The Surgeon's Tale by Cat Rambo and Jeff VanderMeer

In a world where magic is fading and science begun to ascend, a young surgeon in medical school experiences an obsession so forbidden that its realization will change him forever. "She looked as if she were asleep, still with that slight smile, floating on the thick sargassum, glowing from the emerald tincture that would keep the small crabs and other scavengers from her. She looked otherworldly and beautiful." Sometimes life is not enough. Also including five more stories of dark wonder from Rambo and VanderMeer, from "The Dead Girl's Wedding March" to "The Farmer's Cat." Enter a world of rat suitors, severed arms, and Fungi Et Fruits de Mer, served up with prose both appetizing and uncanny. Dark fantasy has never been quite so decadent . . .(amazon.com)

The author Cat Rambo is someone I know in RL.

Reading a book online that I read in paperback a few weeks ago.

It's about a woman in a polygamist group that fights with her entire might to get the hell out of there.
It's called Escape.

I loved that book!

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Escape-Carolyn-Jessop/dp/0767927575/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376333242&sr=8-1&keywords=escape"]Escape: Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer: 9780767927574: Amazon.com: Books[/ame]

oh my goodness. Me too. Little did I know that all of that really existed. I mean to an extent I knew of things here and there but that is beyond disturbing. :) glad you enjoyed it too

Memoirs Recently Ordered (only started reading the first one...like it so far)
 

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Clean-A-Memoir-ebook/dp/B00B77UDXO/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1376337146&sr=1-1&keywords=coming+clean"]Coming Clean: A Memoir: Kimberly Rae Miller[/ame]


Both Blurbs Taken From Amazon:

Kim Miller is an immaculately put-together woman with a great career, a loving boyfriend, and a tidy apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. You would never guess that Kim grew up behind the closed doors of her family’s idyllic Long Island house, navigating between teetering stacks of aging newspapers, broken computers, and boxes upon boxes of unused junk festering in every room—the product of her father’s painful and unending struggle with hoarding.
In this moving coming-of-age story, Kim brings to life her rat-infested home, her childhood consumed by concealing her father’s shameful secret from friends, and the emotional burden that ultimately led to an attempt to take her own life. And in beautiful prose, Miller sheds light on her complicated yet loving relationship with her parents that has thrived in spite of the odds.

Coming Clean is a story about recognizing where we come from and the relationships that define us—and about finding peace in the homes we make for ourselves.

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The Chronology of Water: A Memoir Paperback
by Lidia Yuknavitch


This is not your mother’s memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the reader through issues of gender, sexuality, violence, and the family from the point of view of a lifelong swimmer turned artist. In writing that explores the nature of memoir itself, her story traces the effect of extreme grief on a young woman’s developing sexuality that some define as untraditional because of her attraction to both men and women. Her emergence as a writer evolves at the same time and takes the narrator on a journey of addiction, self-destruction, and ultimately survival that finally comes in the shape of love and motherhood.

The 40 day Prosperity program :)

Destiny of the Republic by Candice Miller
President Garfield spent $150 on his Presidential campaign. It's an amazing account of his presidency.

The Language of Flowers
In spite of the plot holes big enough to drive a Mac truck through, I loved the characters.

The Perfume Collector
It's a great realistic fiction about classic perfumes.

The Cuckoo's Calling
I almost gave up on the stereotypical characters, but they're intentional. I loved the kitten stationary. Very Dolores Umbridge.

CLR via C# 4th edition 2012 by Jeff Richter

I am very familiar with parts of it but decided today to study/read one chapter a day at work ... I believe it will be beneficial. It is some 900 pages of pure geek.

I stuck with book 1 of 'Song of Fire and Ice: Game of Thrones' - based upon feedback from a few of you and now I am totally addicted. I'm currently at 65% of book 3 'A Storm of Swords'; I've just passed the "red wedding" scene. :|

Definitely worth the time investment, thanks for all the great feedback! :)

wow, will hafta check that one out.

"buried (a bone secrets novel)", by kendra elliot

""let's explore diabetes with owls", david sedaris

Affliction by Laura K. Hamilton (the Anita Blake series)
Excellent series ( I think this is book 21 or so) SS (f) got me hooked on them:seeingstars:

Tried out:

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Holy-Cow-An-Indian-Adventure/dp/0767915747/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376621390&sr=8-1&keywords=holy+cow"]Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure: Sarah Macdonald: 9780767915748: Amazon.com: Books[/ame]

but I just couldn't get into it. I stopped the book towards the beginning. I love travel writing but I found her sense of humor to be condescending or something. Some others on Amazon felt the same way.

Oh, I forgot. I knew I was reading a good book! I'm also reading:

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Roseannearchy-Dispatches-Farm-Roseanne-Barr/dp/B00509COIW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376622556&sr=8-1&keywords=Rosannearchy"]Amazon.com: Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm: Roseanne Barr: Books[/ame]

I didn't expect to like this book but I'm loving it! It's a memoir by Rosanne Barr that focuses a lot on:

-her experience growing up as a fat child
-her many years as part of a lesbian feminist collective (even though she's straight, she has a lesbian sister- and they are politically aligned)
-her fierce feminism and living outside the box

It has some very interesting and moving stories and also is very funny! I tend to prefer reading books on feminist theory by lesbians but Rosanne really holds her own. Surprisingly enjoyable read.

smiling my way through
 

Kurt Vonnegut

Look At The Birdie

A text book on surgical nursing. I love any book related to the medical field

That looks really good, I may have to get a copy when the price comes down a bit.

I've just started reading ' The unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry'. It's different to what I usually read as I'm a non fiction person mainly. So far it's enjoyable.

[ame="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Unlikely-Pilgrimage-Harold-Fry/dp/0552778095/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376654018&sr=8-1&keywords=the+unlikely+pilgrimage+of+harold+fry "]The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry: Amazon.co.uk: Rachel Joyce: Books[/ame]

just began this one, but really like it so far.
 

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Paint-Black-Novel-Janet-Fitch/dp/0316067148/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1376976972&sr=1-2"]Paint it Black--Janet Fitch[/ame]


blurb from Amazon:

Josie Tyrell, art model, runaway, and denizen of LA's rock scene finds a chance at real love with Michael Faraday, a Harvard dropout and son of a renowned pianist. But when she receives a call from the coroner, asking her to identify her lover's body, her bright dreams all turn to black.

As Josie struggles to understand Michael's death and to hold onto the world they shared, she is both attracted to and repelled by his pianist mother, Meredith, who blames Josie for her son's torment. Soon the two women are drawn into a twisted relationship that reflects equal parts distrust and blind need.

With the luxurious prose and fever pitch intensity that are her hallmarks, Janet Fitch weaves a spellbinding tale of love, betrayal, and the possibility of transcendence.


"Lushly written, dramatically plotted. . . Fitch's Los Angeles is so real it breathes." -Atlantic Monthly

Crackpot Palace by Jeffrey Ford

From the Back Cover


From the unparalleled imagination of award-winning author Jeffrey Ford come twenty short stories (one, "The Wish Head," written expressly for this collection) that boldly redefine the world. Crackpot Palace is a sumptuous feast of the unexpected—an unforgettable journey that will carry readers to amazing places, though at times the locales may seem strangely familiar, almost like home. Whether he's tracking ghostly events on the border of New Jersey's mysterious Pine Barrens or following a well-equipped automaton general into battle, giving a welcome infusion of new blood to the hoary vampire trope or exposing the truth about what really went down on Dr. Moreau's Island of Lost Souls, Jeffrey Ford has opened a door into a dark and fantastic realm where dream and memory become one.

I'm actually reading two books, because SOMEONE stole my book while camping...

Animal Farm by George Orwell. I THINK this was required reading in high school...but I don't remember reading it.

Animal Farm is an allegorical and dystopian novel by George Orwell, published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalin era in the Soviet Union.[1] Orwell, a democratic socialist,[2] was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, especially after his experiences with the NKVD and the Spanish Civil War.[3] The Soviet Union, he believed, had become a brutal dictatorship, built upon a cult of personality and enforced by a reign of terror. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as a satirical tale against Stalin "une conte satirique contre Stalin",[4] and in his essay "Why I Write" (1946), he wrote that Animal Farm was the first book in which he had tried, with full consciousness of what he was doing, "to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole".

and for my new selection whilest I wait for this one back I am reading,

The Reluctant Saint: St. Francis of Assisi by Donald Spoto

Acclaimed biographer Donald Spoto strips away the legends from the life of Francis of Assisi to reveal the true story of a man who has too often been obscured by pious iconography. Drawing on unprecedented access to unexplored archives, plus Francis's own letters, Spoto places Francis within the context of the multifaceted ecclesiastical, political, and social forces of medieval Italy, casting new light on Francis and showing how his emphasis on charity as the heart of the Gospel's message helped him pioneer a new social movement. This nuanced portrait reveals the multifaceted character of a man who can genuinely be said to have changed the course of history.

I did NOT steal ur book. U told me on the way that u were ALREADY reXing another book. I'm almost done with it. U should have it back tonite. R u going to finish it as quick as I????

I am now reading...

Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived by Ralph Helfer

Spanning seven decades and three continents, Modoc is one of the most amazing true animal stories ever told. Raised together in a small German circus town, a boy and an elephant formed a bond that would last their entire lives, and would be tested time and again; through a near-fatal shipwreck in the Indian Ocean, an apprenticeship with the legendary Mahout elephant trainers in the Indian teak forests, and their eventual rise to circus stardom in 1940s New York City. Modoc is a captivating true story of loyalty, friendship, and high adventure, to be treasured by animal lovers everywhere.

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/The-Dark-Side-Twilight-Justice/dp/0965153606"]http://www.amazon.com/The-Dark-Side-Twilight-Justice/dp/0965153606[/ame]


This is what I'm currently reading

James Paterson... Alex Cross series..:balloon:

I'm trying to finish up The Ethical Slut so I can really get into In the Garden of Beasts. I tried to multitask and I sort of suck at it.

the professor's daughter by emily raboteau.

I have been reading these books , got very interested in conservation after reading a Dian Fossey memoir .
This book by Jane Goodall is about conservation of different animals saved all over the world and the people who dedicate
there lives to helping save our animals, love this book I would like to read more of Jane Goodall works. . Love her . Also reading this other book written by Ms Goodall
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Check out Chimp Haven

Herodotus (I work on reading the book slowly to get the most out of the histories)

I just picked up Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell today, and I'm already sucked in.

Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger

It came up in another book I was reading and I remember hearing the title quite a few times in the past. Seems like it was a book most school gave to read but we never did. I do remember reading MacBeth in highschool though.

wow.
 

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Loris-Song-Story-American-Captive/dp/1432738291"]http://www.amazon.com/Loris-Song-Story-American-Captive/dp/1432738291[/ame]


Currently reading Lori's Song- Its a true story about an American woman who was held captive in Iran. Needless to say, it isn't for the faint of heart. Regardless of the struggle, she survived and overcame her deepest darkest fears.

Because who just reads one at a time?
 

1. "Looking for the Gulf Motel" by Richard Blanco

A poetry book (he was the poet chosen by Pres. Obama for the inaguration) that is a collection of three movements taking the reader from childhood to adulthood.

"As a child born into the milieu of his Cuban exiled familia, the first movement delves into early questions of cultural identity and their evolution into his unrelenting sense of displacement and quest for the elusive meaning of home. The second, begins with poems peering back into family again, examining the blurred lines of gender, the frailty of his father-son relationship, and the intersection of his cultural and sexual identities as a Cuban-American gay man living in rural Maine. In the last movement, poems focused on his mother’s life shaped by exile, his father’s death, and the passing of a generation of relatives, all provide lessons about his own impermanence in the world and the permanence of loss."


2. "Life Traces of the Georgia Coast" by Anthony Martin


"This is a book about ichnology (the study of such traces), a wonderful way to learn about the behavior of organisms, living and long extinct. Life Traces presents an overview of the traces left by modern animals and plants in this biologically rich region; shows how life traces relate to the environments, natural history, and behaviors of their tracemakers; and applies that knowledge toward a better understanding of the fossilized traces that ancient life left in the geologic record. "


and with the kiddo at bedtime;

3. "Follow My leader" by James Garfield

I recall reading this as a child and enjoying the book. The story follows a young boy who is blinded by a fireworks accident. He has to re-learn all the things he used to know but without the advantage of sight. He is finally given the chance to have a guide dog which is where the learning (and adventure) really begins.


Katniss~~

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Think-No-Evil-Schoolhouse-Shooting/dp/1416562982"]http://www.amazon.com/Think-No-Evil-Schoolhouse-Shooting/dp/1416562982[/ame]


THE TRUE STORY OF OCTOBER 2, 2006, WHEN CHARLES ROBERTS ENTERED AN AMISH SCHOOLHOUSE, bound and shot ten schoolgirls, and then committed suicide.

Orange is the New Black - by Piper Kerman
 

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5% in on my Kindle, and I love it already!

Founding Mothers, by Cokie Roberts
 

I picked this up on a whim... I had read the biography of John and Abigail Adams and thought this would be an excellent parallel. And it IS! :)

http://www.litlovers.com/reading-gui...others-roberts