people negotiate sex and sexual identities in ableist and heteronormative culture.

cane

03-19-2012, 04:18 AM

Just Kids by Patti Smith. Kinda interrestning. And she's not a bad writer.

justkim

03-19-2012, 05:05 AM

My focus has been off lately as I am trying to get some final touches done in my apartment. When I moved in it was a PIT! But I have been trying to get some reading in before bed and I picked up a not so new series. The Fallen by Lauren Kate. Where were all of these young adult books while I was growing up? I did enjoy the first book and I am now onto the second book titled Torment. The story line is easy to follow and this makes it easy to read when one is tired.
I still have not downloaded The Hunger Games, but I will sometime this week. I also need to pick up the newest Game of Thrones book...

Did anyone ever pick up the Werewolf series I mentioned some time ago?

Happy reading everyone...

weatherboi

03-19-2012, 05:08 AM

Set in the late 1890's, it is a crime novel.
He did a great job with food descriptors and this tends to draw me in.

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pajama

03-19-2012, 06:07 AM

I have been sucked into the Sookie Stackhouse series because the new season of True Blood will not come soon enough! It's fast reading and okay. I am on book three, but figure I will get bored in another book or two. It's simply written, which I like sometimes to give the mind a break.

I am however loving reading it on my new-to-me Kindle that I've had since Xmas 2010 and never got around to using it. I can't imagine reading paper again. (Except for the series that I actually collect.)

A

The JD

03-20-2012, 06:53 PM

Last night, I finished Cruddy by Lynda Barry... I loved Barry's weekly cartoon strip years ago, and her world of quirky adolescents. Cruddy is a novel, but her characters still come off as exaggerated, absurd and cartoonish. And yet it works.

It's also very dark. It has this weird disturbing sociopathic twinge to it, reinforced by the main character (an adolescent girl raised as a boy) referring to her parents as "the mother" and "the father." Well, that, and the trail of carnage and destruction she leaves. If you like your reading to unsettle you, this is the book.

On another note... I just got an iPad. Can anyone recommend their favorite ereader app?

justkim

03-20-2012, 07:00 PM

The JD

03-21-2012, 04:22 PM

Just started In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard. Her last book, Boys of my Youth, is on my top 10 favorite books list. She's got a knack for capturing the tiniest and often conflicting details of a child's view, that dread feeling of "mom's going to kill me when she finds out" combined with the exhilaration of doing whatever it is that's about to get you in trouble. And she's hilarious. This book looks like it's on the same path- here's the first paragraph:

"We can't believe the house is on fire. It's so embarrassing first of all, and so dangerous second of all. Also, we're supposed to be in charge here, so there's a sense of somebody not doing their job."

Off to read more. :)

Christy51274

03-21-2012, 05:34 PM

"The Alienist": Great read and written by an historian, so many of the venues described in this novel probably did exist! You must read "Angel of Darkness"!

Soon

03-21-2012, 05:36 PM

Appetites: Why Women Want

--Carolyn Knapp

Powells' Review (excerpt):

The late Caroline Knapp was not Everywoman, but there were enough women — and men — who felt that her writing spoke directly to them to put her first book, the memoir Drinking: A Love Story, on the bestseller list. Her second book, about the relationship between people and dogs, did nearly as well. Her third, Appetites, published now, a year after she died at 42 from complications arising from lung cancer, may seem like the culmination of her writings just because it is the last one we'll have from her. But the scope of the book, its effort to root out all the ways that women's desires get twisted, thwarted, redirected and obliterated, using her own youthful bout with anorexia as a case in point, suggests that Appetites was a keystone work for her.

It's also a heart-rending one, because despite the manifest intelligence and sensitivity of Knapp's writing — this is quite possibly the smartest and deepest anorexia memoir ever written, and it's also more than just a memoir — she only occasionally manages to grasp the source of the agonies she details so well. It's as if she's trying to describe a yard behind a tall fence, a scene she can only catch glimpses of by jumping as high as she can. There's a flash of the other side here, and again there, but often she's just telling us about the fence. Yet you can't help but think that Knapp almost made it over that barrier, and that if she had been given a few more years she would have arrived in full.

http://www.powells.com/review/2003_05_23.html

Christy51274

03-21-2012, 05:38 PM

"Wicked Autumn" by G.M. Malliet. I so love my cozy mysteries and all the more if they're set in the UK.

What could be more dangerous than cozy village life in the English countryside?

Max Tudor has adapted well to his post as vicar of St. Edwold’s in the idyllic village of Nether Monkslip. The quiet village seems the perfect home for Max, who has fled a harrowing past as an MI5 agent. Now he has found a measure of peace among urban escapees and yoga practitioners, artists and crafters and New Agers. But this new-found serenity is quickly shattered when the highly vocal and unpopular president of the Women’s Institute turns up dead at the Harvest Fayre. The death looks like an accident, but Max’s training as a former agent kicks in, and before long he suspects foul play.

Max has ministered to the community long enough to be familiar with the tangled alliances and animosities among the residents, but this tragedy surprises and confounds him. It is impossible to believe anyone in his lovely village capable of the crime, and yet given the victim, he must acknowledge that almost everyone had probably fantasized about killing Wanda Batton-Smythe.

As the investigation unfolds, Max becomes more intricately involved. Memories he’d rather not revisit are stirred, evoking the demons from the past which led him to Nether Monkslip. In WICKED AUTUMN, G.M. Malliet serves up an irresistible English village—deliciously skewered—a flawed but likeable protagonist, and a brilliantly modern version of the traditional drawing room mystery.

One of The Boston Globe's Best Mysteries of 2011
One of Library Journal's Best Mystery Books of 2011

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genghisfawn

03-22-2012, 08:30 AM

According to many, I should be ashamed of myself, but...

The Hunger Games Trilogy.

The_JD recommended it, and I could barely put it down! It's getting its second read-over now (just starting Catching Fire again.)

To give myself a break, I'm rereading Battle Royale (yes, same basic premise, but I read Battle Royale many years ago.)

tonaderspeisung

03-24-2012, 02:41 PM

i actually just finished the hunger games trilogy too
my niece and nephew were hyping it up pretty good but i feel rather indifferent about the series

right now i'm mid way through 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created - Charles C. Mann

the author clumsily tries to distance modern feelings toward some of history's more horrible aspects by using weak academic reasoning but i'm really enjoying it
so much to ponder with this book

aishah

03-24-2012, 03:10 PM

i'm rereading the hunger games now with a group of friends on another board :) the first two books are still annoying me for certain reasons but...they're growing on me. i want to see the movie now. (okay, lenny kravitz as cinna is kind of amazing.)

still on the beginning of sex & disability. it's good so far.

i've also been rereading ruthless trust by brennan manning on and off :) it's one of my favorite religious/devotional books.

MrSunshine

03-24-2012, 03:41 PM

Darkness Visible ~ A memoir of Madness By William Styron (fitting)

weatherboi

03-27-2012, 09:22 AM

So many great restaurants that are no longer in business. Great illustrations of food and landmarks.

http://www.cookbookery.com/images/medium/books5/newford.JPG

JAGG

03-27-2012, 09:34 AM

"Physics of the future". By Michio Kaku

Sparkle

03-27-2012, 10:44 AM

"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer

I've not seen the film, I'm not sure if I want to see it at all.

The book is very beautiful: the narrator delightfully odd and loveable, the story is terribly sad.

I'm a big fan of Foer's writing; if you've not read anything of his I would recommend "Everything is Illuminated" highly (the film adaptation is quite good too).

Viola

03-27-2012, 12:19 PM

I can relate so well with asperger syndrome...

how did i get here - chapter 1

".. i'm sure i was sociable. days were nearly always spent kicking balls, exploring the woods, digging in soil, and sometimes eating it, roaming the hills and in each other's houses..." - keith

i am reading asperger syndrome- a love story, written by sarah hendricks and keith newton. the couple explain who they are as individuals, chronicle their meeting and first ill-fated relationship, followed by a painful but vital period of separation and learning to the final destination of a new, different, more satisfactory relationship together. personal accounts - embracing [humourously a lot of the time] neurodiversity!

:dog:

i'm also still reading jayber crow, a novel by wendell berry. [his work with farm alliance is amazing, by the way]. this book is poetic, philosophical, and the community members/town is imagined- richly so!

:writer:

i hope you are doing well, daisy - whatcha readin' ? :eyebat:

belle
ox

Viola

03-27-2012, 12:26 PM

I can relate so well with asperger syndrome...

I read this book and apply this book to my life - learning how to tune out sounds...

Leigh

03-27-2012, 01:09 PM

The Hunger Games :)

Fancy

03-28-2012, 12:51 PM

Life of Pi
Yann Martel

Novelafemme

03-28-2012, 12:56 PM

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How to build one of these. :)

CA_BabyCakes

03-28-2012, 01:05 PM

Just finished The Hunger Games Trilogy and now on to Power Down by Ben Coes for my political Science class.

wetfromashower

03-28-2012, 01:10 PM

Reading: Life-Saving Health Secrets JJ Despain and Everyday Mexican A Collection of Essential Recipes... I love Mexican food...

MrSunshine

03-28-2012, 03:14 PM

Stones from the River ~ Ursula Hegi

Wryly

03-28-2012, 06:18 PM

I got an e-reader last week - - so right now I'm just rereading free "classics."
Finished Pride & Prejudice, on Sense & Sensibility. Have some Sherlock Holmes up next, I think.
Although I'm tempted to give The Hunger Games books a look.

UofMfan

03-29-2012, 08:16 PM

Just downloaded this:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41bHrkleAvL._SY180_.jpg

Now I need to find the time to read it.

SugarFemme

03-29-2012, 09:14 PM

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SugarFemme

03-29-2012, 09:16 PM

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Wryly

04-02-2012, 11:25 AM

I tried loading some stuff on my Kobo but I must have done something wrong. I will try again. I suppose reading the instructions all the way thru would help!
In the meantime I'm reading Anne of Green Gables.

Oh - also read The Help.

RockOn

04-02-2012, 09:39 PM

Windows Sysinternals Admin Reference

Whoops, sorry gang, went into a brownout ... thought I was in the "You might be a geek if ... " thread.

*just joking around*

Fancy

04-05-2012, 06:30 PM

Something kinda fun for us reading folk....

NP74VM1Itdc

"I read so hard got paper cuts."

Sachita

04-06-2012, 01:18 PM

Has anyone read this trilogy? If so and you thought it was great please thank me or rep me to tell me why. So much buzz about it.

50 Shades of Grey

Amazon.com: Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy (9780345803481): E L James: Books

thanks

Maria

04-06-2012, 01:41 PM

My Stroke Of Insight, by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.

A neuroscientist's personal journey through her own stroke.

Fascinating stuff.

homoe

04-06-2012, 01:44 PM

I haven't read Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker or Fifty Shades Freed but there is a tremendous amount of buzz! I just read an article where the author E.L. James says she's sold the movie adaptation already to Focus the folks who did Brokeback Mountain.

homoe

04-06-2012, 01:58 PM

The House At Tyneford by Natasha Solomon

(Fans of Downton Abbey should enjoy this book)

AtLast

04-06-2012, 02:14 PM

Drift by Rachael Maddow- arn't we all! Just made NYT Beset Seller's list! Good for her!

Estella

04-06-2012, 02:28 PM

Okay, Angela's Ashes had two strikes against it. One - I'm not particularly into Irish literature as a genre, and two - it was a movie. Fairly nor not, I tend to view books that are made into movies with a certain degree of suspicion - but only if I haven't already read and enjoyed the book. Right - mostly not.

But I was at lunch at work and desperate for something to read, and there was Angela's Ashes in the lost & found bin. Can I just tell you? - I couldn't put it down. Frank McCourt blew my socks off.

Greco

04-06-2012, 03:07 PM

"Empire of Illusion" by Chris Hedges

What a wake-up call...Greco

Martina

04-06-2012, 03:41 PM

Just finished The Spellman's Strike Again by Lisa Lutz. Better than the last one. The one after this -- it's a series -- i heard was a big let down, so i hesitate to invest.

It's about a neurotic family of Private Investigators, and it's set in San Francisco.

Softly

04-06-2012, 05:34 PM

I actually picked this book up today while I was at the mall. My friend told me, with a giggle, that I should read it. I read the reviews before purchasing, so I am not overly excited about reading it. I read that the writing is horrible. I am more curious about the BUZZ all around it.

I'll let you know my thoughts in a couple days! :)

Has anyone read this trilogy? If so and you thought it was great please thank me or rep me to tell me why. So much buzz about it.

50 Shades of Grey

Amazon.com: Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy (9780345803481): E L James: Books (http://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Shades-Grey-Book-Trilogy/dp/0345803485/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333739544&sr=8-1)

thanks

Sachita

04-07-2012, 05:57 AM

I actually picked this book up today while I was at the mall. My friend told me, with a giggle, that I should read it. I read the reviews before purchasing, so I am not overly excited about reading it. I read that the writing is horrible. I am more curious about the BUZZ all around it.

I'll let you know my thoughts in a couple days! :)

exactly and thank you. I don't mind investing some of my free time to escape into fiction but I'd be pissed if I spent a few hours and money into trash. Some of these high buzz novels can be like that.