reading
 

I finished Magical Thinking and am now starting A Wolf at the Table. Augusten Burroughs


Note: I don't know if anyone in the thread is signed up with swap.com but if you like to read and don't mind swapping out your books you might want to give it a try. Also, you can add your friends so if anyone does happen to be on swap.com ( use to be swaptree) look me up. I am leatherfaery on there as well. You can also trade books for dvds, cds and for games.

Thanks for the info on swap.com.

I am a total fan of Augusten Burroughs (have read all of his books). A Wolf at the Table was very disturbing (anything with animal abuse is hard for me to read) -- but a great memoir, very powerful and almost surreal.

The girl with the dragon tattoo by Stieg Larsson

what a page turner!

Storm Prey by John Sandford. And then starting the Stieg Larsson series.

"Frankenstein, the Prodigal Son" (book 1) Dean Koontz and Kevin J. Anderson

I really liked the "Odd Thomas" series by Koontz so I thought I would try this one out, book one so far so good, I like that he gives credit to other authors as well as artists who have inspired portions of his work in this book by calling them out and speaking of them.

I definately plan to read this book soon:




It's an interesting novel written in a simple but beautiful way. Coelho's amazing storytelling powers enable the reader to imagine each scene from the novel... It's one of those books you cannot put down. A close lady friend to me recommended that I read this book. Originally written in Portuguese, it has, as of 2004, been translated into fifty-six languages, and has sold more than 40 million copies in more than 150 countries, making it one of the best selling books of all time.

The Mermaid Chair ~ Sue Monk Kidd

The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint ~ Brady Udall

Rebels In White Gloves - Miriam Horn

States of Grace - Charlene Spretnak

leisurely reading continues on "The Anthropology of Turquoise" by Ellen Meloy,

"Banished Knowledge" by Alice Miller

"The Untouched Key" by Alice Miller

"The Measure of a Man" by Sidney Poitier
another leisurely read

"A Search for Solitude - The Journals of
Thomas Merton Vol Three 1952-1960

I love the writing of Alice Miller, so intense and thought-provoking. "The Drama of the Gifted Child" had a real impact on me.

The Merton also sounds intriguing.

Would love to hear reviews of either of the Miller books or Merton when you are done.

Review
 

nycfembbw,

Yes, Alice Miller broke some ground didn't she? Interestingly, "The Drama of the Gifted Child" was originally published as "Prisoners of Childhood"? Can you give a review of "The Drama of...."? What made the greatest impact for you in it? I'm reading all her books. Immersing myself in a topic, a theme is one of the ways I enjoy critically thinking about it.

Greco

I like to do that too.

Ya know, I actually never finished "The Drama..." It was years ago in grad school, and other reading ended up taking priority, and I never went back to it, though the book sits on my shelf waiting for me to go back to it. It's not light reading, so I seem to end up picking up other books instead. Still, it's great and powerful writing. What I was struck by is her psychoanalytic ability to just get right into MY psyche, such that I was having intense dreams about issues from childhood related to her writing that I'd never put together before in consciousness. That's a rarity for me, even though I am a therapist myself and certainly have read other books that examine childhood with depth. Another writer I like that reminds me a bit of Walker is D.W. Winnicot (e.g. the true self vs. the false self). His analytic philosophy and conceptions have a primal truth to them that make sense to me.

Edited to add: I meant Miller of course, not Walker (though I love her writing too!). Just tired :)

Miller
 

Yes, I have found Alice Miller's ability to share on a personal level, and
her direct, forthright writing to be a breath of fresh air. It also shows
her level of commitment to her own healing, which she so eloquently
shares in her books. I respect that she has done her childhood wound
healing, and has been open to sharing her process, her discoveries, and
the forward movement that her life has taken.

Thanks for your sharing, enjoy your weekend.

Greco

reading
 

I finished A Wolf at the Table and am starting Dry both by Augusten Burroughs. After Dry I am planning on reading The girl with the dragon tattoo

Just finished a wonderful book:

The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer

This is an epic novel (in size - 600 pgs - and scope) about Hungarian Jews in the 1930s and into WWII. It focuses on the middle son of a working class Jewish Hungarian family, Andras Levi, who gets a scholarship in 1937 to go to Paris and study architecture. While in Paris he meets the beautiful and older Claire Morgenstern, and from there the book becomes an amazing love story and then a difficult tragedy as the Germans close in first on Paris and then Hungary. The writing is beautiful and the book holds you, even though it is long. Highly recommended.

Although I've read most of her other work, I have finally begun Anne Rice's erotica/bdsm, penned as A.N. Roquelaure. To start off, I am reading, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty. Um ...:tease: :tongue:

In a re-read mode...

This Side of Paradise, Pope Joan and In Cold Blood. But also a junkie contemporary crime novel (Scarpetta Factor).

Very weird combination... who knows!

:fastdraq:

I am currently reading Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson.

She is a friend of mine and was doing a book tour, and happened to be stopping here, so I went, had her sign a book and figured what the heck, might as well read it. Turns out shes pretty good.

A.Miller
 

continuing with Alice Miller's

"Breaking Down the Wall of Silence
The Liberating Experience of Facing
Painful Truth"


and an older one, "El Alquimista"
by Paulo Coelho


and still "walking" with Merton's
Vol 3 of his "...Solitude Journal..."

Listened to interview with this author today. The book sounds fascinating.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=129827444

Hell to Pay by Simon R Green
and Bone Key a Supernatural book
Just finished Sleeping Beauty by Mercedes Lackey

Highly recommend them all.

Trying to squeeze as much pleasure reading as I can in before classes start next Monday. So I'm trying to finish up:

Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk -- Massimo Pigliucci
American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right -- Markos Moulitsas

And purely for fun:

The Heart of Valor -- Tanya Huff

The American Taliban is intriguing. I am so confused as to whom exactly the "Radical Right" are anymore as I see more and more people spewing that rhetoric now that do not fit what the old "image" of radical right was. I wonder if this can be downloaded? I have a terrible time anymore reading written word for more than a few minutes at a time, so I tend to do audio books.

Do you ever just read anything really naughty like " Natl Enquirer"? LOL

Only do the National Enquirer while in line at grocery pretending not to be annoyed by the little old lady with 30 items in the 10 items or less lane. I always wondered what happened to big foot's baby.

so, I read an article by Markos Moulitsas in Huff Post regarding his American Taliban book. From the snippets/ synopsis he gave it sounds like he is totally up my alley in looking at the bigger picture.

I still haven't found it downloadable yet, though I haven't given up.

Just wanted to give a big thanks to dreadgeek for the title.

Here's the article if anyone is interested:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/markos..._b_693281.html

an old favorite
 

Lullaby, by Chuck Palahniuk.
Also, just finished The Things They Carried, by Tim O' Brien
& am starting 1973: Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, and The Birth of Post-Sixties America by Andreas Killen.

~SAB

am starting the Dan Brown series again the davinci code, angels & demons & the lost symbol Wicked reads!

Philosophy in the Present - Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek

I was buying some books for class today, saw it and immediately had to buy it.

Just finished "Helen of Troy" by Margaret George(Love all her books)

Down to the last few pages of "A Walk in the Woods" By Bill Bryson A true and funny story of a man & his friend attempting to walk the AT