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I have had the unabridged version of Stranger in a Strange Land (it's about 1/4 longer than the original version published in 1961) in my bookcase for a long time. Bored with murder mysteries I decided to read it again after maybe 30 years. I am about half way through it....
boy I had forgotten how bad sexism really was then....and some homophobia....but the story is still a great one..... off to 'grok' it more.... |
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Started reading this last night as well... Catalina, As far as age appropriate for 10 - 13. I haven't a clue as yet, but it is listed as a YA series. |
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I just chewed through those on my Kindle. I'll be re-reading them. Lots of interesting themes. Tawse, it's pretty brutal. The 13 yr old yes, but if the 10 yr old is prone to nightmares, I'd hold off for a year or so. |
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
I just finished reading archaeologist David Graeber's book!
Graeber's compelling evidence presents a stunning reversal of conventional of how economics has been construed for eons. I found this book very interesting and could not put it down. I'm keeping this book (strong recommendation). http://www.powells.com/biblio/71-978...mid=48972&jb=0 http://www.litstack.com/wp-content/u...7355760500.jpg |
The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok ....
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The Gathering Storm by Robyn Bridges
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"The Rules of Civility" by Amor Towles and "The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo" series. And..because I can never read just ONE book (or two in this case) I am also re-reading several Agatha Christie mysteries.
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"Codependent No More" by Melody Beattie....should have read this years ago!
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Ok - I finished the Hunger Games and I'm fairly certain that I now need therapy...
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To recollect
"Recollections: An Autobiography" by Viktor Frankl
I started this a while back, put it down, then decided if he, and his family could have gone through what they did, I can honor and witness their lives by reading it all. Its a book of not many pages, but powerful nonetheless. I found it in one of my old bookstore visits, so it may be out of print. Check Amazon. Greco |
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... |
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.
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"a game of thrones" ~george r. r. martin (book 1 in a set)
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Received "My Cousin Rachel" by Daphne du Maurier as a gift :)
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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. |
I'm reading Prey by Michael Crichton and really enjoying it!
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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) |
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(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"). |
"Beltane" Springtime Rituals, Lore & Celebration..it's a little tame, but I can improvise :hk24:
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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
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my current selection..
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...
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
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Rereading Tipping The Velvet, and a stack of Buddha books
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Mtn: Have you read Dharma Punks or The Heart of the Revolution: The Buddha's Radical Teachings on Forgiveness by Noah Levine?
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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.
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I am rereading the "Anne of Green Gables" series
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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
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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... :) |
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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...2.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. |
book rant
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 |
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... |
went to the library...and am getting caught up on all the Stephen King books I havent read in many a year
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Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
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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!
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Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero by Chris Mathews
Intimate Partner Violence in LGBTQ Lives (Routledge Research in Gender and Society) by Janice L. Ristock |
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