I read that book a decade ago, and it haunts me still. There are some facts about animal penises I just don't need to know. Gack!

Hook 'em while they're young :)

this semester I have English again (comp 2) and so my recreational reading has come to a small halt. However, I am looking for a new potential series. My current author that i'm fixated on (I've read all her books) doesn't come out with the next book in he series until august.... AUGUST!!!!! ugghhh..



I'm thinking I may hit up the Patricia Cornwell section of my home library. Scarpetta Novels, here I come!

She has always loved to read as do I She actually reads to the kindergarten class at her school not that I am a proud parent or anything

I am reading an advance copy of The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger's Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare's First Folio because i have been assigned to review it for Library Journal

Also Trilby by George du Maurier because my professor assigned it

Also Baudelaire, Prince of Clouds: A biography because I have to write a paper

Also The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson because Fantasy is all I read when i am allowed to choose for myself!!!

Reading numerous horror-genre scripts for possible one act plays to use in an upcoming production. Creeping myself out. :)

I'm slowly working my way through Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire #2) by George R. R. Martin.

I'm also reading The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown for an online book club I'm in.

And then I'm reading Lionheart by Sharon Kay Penman just because.

Though lately I feel like I haven't made progress on any of them.

The King Must Die by Mary Renault

I read all her historical fiction years ago, but one advantage of getting old is you forget what you read long and can read all the good stuff again. It's set in Ancient Greece. Male homosexuality is presented in a non-judgemental light. Renault was, in fact, a lesbian. She got some shit for not being all rah rah about "gay liberation." And the goddesses and matriarchal societies are not depicted in a flattering light. But I don't care. I love ancient Greece, and these are so good.

Some gay men of my generation and older used to talk about these books as the first things they ever read in which gay relationships weren't tragic or pathologized. Anyway, I like them.

I have waited such a very long time to read Erik Larson's newest book ..... Dead Wake.

I get to read it, with a small group of friends who are in town, this weekend.

Selected Poems

ee cummings

Inspired by this recent magazine article, so I picked up a copy and decided to reacquaint myself with ee.

Last book I read was the second in the Gardella vampire series.. In an attempt to not buy the next five, I am re-reading Insurgent.

However, my guy bought me the first book in the Odd Thomas series by Dean Kootz last week so I am itching to get lost in that! :) He already bought me the last book of the series (my fault, I hadn't researched the series and just added to my list!) so now I need them all. Mwahah..! I mean, ahem, oops! ;)

The Four Agreements
A Toltec Wisdom Book

Don Miguel Ruiz

I'm reading:
 

" A place somewhere "
Author , JD Samuel

..this page... lmao


but also... FAT LAND ( about the politics of food in the US over the last 50+ years)

Some things are timeless...
 

"Think And Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill

Originally published in 1930. As germane now, 85 years later, as it was then.

I just started reading "The Big Bad Wolf" by James Patterson.

I realized I'd never read anything of his before. I'm on a popular author binge. His writing is very good from the get go. I enjoyed Grisham, but he was a slow starter..

I'm about halfway through Funny Girl: A Novel by Nick Hornby. It was recommended on the podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour so I jumped on the bandwagon. It's set in the 1960's era BBC studios, and I like Britcoms, so I've found it pretty interesting. BTW, it has nothing to do with that Barbra Streisand movie.

i love reading this page and seeing everything that everyone is reading... it makes me happy and sad simultaneously. Happy because I love finding out about new books, and sad because i can't read a damned one until this semester is done.

I am so with you on that one!! Just a couple months to go...It seems now that I have my Master's and am continuing my education they have dumped the reading on me....It seems I am doing two books per month per class!! I have also noticed that since I am getting older I am not reading as quickly as I used to due to my eyesight.

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A book from one of my Favorite Chefs Sean Brock "Mind of a Chef"!!

Just started Jack Kerouac's The Haunted Life and Other Stories.

Women who kept the lights : an illustrated history of female lighthouse keepers / Mary Louise Clifford, J. Candace Clifford.


Danger and loneliness were common themes in the lives of 140 women lighthouse keepers in the United States from 1776 to the mid-20th century. Most were appointed to succeed a deceased husband or father, and most appear to have borne the risks with fortitude and outright heroism. While the challenges and duties these women faced were similar, the authors have captured the uniqueness of each woman's experience.

Consumed, a novel by David Cronenberg.

I'm back to non fiction.

I just started Eleanor of Aquitaine: A life

By Alison Weir

I read the preface and her writing seems kinda flowery. I don't mind that fro
The great poets...but with biographies, I prefer some straight shooting...so I may not stick with it..time.will.tell

Interesting. I hope you'll report back.

I've just started to reread the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen Donaldson again, I finally managed to get all of the books he has, three sets of three, with one more to come. I'm also reading some Alice Borchardt novels, based around the fall of the Roman empire about a young woman who is also a wolf, for those who have never heard of her, she was Anne Rice's older sister. I much prefer Alice to Anne. I am also reading Russell Brands book Revolution too.

Mindfulness for Dummies

I'm counting down the days!! :) 1 more month to the day. I can almost feel myself able to breathe. I have such a list, not to mention magazines that are stacking up. I feel some "all nighters" coming my way this summer.

I've also begun reading 1776 by David McCullough...for.when Eleanor of Aquitaine becomes too dry. Plus, I just love that era in history. And I hear good things about Mr. McCullough.. This will be the first book of his that I read.

Schismatrix Plus by Bruce Sterling

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Got this from the Library yesterday. Looks to be a really interesting read. :)

"
This captivating bestseller tells the true story
of a miraculous encounter between a teenaged girl
and a baby whale off the coast of California.
It was the dark of early morning; Lynne was swimming
her last half mile back to the pier after a long
workout when she became aware that
something was swimming with her.
The ocean was charged with energy as if a
squall was moving in; whatever it was felt large
enough to be a white shark coursing beneath her body.
In fact, it was a baby gray whale following alongside her.
Lynne quickly realized that if she swam
back to the pier, the young calf would follow
her onto shore and die from collapsed lungs.
On the other hand, if Lynne didn't find the
mother whale, the baby would suffer from
dehydration and starve to death. Something so enormous
--the mother whale would be at least fifty feet long
--suddenly seemed very small in the vast Pacific Ocean.
How could Lynne possibly find her?
This is the story--part mystery, part magical tale--of what happened."

Lately I've been reading primarily extensive work-related materials, which can be time consuming.


But I recently read an interesting article in The Journal of American Medicine, concerning wage differentials among nursing professionals. The troubling aspect in that short study revealed that male nurses were often better compensated vs their female counterparts. Not sure what to think about the data presented in the study, but it's a harsh reminder that women are not receiving equitable treatment and are marginalized in what has typically been anchored by an predominant female work force (body of labor).

Reference:
J.A.M.A., March 24/31, 2015, vol. 313, issue 12, pp., 1265.

Loosening the grip...for class...
Isaiah 53, for me,
Concurrently...

I just finished reading two books that made my blood boil! Extortion and Throw Them All Out by Peter Schweizer (yes, he's the author of Clinton Cash too)

These tell about the wheeling and dealings that politicians make that are 100% legal for THEM but should the average Joe do them, they'd wind up in jail!

I finished Red Rising by Pierce Brown yesterday. So good! Probably my favorite book so far this year.

I'm starting The Accident by Chris Pavone today.

Brilliant....
 

'Departure' by A.G. Riddle.

It's been less than two weeks and in this time I've read:

The Lion, The Lamb, The Hunted by Andrew Kaufman
Twisted by Andrew Kaufman

On my list to read are:

Last Train to Istanbul by Ayse Kulin
Life of Pi by Yann Marten
The Mad Tatter by J.M. Darhower
The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzch
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater