Judy
 

I have just begun this book called Judy.
Its about a dog that was a POW during the time of the japanese consentration camps.
I found it purely by accident in a discount bookshop.
I thought it sounded really good.
So I came home, looked at the reviews on amazon, and everyone loved the book.
And here I am reading it.
The first part gets you insight into how the authors research went to write the book.
Then you get into the story.
And now I have to say I can't put it down.
So far its wonderful.
Will let you know more later

bodymap by leah lakshmi piepzna-samarasinha.
octavia's brood, edited by walidah imarisha and adrienne maree brown.

I just finished Cinnamon and Gunpowder, by Eli Brown. Who can resist a story with a bad ass female pirate, who is the captain of her own ship? Not me! A great novel for your summer reading.

Now I'm into A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead, a fascinating look at the band as well as, the beat scene, the summer of love, and the psychedelic movement here in San Francisco.

At the moment I am reading, "Into A Desert Place"- A 3000 Mile Walk Around The Coast of Baja California- Graham Mackintosh.

What comes next and how to like it : a memoir / Abigail Thomas.
 

What Comes Next and How to Like It" is an extraordinarily moving memoir about many things, but at the center is a steadfast friendship between Abigail Thomas and a man she met thirty-five years ago.

Through marriages, child-raising, the vicissitudes and tragedies of life, it is this deep, rich bond that has sustained her.

Readers who loved "the perfectly honed observations of a clear-eyed and witty writer" ("Newsweek") in Thomas's "spare, astonishing" ("Entertainment Weekly") memoir, "A Three Dog Life," will relish this beautiful examination of her life today--often solitary, but rich and engaging, with children, grandchildren, dogs, a few suitors, and her longtime best friend.
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Entertaining, thought provoking, and the longest chapter is 3 pages. Perfect for beach reading.

Gamers Gate
 

Gamers Gate- Game of Fear

Article sent to me by a friend.

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/a.../28/gamergate/

:blink:

A three dog life / by Abigail Thomas.
 

When Abigail Thomas's husband, Rich, was hit by a car, his brain shattered. Subject to rages, terrors, and hallucinations, he must live the rest of his life in an institu-tion. He has no memory of what he did the hour, the day, the year before. This tragedy is the ground on which Abigail had to build a new life. How she built that life is a story of great courage and great change, of moving to a small country town, of a new family composed of three dogs, knitting, and friendship, of facing down guilt and discovering gratitude. It is also about her relationship with Rich, a man who lives in the eternal present, and the eerie poetry of his often uncanny perceptions. This wise, plainspoken, beautiful book enacts the truth Abigail discovered in the five years since the acci-dent: You might not find meaning in disaster, but you might, with effort, make something useful of it.

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Engaging. Quick read.

Outline by Rachel Cusk
 

Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinners and discourse. She goes swimming with an elderly Greek bachelor. The people she encounters speak, volubly, about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss.

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Good beach reading.

Journal articles about Positive Psychology. Paper due at the end of the week.

Also reading DSM5 diagnoses to formulate my paper for my directed study course.

Comic books have been at the top of my list lately. I've been enjoying Marvel's Secret Wars arc. And the new(ish) female Thor.

I'm also reading Star Wars: Heir To The Jedi.

I read Gone Girl this weekend. I was sorely disappointed with the ending. Someone told me the movie ending is better. I will have to watch it and see.

Sordid Lives....script 4 nights a week. I'll be glad when I can get back to other things. :) I can only hear Dr. Eve's mean spirited banter so many times!

OMG! Are you performing this?? Best movie EVER!!

Yes, I'm directing ...and it is a hoot! :) We open Pride weekend!

Surprisingly, I haven't seen the movie, and won't until our show goes up. I didn't want to remake the movie, but bring it fresh to our local stage.

Fingers crossed!

Leaving before the rains come / Alexandra Fuller.
 

Fuller (Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight) follows her two previous memoirs about her childhood during the Rhodesian wars with this third memoir about the dissolution of her marriage and her return to Africa. The doomed union is traced from the couple's Zambian courtship to its end in the wake of Fuller's husband's near-fatal horse-riding accident in the United States. Fuller's family again plays a large role as the author reflects on the circumstances that shaped both her personality and her expectations for her life. Fans of Fuller's previous work will enjoy the opportunity to revisit her eccentric family and learn more about the unconventional lifestyle of Zambian farmers.

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Very enjoyable read. Good humor as well.

Murcielago: A manga about a lesbian who was once a violent serial killer who decides to work for police instead, killing the most vile of criminals.

Blood and gore? Yes. Explicit sex scenes? Yeah.

10/10 would recommend.

Best book on how to identify Red Flags (highly recommend).
 

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Before we celebrated our 1st anniversary over the weekend, my sweetheart and I agreed to bring something we have read that helped us to better identify what we did not want in a relationship. Interestingly, we both brought the same book (featured above).

We wept together, bonding more closely with each other, because we both see that it was no mystery how we came to find each other: Both of us consciously made informed choices about each other.

We highly recommend this book.

Finders Keepers: King, Stephen

Women of steel and stone : 22 inspirational architects, engineers, and landscape designers / Anna M. Lewis.
 

Louise Bethune -- Anna Wagner Keichline -- Julia Morgan -- Marion Mahony Griffin -- Norma Merrick Sklarek -- Denise Scott Brown -- Natalie de Blois -- Zaha Hadid -- Marilyn Jordan Taylor -- Emily Warren Roebling -- Lillian Moller Gilbreth -- Kate Gleason -- Margaret Ingels -- Ruth Gordon Schnapp -- Judith Nitsch -- Aine Brazil -- Beatrix Farrand -- Ellen Biddle Shipman -- Marian Cruger Coffin -- Cornelia Hahn Oberlander -- Carol R. Johnson -- Martha Schwartz.

"Reporting on a range of historical and contemporary female builders and designers, this educational book strives to inspire a new generation of girls in the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and math. With many of the profiles set against the backdrop of such landmark events as the women's suffrage and civil rights movements and the Industrial Revolution, and with original interviews from a number of current architects and engineers, this book provides inspiration and advice directly to young women by highlighting positive examples of how a strong work ethic, perseverance, and creativity can overcome life's obstacles. Each profile focuses on the strengths, passions, and interests each woman had growing up; where those traits took them; and what they achieved.

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History and architecture.....two of my favorite things. Very engaging and informative thus far.

okay, I SO want to see this! How cool and good luck!! Or is that break a leg?