Just finished The Martian by Andy Weir. I could give it a more extensive review, but this comic pretty much captures it:


http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/the_martian.png

Hammer head : the making of a carpenter / by Nina MacLaughlin.
 

Nina MacLaughlin spent her twenties working at a Boston newspaper, sitting behind a desk and starting at a screen. Yearning for more tangible work, she applied for a job she saw on Craigslist -- Carpenter's Assistant: Women strongly encouraged to apply -- despite being a Classics major who couldn't tell a Phillips from a flathead screwdriver. She got the job, and in Hammer Head she tells the rich and entertaining story of becoming a carpenter.

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Good beach reading.

I finished 'In Your Dreams' last night.

Started The Druid Series: Vol 1-3 by Marata Eros but it's so sexual that it's awkward for me to read. Not sure how I acquired it.. likely a .99 Amazon deal.. But I will wallow my way through it.

Then to finish The Bird Eater, and then find some more books.

Rereading Sleepwalk with Me and Other Painfully True Stories by Mike Birbiglia.

I figure if I can't sleep, I might as well laugh about it.

Just finished the first page of Harper Lee's Go Set A Watchman:glasses:

I started reading this:

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/i...MQv1On12EA4ryH


B.K.S. Iyengar has devoted his life to the practice and study of yoga. It was B.K.S. Iyengar's unique teaching style, bringing precision and clarity to the practice, as well as a mindset of 'yoga for all', which has made it into a worldwide phenomenon.His seminal book, LIGHT ON YOGA, is widely called 'the bible of yoga' and has served as the source book for generations of yoga students around they world. In TREE OF YOGA, the collected wisdom of his many years of practical practice and its application in real life are brought into a single-volume work.A collected philosophy for life researched through decades of practice by B.K.S. Iyengar, the world's most respected yoga teacher. These are his core teachings and advice for living a long, healthy, happy life.Using the tree as a structural metaphor for both life and yoga practice, the essays cover many aspects of life and practice which are vital to health and happiness and in need of care. This includes:,*Yoga and health,*Yoga as part of daily life,*Childhood and parenthood,*Love,*Death,*Faith - hope and spirituality,

By Gillian Flynn (author of Gone Girl)
 

Dark Places

To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
 

Yea I'm one of the few who never read it before.

Dead Wake by Erik Larson.

I read it a few months ago, but the way he writes about events during the sinking of the Lusitania, like in other non-fiction accounts he has written about before, is simply spell binding. I just want to read it again because it's that good.

The Precariat by Guy Standing:
(simply put,how our modern economy is impacting and effecting our society and the consquences of ie how the lack of any fairness in weath distribution is incubating and hatching a new angry class)

and:

The Bloody chamber by angela carter:
(Collection of short stories,magical fantasy based on and around fairy tales. I'm sure angela carter had quite a big influence on jeanette winterson,i also watched company of wolves couple weeks ago so i i wanted to re read the story)

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it’s as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.”
― Alan Bennett, The History Boys.

I just finished Anne Rice's Prince Lestat. Its always hard to read that last chapter, when I know that my time with old friends, will end soon.

libro
 

[I]"Adultery" by Paulo Coelho

It's been a while, and this one reads deliciously. You understand.

Greco

I'm still (very) slowly making my way through A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3) by George R. R. Martin.

And I'm rereading Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen as a refresher because I just got the sequel book.

Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end / Atul Gawande.
 

Modern medicine has transformed the dangers of childbirth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the face of our inevitable aging and death, what it can do often runs counter to what it should do. Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family, Atul Gawande reveals the suffering this has produced. He examines the profession's limitations and failures as life draws to a close. And he shows how the ultimate goal is not a good death, but a good life - until the very end.
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Good but definitely not beach reading. :)

The Sunday N.Y Times I'll be done by next Sunday

As I seem to every couple of years, I am reading Written On The Body by Jeanette Winterson. I don't often reread something, but this one calls to me from time to time. The gist of the plot is that there is a beloved and neither the name nor the gender of the protagonist suitor is ever revealed. At times the energy is decidedly female, other times male.

A full life : reflections at ninety / by Jimmy Carter
 

In this autobiography, President Carter "tells what he is proud of and what he might do differently. He discusses his regret at losing his re-election, but how he and Rosalynn pushed on and made a new life and second and third rewarding careers. He is frank about the presidents who have succeeded him, world leaders, and his passions for the causes he cares most about, particularly the condition of women and the deprived people of the developing world."