Dystopian classic
 

Ray Bradbury's ~~>>> Fahrenheit 451 (1952/1953).

My Tuesday morning clients have an admirable book collection....

today she caught me looking at titles while I dusted and offered to let me borrow books any time I like...

squeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So... I am reading My Struggle: Book One by Karl Ove Knausgaard

A Norwegian Marcel Proust. This nerve-striking, addictive piece of hyper-realism, by the Norwegian Critics’ Prize-winning author of A Time For Everything, has created a phenomenon throughout Scandinavia. Click here to read The New Republic’s profile of Knausgaard & the My Struggle series. Almost ten years have passed since Karl Ove Knausgaard’s father drank himself to death. Vulnerable and assailed by doubts, he is now embarking on a new novel. With an uncanny eye for detail, Knausgaard breaks down his own life story to its elementary particles, reliving memories, reopening wounds, and examining with candor the turbulence and the epiphanies that emerge from his own experience of fatherhood, the fallout in the wake of his father’s death, and his visceral connection to music, art, and literature. Negotiating intimacy, love, and fear lie at the heart of his movements and mind as he moves from self-deprecation to self-absorption, from craving solitude to exposing an insatiable need for love and admiration, from alienation to harmony. Karl Ove’s dilemmas strike nerves that give us raw glimpses of our particular moment in history as we witness what happens to the sensitive and churning mind of a young man trying- as if his very life depended on it- to find his place in the disjointed world around him. This Proustian masterpiece opens a window into one of the most original minds writing today.

His picture is on the cover of the copy they have. His eyes are so piercing...his memoir promises to be engaging.

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Just started...
The Gravity Between Us by Kristen Zimmer

Looks like it will be one of those guilty pleasure books because it's not my typical genre to read. ;)

Also reading...
As Texas Goes...:How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda
by Gail Collins

This one is biting and fun and scary and true. Love Gail Collins!

I just finished the War Room (Chris Fabry) I'm not an overly religious person so at times it was a bit much for my tastes but if you have enjoyed this authors other books and believe in the power of pray check it out!

Btw yes it's a movie also out in theaters now too!

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality without Religion
by Sam Harris

Extra reading for a class, but loving the book!

Sounds cool! If you have time to come back and review it when done, please do! I have the book "The Atheists Little Book of Spirituality" (I think that's the title). I haven't read it yet but love the concept!

Diviners by Libba Bray

I just finished her "Going Bovine" and loved it so I thought I would explore her other works. So far it is pretty interesting, I like the way she develops her characters and her playful use of language.

Diviners is set in NY in the 1920s and is about a group of people who have powers, for example the main character is able to read objects by touching them.
Of course there is a supernatural bad guy and peril ensues.

Currently trying to get 'into' Dark Places by Gillian Flynn. It took me a while to get into Gone Girl too, but I was glad I did. By half way through I was addicted. Hoping this will be the same. P.S the movie didn't do it justice

I recently re-read The Rosie Project and The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion!

If you looking for a good read, dotted with humorists twist that leaves you feeling hopeful about finding love, check these out:glasses:

Today I bought three books. Little Gone Girl by Alexander Burt (also known as Mia is Missing)

The Girl with A Clock for A Heart by Peter Swanson

AND

Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone.

I'm ashamed to say I never read the HP series. Fantasy is not a genre I part take in much. But I do remember seeing maybe 2 of the movies years ago and enjoying them. For some reason for the passed week I've had a niggling feeling to read them... Or at least give them a shot.

So I may start with Harry, and move on to my usual genre of Thriller...

Don't judge me.... :D

I have a few books going. Still trying to make my way through a Song of Ice and Fire. I'm on Book 3.

I just started House of Echoes by Brendan Duffy.

And I'm also reading The Whispering Skull by Jonathan Stroud.

I used to be able to switch back and forth between books...no I feel like I need to focus on one....

<<<<old(er)

So I'm half way through the first Harry Potter since picking it up this afternoon. Hooked.

Just started "Tiny Beautiful Things" by Cheryl Strayed. Very much enjoying it. The snippet below describes it so much better than I could.

“It is very rarely that I am a ridiculous fangirl about anything. It’s so emotionally taxing, so inherently undignified, that I try not to fall into the trap. So it took me by surprise when, upon discovering Dear Sugar at the Rumpus, I gradually fell down the rabbit hole into ridiculous fangirlishness for the first time in years. [Strayed took me to] the edge of the dark wood, staring into the place where the most wrenching and lovely truths reside. A place to lose your heart and find it again. If there is a common thread that unites the columns, it’s work. Sugar doesn’t tolerate laziness: doing the work to reach one’s full potential, to write that novel, to exorcise ghosts, to let go of resentments and jealousy and commit instead to generosity and love—all of these are sacred, lifelong tasks for which there are no shortcuts. The columns are a gift, and so too is the book. As Sugar herself bids in her column of the same name, I've written this now on the eve of her book’s publication with one intent: to say thank you.” —Ilana Teitelbaum, The Huffington Post

Deliver Us From Evil
 

Ralph Sarchie and Lisa Collier Cool (2014) The scariest book I've ever read, and Folks, I read alot! True story about a tough, New York cop, who becomes an exorcist after experiencing real demon possession among people. With the help of priests, he also instructs people how to recognize, and exorcise demons. Beware: Very, very, scary!

C# Quick Syntax Reference
Sometimes I get mixed up flipping back and forth between Visual C# and Visual Basic languages

For some unknown reason, Microsoft Visual Studio will not compile a few lines of Visual Basic in their Visual C# Integrated Development Environment.

*chuckling* Yes, I know I am being goofy.
Lack of sleep makes me punchy!!! :)

[QUOTE=PurerSands;1017460]Today I bought three books. Little Gone Girl by Alexander Burt (also known as Mia is Missing)

The Girl with A Clock for A Heart by Peter Swanson

AND

Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone.

I'm ashamed to say I never read the HP series. Fantasy is not a genre I part take in much. But I do remember seeing maybe 2 of the movies years ago and enjoying them. For some reason for the passed week I've had a niggling feeling to read them... Or at least give them a shot.

So I may start with Harry, and move on to my usual genre of Thriller...

Don't judge me.... :D[

Haveing read all the HP books, I have to say I loved them.
For one you really do get more involved, and it goes into greater detail.
I hope you like them as much as I did.

Judy
 

Ok, at last I have finally finished this book, and yes I know it took me some time.
So .... Judy, what can I tell you about his book.
After getting past the introduction, which gives you some background on how the research for the book started.
I was hooked.
Judy is a dog that received the highest bravery award that can be given for any animal.
She was a POW in the japanese war camps.
The book takes you from her mischievous pup days, right through all her trials in the camps with her fellow prisoners.
Please read this book, you won't regret it.

Revenge
 

Laura Blumenfeld-2002- Superb book! Gutsy Journalist Blumenfeld, searches for her father's arab shooter in Jerusalem and Iran seeking revenge.

Just finished Big Stone Gap! Liked it well enough but judging by the movie previews, I think it may be one of the few movies I like better than the book!

A book about Lenny "The Gov'nor McLean.....
 

Mark Cavendish
 

Just about to read his biography.
For those who have never heard of him, he's a british cycling champion.

BlackList
 

Author Sara Paretsky-2003 I love private detective V.I. Warshawski! Just finished her "Total Recall". A must read for fans. I once met Sara at a Chicago bookstore called Women and Children First, and CIJS she rocks!

I'm not reading anything exciting at the moment, because like Stephanie, I only have time to read schoolish stuff...

Of course, I must always snatch few moments for a small BFP distraction.

There are so many more, but here are just a few of the books I recommend at the moment:



[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Everything/dp/0743296281/?ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_y"]Lies My Teacher Told Me[/ame]

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Souls-Black-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486280411/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1446347197&sr=1-1&keywords=the+souls+of+black+folk"]The Souls of Black Folk[/ame]


[ame="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1577316290/?ref=cm_sw_r_pi_dp_YG0tvb1P0J58T"]The Emotional Lives of Animals[/ame]

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Profundis-Oscar-Wilde-ebook/dp/B00RWJPS8Q/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1446346169&sr=1-4&keywords=de+profundis"]De Profundis[/ame]

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00589AYWW/?ref=cm_sw_r_pi_dp_6Zz.ub1WVGJBD"]The March of Folly[/ame]

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BBXJH68/?ref=cm_sw_r_pi_dp_vmvhvb1EREY5Y"]Uncertainty[/ame]

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0306809982/?ref=cm_sw_r_pi_dp_jnNfwb0GXD43J"]Empty Without You[/ame]

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1446347318&sr=1-1&keywords=the+new+colorblind+racism"]The New Jim Crow[/ame]

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Gift-Creativity-Artist-Modern-World-ebook/dp/B002GKGB00/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1446347086&sr=1-1&keywords=the+gift"]The Gift[/ame]


I recommend them all! There's also 'The Painted Bird'...'The Master and Margarita' (love pretty much all Russian Classics)...'Perfume' (It's a murder mystery! There was a movie awhile ago). I could spend a long time on this. I'm still a dedicated Ann Rice fan/vampire nerd, though I can't get into the latest generation. They're too hip. They just don't work for me.

Just finished Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

About to finish Wheelmen by Alberti and O'Connell - about doping in cycling, esp Lance Armstrong

Borrowed a copy of On Photography by Susan Sontag.

I'm finally engaged...in a wonderful book. Its been a while since I found one I could sink my brain into...

I'm reading Thomas Jefferson: The art of power by Jon Meacham

Its a very interesting book about an amazing man. I even read the prologue...which I never do...

I finished The Tenth Insight by James Redfield and moved on to Birth of a Killer by Darren Shan

Churchill- Roy Jenkins

I'm reading the Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1.

And yes, I'm a fan of the TV show, though late to the table. I know there are some major plot differences between the TV show and the comic book, and that reading the comic book will not solve the Big Cliffhanger of the current season, but I'm invested enough in the characters now to care about them in the comic form.

Only 2 more compendiums to go!

I'm going to be on a 4 day holiday, over the weekend, and although I'm keeping my plans open, I'm going to read novels by Chaim Potok. I will probably save my very favorite book of all his books for the last, which is titled The Chosen.

The first time I read The Chosen, I was a sophomore in high school. The story of David and his struggle with his father, life at school and at home and conflicts within his family, has stayed with me since long ago.

Here's an excerpt from the very first page:

"When a trout rising to a fly gets hooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him.

In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him. Sometimes he masters his difficulties; sometimes they are too much for him. His struggles are all that the world sees and it naturally misunderstands them.

It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one..." (Karl A.Menninger).

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Goatsong by Tom Holt

Phenomenal.
 

The lioness in winter : writing an old woman's life / Ann Burack-Weiss.
 

"Ann Burack-Weiss, a gerontologist with more than forty years of experience, analyzes and engages with the writings of a dozen well-known authors for insights into old age. Featured are Maya Angelou, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Joan Didion, M.F.K Fisher, Doris Grumbach, Carolyn Heilburn, Doris Lessing, Florida Scott-Maxwell, May Sarton, Anne Roiphe, and Alexis Kate Shulman, among others, all of whom wrote about essential issues in old age including physical changes and disability, living alone, reflecting on and revaluing the past, generativity, public life, and the changing roles of family and friends. Burack-Weiss frames the reading of these texts in relevant theory and research including an introduction that discusses narrative theory and developmental, gerontological, and feminist perspectives on the older woman" -- Provided by publisher.

just found this:

https://www.literotica.com/s/chance-encounter-22