Re-reading The Help...

Is she ever going to write a second book I wonder?

"Forensic Psychology" and a bunch of articles on the Jared Loughner case.

labyrinth by kate mosse and karma cola by gita mehta. i'm pretty sure i read labyrinth a few years ago but i can't remember the details - it's a historical thriller. part of the fun of having fibromyalgia is getting to reread/rewatch things like it's the first time, LOL.

knee deep into the books
 

this week it's...

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and

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My dear friend sent me a link for More Indoor Grill Recipes

she knows me well. I go through spurts of healthy eating. :|

Where to begin ...
 

My favorite poet..
 

This Is My Beloved by Walter Benton

Catfish and Mandala by Andrew Pham. Published in 2000.

I would not have started it if I had known how dark it is, but I am glad I have.

if i hadn't forgotten my glasses i would be reading my hobby farm home....i dont have the patience for books lately it seems....soooo not like me....

Right now I'm about halfway through "The Twelve" by Jonathan Cronin and I also have "Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in her Own Words"

The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav

hurts my brain, to be honest. i plan to keep plugging away though

Carry the One by Carol Anshaw.
I'm not loving it. Assignment for book club...:nerd:

The Signal and the Noise
by~Nate Silvers

n~looking forward to..



Thinking, Fast & Slow
by~ Daniel Kahneman

Product Index: Dewalt Tools
Specifically: 20 Volt Max Premium Hammerdrill Kit

Damn, swore off ... but back in lust again.

The scat thread!

:giggle:

If you get a chance, I'd love to hear your review of this when you are done with it.

Okay, I did not go out and buy this book but when it came to me via "the universe" I did decide I had to take a look.

Last night a took a look at "Fifty Shades of Grey." I had to laugh because I found myself imagining "Fifty Shades of Grey...son."

It would appear that I do not have a lot of time for reading, but I find I have a skosh of time to read on my commute by train or when I finally fall into bed, each night.

On a recent visit to a library, I went kind of crazy and checked out a bunch of books by author, Erik Larson: Isaac's Storm (which I am reading right now), Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun, In the Garden of Beasts (which will keep me busy for a few weeks).

In addition, I checked out S/he by Minnie Bruce Pratt.

I also stopped by Powells Book store and used my gift card:
I bought Mary Oliver's newest book of poetry... A Thousand Mornings.

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I was just thinking about that book yesterday! Been years since I've read it.

I'm re-reading Small Changes by Marge Piercy.

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Started this book a few days ago, Just found out it is nominated for the national book award this year.

hawt as...
 

Just finished this book. At 3.99 for the kindle edition, it was a good buy for me, and Molly Ringwald, as an author, was a pleasant surprise.

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I wasn't sure what to expect from a former brat packer who long ago taught me the notion of applying lipstick from my cleavage, but this was a neat little piece that I read in just two nights and was altogether poignant, heartbreaking, and familiar. Ringwald presents the reader with a series of short stories, all linked together with a 'seven degrees of separation' type of flavor, centered around the theme of betrayal and heartache and how we push through to persevere in both. When It Happens To You made me feel something in the pit of my stomach, and I love nothing more than a book that not only makes me feel but lingers for days after.

Would love to hear a review after :)

I thought I would leave a brief book report tonight about two of the books I am reading by Erik Larson. For those of you who eschew reading non-fiction accounts because sometimes NF accounts are often thought of as dry reading material, I want to assure you that the books I have read by Erik Larson are anything but dry or boring.

I just finished "Isaac's Storm" - I have never lived through a hurricane, but I have experienced other storms (snow storms and once upon a time ago, a tornado). I thought the exculpatory account of the 'storm of the century' that hit Galveston, TX back in 1900 was exceptionally well written. The account read like a novel but what intrigued me the most was, just like in "The Devil of White City" (the account of tragedy that transpired during the first World's Fair in Chicago - late 1880s era), Larson tells the story about Isaac Cline - a weather man working for the US Weather Bureau - and chronicles the beginning of how storms of this magnitude were forecast and also includes a wealth of personal narrative as culled from telegrams, letters and accounts from survivors so that one can begin to understand how far science has come, since the days of early technological advances of the late 19th century.

After finishing "Isaac's Storm", I am now breaking into another Larson book called, "Lethal Passage" - which was first published back in 1994.

Even though this account is nearly 2 decades old, I am reading it because I witnessed the accidental death of my cousin, Donnie: who inadvertantly pulled the trigger on a hunting rifle, as he was looking curiously down the barrel of the gun, and died instantly. That's a day in my life that I will never forget, either. My dad and his brothers like to hunt for wild game - mostly on special occassion for meals at Thanksgiving or Christmas. My dad didn't have a handgun in the house but a rather expensive collection of Weatherby's (same for all his brothers, my uncles).

SoOoOoo, the reason I am reading an account like this now is to take down some of my own baggage about guns and re-examine it under the scope of how Larson depicts gun issues with the way he uses a scholarly application of data, interviews, field notes, etc and see if there is any more work to do, personally, as I re-examine my own issues with guns.

Thanks for the descriptions, Katzchen. Could you talk more about what Lethal Passage is about?

I just began this book tonight but will excerpt the passage on the back of the book:

This devastating book begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: On December 16th, 1988, sixteen year old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia high school with a Cobray M-11/9 and several hundred rounds of ammunition tucked into his backpack. By day's end, he has killed one teacher and severely wounded another.

In Lethal Passage Erik Larson shows us how a disturbed teenager was able to buy a weapon advertised as "the gun that made the 80s roar." In so doing, he not only illustrates America's gun culture - its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists - but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. The result of the book that can - and should - save lives, and that has already become an essential text in the gun-control debate.

I'm only on page 42, but Larson gives the audience a vivid description of Elliot in that he is a young black teenager who was acutely bullied at school (of religious affiliation) and my heart went out to Elliot and his mother - the caretaker and head of household of their own little family. Larson has also laid the groundwork, thus far, for how invasive and pervasive gun culture is within the fabric of American life. It's a short read (240 pages long) but it also comes with an extensive list of references at the back of the book, too.

Universe
 

"The Holographic Universe"
by Michael Talbot

mind-blowing

Greco

I am my father's daughter...
 

Decisive Warfare: A Study In Military Theory
By Bretnor Reginald

Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

Enjoying it so far even tho it's sorta told in emails format.

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Poetry
 

"A Thousand Mornings"

by Mary Oliver

Exquisite.

Greco

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i've walked past this book a few times and admit i've judged it by it's cover
is it a good read?

Stories for a life's journey from all around the globe...
 

The Moral Compass by William J. Bennett