"Art in Science: Selections from Emerging Infectious Disease" by Polyxeni Potter

The journal's highly popular fine-art covers are contextualized with essays that address how the featured art relates to science, and to us all. Through the combined covers and essays, the journal's contents -- topics such as infections, contagions, disease emergence, antimicrobial resistance -- find larger context amid topics such as poverty and war, the hazards of global travel, natural disasters, and human-animal interactions.

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (new translation!)


Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow


No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture by Andrew Ross

I read "The Fault in Our Stars" yesterday and this morning and was surprised at the decency of the writing. Loved how the author captured the "otherworld" created with two people in love and two people in love and dying.
A nice, if not heart-jerking read.

John Green seems to be the newest author on my "read everything they've done" list.

"Looking for Alaska" is next. Working at home today and always enjoy a good audiobook while coding. Both sides of the brain engaged! WEE.

Reading a bunch of mind-bending stuff for a general semantics class.
Although, I'm getting pulled in by the works of Alfred Korzybski.

For fun, I'm still trying to find time to finish We Are Water by Wally Lamb. Each time I get to pick up the book I feel as though I'm starting over.

The dance of deception : pretending and truth-telling in women's lives / Harriet Goldhor Lerner

Book List Review


While lying is socially taboo, pretending things are other than they are is not only sometimes acceptable but often encouraged and rewarded. Patriarchal culture teaches women to pretend and sometimes deceive, Lerner says, and in her study of the role this dissembling plays in women's lives, she shows how "pretending reflects deep prohibitions, real and imagined, against a more direct and forthright assertion of self." Lerner uses anecdotal examples to illustrate how and why women show the false and hide the real. Her examples and accompanying discussions cover self-deception, protection of others from painful truths, privacy, and family secrets, and each section clearly points out how deception is incorporated into women's lives and how they can learn to purge it from their behavior. She acknowledges that truth telling is not easy, yet her discussion of the many ways women lie and how lying affects them clearly shows the benefits of honesty and makes her prescription appealing. ~--Lindsay Throm

I taught "The Fault in Our Stars" this semester to a group of Grade 12s. We all loved it!

The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter

Thought I'd check out the book before the movie is released on Feb 7th. If your interested in art, history, or just looking for a very interesting read, I'd suggest this book!

I am reverting back to my teenage years and rereading Flowers in the Attic.

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences by Peter A. Levine and Ann Frederick

Dr. Levine is just an amazing psychologist. I've also had the pleasure of watching him work with traumatized patients and see the difference he can make.

" The 5 love languages ". by Gary Chapman

Following Atticus By Tim Ryan

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Seal Team Six *Memoirs of an Elite Navy Seal Sniper*

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The Corrections - Johonthan Franzen

Next is "S" by j.j Abrams and Doug Dorst anyone read it? The format is pretty interesting.

Psychological Testing, Principles, Applications & Issues.

Kaplan & Saccuzzo


OMG Dry..so very dry

Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry

I found a bunch of the old Point Horror young adult series and rereading... haven't read any since I was about 14 I guess... they are so fun! Very quick reads of course, very simple. But nice bit of nostalgia for me.

Can I push the book I am reading written by a friend (pls excuse my name dropping, lol).I have a friend for 39 years who writes. Her most well known work (at least for a certain niche) was Ann Frank Remembered.

She has just published a novel "The Woman Who Brought Matisse Back from the Dead". I am enjoying this instead of reading books for work

Dipping around in my book called

"Cut your grocery bill in half by Americas Cheapest Family"

BRAVO! Amazing read. And some really awesome tips

<3
 

Currently soaking up

"The Writings and
Artifacts
Of
Murderers."

By Lustmord Edited by Brian King


( A Bloat Book Publication)

I'm reading the Vampire Academy series. I'm fascinated by vampires in pop culture, and how they're becoming less like monsters and more like superheroes. Thanks to Twilight, they even sparkle.

That said, the Vampire Academy series is quite horrid. And I'm on the third book. Clearly, I'm a masochist.

Last night I finished "The Husband" by Dean Koontz (was okay not as good as his other stuff)

Now I am reading "Crave" by J.R. Ward

Current food for thought list...
 

Winter weather has kept me from going to my favorite bookstore or library to check out alternate reading materials, so I am here to say that I am still reading from a couple of books I spoke about last time.

I read "Dancing with Embers" and "Written On the Sky" but was touched more by the former book of poetry than the previous book of poetry.

My interest in the Mary Wollenstonecraft Shelley "The Annotated Frankenstein" bored me to tears, sadly. I think I'll ask a few more questions about works like this, next time I visit the library.

On the other hand, I find the book of poetry (The Poems of Li Ho) rich with dense history not only about Li Ho, but about cultural impacts during the life and times of Li Ho. It's not a very big book of poetry but what makes it hard to just read for leisure is that editor David Hawkes painstakingly provides footnotes about people or places or things or even highly-regarded cultural notions upheld and revered by members of society, back in his lifetime. So, what I'm trying to say is that a person can't just read the poetry for sheer pleasure without reading a commingling of other ideas which, at times, can puncture what seems like a complete picture. So I'm still wading with poetry by Li Ho.

I am wait-listed for a book I placed on hold, weeks ago.
I imagine it will be available some time in March, maybe early April.

Slices of Life by Georgia Beers

(I tend to like any book this author writes)

The Rape of Europa~ Lynn Nicholas

After finishing the Monuments Men I thought I'd give this a try. Very similar but a more detailed account.

I Love You Again
 

I Love You Again~Kate Sweeney

Very cute story about a couple who were together for 18 years and then took a break from each other! Some very funny stuff in this book that most of us can relate to. Check it out

High Desert by Katherine V. Forrest
Another in the great Kate Delafield series. i just started it. i can't wait to really get into it. That should be page 2.

Try O Captain my Captain by Katherine V. Forrest. This is a short read but excellent.

I just finished a great juicy bonkbuster A Kept Woman... very fun and salacious.

musica
 

"An Equal Music" by Vikram Seth

Reading this once again...delectable writing

Greco

Life, the Truth, and Being Free by Steve Maraboli

I've been on a waiting list for this book. It's been around awhile but Amazon had run out. It's supposed to arrive late next week. The book ended up interesting me because I've loved/used so many quotes from it.


Anyway, I'm excited!

I didn't like it. I loved A Suitable Boy. I read that he has written a sequel called A Suitable Girl, I think. Not released yet. He's still editing. I hate it when a writer you like takes years and years to write a book.

I am reading The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements. So far, it's entertaining.

Never thought I'd read a graphic novel...